Slovenian artist Franc Grom carving an intricate pattern into an eggshell.
Image borrowed from National Geographic News where they have a short write up on the artist. You can see a short vid here. A site with more images of Mr. Grom’s incredible eggs. And of course, if you google Franc Grom you’ll find all kinds of links to articles and images.
-Steph Gerolimatos
These were fun to make.
encaustic on panel
each something like 2 x 2 inches
click for larger image
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No, it’s politics. But it’s unbelievably funny regardless of medium or party affiliation so there you go.
eheh,
-Steph Gerolimatos
p.s. Thanks to summertomato via twitter for that link!
handmade lavender beard by Erin Dollar
available for sale on her etsy shop i made you a beard
What could be a more perfect spring accessory? Spending more than 10 minutes outside this time of year in New England requires creative layered garb or you wind up freezing your face off or sweating bullets. A removable beard is the perfect answer!
Erin also has a fun blog. take a look.
-Steph Gerolimatos
Ever since my father took me to Madison Square Garden, when I was 7, to see the Barnum and Baily circus I have been fascinated with it and the side show.
An artist and photographer, James Mundie, let me know about this.
There is an exhibition of human oddities and medical anomalies at a gallery in downtown Los angeles called the Todd Browning Gallery, named after the director of the classic horror film, “Freaks”. The gallery specializes in vintage and contemporary photography by international artists. The show is called Shock and Horror
More gesture drawings on the late train to Brooklyn.
ink on paper.
I have no idea what Easter is for but one of my favorite things in the world is playing with eggs. I used to do pysanky which is Ukranian egg dying with wax, but I never did the kinds of traditional designs, I liked stuff more like this, but right now I am intrigued by this method and I thought I would give it a try and let you know how it turned out. Here are two other cool things you can do with eggs, dye them with onion skins, or go to the toolbox and grab your Dremmel and see how steady your hand is.
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Hey, do you guys remember the telephone game? Well here is a version with a little Pictionary element thrown in. This is actually a game that seems to improve with a lack of drawing skills, so even if you can’t draw dive in and have fun!
- Toni “bunnie” Tiller
from New Museum.org:
The New Museum’s current show “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will be the first major international museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the generation born around 1980, tapping into the different perspectives, shared preoccupations, and experiences of a constituency that is shaping the contemporary art discourse and prescribing the future of global culture. In the United States, this demographic group is the largest generation to emerge since the Baby Boomers, while in India half the population is less than twenty-five years old; the sheer size of this generation ensures its worldwide influence. By bringing together a wide variety of artists and contextualizing their different approaches, “Younger Than Jesus” will capture the signals of an imminent change, identify stylistic trends that are emerging among a diverse group of creators, and provide the general public with a first in-depth look at how the next generation conceives of our world. Revealing new languages and attitudes, the exhibition will comprise a portrait of the agents of change at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It opens today in manhattan.
The Wall Street Journal reviews the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Cézanne and Beyond,” and touches upon his role as a keystone in the development of 20th century modernism. If anybody is ever looking for an accessible place to begin studying the history of 20th century art, Cezanne is as good a place as any. Placing some of Picasso’s Analytic Cubist pieces or Matisse’s mature works next to some of Cezanne’s paintings and you can see how he is the missing link these two, who are themselves progenitors of innumerable movements and developments throughout the century.
I went to go take my camera out of my bag, got it snagged on my sleeve and then dropped it, now it will only take photos on the macro setting. Shit. Well, I guess it gives me an excuse to but this which I had my eye on anyway but couldn’t justify previously, and which will be released next month.
Synchronicity works in peculiar ways.
Image by Wang Tiande of Mark Wolfe Art
Local Public Broadcasting Station KQED does a monthly tour of art galleries in the SF/Bay Area. This month they focused on a few galleries featuring Contemporary Chinese and Chinese American Artists. You can view the video by visiting that link, and you can even subscribe to their podcast.
Of particular interest here, the second gallery they visit is the Mark Wolfe gallery, which is one of the places I’ve visited the last two months during my own monthly Twitter Art Crawl. I highly recommend this as the artists give some great explanations for their exquisite work.
Today, the time has come for me to delete my personal email address. The funny thing about my experiment is that I keep finding out about others who are embarking on similar adventures, away from the imaginary womb of the internet and back into the scary reality of, well, reality. Am I tapping into some collective subconsciousness, one wherein other people are also wondering what exact relevance all of this electronic interconnectivity has toward their lives? Or am I seeing, and engaging in, the start of a fad; a popular way of thinking, not unlike that which began myspace, and then harbingered the flood from Myspace to Facebook, et al? Some sort of actual Neo-Luddism? It is just as possible that I am placing too much emphasis on societal undercurrents that are best left alone, or at least ones that are not worth the time it takes to understand them. However, I can’t help but feel that there is a better, more fulfilling way to construct a conversation with another human being than by first logging in to something innately devoid of humanity and neglectful to the nuanced expressions of life. This is what I am in search of; I’ll let you know when/if I find it.
This week will begin my first round of sending out letters. It should be interesting to see what kind of reactions they solicit.
For the record, there has been some confusion about why, if I am trying to get away from the internet, I remain writing for this blog, and why I am keeping my business email/website/myspace profile. The answer is that I never intended this experiment to be about total versus zero internet exposure. What I am trying to gain is insight into what happens when you eliminate the extraneous exposure on the internet, and what you gain or lose from spending that time out in the real world. I realize that for my business to succeed, I need to have an online presence, therefore it remains; this blog on the other hand, is personal, but I see it also as functional, to both my art and my photography business.
It’s spring (finally!) and much in the vein of our Christmas snowflake maker Steph steered me in the direction of this flower maker. Add petals, choose colors, shapes, and opacity and then add it to the community garden here.
They can be as simple or as complicated as you like.
Image from craftystylish.com
Image from SunlightSpiders.blogspot.com
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
As valuable as Youtube has been in bringing us some artistic revelations that otherwise may have escaped us, they have no real vested interest in parsing the available videos for us to make them easier to navigate for those of us with specific art obssessions.
www.Artbabble.com opens today to service just that need.
Most of what I know about the site comes from the NY Times review of the site, but it sounds like a great resource. Especially if, for instance, you help run a blog about art or something.
Apparently, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine has taken to referring to it as “Chicona.” Impress you friends with your insider knowledge at your next cocktail party. Or annoy them with your pedantic condescension. I appreciate both.
The Art History Newsletter has an excerpt today of a review from ArtAsiaPacific of 3 books on this subject. Sound to me like there’s some dissention in the ranks. Some people believe everything is fine, while others have a more jaundiced view.
Flip a coin to determine which side I believe.
-JD
Its always frustrating to post photos of my safety-pin paintings because even with details the individual scraps that make up the pieces get lost like a tree within a forest. In person I work hard to make the individual scraps worthy of study over time. In fact the tiny scraps are the main focus of the series. Their nature and how they’re used is the motivation to pursue this direction. The overall compositions is ultimately just the framework to fit them into.
Because of that, I like to save some of the better individuals to blow up and show as their own pieces. Hopefully its easier to put the photos of entire pieces in better perspective with more knowledge of what the pieces making it up look like.
So here are some of my collection of select scraps. Each is between 1 or 2 inches by 1 or 2 inches. All are acrylic on canvas.
3 more after the jump.
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I dunno what to say. It’s pretty awesome. Just watch it.
The Baaa-Studs youtube channel
they only have the one vid up so far but they’ve only been on for a few weeks. I’ve got my fingers crossed for more.
-Steph Gerolimatos
On this groggy morning, prior to kickstarting myself with the necessary dose of caffeine, I have been passively surfing other art blogs for stuff to excite the tiny part of my brain that is fully awake. I thought I’d share some of the results.
Robert Goff ponders the relationship between an artist’s age and whether they are “emerging” (via Amy Stein). The question came up in response to a young investor/collector who was, “like so many fairgoers today, acquiring art for reasons other than what it depicts, what it represents, how it affects him.” If this recession does nothing but burn out every smarmy interloper who decided that art was a hip avenue of speculation, it will have been worth it.
Something tells me I’m being an optimist on that point, though here is a lovely blog devoted to the idea of collecting art on a budget as a labor of love.
Again with the economy on our minds, we have another story of an artist selling their personal wares for spare cash. In this case Modern Art Obsession notes that Nan Goldin is selling some very personal wares. If you ever wanted to share an intimate moment with Nan, here’s your chance.
(Lots more links after the jump)
1149, digital collage, 16″x 12″, 2009
So, here’s my first stab at some new word art. I wasn’t sure if I would use found phrases or the more snarky comments from my old pieces or write new stuff. So , I’ve decided to do a mix of everything; try out a bunch of different approaches. I went with the collaged together, ransom note style for this first collage. I like the connotations of anonymity it gives, like the statements are meant but not owned. I think I have to resolve how the imagery in these is going to relate to what’s written, but I think that will result in some fun experimenting that I’m really looking forward to.
=Daniel
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