Comments on: Some links, not totally fresh, not totally Midwestern…

By: sloane

sloane — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:34:41 +0000

Maybe C-Monster should be renamed Los Angeles Times? Or L’osange, Les Times.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:21:11 +0000

yeah. (go here to help C-Monster get the LA Times to re-name their new blog, currently named the obscenely derivative Culture Monster.)

By: C-Monster

C-Monster — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:12:12 +0000

oh moochas grassy ass.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:31:11 +0000

Also to answer Matt’s question: I definitely feel that way some times too. I tend to get sucked back by the thought that it’s amazing how magical the edge of the rectangle CAN be when there are all these other possibilities. Someday I do intend to push the expansiveness envelope.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:28:06 +0000

Taking off from what Matt Ballou said about Tara Donovan’s work pushing the edge of the picture plane–I remember seeing an exhibit of her work at the St. Louis Art Museum. There was this magical piece in a semi-dark room made entirely of plastic drinking straws sticking straight out from the wall. From even 2 feet away, it was impossible to identify exactly what one was looking at–the straws appeared to move, they would quite locate in space, much the same way that her pieces won’t conform to the rectangle. A group led by a docent was asked to take guess as to what they were looking at. People thought it a digital video, a box filled with smoke, etc.

By: sloane

sloane — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:50:32 +0000

I too am loving the Tara Donovan work, and reading all articles about her that are everywhere right now. I have this feeling that it would be basically impossible for me to resist touching her work. I would LalaLOOOVE to read an interview between Donovan and Tom Friedman.

By: matt ballou

matt ballou — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:17:16 +0000

one of the things i love about donovan or olafur eliasson (or katarina fritsch, or sarah sze) is that they really make me evaluate my loyalty to the rectangle – hell, to the edge itself even. one of the things that happened when i moved away from large paintings/drawings and was working smaller on the pentagonal panels over the last couple years is that my mind started so see all of these different formal possibilities, and i recognized that it’s people like those mentioned above here who are actually dealing with expansive experiences – things i couldn’t do no matter how large i worked, or how i tried to alter the edge of the picture plane. since then i’ve started to work a lot smaller, on tondos or in amorphous ways that don’t engage the edge so much… anyway, looking at donovan’s work in the NYTs slide show and reading about it in the article really just connected to where i am right now: looking for something more expansive than i’ve been experiencing in my own work of late…

anyone else feel this from time to time?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:53:22 +0000

Agreed.

I’ve already added that Donovan monograph mentioned in the article to my Amazon wishlist.

By: Sam K

Sam K — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:31:20 +0000

Good links all. I really like Tara Donovan’s stuff. Her work, more than many others, makes me wonder what she’ll do next.