Factory . Flame, 2005, acrylic on panel, 11" 15"
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Music for Your Studio; Vol. 5
Artist: Diego Bernal
Album: For Corners (Digital)
Label: Exponential
About (from the label website):
"For Corners is the first full length album from Diego Bernal, a civil rights attorney and beatsmith, located in San Antonio, TX. For Corners is Diego Bernal's love letter to the music, cultures, era and people that nurtured him.
The music is dusty and layered with Latin soul, from the triumphant blasts of horns to the laid back groove of lowrider melodies. It is a call to return to the simplicity and integrity of hip-hop's best moment and an invitation to enjoy a slightly different kind of southern comfort. Not so much dirty south as directly south. The full album is a completely free download. Enjoy!"
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Simulacra: Contrail Art
Bill Radawec, Installation View of Contrail Art
(me)
I know there are more examples, but I'm not up for a scavenger hunt this morning.
I know there are more examples, but I'm not up for a scavenger hunt this morning.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Elger Esser
Ed Schad at I Call it Oranges writes this about a recent Elger Esser exhibition of photographs, "I love that in this world where constructed images reign [in reference to Andreas Gursky] (at the moment I hope rather than forever) that someone like Esser can show us the dazzling font of reality mixed with human vision. I like this photography of co-existence. I like its prospect, I like that the real is now emerging as something forgotten, something buried, something uncanny. I like that reality can still surprise us."
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Mary Weatherford; Vines
Mary Weatherford, Vines, 2007, Flashe on linen, 37 x 44 inches
Mary Weatherford, Vines, 2008, Flashe on linen, 37 x 44 inches
I love it when realism looks like abstraction and vice versa.
I love it when realism looks like abstraction and vice versa.
Friday, March 20, 2009
This Date, from Henry David Thoreau's Journal
This Date, from Henry David Thoreau's Journal:
"How simple is the natural connection of events. We complain greatly of the want of flow and sequence in books, but if the journalist only move himself from Boston to New York and speak as before, there is link enough. And so there would be, if he were as careless of connection and order when he stayed at home, and let the incessant progress which his life makes be the apology for abruptness. Do I not travel as far away from my old resorts, though I stay here at home, as though I were on board the steamboat? Is not my life riveted together? Has not it sequence? Do not my breathings follow each other naturally?"
Thoreau talks about a question that I think a lot of visual artists ask themselves as well - "is my work cohesive?" or "is this new work too much of a diversion from the previous work?" or to put it plainly, "does this all go together?" I often tell my friends (and reassure myself) that the artist is what ties the work together and not the visual sameness or similarity...as Thoreau so well put on this date 167 years ago.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Music Tonight: Temples
Local ambient/experimental sound-artist Kevin Michael Richards, who goes by the name of Temples, is playing a house-show tonight at 3551 Brighton St. which is right next door to Rhinoceropolis around 10ish. I saw him play at Rhinoceropolis a few weeks ago and he played a beautiful all-encompassing ambient set. Recommended.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Music for Your Studio; Vol. IV
Touch Radio is my recommended listening for the week. This label runs a regular podcast that showcases many of their artists. Most of the podcasts are ambient/field-recording based works that add a beautiful background to your environment. Here's a description of the most recent edition (#39):"Book of Hours" was recorded in the remarkable baroque central dome of the National Pantheon in Lisbon.
The musicians (and the audience) were 40 meters above ground level on a narrow circular balcony looking out over the abyss. The main sound source was a crystal bowl, played by João Silva, which was struck and resonated with a stick. Paulo Raposo processed these sounds and diffused them throughout the space via 6 channels, 4 of which were small self-powered speakers, arranged symetrically around the circumference of the dome. Carlos Santos also moved throughout the space and the audience with a small glass and a Tibetan bell.
The sonic interactions in "Book of Hours" aimed to reveal the inherently active qualities of the space, itself a performer in this acoustic dialog."
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Rudolf Stingel at Paula Cooper
Jerry Saltz mentioned the current Rudolf Stingel show at Paula Cooper gallery while writing about the current state of the art world in reference to Lisa Yuskavage's work. He wrote, "Stingel escapes the irony and kitsch of the recent past and gives us an atmospherics of melancholy and love. I wouldn’t want any of these paintings individually, but together they charge the gallery with thoughts about what it takes to create shows in the wake of orgiastic abundance. Stingel’s installation is a requiem for the white cube and a fond farewell to the last fifteen years. These four shows make you understand that while the market is dying, art is in the process of being reborn. They may not be remembered in ten years, but right now that doesn’t matter."
I was never a fan of irony in art either - good riddance as far as I'm concerned.
Check out Tim&Vas blog for more installation views and visit the Paula Cooper site here.
Monday, March 16, 2009
New Print on the Knack
Knack studios posted my new print and a couple of other works on their blog today. Check out all the other great places my print has shown up here (eight more places!).EDIT: Things magazine also put up a link to my work this week as well as Design Crisis.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Big Openings Tonight
Rex Ray - Public Reception The Promenade Space · 6 pm at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
Step into the multi-hued world of Rex Ray to experience a fresh breeze of color and organic shapes with a nod to mid-century modern art and design..
PLUS GALLERY RE-OPENS AT 2501 LARIMER; PUBLIC GRAND OPENING AND
ARTIST'S RECEPTION FOR KAREN McCLANAHAN FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH AT 6PMMy friend Bill Amundson will have new work at Plus as one of the gallery's most recent additions.
also RMCAD's student show opens tonight, and loads more art/openings of can be found at the always-great denverarts.org.
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