ten visual artists i have been thinking about

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(xpost) I mean, you can start a blog where you go to art shows and report on them, but I don't like the idea of the tone being dominated by "LOOK, I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' 'BOUT ART, I JUST KNOW WHAT I LIKE."

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

since i'm not very familiar with the original list, i'll add one of my recent faves. thomas demand!
demand takes photos of fairly mundane things. a kitchen. an empty office space. etc. then in his studio creates a three dimensional replica of the subject of the photo out of paper and cardboard. then he takes a second picture of the scene mimicking the original photo. then he destroys the paper model. intense!

http://www.moneycab.com/de/home/lifestyle/art/ausstellungen/050205_atlantic_bukarest_basel_th.ArticlePar.0002.Image.jpg
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/publications/week/2005/050408/Photos/art_demand_DivingBoard_moma.jpg
http://raster.art.pl/prezentacje/television/11%20Demand.jpg
http://www.camera-austria.at/artikel-prints/1287955114-1.jpg
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/1801/bild.jpg
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1996/newphoto12/jpegs/demand.jpeg

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

(Art already has the unfortunate reputation of being elitist or obscure or impenetrable.)

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

11. Delia Brown

http://www.damelioterras.com/picts/DB-9-PTG.JPG

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry, that last post of mine was an x-post, if it wasn't clear)

!

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

(Art already has the unfortunate reputation of being elitist or obscure or impenetrable.)

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 2nd, 2005.

like me!!!

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, as soon as i saw aitken's name, i knew this was you.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Longo also directed the video for "Bizarre Love Triangle" and I think did the cover for the Replacements Tim, which was pretty awful.

nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

andrew m, have you checked out oliver boberg? i recommended him to a friend who had mentioned demand. he also builds things out of cardboard/paper, but they are of a decrepit, bleak eastern european, industrial sort.
for instance: http://www.lomblad.net/rob/archives/blogimages/Stadttunnel.jpg

robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

He had stuff up in SF not too long ago.

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, as soon as i saw aitken's name, i knew this was you.
yeah, well, i'm still working on him...trying to prepare my paper for conferences, perhaps.

robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

woah. i'll check out boberg.

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Longo also directed Johnny Mnemonic (anyone mention that already?).

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

MORE PICS PLEASE

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

which were those?

egon schiele, edvard munch, francis bacon, van gogh. oh and mark rothko but he's the exception that proves the rule. and a bunch of cartoonists.

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

DEAN YOU HAVE GRAET TASTE

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

That first Russell painting reminds me of:

http://www.whitney.org/learning/art/close-1969-420-1.jpg

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link

(Or perhaps more accurately, the later variations on that painting, such as

http://ithaca.different-day.com/archives/mirror/PhilIII_ChuckClose.jpg )

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

DEAN YOU HAVE GRAET TASTE

THAKNS!

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

That first Russell painting reminds me of:

IIRC, for that series of B&W portraits, he used spray paint and stencils. In fact, until I was looking for pictures of the skaters (which I had seen years ago) and the pigs (which I saw recently), I didn't know that they were by the same person.

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

18. Sarah Sze

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dnbastille/conseil/bizarre2.gif

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread rules. dean you are the bombiest.

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/2e1b43ad650d0bb4534e46154b5fe283/img_two/lp_longo_ascension.jpg

i am certain some of you have seen this piece by longo.

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

glenn branca!

mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/exhibition/event_details.php?id=3298

i wish i had known about this show!

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

how about "i don't know much about art, but i know what i like, but 10 secs after i leave the gallery i've forgotten all the fucking names"

anyway, two i do:

Julie Mehretu:
http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/BD73992C53BA05FC6169.jpg

Odd Nerdrum (xpost!):
ihttp://home.no.net/jaeand/images/bilder%20og%20gif/mikke%20mus/selfportrait%20odd%20nerdrum.jpg

geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

sigh well yr mousebuttons all work i guess

geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The Carles Congost looks like a still from a Bill Viola video. Really great stuff on this thread, has got me excited about the museum visits I've planned for Friday in San Francisco.

Here's a few favorites of mine:

Robert Schwartz
http://www.sjmusart.org/dynamic_content/eventImages/Sw_PaintedonaLeaf_large.jpg

David Rathman (the captions are an integral part of these pieces; this one reads, "funny how time slips away")
http://www.clementine-gallery.com/img/funnyhowtime1.jpg

Xie Nanxing
http://galerie-meile.ch/XieNanxing/untitled0010.jpg

Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link


a non-broken Cecily Brown
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/brown/Brown_HighSociety.jpg

Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Penguin, are you from SoCal by any chance?...I've seen Oshiro's work a lot, and Rodriguez's as well down here.

robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Marilyn Minter

http://artnet.com/artwork_images_111_135817_Marilyn-Minter.jpg

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I just want to mention that in no way, shape or form is Laura Owens allowed on this thread.

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I am, Robots. I saw the Oshiro piece at "Thing" at the Hammer, but he had a few shows elsewhere in LA that I'm sad I missed.

Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

todd hido
http://www.ncf.ca/~ek867/hidoroaming.jpg

robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Dean OTM.

Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Ghada Amer

http://www.artthrob.co.za/99july/images/venice-amer.jpg

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Today I've come with full force to Alessandro Mendini's work. A lot of concepts I've been thinking about with regards to my own work I'm finding he has explored extensively through his.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qvyfdaaT1qz6av7o1_500.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qszbyhrT1qz6av7o1_500.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ql2tCqxo1qz6av7o1_500.jpg

I'm interpreting these as symbols of everyday objects—their usefulness denied; their forms scaled, gilded, burned as effigies. Especially interesting to me is that in spite of this these are still products, Mendini is the head of a design house, all these object/sculptures are still useful. This isn't straight up Claus Oldenburg erecting giant monuments to the everyday; but a play with both form and function that, I feel, speaks poignantly about both. I also find them extremely beautiful!

Dolly Parton Parcel (scottfree), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Oh my god my mind is reeling from watching an hour and a half of Gillian Wearing confession videos (on top of another hour and a half of other G Wearing work that wasn't exactly emotionally lightweight either). Most depressing art exhibition I've probably ever seen.

EDB, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

three visual artists whose names I am dropping on a message board

og (admrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

but I've been thinking about them too, as in "I like that"

og (admrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

they're showing some klahr films later this month at EPFC (don't think i've seen any)

frans zwartjes is a dude i am thinking about now

http://www.filmbank.nl/stills/zwartjes-living2.jpg

y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link

and wondering if possibly david lynch saw his work (super-cliche to call anything "lynchian" at this point but i think there are actual affinities there)

y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

Franz Zwartjes is great! You should go to the EPFC screening, my friend Laida's films are showing that night too.

og (admrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

RIP Franz West

EDB, Friday, 27 July 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

tania bruguera
public movement
elizabeth price
hito steyerl
wochenklauser
group material
ryan gander
marlon riggs
todd haynes
pablo picasso

judith, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link

did anybody go to documenta or the berlin biennial this year?

judith, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link

five years pass...

http://koikoikoi.com/2010/08/portraits-of-women-by-ikenaga-yasunari/

just saw one of this guy's portraits, then all the others, they seem very nice, thought oh no what if he is a sex pervert, chances are good

j., Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link


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