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Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Carolee Schneemann + Willow Smith
I love art that uses unconventional materials in a traditional medium. Dan Colen's Untitled (2008), chewing gum and chewing gum residue on canvas.
- Jessica
Diane Samuels at Kim Foster
| Text taken directly from the Kim Foster Gallery. April 28 - June 4, 2011 Reception: Thursday, April 28, 6 - 8 pm Samuels’ drawing The Odyssey of a patch of street exactingly renders a 21 x 310-feet stretch of scarred asphalt onto a 92 x 33-inch sheet of paper. With the help of a magnifying glass, you discover that the drawing is made from handwriting that word for word transcribes the entire text of Homer’s Odyssey, the epic poem of war and homecoming. The cracked asphalt is the street in front of Samuels’ home. The text winds its way down one side of the sheet of paper returning up the other side, back to her home, and ends with the text’s call to bring a halt to the great leveler, War. Before beginning to write, Samuels affixed a photo-mask of the street’s crevices and potholes over the paper. After the text was written, she peeled away the mask removing some of the text. Where the text was destroyed, the drawing was created. Accompanying the drawing is an archive of the lost and destroyed memories made from the text-covered photo-masks. Leaves of Grass is a drawing made from a hand-written transcription of America’s epic poems of democracy, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Each page is hand-written in a single line across the drawing like an individual blade of grass. Together, the book’s 438 pages form a 92 x 33-inch field of grass. Although the drawing is a literal embodiment of the poems’ central metaphor and theme—One’s self I sing, a simple separate person, / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse—the making of this drawing was an act of engagement that challenges the distance of a viewer when contrasted to the intimacy of a reader. These finely rendered drawings take months of continuous work and almost monastic discipline to make. Though the surface imagery is benign, of street and grass, the drawings deal with some very contentious issues: What happens to one’s sense of self and home when public life is driven by immigration and war? Diane Samuels lives on a small alley in Pittsburgh that was originally populated by immigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries and is now the home to several exiled writers in the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh project, of which she was a co-founder. Samuels will be participating in the exhibitions “Neighbo[u]rhood” curated by Georgina Jackson, independent curator from Ireland, at the Mattress Factory opening in May and “Gertrude’s/LOT” curated by Eric Shiner, Acting Director & The Milton Fine Curator of Art, at The Warhol Museum opening in September. For further information, please contact the gallery. |
Idée Fixe : Drawings of an Obsessive Nature
Show, Idée Fixe : Drawings of an Obsessive Nature, at Winkleman Gallery looks like a winner if you are into obsessive art. One would think that as a studio assistant for Tara Donovan, I might be tired of obsessively repetitive artworks... show opens May 6 and is up until June 11.
Mark Lombardi at Pierogi
I really love Lombardi's work. His drawings which meticulously diagram the shady interactions of the wealthy elite are beautiful in execution, amazing in research, and haunting in precision. I will not miss this show in Williamsburg's Pierogi Gallery.
William Powhida's newest work on his website, which I believe is called A Provisional Graph of Art World Success Relative to Ed Ruscha, is my favorite piece I have seen by him to date. Please go here to see a more detailed image. The work represents Powhida's impressive knowledge of the art world, which he cleverly diagrams in this piece. Funny and poignant, I wonder if this piece will be available on 20X200?
"The Biggest Drawing in the World"
Stockholm-based artist Erik Nordenankar used the world as his canvas: he sent a suitcase with a GPS inside to 62 countries in a very specific order to create a line drawing self-portrait out of the 55 days of travel. I'm really excited about this. Check out more about this fascinating project, as well as a documentary video, here.-Jessica
Blank sheets of paper as art
‘Song for Ella’ by Matt Golden, 2005.
The corner of a sheet of paper was stroked over a period of months.
‘1000 hours of staring’ (1992-1997), by Tom Friedman.
A blank piece of paper that the artist stared at for one thousand hours.
Via Piet Mondriaan.
-Jessica
Mark Bradford at the Studio Museum in Harlem. here
Mark Dion: The Marvelous Museum Project at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) - Warholian.com from Warholian on Vimeo.
Mark Dion: The Marvelous Museum Project at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) - Warholian.com from Warholian on Vimeo.
"The museum is not just an exhibition site, it's a battle ground for ideas."
Every Person in New York
Artist Jason Polan has made it his mission to draw every single person in New York City, such as:
“I am trying to draw every person in New York. I will be drawing people everyday and posting as frequently as I can. It is possible that I will draw you without you knowing it. I draw in Subway stations and museums and restaurants and on street corners. I try not to be in the way when I am drawing or be too noticeable. Whenever I have a new batch of drawings I will post them on this blog.” - Jason Polan
More of Every Person in New York.
Man Bartlett does some incredible performances here and the 24hours shopping straight in one store without buying one thing. His other art (above) and here is also worth looking at, and also very time consuming.
Map of United States, Red areas are where there are more bars than grocery stores, and Yellow is opposite. Note to self, my hometown in red, there are neither grocery stores or bars in Nevada, and WTF Illinois and Wisconsin? More here
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