Archive for January, 2009
The Pope
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Bacon, found, new york, Photography, pope, subway, Toni Tiller on January 21, 2009 by Toni TillerIn With The New
Posted in Art, Collage, Drawing, Miscellaneous, mixed media, monotype, Painting, Photography, portrait, printmaking, Tom Bennett with tags Art, Barak Obama, Collage, Drawing, monotype, Painting, politics, portrait on January 20, 2009 by jdhastingsAnd now everybody get on the Hope Train! Here we’re looking at the art looking forward to the Obama administration.
“Obama Plush” by Bisbee Stitches
To me this is the perfect place to start because America does have a particularly warm and fuzzy feeling towards President Obama, like he’s simultaneously our security blanket and teddy bear (so named after Theodore Roosevelt). With everything coming apart at the hinges, I hope it’s all justified, but for today I’m satisfied to bask in the plush goodness. Read more »
Out With the Old…
Posted in Art, Collage, Drawing, Miscellaneous, Painting, Photography, portrait on January 20, 2009 by jdhastingsSo, here we are, President Bush is officially an ex-president, and it’s time for us to consider what we’re moving forward from. Hopefully we will update this over the course of the day, as well as another post celbrating the inauguration and the art of what’s going forward.
But for now, a montage of the past 8 years…
Portrait by Jonathan Yeo collaged together with images from 100 porographic magazines. Read more »
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Posted in Collage, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital on January 19, 2009 by Daniel Allyn Lee
MLK, digital collage, 2009
remembering a man that made a huge difference in the world.
Why Chatanooga Sucks.
Posted in Art, Links, news, Toni Tiller with tags Art, chatanooga, law, public art, Toni Tiller on January 18, 2009 by Toni TillerThe Chatanoogan has a story about a local artist, Chaya Anavi, who decided to add a little art installation to her front yard, which then prompted the neighbors to contact zoning officials. It seems that zoning officials are a bit flummoxed, and even though Ms. Anavi has researched her rights in this matter the city attorney’s office will be looking for whatever loopholes they can find to bring charges. Let’s hope that in the spirit of fair play this will open the doors up against every pink flamingo, mirrored ball, and garden gnome in town.
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
P.S. My favorite part of the article is where they parenthetically explain that a vibrator is a sex toy.
Evidence Of Poor Studio Habits… and crappy weather
Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags oops, stephg on January 18, 2009 by ssstephg
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i told you my studio gets cold.
Call For Bush/Obama Art
Posted in Art, Miscellaneous with tags Art, Barak Obama, call for art, George W. Bush on January 17, 2009 by jdhastingsHey, friends, like everybody else in the known universe, d’Arteboard is excited about Tuesday’s regime change. To honor the occassion we want to have 2 posts- one a retrospective of art created in response to the Bush administration, and one for art relating to the upcoming Obama administration.
SO, if you know of any examples of either, Email us at darteboard@gmail.com with a link to the art (please send links, not actual files).
We’ll take a look at anything- your art, other peoples’ art, youtube videos, links to music, photos, the good, the bad, the ugly and the bautiful. Art in favor of Bush or Obama, or against. In response to Bush himself, or any of the notable events that occurred under him- 9-11, Iraq, Katrina, Either of the 2 recessions, Abu Ghraib, Gay Marriage, the re-election, etc. Same with Obama (though obviously he doesn’t have as much track record to interpret). The idea is to get a visual survey to sum up the feelings being left behind and the feelings going forward.
We want to post these sometime between Tomorrow (Sunday) and Tuesday, so get ‘em in now!
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Hope to hear from you,
-JD
Art: “Obama Hope” by a Shepard Fairey and “Man of Leisure, King George” by Kayti Didriksen, respectively
Baltimore Grace
Posted in Art, Drawing, Links, Miscellaneous, new york school, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, abstract expressionism, Art, baltimore museum of art, grace hartigan, new york school of painting, Tom Bennett on January 17, 2009 by Tom BennettGrace Hartigan was a pioneering ab ex painter who made a huge splash in NY in the 50′s and then moved to Baltimore, where she sort of disappeared from the Art map. I made a trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art the other day and rediscovered some of her painting. She had an interesting life. Hartigan was born in Newark, New Jersey. In 1942 she began her artistic career as a draftsperson in Newark. After moving to New York in 1946, she became friendly with Avery, de Kooning, Kline, Pollock, Gottlieb, Motherwell, Baziotes, Rivers, Harold Rosenberg and the “New York School” poet Frank O’Hara. In 1950 her career was launched with her inclusion in the famous New Talent exhibition organized by Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro at the Samuel Kootz Gallery.
Throughout the fifties Hartigan was featured in seven solo exhibitions at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. She was also included in MoMA’s pivotal exhibition “Twelve Americans” of 1956 and in the influential international show “The New American Paintings” in 1958-59. During the mid-fifties she also appeared regularly in reviews and articles by art magazines and newspapers including Life and Newsweek. Some of her big paintings from this period include Persian Jacket, which was acquired by MoMA. Her Grand Street Brides is now in the collection of the Whitney Museum.
In 1960 Hartigan moved to Baltimore and became Director of the Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art in 1967. Her later works have continued to plumb art history, visual culture, biography, and, in her Great Queens and Empresses series, history. She revealed boldness with stylistic experimentation, at times employing dripped and splattered paint along with powerful, gestural lines.
She died in November at the age of 86.
Grace Hartigan is dead
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Old Art In The Middle Of The Day
Posted in Art, encaustic, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, encaustic, Stephanie Gerolimatos on January 17, 2009 by ssstephgencaustic on panel
6 x 4″ (or thereabouts)
click for enlargeable pic
hope you’re all having a nice weekend so far. i’m thinking of heading out to see some art. if i see anything blog-worthy i’ll be sure to let you know.
later,
-Steph G
Anselm Kiefer At MASS MoCA (i’m still in love)
Posted in Art, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Anselm Kiefer, Art, MASS MoCA, museum exhibit, Stephanie Gerolimatos on January 17, 2009 by ssstephg
photo from the MASS MoCA website
Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture and Paintings
through October 2009
MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA
An Anselm Kiefer work up close and in the flesh is nothing short of monumental both in scale and in it’s awe-inspiring presence. My knowledge of this was happily refreshed a couple of months back when I finally made it to the Kiefer exhibition at Mass MoCA. The show was just as gorgeous, exquisite and overwhelming as I expected.
There was one point when I was looking at one of the newer enormous field landscapes with the scattered blooms which initially felt very bleak. There were three of them, one on each wall at the far end of a long room with lots of late afternoon sunlight pouring in through a grid of windows at the opposite end. All of a sudden Read more »
Apropos of Nothing, But Because the World Deserves It
Posted in Art on January 17, 2009 by jdhastingsI love it because you love it.
-JD
Legoland Presents: The Future?
Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, news, sculpture on January 16, 2009 by jdhastings
This is weird to me. Not that Legoland would choose to depict the historic moment so much as that they didn’t bother waiting for it to happen before depicting it.
What, do they have the guy from Heroes working for them or something? Why are they guessing at what’s going to happen or who’s wearing what?
What if, and I find this entirely plausible, Aliens choose this moment to reveal themselves to the world, wearing “Obamaniac” T Shirts over their shriveled grey frames? Or what if Obama chooses to mix things up and drive in on a Harley? Won’t Lego feel dumb then?
Just a curious exercise all around. I do, however, hope to attend Legoland’s “Lottery Numbers of 2010″ exhibit opening in August. That one could be useful.
-JD
The Gaza Strippers
Posted in Art on January 16, 2009 by Jason GrayCharcoal, Pastel, 5B Pencil, and Erasure on Paper, 18″ x 20″ (approx), 2009.
Building off my earlier reductive studies, this work goes a step further by returning to the representational. I plan on executing a series of these types of drawings, and am still pursuing how to translate the technique into paint.
Andrew Wyeth Passes Away At 91
Posted in Art, Links, news with tags Andrew Wyeth, Art, obituary, Painting on January 16, 2009 by Toni TillerAmerican painter Andrew Wyeth passes away at his home at the age of 91, CNN presents his obituary here.
Quincy Jones Suggests Secretary Of The Arts Position
Posted in Links, Miscellaneous, news, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, Jaime Austria, Joanne Mattera, John Schaefer, Obama, petition, Q, Quincy Jones, Secretary of the Arts, Stephanie Gerolimatos, the arts on January 15, 2009 by ssstephgAs I was scanning art blogs today I happened upon artist Joanne Mattera’s blog entry Where’s The Bailout for the Arts? in which she makes mention of a petition aimed at convincing President Obama to create a new position–Secretary of the Arts. The petition was created and written by Jaime Austria after hearing Quincy Jones tell John Schaefer in a November interview on WNYC’s Soundcheck, “…next conversation I have with President Obama is to beg for a Secretary of Arts”. So far the petition has 114212 signatures.
So what do you think? Do you agree with Q? Will you be signing the petition or not?
Links Du Lapin #10
Posted in Art, Links, Toni Tiller with tags Art, billboard, ron english, Toni Tiller, youtube on January 15, 2009 by Toni TillerThoughts?
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
The Mart of Bart: A transcription
Posted in Art, art on paper, homage, Miscellaneous, monotype, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress with tags Art, Canvas, figure, homage, monotype, Painting, paper, tiepolo, Tom Bennett, wip on January 15, 2009 by Tom Bennett
Artists have always looked to the past for inspiration or simply to learn from the masters. Transcription is the term for the process of making a work based on a preceding work by another artist.
This is a study and a larger work in progress. Based on the painting by Tiepolo, depicting the martyrdom of that old kidder, the apostle Bartholomew. The story is he was flayed alive and crucified upside down. Well that’s a fun-filled story, but what I responded to was the design and movement of the original.
– Tom Bennett
monotype, 18″ x 12″
In progress, oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″
the original: The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew, Tiepolo, 1722
Literature Can Have A Didactic Component? Who Knew??!!
Posted in Art, Links, literature, Miscellaneous on January 14, 2009 by jdhastingsThis is knid of related to the yarn theory post yesterday in that it involves scientists trying to study art, but I wonder if this isn’t the counterpoint to the benefits seen in there. Newscientist reports on a study that sought to evaluate Victorian Literature from an evolutionary standpoint. Their conclusion is that literature is used to strengthen society and reinforce its communal values in a way which supports the evolution of humans and society.
As someone who has studied literature, allow me to be the first to respond: Gee, Doctor, you think so?
As opposed to art and science being used to further each other, as in the yarn examples, I think this is a case where the researchers could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by getting to know the field of literary criticism just a little. As it is, this strikes me as one of the most pointless experiments since someone decided to spend money to determine if
beer goggles exist.
It is fundamental to the study of Read more »
The Title Hasn’t Come To Me Yet
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on January 14, 2009 by Toni TillerUsually as soon as I finish one of these I look at it and something pops right into my head, like my own little free association Rorschach ink blots or something, but with this one I’ve got nothing so far. I know it reminds me of Japanese landscape paintings, but that’s it. If anything comes to you, feel free to share or this one might end up permanently being called the title of this blog post.
But is it Art?: Yarn Theory
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, Textile on January 13, 2009 by jdhastings 
I recently came across a story at Newscientist.com titled How To Knit A Brain about visual artists who have used yarn to represent the gunk inside our noggins in anatomiclly correct manner. The image above is by Psychiatrist/ Textile Artist Karen Norberg. Below the jump is a work by psychologist/textile artist Marjorie Taylor.
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