The Clash Project

The Clash Project- fashion made by non-fashion designers....beautiful.

The Cheaper Show Book Launch

My work will be published in this book! yay!

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan's work is stunning. She'll take the most mundane house hold object and change it into the most magical overwhelming natural phenomenon.

Cornilia Parker

Cornelia Parker has been a favorite of mine since I saw her lecture at the SF Yerba Buena years ago. She was showing her pieces "Mass (Colder, Darker Matter)" and "Anti-mass" (above). "Mass" is salvaged materials from a church from the American South that was struck by lightning and "Anti-mass" was salvage from a church burnt by arson. She suspended both huge installations in the same room in diagonal corners from each other. They were powerful pieces to witness and intense displays of the fragility of the human experience. I remember spending a lot of time in that space.

"I resurrect things that have been killed off... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities." Cornelia Parker

También la lluvia

I just watched this movie a couple days ago and it still has stayed with me. There is great irony and intense contradictions throughout this great story, as there is in reality.

Mangos jugosos

yo tengo la tierra
pa' tu semilla buena
tu tienes la llave
yo tengo la manguera
tu tienes la forma
yo tengo la manera
vamos a sembrarle mango
en todita la acera

Música Dominicana- I love Rita Indiana on a sunny day like today. Here's a little Tigaraso from Maluca just because.

Anna Von Mertens

Frida Kahlo's aura, with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

The Duke and Duchess of Urbino's auras, after Piero della Francesca

Kurt Cobain's aura (Zoe's), after Elizabeth Peyton

Mary Cassatt's aura, after Degas

Mona Lisa's aura, after Leonardo da Vinci

Anna Von Mertens' hand-dyed and stitched cotton textiles really struck me when I first saw them. But there was definitely a part of me that was very cynical when I read that they were aura portraits of the dead who are portrayed in art historically significant paintings- it came across as a bit too "new agey". Martens' also admits that "The tension of belief informs this work."
So then after some thought, I knew there was also a side of me that definitely feels an energy when around art ...And what's the problem if someone maps the aura of those that have past through abstract textiles? -especially when they are this beautiful. seriously.

PINA- a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders

The movie PINA looks AMAZING. I am of huge fan of her work. When she passed away around two years ago I went though all her perfomences on YouTube I could find. Wim Wenders, also known for Buena Vista Social Club, had a long friendship with the artist and had talked about doing some kind of collaboration before she passed but he couldn't figure out the right way to honor her art. The idea of it being in 3D finally struck them and they finally started production when Pina died unexpectedly in 2009. After some time of mourning he realized this was even more important than before, to share her art with a broader audience.

Sergei Parajanov - The Color of Pomegranates

I was just put on to this beautiful movie The Color of Pomegranates by Arminian director, Sergei Parajanov.

A biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet's life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova's life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov's imagination and Sayat Nova's poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. IMDb

I found the trailer and the full version on youtube but it's impossible to embed. Check. the. links. The movie is visually stunning but a bit hard to get through at first because it's one beautiful image after another so it can be extremely overwhelming (the same way Matthew Barney or Alejandro Jodorowsky would be)...but totally inspiring and worth the time to get through it.

From time to time...

Black Forest by Charles Huettner

I tripped on to Charles Huettner's loop animation. I love how the bugs come crawling out and how he separates into three balls and they go rolling away. The little details really make it for me. so good.

The Future- Miranda July

...I want to see this.

The rapture...

Bertozzi and Casoni

Bertozzi and Casoni are an Italian ceramic artist duo who caught my eye years ago. They met while studying at Gaetano Ballardini Ceramic Art Institute of Faenza, Italy. I recently was able to see one of their installations up close at the Venice Biennale in 2009. They definately have the "wow" factor. I love their egg peices! They play with the ideas of over indulgence and decay in the most hyper realistic techniques of glazed ceramic I've ever seen. They are real craftsmen which allows them to make some seriously beautiful profound art.

Good Morning

BSS | Breakfast Interrupted

by Bruton Stroube Studios

Sooyeon Lee: Grand Slam

Sooyeon Lee: Grand Slam on Nowness.com.

...fringe and tassels should be required when playing ping pong.

David Lachapelle

David Lachapelle is one of my favorite photographers, known for his surreal over extravagant images of pop icons and super models. The highly saturated colors ooze out of his photos cluttered with excess goodness for your eyes to feast on. I saw his documentary Rize years ago and have never had a movie theatre experience quite like it. Everyone who was watching became so animated by the energy conveyed in the movie that they cheered, clapped, and got up out of their seats for the dancers in the movie. It was in Oakland where I saw it ...but still that kind of good.

Eric Yahnker

Eric Yahnker's work has an amazing sick twisted style that makes me laugh out loud. Before he started this new series of pencil drawings he worked in comedy and animation for South Park, MADtv, and Seinfeld. In a recent interview with Fecal Face he was asked:

Something I am always hearing in the art world is the phrase "one liners". Your work is definitely humorous, do you think the pieces transcend being "one liners"? What are your thoughts on the whole "one liner" issue?

Guilty as charged. But, I can also draw a straight philosophical line from Confucius to Rodney Dangerfield. I don't know how clarity got such a bum rap, but I personally get a kick out of the cable guy who can appreciate my work on his own terms, while the academic art critic can excavate further and appreciate it on theirs.