There’s so much going on in New York City it’s hard to keep up – Pretty tired of Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective show at the Met, seen enough Bacon for a while. The Napoleon III and Paris show was a dissipointment, it was little more than two rooms of old photos, most which [...]
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This touches lightly upon some of our prior discussions.
I wanted to compare an Albers “Homage To The Square” iteration to a similar, but mechanical version as rendered in Adobe Illustrator.
The Albers image was chosen because it appears that he was trying for a gradation in a single hue. I lifted …
The eyes have it
How do we actually look at pictures, and how does that affect what we see in them? I started thinking about this again when I read about the Kuuk Thaayorre, an Aboriginal society in northern Australia. Lera Boroditsky (mentioned previously on A&P) reports on The Edge that their language and …
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.
Shit We’re Diggin: Edina Tokodi’s Living Wall Portraits
Edina Tokodi has installed her latest living wall portrait (made completely out of succulent plants) in Brooklyn for the recent Fort Green Garden Walk event. The piece is currently located on the rooftop of Green Spaces NY and will be moved to a public spot in a few weeks. We think it’s amazing.
Boxi’s “To Die For” On The Streets Of Athens
Boxi‘s latest work, done in Athens, is entitled “To die for”. It is part of the 2nd Athens biennial “HEAVEN”.
“It’s an attempt to portray the blind purity of love, and a wall of belief that can end it all. The work is a reflection upon the sad fate of two young lovers who were killed because of their love.”
You can read the story behind the piece here.
The work consists of 11 hand cut life-sized greyscale layers of the stencil. To see how the piece was done watch the video below: