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Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. She has released a book and opened an exhibition featuring “tarted-up tots” with elaborate couture costumes, hair, and make up, Anderson explores the “high glitz” realm of child pageantry. I felt sick looking at these images, so i ‘guess’ the photographer did her job (not sure). The video (bottom of page) makes me feel otherwise…as they seem to be encouraging it.
Super artist, Sarah Oppenheimer updates her site with new works. Absolutely love her stuff!
“The focus of Sarah’s work is the feedback loop between constructed spaces and pedestrian motion. She studies how the built environment and human behavior reciprocally impact each other; most recently, the way that the visual progression of the human gaze is mapped by the contours of a given space. Sarah opens apertures in existing architectures, modifying the modular units that make up our standardized urban world. These apertures create new lines of sight within the space of display, and can function as both “holes” and “screens.”
Soft-Maps are quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone’s unique place in the world. These quilts are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor’easter. Not only beautiful, these blankets can be used as a mnemonic tool. As your child grows up with a Soft Map, they learn to read their neighborhood and its landmarks in a tactile, easily remembered way. Emily Fischer
Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using the urban environment as his context. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Independent and on the street art blog Wooster Collective.
Our second interview is with contemporary artist/sculptor, Diana Al-Hadid. Diana was born in Syria in 1981 and raised in Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as a BFA in sculpture and a BA in Art History from Kent State University. She has been the focus of several solo exhibitions and international group exhibitions, including New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Istanbul and Sharjah, UAE. Diana creates broad and spacious sculptures constructed from various mediums. The colossal-scale of her pieces articulate her concern with the architecture, mythology, theoretical technologies and the inevitable deterioration of ambitious human constructions. Read the full post
Really loving the mural painting of the Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye onto this sub-par table. The legs could use some work. More images after the break.
Eleven is delighted to present I Dont Like Mondays, its first solo show with London-based artist Ben Turnbull. Turnbull perverts objects associated with childhood to both reveal a darker side of youth and critique the way it’s often pictured in the media. His new series of works – seven school desks on which images of weapons have been painstakingly carved – is a direct comment on contemporary school life, alluding to the horrific crimes repeatedly splashed out in headlines, from knife murders in South London to the Virginia Tech and Columbine massacres. By whittling the desk down to expose these deadly shapes, Turnbull also hints at a latent feeling of violence, it’s as if the weapons were already there, waiting to be used.
uhmm…speechless!!!
3D drawing on a new level. Meet Rhonda.
Copenhagen in T- 20 days.
“To live is the rarest thing in this world…”Oscar Wilde
Made for an interesting read in between (multiple) reaches for coffee. Although, to be fair, dining al fresco certainly livens any conversation.
“And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” —The last line of Jack Kerouac’s introduction to The Americans by Robert Frank, 1958.c. On view @ the Met this fall.
Passion pit- “Manners”, is holding up quite well on multiple listens. Proving to be a strong buy.
Aesthetic pieces I can certainly get behind.
Credit: William Eggleston (Untitled).
“Brief interviews with hideous men”: From a density standpoint, certainly one of the more conquerable of DFW’s output. Above all, a good read.
Currently listening to: “I got lost” c/o Dinosaur Jr
Who had have thunk it but eye just might have found GOD through architecture . Sundays @ 10am.
One of the very best photographers around: Boogie. Served best by the “Brazil series”. Very glad to have told him so during my stint in NYC.
P.S: The name you might be seeking out right about now is Thomas Allen.
We are longtime admirers of the work of artist/illustrator/designer, Marion Bolognesi, especially her ‘Eye Series’.
We were introduced to Malick Sidibé, a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies in the 1960s of Bamako, Mali. His striking portraits are a vivid mirror of African culture at that time. Sidibé was awarded the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement award in 2007. It was the first time it had been presented to a photographer.
“I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here.” – Alice in Wonderland
” I told you to keep quiet”- Don Draper [Mad Men/S2/Episode 6]
“I went to see a psychiatrist. He said “Tell me everything”. I did, and now he is doing my act”- Richard Prince
“Whats the world got in store? whats the world got in store for you? whats the world got in store for you now? ” – Wilco
As a parting gift; tea and strumpets
Really love Neil Krug’s latest and no doubt greatest work. View Flickr Set.
Really love deadlines. Specifically the swoooooshing sound they make as they zip by
At first glance, I thought these pieces of art were small miniature models, and then realized that Ms. Doherty’s work is actually oil paintings. As Melissa explains, “I am interested in the concept of how we perceive landscape, and the idea of facade and artiface in landscaping…These aerial views reflect a view of landscape and our position in relation to landscape. We are “above it”, unconnected and distanced from it, changing and rearranging it into a backdrop of urbanization.”
Masking tape has never been used better, meet artist, Rebecca Ward. More images after the break.
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The above is a rather directional bit of advertising regarding safe sex by the fine folks over @ MTV. Art Direction: Loducca/Brazil, view larger after the jump.
Today’s dose of Saville worship
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” -Henry David Thoreau
Plan on seeing “Duplicity” this weekend, you should do the same!
Latest issue of Laphams has dropped. Do yourself a favor and grab a slice!
Crushing past 3 weeks at the office hospital. Here’s hoping the load comes to lighten.
Hank Willis Thomas (1976) is a contemporary African American visual artist and photographer whose primary interests are race, advertising and popular culture. We had the pleasure of meeting Hank last weekend at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea. We set out to go see his show, which will be up till mid-April, and by pure luck, he happened to be present. He made us feel special by taking us downstairs (which was closed the public, Whoohoo!!!) to see his just recently sold Obama cereal mosaic, entitled ‘Breakfast of Champions’. The Gallery just released his new monograph too (‘Pitch Blackness’). more pics after the jump.
The legendary Bauhaus movement turns 90 this year and the anniversary is being marked by exhibitions from Tokyo to New York. The school was founded by a young architect, Walter Gropius, who wanted to shape products for the future and create a more just society.
Industrial photographer Stephen Mallon documented an impressive collection of the salvage of US Airways flight 1549 in January. He photographed the series for Weeks Marine and J. Supor & Son, companies that worked on retrieving and transporting the airplane. Check out his site and don’t miss the “american reclamation” gallery.
An ingenius and playful way of looking at our city. I must say, some of the Legos look a bit foreign to us, as the company must have improved their lego library…some of these sizes weren’t available to us when we were young.
“During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.” – Christoph Niemann
