Archive | June, 2009
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print !
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print ! OK..My little MAO-ettes.. this is a great buy. So the Aperture Foundation got artist Thomas Allen to donate this amazing print for their First Annual Summer Party on June 18th. So, anyone who buys a party ticket for $150, gets this cool hot print for free! The print is an 8 x 10 signed C-Print, in an edition of 250. So, Even if you can’t make it to the party.. the print is worth well over $150. More info on Photographer Thomas Allen, you’ll find it…
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print !
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print ! OK..My little MAO-ettes.. this is a great buy. So the Aperture Foundation got artist Thomas Allen to donate this amazing print for their First Annual Summer Party on June 18th. So, anyone who buys a party ticket for $150, gets this cool hot print for free! The print is an 8 x 10 signed C-Print, in an edition of 250. So, Even if you can’t make it to the party.. the print is worth well over $150. More info on Photographer Thomas Allen, you’ll find it…
Fresh Stuff From Asbestos: “Retreat of Reason”
Later tonight at the Carmichael gallery in Los Angeles, Dublin based artist Asbestos will be showing new work.
The piece above is called “Retreat of Reason”
Asbestos tells us:
“It’s a portrait of my father painted onto 5 separate pieces that are built from nearly 40 smaller triangles of wood that I found in skips in Dublin, Belfast, London and and on the beaches of Kerry. It builds on a new direction in my work, using triangles as the core element. I think the triangle is the coolest shape, the shape that’s got the most personality. These new triangulated works are influenced by early cubism, deconstructionist architecture and Delauneys theory of triangulation and have the subject of the piece consumed by these angular shapes.”
Shit We’re Diggin’: Martin Sobey’s Photographic Installations
If you’ve been on Bond Street in Lower Manhattan then you’ve undoubtedly seen Martin Sobey’s colorful photographic installations. What you haven’t seen, is the diversity and the commitment to the project. Click here to see a full range of the work.
Cheap, Easy and Maybe Just Wrong
Bruce Marsh Commented on Josef Albers in reference a recent post on Giorgio Morandi. He presented the challenge of finding three colors that would create the sense of two colors overlapping – if I understand correctly. It made me wonder if this daunting task could be automatically solved by the …
Raphael’s “Flowers of Cans”
From Raphael:
“i get the trash and i show your sweats beauty and put on bucket of trash. then the returns the about to the trash thank you!”