Rachel Hines is a Visiting Artist at Ball State this week. She'll be put to work with her performance workshop, role as guest critic, and lecture in the next couple days. Above is her sculpture Inclined from 2008.
Will You Spoon with Me? 2008
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Rachel is here!
Rachel Hines is a Visiting Artist at Ball State this week. She'll be put to work with her performance workshop, role as guest critic, and lecture in the next couple days. Above is her sculpture Inclined from 2008.
Will You Spoon with Me? 2008
Saturday, February 12, 2011
New York
Let's start off with a little fake food at the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen. Are those giants cubes of tofu or blocks of burned toast at the bottom left?
with Meret Oppenheim's furry utensils to accompany it.
On a more serious note Abstract Expressionist New York was an outstanding exhibition that I was very grateful to see before it closed. Here is Barnett Newman's signature at the bottom corner of Vir Heroicus Sublimus. I never knew this painting was so bright as no reproduction does it justice yet it was as monumental as I anticipated it would be.
This was my favorite Newman and perhaps one of my most liked pieces in the exhibition - The Wild from 1950. It's 1.5 inches wide and the same height at Vir Heroicus Sublimis. It's an isolated "zip" and it's the most sculptural painting in the entire show.
Surprise #1: Jackie Windsor's Laminated Plywood from 1973.
Surprise #2: How much of a let down the exhibition Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 was though here is a higlight: a detail from Eleanor Antin's 100 boots which I hadn't ever seen in person before:
Surprise #3: Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists at the Bronx Museum of Art. Adam took me to see this show and I can honestly say it had some of the best photography I've seen in awhile (in addition to showing how outdated face mounting photographs on plexi looks not even ten years later).
Sam Durant's Female Indian from 2005 at the Bronx Museum.
Surprise #4: How cracked and deteriorating Jackson Pollock's paintings are upclose:
and how much Nan Goldin's photographs have physically aged (and almost any C-Print from the 1980s that I saw yesterday). I am wondering how long the color will remain stable at this rate.
Realization of the day: Mark Rothko paintings remind me of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Seascapes though Rothko's work is the only one of the two that will make me cry (James Elkins would be proud). Mark Rothko's Number 10, 1950 (below).
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ligurian Sea, Saviore, 1993
The most beautifully presented exhibition of video art I have ever seen - Andy Warhol's Motion Pictures. I was enthralled with the two on the left - Susan Sontag (who held so still and nearly expressionless) and Dennis Hopper to her right who couldn't help "acting" eventually during his four minutes screen test. Image via.
Best thing about the trip: Seeing old friends (Adam as mentioned above) and Rachel and Thomas Hines. When I first stayed with them in Brooklyn in 2007, they had a magnificent wall of art work and although it has transformed in the last four years, here is it's most recent incarnation in Queens.
The best performance: Rachel sleeping at the College Art Association's Art Exchange (while most people exhibited their artwork on the table, Rachel commented on the odd sense of professionalism of having job interviews in hotel rooms at a national art conference). More on Rachel's work coming soon as she will be in Muncie in March as a Visiting Artist!
with Meret Oppenheim's furry utensils to accompany it.
On a more serious note Abstract Expressionist New York was an outstanding exhibition that I was very grateful to see before it closed. Here is Barnett Newman's signature at the bottom corner of Vir Heroicus Sublimus. I never knew this painting was so bright as no reproduction does it justice yet it was as monumental as I anticipated it would be.
This was my favorite Newman and perhaps one of my most liked pieces in the exhibition - The Wild from 1950. It's 1.5 inches wide and the same height at Vir Heroicus Sublimis. It's an isolated "zip" and it's the most sculptural painting in the entire show.
Surprise #1: Jackie Windsor's Laminated Plywood from 1973.
Surprise #2: How much of a let down the exhibition Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 was though here is a higlight: a detail from Eleanor Antin's 100 boots which I hadn't ever seen in person before:
Surprise #3: Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists at the Bronx Museum of Art. Adam took me to see this show and I can honestly say it had some of the best photography I've seen in awhile (in addition to showing how outdated face mounting photographs on plexi looks not even ten years later).
Sam Durant's Female Indian from 2005 at the Bronx Museum.
Surprise #4: How cracked and deteriorating Jackson Pollock's paintings are upclose:
and how much Nan Goldin's photographs have physically aged (and almost any C-Print from the 1980s that I saw yesterday). I am wondering how long the color will remain stable at this rate.
Realization of the day: Mark Rothko paintings remind me of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Seascapes though Rothko's work is the only one of the two that will make me cry (James Elkins would be proud). Mark Rothko's Number 10, 1950 (below).
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ligurian Sea, Saviore, 1993
The most beautifully presented exhibition of video art I have ever seen - Andy Warhol's Motion Pictures. I was enthralled with the two on the left - Susan Sontag (who held so still and nearly expressionless) and Dennis Hopper to her right who couldn't help "acting" eventually during his four minutes screen test. Image via.
Best thing about the trip: Seeing old friends (Adam as mentioned above) and Rachel and Thomas Hines. When I first stayed with them in Brooklyn in 2007, they had a magnificent wall of art work and although it has transformed in the last four years, here is it's most recent incarnation in Queens.
The best performance: Rachel sleeping at the College Art Association's Art Exchange (while most people exhibited their artwork on the table, Rachel commented on the odd sense of professionalism of having job interviews in hotel rooms at a national art conference). More on Rachel's work coming soon as she will be in Muncie in March as a Visiting Artist!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Gastro Vision: The Best in Food Art 2010
Every once in awhile something takes you by surprise. When Rachel Hines sent me this link, I was floored. The cakes on one of my favorite art blogs and in a year end list at that! Many thanks to Andrew Russeth and Nicole Caruth. [FYI: I spent the summer working on this project - the documentation can be viewed here.]
From the ART: 21 website:
"From cotton candy rooms to painterly cakes, meaty dresses to pork rind sculpture, pickle portraiture to animated toast, this year was chock-full of good “food-art” — food inspired by art and art inspired by or involving food. So much so, that it would have been gluttonous to write this year-in-review by myself. For this post I enlisted the help of two art writers who share my passion for all things food: Andrew Russeth of the blog 16 Miles of String, and Megan Fizell of the blog Feasting on Art. Together, we’ve come up with a list of the year’s best. You might want to grab a bib in case you start to drool."
Best Cake-Inspired Art: Jacinda Russell, Nine Fake Cakes & Nine Bodies of Water
From the ART: 21 website:
"From cotton candy rooms to painterly cakes, meaty dresses to pork rind sculpture, pickle portraiture to animated toast, this year was chock-full of good “food-art” — food inspired by art and art inspired by or involving food. So much so, that it would have been gluttonous to write this year-in-review by myself. For this post I enlisted the help of two art writers who share my passion for all things food: Andrew Russeth of the blog 16 Miles of String, and Megan Fizell of the blog Feasting on Art. Together, we’ve come up with a list of the year’s best. You might want to grab a bib in case you start to drool."
Best Cake-Inspired Art: Jacinda Russell, Nine Fake Cakes & Nine Bodies of Water
“Cakes — both real and fake — appeared to make people happy and I wondered, most simply, if they could make me happy too,” artist Jacinda Russell writers in a statement that accompanies Nine Fake Cakes & Nine Bodies of Water. It’s a bewildering title, but also a perfectly self-explanatory one. Russell built cakes out of Styrofoam and a caulking gun, iced them with acrylic, and then floated them on various bodies of water. The resulting photos are brutally elegiac. Like documentation from completed performances or destroyed Earthworks, they record a work entirely beyond our grasp: a cake we could never eat, precariously balancing on the water’s surface. They are, to use Russell’s word, completely “unattainable.” They are also heartrendingly gorgeous. (AR)
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