until next week (i hope only until next week or i’ll implode). i’ve had a few visits to the studio, yet they yielded only a few scribbles which i won’t torture you with. hopefully soon i’ll return to a more consistent studio practice with samples.
in the meantime, here’s a link to mark bradford’s work at the san francisco museum of modern art
I am working the same source image as last week and am about half way through this one, two runs through the press so far, and at least one more to go. I have realized recently that one of the real benefits in using fabric is that it can be soaked and re-soaked as many times needed without breaking down, an option paper doesn’t offer. What I am learning is that because fabric is more selective about what ink it wants to grab multiple printings gives me an opportunity to build values slowly and gives me more decision making options. So far I like where this one is going, hopefully I won’t fuck it up.
In other news I was contacted the other day by the friendly people over at The White Square Project, a fun participatory Tumblr blog. Every two weeks they give people a new theme and a 250 x 250 pixel square to fill. The current theme is color, and this was my contribution*:
I chose a digital piece, but they accept all mediums, so come on over and play!
*confession – I wish i knew how to quilt like JD because I would totally quilt the hell out of this pattern.
And I mean that literally, stuck between here and there thanks to some weather issues, so until I can get there I am going to post this link that I posted around a few places last night. Described as, “A list of the Best Painters of all-time in Western Painting, the 101 most important painters of the history of western painting, from 13th century to 21st century”, let’s just say it generated a lot of conversation. We all had a lot of opinions about who was on there that shouldn’t be, who was left off, and if these lists are just a complete bunch of horseshit. Feel free to weigh in.
Yesterday was great. I spent the day building my own indoor studio in the room that was up until recently occupied by a giant breathing bottle of tequila, which sounds preposterous but I swear it is true. It took all day, and in the process I had to make a much bigger mess, but at the end of the day there was a huge, completely functional space. Initially the intention was to make the space and then make some art to post for today, but at 10:30 pm I realized it wasn’t going to happen, so I’m going to post this cool interview from Frank Stella instead.
I haven’t done one of these in forever, but it’s Sunday, and raining, and I’m kind of thinking about writing but am actually just goofing on on the internet playing with THIS.
Mark Tansey may at first glance appear smugly ironic, but has a fascinatingly subtle subversiveness to his thinking. He is nothing if not an extremely thoughtful painter, as well as a technically superior one. He understands that representation and narrative are very complex things. His paintings are also as much about post modern criticism as they are about art and painting. Here is an illuminating text on his work by a professor of the arts and philosophy, Mark Taylor.
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We all “met” Lisa in a particularly pedantic art group on Myspace that shall remain unnamed when she was creating lush and visceral paintings of herself and her friends. She has since moved on to pursue her MFA at Goldsmiths and is re-contextualizing charity shop figurines, giving them the opportunity to become social commentators. I like them, and I think you should go to her website and have a look around.
A huge number of artists and craftspeople worldwide market their handmade creations on the online site Etsy. A lot of it, most of it, like most man-made stuff in general, is crap. Regretsy is my new favorite blog. Some of this is art. Well maybe very little of it is. The rat is kinda tasty.
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I saw this interesting article from Frank Chimero, whose art I am not familiar with. As such, I can’t tell you whether the efficacy of the advice is proven in his work. In fact, he seems to hedge his own bets with the title of the article “10 Principles That May Make Your Work Better or May Make It Worse.” Most of the advice sounds good from my experience, though.
I do take exception from the idea to sketch on crap paper. I hate crap paper. Not all cheap paper is equally good, but “Sketch Pads” that you can buy at an art store are atrocities. As though it was custom designed to make sure nothing worthwhile could ever be produced on the sketch pad. Typing paper is better. This is a source of some bitterness for me. Let’s move on.
Otherwise, I’d say the advice is all very good. I found Number 2, “Consistent voice is more important than consistent style,” particularly useful, as I sometimes feel reticent to try certain things for having too much awareness that it was outside my usual oeuvres.
Anyways, hope it helps.
-JD
You know those annoying, indecipherable Captcha things that are supposed to prevent spam but never really do? Well someone made a game out of them, so now at least they’re good for something. Try your hand at protecting yourself from the Captcha invaders here.
I’m a little piggy, and if you click here you can be one too, or your boss, or your ex, or Sylvester Stallone. You get the idea.
Here’s a new game to play while we all have hours to kill over the long weekend, it should suck up at least 15 minutes. You have to slice shapes and avoid balls and maybe some other stuff. As expected I’m not very good at it, the little balls keep smashing me, so I’m going to watch this video from the 1930′s to cheer myself up.
Like David Hockney’s layered Polaroids? Want one of your own? Well, you’re in luck because you can get your own photos Hockneyized here.
I’d also like to thank Bryan Linden for puking in my bathtub 13 years ago so I could have this artistic opportunity now. Thanks Bry, for your unflagging dedication to the arts!
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
Draw 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
Wonderful little flash game, short and sweet but a bit tricky to figure out at first. I’ll give you a hint, keep the jellyfish away from the sharks, then start swapping words, oh and there are multiple endings too. It’s called Today I Die.
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
As usual I have no idea, but it certainly seems to sum up how a lot of people feel about Twitter
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
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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)
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