Archive | June 19, 2009![]()
The expectation game
Have you ever wondered if the success of today’s visual art mega-events depends less on their content than on the expectations surrounding them? The Venice Biennial and Art Basel’s 40th edition are a case in point.
Venice is a classic example of an event that art insiders love to hate. …
WK’s Motion Portraits
WK Interact’s new solo exhibition, Motion Portrait, opens Saturday June 27th at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. (The same night at Invader’s show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery)
WK’s new portrait series, entitled 12 Angry Men (referencing the classic film), portrays the faces of twelve men. It’s the first time WK has focused exclusively on faces rather than on the entire body in motion. What’s cool about the new work is that it’s made solely with with a sponge and large brush with nothing painted over during the process.
Awesome.
Shit We’re Diggin’: Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment 6
If you’re not familiar with Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment, watch this:
Gail Sauter’s Painting Studio
Here’s another artist’s studio. This one belongs to Maine artist Gail Sauter.
So many artists that I know have dogs hanging around their studios. Painters seem to be dog people more than cat people.
And little gems like this come out of her studio..
Update: Here’s a few more photos of Gail’s art studio (which was originally a Victorian Dry Goods Store) and her studio pooch. Gail says “I don’t get a lot of foot traffic here in Kittery, but that allows me to work and hanging out my welcome flag does draw in a sale now and then. I do think that we, as artists, are largely invisible to the public and that it is good to have open studios etc.”
Outside view of the studio with the welcome flag out.
See more paintings by Gail Sauter at her website here and/or read her blog here.