Archive for February, 2008
Mark Greenwold
Posted in Painting, tagged Cleveland, DC Moore, IU, Mark Greenwold, SUNY on February 28, 2008| 24 Comments »
Sangram Majumdar and Ben Duke at Ann Nathan
Posted in Painting, tagged Ann Nathan Gallery, Art, Ben Duke, Chicago, Painting, Sangram Majumdar on February 25, 2008| 24 Comments »
Sangram Majumdar and Ben Duke at Ann Nathan Gallery. Exhibit opened February 15, 2008 and continues through March.
Eve Mansdorf
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Bloomington IN, Eve Mansdorf, Gallery Henoch, Painting on February 22, 2008| 17 Comments »
I was putting together a power point for my drawing class and just saw that Gallery Henoch has put up some new Eve Mansdorf images. The gallery website won’t let me link straight to Eve’s page, this is as close as I can get you.
Anne Thompson, addendum
Posted in Painting, tagged Anne Thompson, Art, Columbia MO, Painting on February 20, 2008| 3 Comments »
I was talking to Anne Thompson the other day, and learned that I’d totally missed out on the fact that the images I posted last week of are reversible paintings. What’s that? Reversible Paintings? The term “Recto/Verso” in the titles is meant to be taken literally. These works have two faces. Anne’s intention is that they be hung on a wall, so that the hang-er decides which face to show, which face to hide.
Here are three images of one work “Recto/Verso: Mit Fingerspitzengefuehl”, 2007.
The text around the edge, by the way, reads “Mit Fingerspitzengefuehl”. According to Anne this literally translates from the German as “with fingertip feeling”, but in common usage means doing something with tact and sensitivity.
Art Critical Interview with Will Cotton
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art Critical, Link, Painting, Will Cotton on February 20, 2008| 30 Comments »
Artcritical.com has published an interview with the painter Will Cotton by Greg Lindquist. The discussion touches on topics of source material, references, relationship of image to painting and other ideas that we’ve been on and on about lately–should be interesting. Here is the link.
Also, on the topic of Will Cotton: read a 2005 New York Times story on the hipster drawing group that he runs in his studio. Here is that link.
Clare Rojas
Posted in Painting, tagged clare rojas, Denmark, Kansas, Kavi Gupta, RISD, saic, San Francisco on February 20, 2008| 19 Comments »
Boing Boing’s art links
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Art, Boing Boing, democratic, DRM, kitsch, pop, steampunk, technology, the internets on February 19, 2008| 2 Comments »
Don’t know if any of you folks are regular readers of Boing Boing, an excellent blog devoted to all kinds of interesting stuff, whose writers are champions of viral curiosities, sci-fi, the tech savvy, steampunk, all things DRM-free, and other things not mentioned here, but I am. I’ve been pretty intrigued by their art links before. I’ve noticed that there is a very specific but broad-ranging type of art being presented. Common to most of it is that it’s very easy to grasp on a surface level (i.e., you could explain it in a couple of words if you had to), usually involves quite a bit of technical facility, and is often at least vaguely rooted in a pop kind of sensibility (or, if you must, is “kitsch-embracing”). The reason for this, at least in part, is that this art is very democratic–it is refreshingly unaloof to people with little to no artistic training. That’s my take anyway. What do y’all think? (The link will take you to their archive of posts with an ‘art’ tag.)
Lovis Corinth
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Lovis Corinth, Nana, Painting, St. Louis Art Museum on February 18, 2008| 33 Comments »
Nathan Boyer Videos: Destroy The Image and You Will Break The Enemy
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Art, Columbia MO, Nathan Boyer, Video on February 17, 2008| 6 Comments »
For anyone gearing up for the CAA Convention this week, thinking about turning young novices into full-fledged artists and in need of a good laugh–here is a link to some videos by Nathan Boyer. Nathan’s also a great painter, look for a post sometime soon.