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WHAT’S ON: Chemical Computer, Andrew Cannon. May 17- July 12, 2014. Santa Monica Museum of Art.
From Santa Monica Museum of Art:
Constructed almost entirely on the floor and without paintbrushes, the paintings are the products of both improvisatory manipulation and technical craft. Marks made through pouring, fingerprinting, embossing, and baking, create dynamic topographies that embed surfaces with layers alternately opaque, translucent, and reflective…The paintings shift between complex insular systems and overtly patterned decoration—simultaneously invoking ideas of simulation, psychedelia, kitsch, handicraft, illusion, and solipsism that stand in and outside of the history of painting.
Courtesy Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Carved in stone
FEATURED ARTIST: Lucy Kim
Lucy Kim (b. 1978, Seoul, Korea, lives and works in Massachusetts) incorporates plastic and aluminum foil casts of people, animals, and objects into her relief paintings, often distorting the recognizable by manipulating the materials during the mold-making and casting process. She developed this method to merge the representational lineage and plasticity of painting with indexical impressions of the people and objects around her. The visceral distortions - flattening, unfolding, stretching, and enlarging - are attempts at physically mimicking manipulations commonly used in photographic images, the literalness usually leading to eerie humor. Drawn from both her personal life and popular media, the work engages with the entangled relationship between the two and forces the compression of image and subject.
Kim received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2007. She has been a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music and the MacDowell Colony, and a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been featured at Lisa Cooley, New York; Mon Chéri, Brussels; Flash Art NY Desk, New York; Regina Rex, Queens; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Field Projects, New York; Wassaic Project, Wassaic and others. She is a founding member of the collaborative kijidome. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Lisa Cooley in 2015.
Lucy Kim, He Left With Flounders, 2014. Oil paint, various plastics, spray paint on dibond panel, 64 x 48 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lisa Cooley, New York.
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Mammal Monday, Cougar. Other names include mountain lion, puma, panther, painter, mountain cat, or catamount. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America.
© The Field Museum, CSZ75923.
Progress of taxidermy specimens of Cougars (mountain lions) for diorama. Female and cub on white sheet on table in prep lab.
8x10 negative
Night Owl
Painted with Gouache
Goodnight
Boat on the river
Enchanted forest
READING ROOM:
Grapevine~ Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Peter Shire, curated by Ricky Swallow. (Rainoff & David Kordansky Gallery, 2014).
From David Kordansky Gallery on the Grapevine~ Exhibition:
GRAPEVINE~ was conceived as way of exhibiting a group of artists who have all worked in clay, in California, for more than 40 years. Throughout that time these artists have always sought to contradict the limitations of the medium in terms of its craft parameters. It might sound obvious, but there is something about this work brewing on the West Coast. I can’t imagine it surfacing anywhere else with its strangeness paired with such dedication to finish and quality.
Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery.
Cemetery cool and quiet…
Moss in the Trails.
A really beautiful portion of Jewell Trail on the way down from Mt. Washington’s summit.
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Mountain Flowers.
Saw a small patch of blooming flowers coming down from the summit of Washington on Jewell Trail, so naturally I had to take a picture of it.
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‘The mainstay of my work is sideshow. I swallow razorblades, walk on broken glass, eat lightbulbs and stuff. For a circus performer, I’m neither fit nor flexible. It’s all in my fingers and tongue. I had an act where my assistant would feed me razorblades. She’d then swallow some string and then we’d snog. As we snogged, we regurgitated what we swallowed and tie the razorblades under the string with our tongues.’ How did you get in to this? ‘It’s weird. I studied business. I thought that was the smart thing to do. I didn’t study art and drama like I wanted to because like that’s ever going to make you a living. I picked up fire twirling just by randomness and started getting work for it. I then started to diversify. I went from fire dancing to fire eating to fire breathing to sword swallowing to swallowing other things to just working on controlling responses of the body that are normally automatic that we normally don’t have conscious control over – that your subconscious takes over itself. ‘What I do, it’s not like an adrenaline rush. I’m not seeking death or pain or anything like that. It’s actually more methodical. It’s more mastery of your body. It’s not even mind of body. It’s more mind over mind really. My old assistant used to say, “Everything is in the mind. Even the mind is in the mind.”’ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dangerboy/56287834814?fref=ts
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Fossil Friday, Diorama from the late Silurian period, showing sea life.
© The Field Museum, GEO80819
Late Silurian sea life diorama 350 million years ago. Models of seaweed, coral, brachiopod, clam, snail, cephalopod and trilobite. Hall 37. Fossil invertebrates.
8x10 negative
1949
FEATURED ARTIST: Linn Pedersen, Sedimentality, 2013. C- prints, textiles and spray paint. Installation at Gallery MELK, Oslo, Norway. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Bjarne Bare.
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