I was supposed to be working all day today but I couldn’t help but play a few sneaky rounds of Me and the Key. The premise is simple, find the key and click it. I can’t seem to get past the second Pong round, because I kind of suck at this stuff, see if you can do better.
- Toni “bunnie” Tiller
good music for a slow Sunday…
Kaki King – They Loved It In Italy (Live)
That’s the title for another series I’m working on.
Sunshine Pseudopods and Minidramas 4
24 x 18″
acrylic and oil on canvas
These paintings are about gestures and suggested relationships. The work I’d been doing for years had sort of dropped gestural mark-making in favor of all over crunchy textural surfaces that provided a space to feature simple sculptural elements such as a row of nails or an opening in a canvas with contrasting fabric behind it. The color and tone of that work tended to be somber. Ok using the past tense there is a little misleading since I’m actually still working in that vein, too. I can’t seem to close veins, just open new ones. That being the case, let’s assume I’m using a mining analogy and not referencing human anatomy when I say vein.
more pics and yapping after the jump Read more »
“Bullets” by Tunng
I’m working on getting something else ready to post this morning but am working against a bitchy keyboard and my own poor organizational skills so for now here’s one of my favorite songs and the really cool vid to tide you over. Enjoy.
-Steph Gerolimatos
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article illustrating a trend among artists wherein they are moving away from the big art centers (and their big costs of living) to smaller rust belt cities in search of cheaper rent and more space. Interesting read. I think that it is natural that American artists migrate away from New York and L.A. as the center of the art world begins to also shift away from New York to places like London, Berlin and Shanghai. As the situation of the art world becomes more global, localized, regional scenes will become more important for sustaining most American artists. So who’s in? Wanna move to Cleveland?
Courtesy of the New York Times comes this review of a show of Video Art by Kalup Linzy.
I admitedly have some definite issues with video art, that I intend to write about at some point (short version: “This wood bench is too uncomfortable to watch this entire video.”), but the combination of issues and themes in the videos described does sound like it may be worth it.
On the other hand, do the videos have to be seen in the context of a gallery space to be appreciated? Can I get a disc from Netflix?
-JD
Chicago jewelry designer, Erin Martinez, has been fashioning intensely crafted, wearable art pieces for years. Her most recent technique she picked up while traveling with her husband through Peru and through Guatemala. Specifically, sitting down with artisans on the street was what gave her the creative impetus for these pieces. Read more »
Bespoke Face Corset and Neck Brace by London artist Paddy
not only because maybe I’m feeling a little droopy, but because it’s a gorgeous, thought provoking hand-crafted work of art. From the artist’s etsy shop, madybypaddy:
“Due to popular demand, Paddy is making available for the first time his unique Silk Face Corset and Neck Brace garments. Paddy was originally commissioned by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to produce a series of facial garments in response to themes and issues relating to cosmetic surgery raised at the Museum’s event ‘Short Cuts to Beauty’. Each Face Corset is made specifically to fit the commissioners face and combines ‘facial body play’ with beautifully crafted workmanship. Each commission will be produced over a number of weeks via a postal fitting correspondence.”
Happy Friday!
-Steph Gerolimatos
but he isn’t able to post so I am going to post one of the billboards I found out in Berkeley. They have a very different feel from the ones I find on the G line in NYC, and at the moment I am trying to decide how I want to present them as a whole, but for now I see no reason not to post a piece of overall finished set. I don’t know if I am even done with this one yet, so lets just consider it a W.I.P. (work in progress) and feedback is welcome.
Toni “bunnie” Tiller
I’m going to be on a plane all day tomorrow though, so I’m going to post my first self portrait in a long time now.
Tableful ©2009
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
“Lorenz Manifold” by Hinke Osinga
In mid-January I posted about a recent trend of using fiber art to visualize certain scientific or methematical concepts.
As it turns out, I’m not the only one who’s been following the trend. The PS122 Gallery in New York is holding an exhibition this month titled “Yarn Theory”. As they state on that website, “Yarn Theory highlights the vibrant and deep interrelationship between the sciences, mathematics, crocheting and knitting.”
They go on to state:
Highlighting the work of some of today’s most interesting practitioners, Yarn theory juxtaposes installations and art objects made with a scientific or mathematical basis as a starting point, and with mathematical models and items made explicitly to explain or clarify abstract concepts, which end up being compelling aesthetic forms unto themselves. Because of their incremental structure, the crafted shapes often mimic growth systems found in nature. Such correlations are being explored by today’s needle workers, many of whom are also scientists and mathematicians professionally.
This sounds like an excellent show with any number of aesthetic, scientific and political issues to address and II encourage anybody who is able to attend to go. The exhibit will run from April 25 until May 17 and the gallery is located at 150 First Avenue, NY, NY 10009 (enter on 9th St. between First Ave. and Ave. A).
-JD
As usual I have no idea, but it certainly seems to sum up how a lot of people feel about Twitter
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
Marilyn Chambers was one of the superstars of the 70′s porn scene, and I happen to be writing this from the same place that she filmed her break out performance for the Mitchell Brothers in Behind The Green Door. Originally from Westport Connecticut, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a mainstream acting career but eventually found herself in San Francisco where her chance encounter with Jim and Artie Mitchell changed all their lives as well as the adult movie industry. Marilyn was one of the first savvy business women of the era, demanding, and getting, the contract requests that set the standard for major adult stars today and Behind The Green Door went on to become one of the highest grossing adult films of all time generating about 25 million dollars and is still in print. What I always appreciated about her was that she took complete ownership of her choices and her career, neither glamorizing nor sugar coating the business she was in and never resorting to the role of victim. She died at home yesterday at the age of 56.
When I first started wrecking canvases for reassemblage, I mainly wove various paintings together. At the time I didn’t know it but this is a fairly common practice, springing as far as I can tell from the steady merging of fiber arts into the traditional, paint-dominated “fine arts” canon. This piece is made of woven paintings that I’ve stabilized with acrylic medium, then cut up and wove a second time.
Hopefully the detail after the jump makes it clear what’s going on here.
The blue bar and red square are my standard saefety-pin style. They and the vertical black bar are stretched to separate bars that are mounted atop the main canvas and frame, giving the piece a three dimensionality tht is probably impossible to convey here.
24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, with safety-pins. Click for access to larger versions. Detail shot after the jump.
1216, digital collage, 19″x12 1/2″, 2009
I’m playing around a bit with the word art thing. I’m not sure how long I’m actually going to stick with it. I think I need to switch to paper collage for these. Digital is great and has a lot of possibilities but I think taking the time putting together a paper collage gives them more weight in comparison. Its kind of like the difference between a handwritten note and an e-mail.
=Daniel
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Philippe Legendre’s series of children’s art books, published by Walter Foster publishing, Inc. (translated from the original French), bring the Modernist sensibility to children at an early age. Eschewing classical modes of realism, Legendre celebrates blatantly 2 dimensional treatments of his 3 dimensional subjects through the use of simplified 2D shapes to represent the objects being presented. In this way, he is clearly referencing such early 20th century luminaries as Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne.
Towards this end, he begins each piece by explicitly identifying the shapes to be utilized in crafting this idealized reality:
Once the child knows what is in store, the real work of builing the pieces up begins:
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Finally, having traversed the difficult, metaphorical, sea of form, the details of color are all that need be added:
Voila! Now you and/or your child know the secret to flawless Modernist art. Produce a few of these (maybe use construction paper in their creation?) and when your friends ask how you afforded your very own Matisse, only you, Philippe Legendre and your d’Arte Board need to know the truth.
You’re welcome.
I give this book a 4.5 out of 5 berets:
-JD
Excerpted from “Kids Can Draw: The Ocean” by Philippe Legendre, © 1997 Walter Foster Publishing, Inc.
I’m diggin’ the tone matrix sequencer thing, but the other stuff is fun, too.
-StephG
Good News! d’Arte Board friend Terry Border of Bent Objects fame has finally announced the purchase date of his much anticipated book. The book will be available October 6, 2009. It’s now available for pre-order on Amazon and Border’s Books. As per Terry’s suggestion, I’m thinking I’ll head over to my local bookshop and see if they’ll order a copy.
-Steph Gerolimatos
p.s. If you’re not familiar with Terry’s artwork then get out from under that rock and head over to his blog! Prepare to be entertained!
p.p.s. 5 post in one day–no i don’t have a life. so what! my excuse is i’m sick and rather than lie around blowing my nose and whining, i’ve decided to lie around blowing my nose, whining and blogging. pthhhb!
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