Northeastern Junior College
Comments (1)After a long week of preparations, the NJC show is up in the Peter Youngers Gallery.
It’s a great gallery space, showing off the large format drawings pretty well.
NJC Artist Talk -TBA
Closing Reception – October 2, 2009 4-5pm.
Here’s a look at the Installation.
I even got some help from Pete himself.
A look into the studio…
Leave a CommentSadly, I have not been keeping up with studio progress recently, so I figured that I would post some photos. As usual, please feel free to comment or ask questions.
CAA 2009 Los Angeles
Leave a CommentThe College Art Association’s annual conference was held this year in Los Angeles, California. The College Art Association is the major organization of students and professionals involved in teaching art or art history in higher education.
This was my first time really exploring LA, (outside of a connecting flight at LAX) and I wasn’t disappointed. The bad news, I only had a few days to see everything. Here’s a breakdown of what happened.
Sessions:
Art and Science -
Art and Myspace, 2nd Life -
Job Hunt 101 -
Artist Portfolio Review -
Syllabus Workshop -
Museums:
The MOCA:
DAN GRAHAM: BEYOND guide_graham
02.15.09 – 05.25.09
Graham has been a central figure in the development of contemporary art since the 1960s�from the rise of minimalism, conceptual art, and video and performance art, to explorations of architecture and the public sphere and collaborations with musicians and the culture of rock and roll. This exhibition traces the evolution of his practice across each of its major stages, while asserting ongoing themes, most notably, the changing relationship of the individual to society as filtered through American mass media and architecture at the end of the 20th century.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA ) museum web site
Urban Light, a sculpture by Chris Burden that incorporates more than two hundred restored cast-iron lampposts from Los Angeles County. photo by “David”
Exhibits on display:
The Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures on display through April 19, 2009
Permanent Collection
Richard Serra installation
The Hammer Museum – UCLA
Print Exhibition: selections from the UCLA collection by Francesca Gabbiani
Portraits
Christopher Russell
Permanent Collection
- View from the Getty
Exhibitions on display:
43rd National Juried Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
juror – Janet Eager Krueger
The Dream - Purchase Award Winner
Tension Study #7
Show Dates:
April 3, 2009 – May 1, 2009
Texas A&M University – Regional Juried Exhibiton:
Juror Eric Hormell, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
A Nocturne
The Dream
The exhibit will be held in the MSCC Forsyth Center Gallery.
Opening Reception, March 27, 2009
Closing May 11th, 2009
Fragile Bodies Exhibition
Northern Kentucky University’s main gallery is holding a show through March 6th called Fragile Bodies, a national juried exhibit featuring works in Drawing and Video media. Twenty artists from fourteen states are represented in the show at a venue about five minutes south of Cincinnati, OH. I submitted two large drawings, pictured above, Cycle (left) and Tension Study #9. Cycle is about 10′x3 1/2′ and posed a challenge in the shipping department, but after two days, 5 yards of Glassine, a roll of packing tape, and several sono tube purchases, it all worked out.
Parkside Small Print Exhibition
The National Small Prints Exhibition at Wisconsin Parkside comes down today.
This show represents Parkside’s 22nd annual show and the exhibition’s founder, Doug DeVinny’s last year with the show that he started back in 1986. The show consists of 120 prints and about 60 artists from across the U.S. Artists winning purchase awards include Koichi Yamamoto,(who is just amazing!), Jake Muirhead, Monica Meler, Shelley Gipson.
It was encouraging to have 2 of my fellow grad students, Josh House, Ferrel Tomkins, and one of CSU’s professors, James Dormer in the show.
The image pictured above is part of the show. It is titled “what’s left of you”
After Reading “Letters to a Young Artist”
If you haven’t read this book – get a copy. isbn#0977368009 from dart publishing
What makes this book so great is the genuineness of its premise and the honesty of the letters. The artists probably didn’t know they would end up being published and their thoughts read by the masses, but I’m glad these potential boundaries were overstepped. One of the most inspirational reads I can think of. It describes a view of an artist and the artworld while answering questions that can get in the way. Young artist can mean any artist who is new to art or exhibiting, regardless of age. The artists who wrote these pages, as you read, write with more heart than I expected, and feel more like cheerleaders, and friends. They take note of your fears and struggles and commend your aspirations and dreams. ‘you will need these dreams to get past these fears and through these struggles.
They talked on many topics, guts, predjudice, patience, work, knowing one’s self, and loneliness. Loneliness or isolation was a common thread throuhgout the book. Artists encouraged you to work through these feelings and live your own life, but embrace this time of creation that is yours alone.
One of the most compelling letters in the book was from Adrian Piper, who urged the young artist to ‘always choose integrity over anything else.’ ‘Without integrity you lose hope and will be left with nothing. A nothing that money or fame can’t fill.’
I don’t have notes or quotes from the book yet, it has been ordered and is in the mail. I will be sure to post the most influential of these as soon as it arrives.
Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, featuring Sigur Ros
This show was amazing, the venue… in a word, breathtaking- boldly designed in both execution (they carved a pavilion out of a mountain) and presence.This place holds thousands of people in a natural amphitheatre of rock. Definitely worth the hike up, I would like to see this during a day trip…
This was my first impression of Sigur Ros. I was blown away with their talent, innovation, and musicality. They led me on a journey through discovering that made the overall experience more than a concert, as it reached something deeper and elemental even spiritual, as all of these elements combined into a cohesive whole.
They didn’t use words or (words as you would describe them as having a direct translation) in their songs, but used what felt like the pre-language we all experience as babies learning to talk. I am not saying that the sounds were infantile or monotonously repetitive in nature, but that it was something that although it isn’t immediately understood, you are aware that there is a message being formed. More accurately, the experience felt like listening in to a conversation down the hall or through a wall, where voices and sounds merge into something melodic. There was a message and meaning, specific to the song, that left you with a feeling, a universal intuition, that something has been communicated.
This concept is still fascinating me, as I think about this in terms of art and abstraction. The message morphing and merging with past experiences from each individual spectator. The success of the message is in its unbound nature… leading one to feel the experience as a transcendental happening, the performance being the locational space for this happening, allowing the spectator to interpret their own happening.
The last jounal page…
A somewhat sentimental note:
The orange moleskine-esque journal that I’ve been carrying around with me for the past five months, with its worn edges and random ink splotches, gave its last page today. Leaving me only with the record of my thoughts and what was covered these hundred fifty or so days. The sketches and notes are about 50-50, and they vary from small objects that caught my eye, doodle-ish sketches, and mock ups for future works. Steve’s business notes and the conceptual drawings for the restaurant are scattered throughout. All the pages are filled with my small, somewhat cryptic writing, and the binding broke from the notes and papers I would put in the side folder… I love this little abused book, it is sad to see it go on the shelf, no longer an accomplice.
