Recent Work

Above are some images of my work from a group show this February.

Walton Ford

I've really loved Walton Ford's work for a while. I was able to see a series of his pieces in San Francisco a couple years ago and I couldn't believe the detail. I love how successful he is as a story teller, these secret worlds of animals or the bizarre stories of the relationships that developed between scientists and their animal specimens...It's a good kind of weird.

"Walton Ford was born in 1960 in Larchmont, New York. Ford graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with the intention of becoming a filmmaker, but later adapted his talents as a storyteller to his unique style of large-scale watercolor. Blending depictions of natural history with political commentary, Ford’s meticulous paintings satirize the history of colonialism and the continuing impact of slavery and other forms of political oppression on today’s social and environmental landscape. Each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth-century industrialists or, locating the work in the present, contemporary American consumer society." -Art21

Kate MacDowell

"I’m fascinated by the 'weak links', the smallest bellwethers of environmental damage: the frogs, insects, small birds and field mice that are often the first to succumb to environmental stresses. Although not as showy as the polar bear or tiger, nevertheless these easily overlooked and undervalued tiny disasters, extinctions, and deaths nibble away at our own secure future by foreshadowing future impacts on human health and welfare. They also raise larger moral and theological questions. How significant is the fall of a sparrow? I use a human skeleton or human limbs to show that our own fate as animals also reliant upon our environment is closely intertwined with these creatures, and that in losing a part of the natural world, we are losing a part of our own identity as well." -Kate MacDowell

Kate Clark

Kate Clark's work really caught my attention when I recently saw her stuff. Clark’s sculpture’s have sympathetic faces tinged with anger, regret or seductiveness, question what it is to be human. In an interview lark stated “I create sculptures that are natural animal bodies with faces that have been transformed to have human facial features,” Clark says. “The sculptures present the viewer with the human face, which they relate to, the animal body, with which they reject a relationship, and finally the fusion of these two parallel but distinctly different lives.” Interesting work visually-- but I still feel the more I read about her the more that her work can be pushed more... but cool stuff.

swarms of birds

new inspiration.

...so moving

An apology that shook my soul... beautiful performance.

dreaming...

Yellow Slime Mold Timelapse from sesotek on Vimeo.

Throw down your heart - Béla & Ruth: banjo + thumb piano

"She's a wizard." happy music to pass the day.

LOVE.

Amazing trailer for JR's new film... can't wait to see it.

Ai Weiwei: Sunflower seeds

Ai WeiWei's work really has made me think about how to push the material clay to deeper -more thoughtful level.

Cristina Córdova

A friend of mine just told me about Cristina Córdova last week- and I just can't get enough of her. I wish I could see her work in person the craftsmanship is incredible. The figures- hands- clothing- skin... make me want to stare for hours. I am completely in love with her work at the moment to say the least. Her work has definitely challenged me to push myself more.

Natacha Paganelli "kolo"

Kolo from Natacha Paganelli on Vimeo.

The music makes this so good and nightmare-like.

Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin is best known for her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliqued with names in the Sahchi collection. I think the best word to describe Emin is raw. Her work has been called "confessional art" because of her ability to integrate her peices and personal life enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer.

Fabrizio Corneli

Love. sometimes you just want to scream it from the roof tops. Fabrizio Corneli makes work that deals with shadows I really don't like his other work. at all. But I believe it to be very hard to talk about love in art while being true to those emotions and not be cheesey.

An eye for Annai

That last video kinda reminded me of this youtube favorite of mine. very cute.

Bottle by Kirsten Lepore

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

This lovely short makes me home sick and miss my love.

El Guincho- Bombay

El Guincho - Bombay from CANADA on Vimeo.

awesome music video.

James Turrel

The last movie says it all, but it goes with out saying that James Turrel is incredible. His work blows my mind -every time I see it. His obsession with space and light is so intense. I really want to go see his work Roden Crater in progress. He acquired the crater in 1979. Located outside Flagstaff Arizona, Turrell is turning this natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena.

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist. I first saw his work at the San Fracisco MOMA his exhibition Take your time which then made it's way to Chicago, while I was visiting home, so I was able to see it again. His work is based on natural phenomena: rainbow, waterfalls, light - which all seem like very simplistic ideas except Eliasson has an instinct for the spectacular. His work become experiences- ephemeral and transient. Creating these installations or "experiences" allows the work to be that much more accessible- everyone see it's beauty.

Tetsuo Kondo

At this year's Venice Architecture Biennale Tetsou Kondo collaborated with Transsolar's climate engineers to create Cloudscape, an exhibition that filled Venice's Coderie with clouds. "The clouds are created inside the huge 319 meter long space by pumping in three different layers of air - cool and dry at the bottom, warm and humid air in the middle to create the cloud itself and hot and dry at the top to keep the cloud correctly positioned. To enable the viewers to literally touch the clouds, a 4.3 meter high helical ramp has been installed in the centre. The atmospheres above and below the cloud have different qualities of light, temperature, and humidity, separating the spaces by a filter effect. The cloud can be touched, and it can be felt as different microclimatic conditions coincide."

All I have to say is everyone else at the Biennale must feel like a%$holes because who can top real clouds!? It's like having super powers. If I could make clouds, I'd put one in my apartment. But in all seriousness, I love the poetic nature of the work-- to bring outside inside on the most literal level to the point where it could be nothing but purely surreal is pretty amazing. It really goes beyond words.

The Venice Architecture Biennale runs until 21 November, 2010.

Q

Q from Daniele Manoli on Vimeo.

An alphabet series by Daniele Manoli. I like everything until the last title part.

Dancing Pigeons - Ritalin

Dancing Pigeons - Ritalin from Blink on Vimeo.