ten visual artists i have been thinking about

shameless blog bump: http://visualinventory.blogspot.com

http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2005/bernardfrize/images/1FrizeDiamant.jpg

Bernard Frize btw, can't get enough of him these days

So clever

Stefan Muller
http://www.galerie-nagel.de/site/a_image_popup.php?path=1193

Gunther Forg
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_138154_448598_gunther-forg.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/picture.asp?date=20080612&catalog=138752&gallery=425206326&lot=00121&filetype=2

^Kishio Suga

Mary Heilmann and Blinky Palermo I love you.

Also, reading old issues of Modern Painters and Art in America today and getting really excited about these pictures

aurel schmidt

http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2008/01/16/aurel-schmidt.jpg

... Blinky Palermo I love you.

Now I will have "Bitchin' Camaro" by the Dead Milkmen stuck in my head.

I am in Felix Gonzalez-Torres-hypermode right now and loving it!

Haha! I rarely leave that!

My goal is to find an exhibition of his, go everyday, and steal enough candy to make a full pile in my bedroom.

Someone I know actually did stuff his pockets from one of those.

Nick Cave (the other one):
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/fyer55samyah/nick_cave1.jpg?t=1237041294
http://www.curatedobject.us/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/sound_suit_1.jpg
http://lovekillmonster.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/nick_cave_installation_view_chicago_cultural_center_866_73.jpg

I've often considered buying a pair of clocks for my room also.

those nick cave soundsuits are awesome

as for me, i've been thinking bout:

jesper just

http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/JustJesperBliss.jpg

jennifer west

http://roski.usc.edu/images/west_hollywoodsign.jpg

mel bochner

http://wordsmakethingshappen.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/22_ac_lg.jpg

fred einaudi

http://bp0.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-19TtXDk8I/AAAAAAAAACs/msao2Mg8M8c/s400/chocolate+donut.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-1-w9XDlDI/AAAAAAAAADk/rAQx8hRuP84/s400/patriot.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-1-RNXDlAI/AAAAAAAAADM/2jEDJfCqWiE/s400/specimen.jpg

crap. let's try that again:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-19TtXDk8I/AAAAAAAAACs/msao2Mg8M8c/s400/chocolate+donut.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-1-w9XDlDI/AAAAAAAAADk/rAQx8hRuP84/s400/patriot.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-1-RNXDlAI/AAAAAAAAADM/2jEDJfCqWiE/s400/specimen.jpg

What was the picture that used to be on here of the cube (3x3? 4x4) of smaller cubes of meat?

http://www.cindywright.org/

why is there a pop-up that says "richard prince" when i click on this thread

Thanks Jeff - I only vaguely remembered it.

MUCH LOVE for mickalene thomas right now:

http://www.andrehn-schiptjenko.com/site/assets/images/ex_group_mlonguel.png

My goal is to find an exhibition of his, go everyday, and steal enough candy to make a full pile in my bedroom.

― mehlt, Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:12 PM (2 months ago)

great post,

joe, the first time I saw any Jesper Just was when I wandered into a retrospective of sorts in the Rotterdam contempoartc. I think for such sensual work it needs to be shown really richly and generously.

Everyone in NYC should go see the Aernout Mik show at MoMA

while at MoMA, go see the Paul Graham exhibit and the photographs of the American West.

Right now is like the perfect storm in nyc for exhibits that are in my wheelhouse, and therefore I am thinking about the following artists:

Richard Prince
Louise Lawler
Jenny Holzer
Barbara Kruger

yeah, plan to see the jenny holzer on its last weekend when friends are in town

Xposts

:)

Except the problem would be, once I get a full pile I know I'd never even touch it, let alone let people take candy, pretty much voiding the work.

I think I'd like to read up on Cy Twombly this summer. . .

http://glennraytutor.com/images/tutor9.jpg
http://glennraytutor.com/images/glennray_new_006.jpg
http://glennraytutor.com/images/glennray_new_008.jpg
Glennray Tutor

I am semi-appalled and disgusted by how great these are, I don't think I'm picking up on half the tricks this guy is using.

http://www.artslant.com/work/image/2028/sprecher_1.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/94363588_b8de21b876.jpg

Jered Sprecher

also, yes ruth root!

http://www.vimeo.com/4768078

can't wait for this documentary about sister corita

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1EkBpKvDgAo/STrBp3mQrWI/AAAAAAAAApU/bQq2fLhYSLI/s400/GlennLigon.jpg

glenn ligon

richard aldrich:

http://www.corvi-mora.com/richardaldrich/big/33.jpg

this is maybe one of my favourite paintings ever btw

Right now I am gear up into Christian Boltanski hypermode.

can't find any good pictures of his drawings which i saw a few days ago and was blown away by, but here are some tetsumi kudo sculptures:

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/08/07/15_artcandy_lg.jpg
http://images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/reviews/kley/kley7-11-08-13.jpg

Back to Felix-Gonzales Torres hypermode!

I was just awarded a fellowship (!!!) to do research on artistic forms of representation and mourning amid the AIDS crisis, so at last I'll get to really get busy on FGT, but also Robert Gober! This isn't a field of interest I'm too well versed on, so if anyone else has particularly apposite examples...

That is, of other artists dealing with aids in non-obvious, highly coded ways.

I know he's kind of old news, but I've been thinking about Mark Ryden lately:

http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/treeshow/paintings/large/Yoshi.jpg
http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/meat/cecelia/The_Ecstacy_of_Cecelia.jpg
http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/three/butcher/The_Butcher_Bunny.jpg

@EDB - If it's not too far afield, your study could encompass musical responses to AIDS such as Diamanda Galas' Plague Mass and Bob Ostertag's All the Rage.

Robert Blanchon is a hip ref. these days i think

i came here to post blanchon ;_;

(although a good deal of his stuff overtly addresses AIDS)

larry johnson's work is all about codes tho!

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg

My Ostertag and Galas examples fail the "non-obvious, highly-coded" test, so never mind!

kinda makes sense that people who were directly thinking about aids would be more didactic in their approach whereas other queer artist thinking about the body etc. favour strategies recontextualisation/subversion as an analogue for like cruising/subversive sites of pleasure or whatevs. FGT kind of just sits at the intersection between Tom Burr/Roni Horn queer appropriations of Minimalism and General Idea style agit prop.