This is a new piece I completed about a month ago. The letter is salvaged from a local car dealership. The base I constructed from pine and cherry. A poor man’s wood mixed with a rich man’s.
New Form
Pics from show in Dubai >>>>
Mark Bradford
If you don’t know who this is yet get to know him. This link is to his work featured at the museum of contemporary art Chicago. I first came across an image of his work a few months ago and it stuck in my head and here I found him in Chicago. Plus he has a painting titled Method Man so he’s got to be good.
Upcoming Show @DUCTAC in Dubai
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 28 May 2011
Opening: 18 May, 7.30pm
INTERSECTIONS
ARTISLA, a Berlin based gallery, is having its first ever exhibition in Dubai, 18th – 28th May at DUCTAC. ARTISLA presents selected works from the finest emerging artists after thorough review of their portfolio and potential.
Artists from all over the world come together in the melting pot of Dubai. Different cultures, diverse backgrounds all blending and creating a new amalgam for the senses. Featuring works by artists Lou Ross (France), Roberto Manzo (US), Iva Visosevic (Croatia), Tyshon Skross (US), Aich (Rumaia), Charlota Aberg (Sweden), Jason Wolfe (US)… new works converging in Dubai, creating a new unique mix to bring art from all over the world close to you.
ENTRY FREE
Location: The Gallery of Light, Manu Chhabria Arts Centre
For more information call DUCTAC: 04 341 4777
www.ductac.org
martin kippenberger-food for thought
Lets remember 1983 for a moment,
I was only four years old and
Martin Kippenberger was doing his thing.
Here is a little bit about this piece posted by The Saatchi Gallery, this is “one of the earliest and most important series of Kippenberger’s works. It is a series of twelve paintings that Kippenberger commissioned to be made for him by the film poster painter known as ‘Mr Werner’. The delegation of the making of this series of paintings to another is not only a clear dig at the earnestness and supposed ‘authenticity’”
Dasha Shishkin – Geppetto Makes Another
I can’t get enough her paintings…
Dasha, moscow born, new york based painter and printmaker, columbia univ. mfa grad 2005, off the hook…
CLEVER’R
sculpture by ursula von rydingsvard
She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgement. v.n.hurston
Some places you need to go and stop
-a great self-love covered him like a neon paint.
Here are some great pieces/artists stumbled upon. Here’s the address: BUT IT DOES FLOAT
George Condo/ Nick Van Woert/ Me
We are always borrowing one thing from another. Condo calls his painting Lady Crimp his “fake old masters”making reference to his borrowing of historical references for his work. Nick Van Woert, recently featured in Modern Painters, takes part in the historical thievery or “hijacking” as he calls it. Haruspex shows how Woert connects the historical with his vision.
Salaam, created just a few months ago, along with three other similar paintings done around the same time, are blended and mashed in the same similar manner as Condo and Woert. The imagery is taken from photography used in advertisement for products and clothing lines. This practice of borrowing, “hijacking” or faking with materials from the past or the present is common in the arts. Richard Prince and the reproductions of the Marlboro Men advertisements is yet another example of stealing images and taking ownership of them. Making it new by making it again.
