This is a crazy video. It echoes the coolness of some of the early 80’s music videos that seem to be born from the video experimentation of video pioneered by the great Soho artists of the 80’s. It’s vision way beyond huge walls of flashing lights, half naked women and tons [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Marcel Dzama-Department of Eagles Video @ MOMA
Posted in Essays, Performance Art, reviews, tagged Department of Eagles, Dzama, MOMA, reviews on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Poise, Posture, and Profanity @ Artchitecture Gallery: Fri April 24th
Posted in Openings, Painting, exhibitions, tagged Arabella Proffer, Artchitecture Gallery, Cleveland Art Scene, cleveland artists, Openings, Painting on April 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This Friday at Artchitecture is the opening of Poise, Posture, and Profanity, an exhibition by Andrea Heimer and Arabella Proffer that will no doubt offer up primo, poignant, progressive, positions, on portraiture. Proffer, a Cleveland artist, will be showing works for the first time here in over 2 years and is sure to please with [...]
Washed up Artist and Younger Than Jesus @ The New Museum
Posted in Being an Artist, Essays, tagged art making, Essay, New Museum on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With the opening of “Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum in NYC, a triennial touted as “The Generational” showcases artists born after 1976, 50 artists from 25 countries to be exact who I guess I still fit in that demographic, barely, being born myself, in 1976, I wonder about the pressure to have blossomed [...]
Blogging Quality Control? and The Sartorialist
Posted in Being an Artist, Essays, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged fashion, Sartorialist on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was shocked to find out this morning when I took a gander at my blog stats to find that someone found hellomynameisart.com by doing a search for “garbage”. Offa, now that’s a reality check. I knew I wasn’t the greatest writer in the cyber-states but wow….garbage!? Oh well, I forge ahead. On a lighter [...]
ARTMart: SPACES Annual Members Show & Sale Fri April 17th 6-9pm
Posted in Openings, exhibitions, tagged cleveland artists, Openings, Spaces Gallery on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friday night ( April 17th from 6-9 ) looks to be a hoot at Spaces with the opening of their ARTMart: SPACES Annual Members Show & Sale. It looks to be a hip version of the local gymnasium craft fair only without all the wicker. Instead it looks to contain hundreds of hand-made thoughtful art [...]
Dana Schutz Interview on Frankprattle.com
Posted in Painting, exhibitions, tagged Cleveland Institute of Art, dana schutz, Painting on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dana Schutz has a new show at Zack Feuer Gallery in Chelsea. If you happen to be in Manhattan in the next couple of weeks. If not the images are available on the galleries website and for a super cool Dana Schutz audio interview check this out: http://frankprattle.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/dana-schutz-march-31st-2009/
I always love hearing artists speak because it [...]
File under shameless capitalism?
Posted in Essay, sculpture on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ummm, I don’t know what to say other than, only in America could a president get his own Chia-likeness. Although I think a Kim Jong Il would make a cool chia too. But really, is this blatant explotation or a true honorary memorial? The jury is still out. One thing is for sure it’s a [...]
Misha Kligman thesis @ University of Kansas
Posted in Essay, Painting, drawing, reviews, tagged cleveland artists, misha kligman, Painting, reviews on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Admittedly I did not get to go to the show, however I have people, well one person to be exact who does my bidding, not really, but he was nice enough to send me his pictures. With that disclaimer said, last week was the culminating exhibition of a three year artistic journey for artist and [...]
Friedlander: Photographic Purity and the visual equivalent to the Great American Novel.
Posted in Photography, criticism, exhibitions, tagged Cleveland Museum of Art, Lee Friedlander, Photography, reviews on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I really believe the sentiment that history repeats itself. Not so much literally or consecutively but I feel like humans tend to follow the same basic needs and functions as both a society and as animals . We are divided loosely into specific ideological backgrounds that seem to shift and teeter tauter back and forth [...]
Meditations on Competition: Being an Artist
Posted in Being an Artist on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To be an artist I think is to be riddled with self doubt. At least until you reach Koonsian levels of success you see every person who has at least a few wins in their column as better, even if the art seems like the visual equivalent of an air ball. Some how the work [...]
