Allison Schulnik's newest video. I love the muted colors with the bright details... but still not so sure about song choice.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Mound by Allison Schulnik
Allison Schulnik's newest video. I love the muted colors with the bright details... but still not so sure about song choice.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Woodkid - Iron
I don't know why I didn't post this earlier, but when I saw this video I loved it. It has such an epic feeling...out to battle.
Peter Gronquist
Today on Notcot I tripped on to Peter Gronquist's work. He has quite a jaw dropping show at Gallery 1988 in Venice right now. I had seen his "designer" guns years ago - the idea was definitely clever and stuck with me. It's all ablout the glamour and gold.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Matt Wisniewski
Matt Wisniewski's collage pieces are quite beautiful...they have inspired me to think of them as sculptural forms... hmmm.
Herb and Dorothy 50x50
If you haven't seen Herb and Dorthy yet check out the trailer below. It was definitly one of my favorite movies the year it came out. Such a surprising unsuspecting couple with an incredible art collection! ...and just a beautiful story. Now the creator of that documentary is making another film (hopefully) and her kickstarter is above. check it out.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Madame Peripetie x Lola Dupré
An incredible collaboration between photographer Madame Peripetie and artist Lola Dupré. I love when artists do collaborations and are able to make even stronger work then they would if they did it alone.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Alexis Mackenzie
I love these collages by Alexis Mackenzie. The typography is just so intricate I can't stop staring. She makes me want to cut up botany and anatomy books- I haven't collaged in a while... might do some today.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Teresa Margolles
Teresa Marolles' "Frontera" reflects on the dramatic scale of drug trafficking in Mexican society. The artist has used basic but very striking elements to create the works in "Frontera", and despite their minimalist style, they reveal great emotional depth and tragedy. The works go beyond the specific context that gave rise to them, with a universal value that explores our mechanisms of denial and the taboos still surrounding death and violence in contemporary society. The Museion exhibition features walls where executions took place, that the artist took down in Mexico and rebuilt in Bolzano—Muro Baleado (Culiacán), 2009, and Muro Ciudad Juárez, 2010—along with the works Plancha, 2010 and Cubo, 2010, a minimalist cube weighing a ton made out of iron from reinforced concrete taken from demolished buildings. The Bolzano exhibition will also be the first opportunity to see the filmed action Camiseta, created specially for "Frontera" and shot in the cities of Juarez, Kassel and Bolzano.'
seriously powerful. English transcript to the interview above here.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Mexico's Drug War, Feminized.
I recently read an article by Damien Cave for the New York Times about Mexico's drug war and specifically the involvement of women. These powerful photos above within the Ciudad Juárez prison are by Katie Orlinsky which really brought Caves words to life... super intense. Check out the slide show here.
Poses - Yolanda Dominguez
"Yolanda DomÃnguez is a Spanish artist who works from what is disquieting, handling situations that are sensitive and disturbing for the spectator. Her aim is to generate social criticism and a reaction." She definitely succeeds in her piece above called Poses. There is a sense of humor in the work that keeps me watching and waiting to see how people interact with these "models" that seem to have had mental breakdowns. But in the end the public gives them exactly what they've always wanted... they take pictures of them and give them plenty of attention. funny.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Greta Alfaro
Greta Alfaro's Ictu Oculi is just amazing. Her play on chaos and vulnerability is so visually striking. I also love her "In Praise of the Beast"- there is such a humor within nature at times.
Amy Stevens
"The Confections series began as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original idea was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my thesis show, but I sure got a lot of ideas from those first cakes. I ordered a kit from Martha Stewart.com and watched an instructional video on decorating cakes. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video and the pamphlet, I decided they were better off in their exuberantly imperfect states. With over 70 cakes constructions to date, I’m often asked, “Why still with the cakes?” Cakes are the centerpieces of celebrations and symbolic trophies evoking nostalgia and awe. Historically, cake has played a significant role in womens’ lives. Women have used cake as both an outlet of creativity and a symbol of female power politics. In my constructions of these photographs, I am commentating on not only cake itself as a rich cultural symbol, but of the domestic fantasy world of contemporary home decorating and cooking magazines and television shows. It’s a fantasy world where entertaining, cooking and decorating unite. It’s a place where one needs to have a beautiful home, decorated seasonally, in order to entertain friends with gourmet meals and elaborately concocted desserts.” – Amy Stevens
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