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I was featured this week in the local street style blog, The Streets of Denver. Take a looksie at the photo. I seem pissed for some reason. Thanks so much to Becky for the honor!
More fashionalites here:
My good friend Harry has a closing show this Friday night at the 11th Ave Gallery. The work is brand spanking new. Harry candidly describes his work as "faux-conceptualism".
Denverites come on out for it.
Feast your eyes on this longneck dino.
Mark Sink has started taking photos with this toy polaroid fax camera. The photos are slowly printed out on carbon paper while the toy plays a delightful little ditty. They come out
with a bit disjointed and broken. It usually takes a bit for you to register what exactly you are looking at. I think they are just lovely. Here is one he took of Damarisland a month or so ago.
Bitchin show opening today: BLACK & WHITE GALLERY // Chelsea is proud to present Actus Reus by Tamara Kostianovsky. In her solo
debut exhibition, Tamara Kostianovsky extends the cold human
gaze to killing. Methodically dissected beef
carcasses made out of discarded human clothes are both ethically and aesthetically disturbing. The intense
reality of the opened body cannot stop the humans
from looking at the killed animal. The looker is not the
killer, and some of the power in the relationship therefore lies with the looked-at thing, dead though it is.
Tamara Kostianovsky is a native of Israel. She was raised in Argentina and currently lives and works in
Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA degree from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires,
Argentina (1998) and an MFA degree from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2003).
Kostianovsky is a recipient of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant and was
the finalist for Pew Fellowships
in the Arts.
The actus reus, sometimes called the external elements of a crime, is the Latin term for the "guilty act" which,
when proved beyond a reasonable doubt in combination with the mens rea i.e., the "guilty mind",
produces criminal
liability in common law-based criminal law jurisdictions.
ACTUS REUS is the second part of a three-part, spring 2008 season-long multidisciplinary program The Proper Animal,
comprised of three successive solo exhibitions. All three participating artists utilize
highly original and sometimes
disturbing animal iconography which inevitably brings ethical considerations into play. The program title addresses
complex issues of animal propriety in the context
of human-animal power relations. Whether each artist operates in
an intuitive, sub-ethical way focusing on form rather than meaning remains an open question.
BLACK & WHITE GALLERY // Chelsea is located at 636 West 28th Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10001. Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6 pm.
I was perusing the world wide web and came across this groovy clothing line out of Copenhagen. I am amazed at the colors and sculptural aspects of these fashions. Yay for new, exciting street wear!
The line reminds me of American Apparel gone right, although I do somewhat miss the ultra-sexed-up soft core shots from AA's ad campaigns...
Check out Devandervar here:
I made these woolen oyster bugs for Mark Sink's birthday a couple months back. They are mechanical wonders. You turn them on and they progress forward until you clap your hands and they swiftly
change direction. The felted wool I used was from a Joanna P. Drummond (my mother) dye batch. And I posed as a vagina enthusiast on my web server for quite some time researching all the different
shapes and configurations of female anatomy. I plan on creating a film using these little O'Keeffe-esque lovelies. Materials: Wool, hairspray, pearl, thread, robots.
I am going to give this poem to someone today.
Thank you is two words.
Unbeknownst to most they taste-
Of a bruised rosebud.
Bubblegum Tate cat
Furred white on the outside hide
Pink rattle within.
So I tried my hand at writing a Haiku. Each day as I put on my contact lenses I convene with a small, wee friend aptly stuck in the congealed contact solution pooled at the bottom of my case.
I know, I know, it doesn't sound all that hygienic but I can't bear to clean it just yet; the fly is so gracefully arranged. Like a flower pressed in a thick book, it's delicate. Here is my ode to this
daily small piece of beauty.
Envy the dead fruit fly!
A tranquil fossil floating
Saline juice captive.
I was forwarded this film. An amazing piece done in Grand Central Station unbeknown to the general public. Very inspiring and well documented. Starts my wheels a' turning.
While talking with a friend the other day I was asked about the in and outs of the "mainer accent". Growing up in Maine,I heard many different variations of it. I guess I would have to discribe it
as an abstracted Boston accent: roughed up and corner-cut. My father carries a slight one but I never took to it. I youtubed the subject and found a short documenting the the Cumberland County Fair. The very fair I went to year after year of my childhood to
ride the Gravitron and eat fried dough. The place I swore an oath to be a vegetarian till death. Some things change.
Here's some wicked Maine accent for you, enjoy:
Yay for a new and glorious website. Thank you to Ryan the Wonderful
Wizzard who did all the designing and coding.
Check out wonderfulwizzard.com for more of Ryan's work. I will try to update you all on all my creative endeavors here.
Excitement. Yes.
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