Archive for June, 2009
Crack of Doom, new photo from ongoing series
Posted in Art with tags Jason Gray, Photo-Impressionism on June 5, 2009 by Jason GrayTooth Decay, the Rust Belt and the Remnants of a Lost Tribe…
Posted in Jason Gray, museum, Photography with tags Jason Gray, Photography on June 5, 2009 by Jason Gray
For the last two days, my wife and I have been in Springfield, Illinois, visiting with my mother in law. Coincidently, my lower, far-right molar, which has been agonizing me for some time now, reached its crescendo. I should point out that I don’t believe that visiting Mandi’s mom had anything to do with it; I actually am very close with my mother in law, and I enjoy spending time with her. However, there is a certain harmony about being in a rust belt capital, with excruciating tooth pain, and going to see an exhibit of a decimated people. It was like the figurative pain of the past and present (financial, emotional, physical) culminated in the back of my mouth by some invisible act of superstring knot-tying. So what else was there to do, but have that fucker pulled out, and bring a sense of calm back to mankind? And then write a poem about it? Read more »
Ain’t No Party Like A Twitter Art Party
Posted in Art with tags Art, art review, first thursdays, gallery crawl, twitter on June 4, 2009 by jdhastingsBecause it puts the Art in Party. You’ll have to find your own Py though. I think that’s a form of Vietnamese Pie, but I probably just made that up.
Anyhoo, today is the first Thursday of June, which means I will be engaging in the 4th or 5th monthly Twitter Gallery Crawl, again accompanied by the ever surly Toni Tiller as protection.
Festivities will begin around 9 ET, 6 PT, and can be followed at my twitter page, http://twitter.com/j_d_hastings. If I remember I will try to stream the posts here as well (in the right side bar). We will have photos accompanying the commentary, too so it won’t be weird, disembodied gibberish. You can search for #dtar (Darteboard Twitter Art Reviews) to see them all.
Of course this does mean that I will miss Game 1 of the NBA finals tonight, featuring the Los Angeles Lakers v. the Orlando Magic, but such are the sacrifices we must make for art.
Hope to see you then.
-JD
Links Du Lapin #23
Posted in games, Toni Tiller with tags games, Links, Toni Tiller on June 4, 2009 by Toni TillerDraw a line through the mazes and don’t touch anything, speed counts as well as accuracy. I suggest not playing while on an airplane and going through turbulence, I did terribly.
- Toni “bunnie” Tiller
From the Archives: Philistines are a Pain
Posted in Archives, Art, figurative, homage, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags Art, figure, Guercino, homage, Painting, Samson and the Philistines, Tom Bennett on June 3, 2009 by Tom BennettNothing new this week. So here’s a painting from back in 2005. A distorted take on Guercino’s “Samson” at the Metropolitan Museum
Tom Bennett, Samson and the Philistines after Guercino, 2005, oil on board, 24 x 48
JD Reports on JD Hiring a JD
Posted in Art, book arts, literature, news with tags Art, Catchet in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, literature, news on June 3, 2009 by jdhastingsWhat?
Sorry, that was unclear. Maybe I should have called this, “Now Holden There Just A Second!” No, that’s worse.
Anyways, J.D. Salinger has emerged from his Fortress of Solitude to sue the author and publisher of an unauthorized sequel to Salinger’s iconic “Catcher In The Rye.” (Hence, hiring an attorney, who has a Juris Doctorate, or JD. Get it? Anyone? Is this thing on?)
The sequel, titled “60 Years Later, Coming Through the Rye” has been on sale in other countries for a while now, but is slated to be released in the US in September.
In addition, the sequel is a terrible idea. How can one person, not even the author, impose their own vision on a work of such impact? Authors themselves have been heavily criticized for such things (see: Godfather III), who does “John David California” think he is?
In fact, this is such a terrible idea, it’s almost a great idea. I hope Caulfield is a cyborg who has conquered South America and is threatening to rid the world of all Phonies via his army of artifically grown clones of his dead brother, Allie. Ultimately his plans are foiled by his little sister Phoebe, who has escaped the cryogenic tomb he had placed her in to teach Holden that he can’t stop her from growing up and going through the natural loss of innocence that adulthood requires. Unable to handle this, Holden releases a mammoth swarm of locusts that eat everything on the planet, leaving it a barren, but unchanging, wasteland. As he perishes, Caulfield mutters, “Now we are all Eskimos.”
But I’m guessing that’s not the new plot. However, my newfound appreciation for this horrible idea has me considering doing sequels of famous paintings. “Guernica: The Revenge,” anybody?
-JD (Hastings)
Yes, I have had an ungodly amount of caffeine today. Why do you ask?
On This Day
Posted in Art, news, Toni Tiller with tags Art, solanis, Toni Tiller, warhol on June 3, 2009 by Toni TillerOn June 3, 1968 Valerie Solanis went to the Warhol factory studio and shot Andy Warhol and Mario Amaya. Amaya’s injuries were minor, but the attack on Warhol nearly killed him and affected his health for the rest of his life. Still, to him there was the glimmer of hope that he would have at least gotten the cover of Life magazine for his efforts, but unfortunately Robert F Kennedy had the gall to go and get himself assassinated and received the cover instead. Some guys have all the luck I guess.
I do like this quote by him describing the event, it is very much in the vein of some discussions I have had lately.
“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like watching television – you don’t feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it’s all television.”
Despite that statement, it is said he was never quite himself again. Solanis spent 3 years in prison for attempted murder and was both hailed as a martyr and reviled as “a crazed lesbian stalker”. She spent her remaining years in and out of mental institutions and died of emphysema in 1988, just a little over a year after Warhol died from surgical complications.
Art Opening at Urban Alchemist in Brooklyn, NY
Posted in Art, events, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, art opening, brooklyn, design collective, G-train Salon, installation, Kelly Murphy, Park Slope, site-specific, Urban Alchemist on June 3, 2009 by ssstephgMy delightful pal Bruce forwarded the following announcement to me. It looked interesting so I thought I’d pass it on. Hopefully some of you will be able to attend the event/s.
Urban Alchemist Design Collective
SALON SCHEDULE:
Things Left Behind @ Urban Alchemist
Kelly Murphy
Friday, June 5, 7-9 pm
7-8pm Cocktails
8-8:30 Discussion and Q & A with the artist
Saturday, June 13, 7-9pm
7-9pm Interactive craft-making session with the artist.
There Goes The Fear Again
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, billboard, found, NYC, Photography, subway, Toni Tiller on June 3, 2009 by Toni TillerSometimes it creeps in when you aren’t looking. That’s a shame.
From the Archives: Squid
Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags abstract, Art, Canvas, J.D. Hastings, Painting on June 2, 2009 by jdhastingsSo this piece was the next logical step once I’d finished Holes and a few Cascade pieces. Combine the two to get a piece with both the strict formal aspects and the loose anti-form bits. And in purple to boot.
This version is smaller, to fit on your screen vertically, but there’s a larger version and a separate detail after the jump:
12″ x 60″ Acrylic on Canvas w/ Safety Pins
Here’s A Project I Am Enjoying
Posted in Art, Painting, portrait, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Painting, painting a day, portrait, Toni Tiller on June 2, 2009 by Toni TillerWe’ve seen the photographic portrait-a-day sites (I linked one I liked a few weeks ago) and the painting-a-day sites, and here the two happily meet. Send Me Your Head takes the photos of people’s heads and depicts one a day (maybe) in paint, with the added bonus of what music and literature accompanied the artist while painting. I like the simplicity and polaroid feel they have and am enjoying them immensely, so have sent in my own head for consideration, if you would like to then you can email the artist at kschmidt@sendmeyourhead.com. Here’s a few of my favorites.
Tuesday Morning Video!!
Posted in Art with tags Amazing Baby, Random on June 2, 2009 by Jason GrayIn honor of basketball, vague pagan imagery, LSD and the $2 Fish Tacos at Flaco’s Cocina every Tues. (that I have known about, and been excited to try, since last Wed.).
But Is It Art?- Child Abuse
Posted in Art, video with tags Art, child abuse, kung-fu, video on June 1, 2009 by jdhastingsI found this courtesy of @jacoby_ on twitter, who linked to it on the basketball blog Ballhype, who found it on the Sports Illustrated “Extra Mustard” portion of their web site. What an incestuous bunch we internetters are!
I’m not sure if both these kids are his, or he he rented them for the occasion, but he makes a mean video:
-JD
TOO LITERAL?
Posted in Art, Collage, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital with tags Collage, digital, word art on June 1, 2009 by Daniel Allyn Lee
Unfinished, digital collage, 10″ x 13″, 2009
I’ve been very busy making dolls. I had this piece unfinished on my computer and decided to throw some words on it that I feel are relevant to me. I dunno if it comes across too heavy handed, sickeningly rainbow colored, or overly-literal but I don’t have time to think about it too much. I gotta go make some toys!
darteboard
jdhastings
ssstephg
Tom Bennett
Toni Tiller
Jason Gray
probrucer
laelia e. mitchell
