Belated NYC Post (quickest trip yet)

Winter Break ends so early this year that I have been inundated with syllabi, handouts, committee work and powerpoints since the day after Christmas. Wishing I could write more about this post but before it gets lost in the wayside, here are some images.

Mike Kelley's retrospective at PS 1 was first and foremost on the list. Another post is in the works featuring a handful of his drawing but this cartoon like signature was a favorite.

Mike Kelley at PS 1

Mike Kelley, Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites (and detail of hanging tails), 1991/1999

Most chaotic / crazy / can't imagine being a museum guard working this room all day / didn't get enough of installation: Day is Done.

 

Entry installation and video to Day is Done.

  

In light of a recent visit to Kelley's Mobile Homestead in Detroit, photographing this model of all the artist's schools he attended (and family home) was essential.

Another must-see was Scott Reeder's People Call Me Scott at Lisa Cooley Gallery (installation view). Who doesn't like witty text paintings and spray-painted pasta?

 Scott Reeder, Alternate Titles... (spent the rest of the day thinking of additions).

Some Chelsea gallery highlights:

Tony Feher at Sikkema Jenkins Co., Untitled, 2013 (glass bottles with water, food dye and aluminum caps)

Tony Feher encore, Parlor Trix, 2013 (loved the suspension of glass work)

Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery

Most sought after and appreciated souvenir: any brochure from David Zwirner Gallery especially if it features an exhibition like Ad Reinhardt's "black" paintings and comics.

Julie Cockburn's hand embroidered found photographs at Yossi Milo.

Finally, a visit to MoMA during a snow storm. I had the great fortune of seeing the last two versions of New Photography and was particularly interested in this year's because of the dominant use of analog processes. It did not disappoint.

Anna Ostoya used all the overlooked corners at heights far greater than centered at 60".

Brendan Fowler's "crash pieces" combined multiple picture frames.

Mariah Robertson's 11 from the XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography exhibition (using all 100' of a roll of photo paper)

Reflection in a detail of John Baldessari's Throwing Four Balls in the Air to Get a Square with gallery lights interfering with the shape in Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New.

Jeff Koons, Pink Panther in the Sonnabend exhibition

Richard Serra Lives Here

I would not have trespassed for anything considering the photograph below that Robert Frank took of Richard Serra in 2002 loomed before me.  Also, breaking the law is not in the vocabulary of this series. Here's to hoping Serra's property was safe from Sandy.

Planning the Next Artist Stalking Trip

 I will find this house. Yes, I will.

Yes, I clicked on the "More Info" link above. Yes, I have a new website added to my blog roll.

SFMOMA's Dessert Menu

In addition to Wayne Theibaud inspired cakes, SFMOMA's rooftop cafe's dessert menu features some real beauties (hello March visit!):


Michael Jackson and Bubbles Dessert (after this infamous sculpture)


Richard Serra Build It Yourself Dessert

See more art inspired dessert options here including an interview with the pastry chef, Caitlin Williams Freeman.

"To figure out what else I was going to make, I went and soaked in every piece of art that was on display and tried to figure out what to do. And it's fun because, with the exception of the Thiebaud cake, which we always have on the menu whether or not the painting is hanging, we really keep the desserts limited to reflecting what's actually on display in the museum. So when a new show comes up, we make a new dessert based on what will be showing."

Aside from exhibitions of Bay Area artists in March during the Society for Photographic Education conference, the museum will be showing the painter Richard Aldrich. Here's to wondering how to make a cake inspired by this.

Storm King Art Center

Mark di Suvero, IK OOK (left) and Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore), 1967

The photograph above of di Suvero's sculpture was my main point of reference for Storm King until I had the great fortune of visiting it in mid October. I knew it was immense (500 acres) and imposing (over 100 monumental Post WWII sculptures). I wanted to see it during autumn and it proved to be beautiful.


The field of di Suveros from above.


Tal Streeter, Endless Column, 1968


Alexander Lieberman, Iliad, 1974-76


Alexander Calder, The Arch, 1975


Robert Grosvenor's Untitled, 1970


Robert Grosvenor's Untitled, 1970 from above


Alyson Shotz, Viewing Scope, 2006


Louise Nevelson's City on the High Mountain, 1983 through the windows of the main house.


Archive photographs from the original installation in the main house.


I can't wait to return to visit this sculpture above (from the Storm King website) - Andy Goldsworthy, Five Men, Seventeen Days, Fifteen Boulders, One Wall, 2010.

In addition, there is a Maya Lin Wave Field to visit and bicycles to be rented. Truly an amazing place to see sculpture in a beautiful landscape!

Dia:Beacon with Colleen

Saturday I hung out with my friend Colleen who recently moved to Red Hook, NY. We went to Dia:Beacon and saw some Richard Serras, the Blinky Palermo retrospective, and my favorite Donald Judd plywood pieces.



Richard Serra, Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001 (image from Dia)


Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipses, 1996-2000 (Image from Dia with a "real camera")


More Torqued Ellipses via my iPhone


Leopard spots on a Torqued Ellipse (shortly before hearing a woman loudly vocalizing sounds as she moved through one of the ellipses).


Donald Judd, Untitled, 1976 (a perfect installation in an old Nabisco factory)


Lunch at the Peekskill Marina, NY

Richard Serra's "Verb List," 1967-68

Here's to finding some Richard Serra sculptures this Fall Break!

Running through Artwork

I'm intrigued by Martin Creed's latest project, Work No. 850 in which gallery visitors run as fast as they can for 30 seconds through the space. From the above website: "Runners will be drawn from all walks of life, and the work intends to show 'the beauty of human movement in its purest form, a recurring yet infinitely variable line drawn between two points.'"



This act reminds me of one of my favorite series featuring running - John Divola's As Far as I Could Get from 1996/97 in which the artist runs as fast as he can away from the camera in ten seconds (equivalent to the self-timer):



The first artwork I ever ran through as fast as I could was Richard Serra's sculptures at Dia Beacon:



Since then, I run through every one I can get away with like Wave in the Olympic Sculpture Park (image via):



Perhaps I should incorporate this act over the summer... too bad I hate running. Now if only I could swim through a work of art...... HMMMMM....