Thursday, March 04, 2010
bamf
i wrote the above paper for my color photography class (otherwise i would have started with all city council, which is when i first recognized Evan Roth's genius, and also included postal labels against bush, tsa communications, laser tag, and eye writer).
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Mark Jenkins & Aakash Nihalani
Friday, February 05, 2010
street art 2.0
Roberta Smith noted in her recent New York Times article that "street art," the "vibrant successor" of "graffiti art," "originated in San Francisco in the 1990s among artists on the fringe of the skateboard scene." the article was discussing Jeffrey Deitch's recent appointment to be director of MOCA(la) and noted that Deitch "more or less introduced New York to ... street art."
She is presumably referring to Barry McGee and the mission school. Roberta identified Barry as "a talented street artist from San Francisco" and noted that he "offers a cheerful reinterpretation of 80's graffiti art" in her review of his 1999 show @ Deitch. she further contended "although drips are plentiful among these images and some parts are casually painted out, Mr. McGee does not partake of the looseness and speed associated with graffiti art. His notion of finish is refined, even tight." in her review of his 2005 show, she identified "Barry McGee, who helped ignite the street-graffiti art renaissance that emanated from San Francisco in the 1990's."
in thinking about this over the past few years, i've tied "street art" to the global community that was connected through the web by sites such as Wooster Collective. the recent street art exhibit at the Tate Modern was practically curated by Wooster: four of the six artists/collectives (Blu, Faile, JR, and Os Gemeos) are stars of the blog. Moreover, the "long weekend" corresponding to the show also included Graffiti Research Labs, another Wooster Collective favorite, and a Wooster talk.
as a long time follower of Wooster, i have enjoyed watching the street art community flower globally. looking through a search of their "seen on the streets" postings turns up work from around the world (starting with Ann Arbor, Paris, Antwerp, Washington D.C., Bloomington, Manchester, London, Tehran, Buenos Aires, New York, Puerto Vallarta, Amsterdam, Toronto, Williamsburg, Santiago, Hong Kong, Prague, Istanbul, Rouen, Lima, Trondheim, Lombardy, Rome, Munich, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Kaunas, Tasmania, Milwaukee, Naples, Denmark, Athens, Chicago, you get the idea).
a global street arts community, connected by the Internet (and festivals, like nuart in Norway, the cans festival in London, and fame festival in Italy), may be an outgrowth of what came out of San Francisco in the 1990s, and New York in the 1980s, but seems to be something new: street art 2.0.
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She is presumably referring to Barry McGee and the mission school. Roberta identified Barry as "a talented street artist from San Francisco" and noted that he "offers a cheerful reinterpretation of 80's graffiti art" in her review of his 1999 show @ Deitch. she further contended "although drips are plentiful among these images and some parts are casually painted out, Mr. McGee does not partake of the looseness and speed associated with graffiti art. His notion of finish is refined, even tight." in her review of his 2005 show, she identified "Barry McGee, who helped ignite the street-graffiti art renaissance that emanated from San Francisco in the 1990's."
in thinking about this over the past few years, i've tied "street art" to the global community that was connected through the web by sites such as Wooster Collective. the recent street art exhibit at the Tate Modern was practically curated by Wooster: four of the six artists/collectives (Blu, Faile, JR, and Os Gemeos) are stars of the blog. Moreover, the "long weekend" corresponding to the show also included Graffiti Research Labs, another Wooster Collective favorite, and a Wooster talk.
as a long time follower of Wooster, i have enjoyed watching the street art community flower globally. looking through a search of their "seen on the streets" postings turns up work from around the world (starting with Ann Arbor, Paris, Antwerp, Washington D.C., Bloomington, Manchester, London, Tehran, Buenos Aires, New York, Puerto Vallarta, Amsterdam, Toronto, Williamsburg, Santiago, Hong Kong, Prague, Istanbul, Rouen, Lima, Trondheim, Lombardy, Rome, Munich, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Kaunas, Tasmania, Milwaukee, Naples, Denmark, Athens, Chicago, you get the idea).
a global street arts community, connected by the Internet (and festivals, like nuart in Norway, the cans festival in London, and fame festival in Italy), may be an outgrowth of what came out of San Francisco in the 1990s, and New York in the 1980s, but seems to be something new: street art 2.0.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
available online for free
the amazing Evan Roth issued an open invitation to participate in his sticker project, with the resulting photos displayed on a loop at the elizabeth foundation for the arts one every day show in new york (which runs through dec. 19, 2009)
tonight i emailed my first submission
(kin to my perv: local, organic).
dec. 2, 2009 update
two more submissions (they sent me 3 stickers)
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tonight i emailed my first submission
(kin to my perv: local, organic).
dec. 2, 2009 update
two more submissions (they sent me 3 stickers)
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
sf camerawork 2009 auction
the preview exhibition for sf camerawork's 2009 auction is free and runs nov10-dec4 (info).
i donated carney (argentina) [archivally framed]
"Highlights include: Berenice Abbott, Richard Barnes, Harry Benson, Ellen Carey, Keith Carter, Judy Dater, Robert Dawson, Larry Fink, Ann Hamilton, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Todd Hido, Pirkle Jones, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. Lê, Michael Light, David Maisel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, J. John Priola, Herb Ritts, Holly Roberts, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Larry Sultan, Hank Willis Thomas, Catherine Wagner, William Wegman, Edward Weston, Marion Post Wolcott and many others."
the auction is saturday, dec5th, @ 1pm
($30 or free with sf camerawork membership)
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i donated carney (argentina) [archivally framed]
"Highlights include: Berenice Abbott, Richard Barnes, Harry Benson, Ellen Carey, Keith Carter, Judy Dater, Robert Dawson, Larry Fink, Ann Hamilton, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Todd Hido, Pirkle Jones, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. Lê, Michael Light, David Maisel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, J. John Priola, Herb Ritts, Holly Roberts, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Larry Sultan, Hank Willis Thomas, Catherine Wagner, William Wegman, Edward Weston, Marion Post Wolcott and many others."
the auction is saturday, dec5th, @ 1pm
($30 or free with sf camerawork membership)
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Yoon Lee print
"Expansion II" by Yoon Lee (2009)
9"x27" archival pigment print in an edition of 30 (+2ap/+2pp)
this print, my second print (as proper printing), comes archivally framed in two variations --
ed. 1-15: glossy print face-mounted to plexi, mounted on 4ply museum board, with hidden cleate+spacer frame
ed. 16-30: matte print with uv lamination, mounted on aluminum, with hidden cleate+spacer frame
retail (archivally framed, as noted above) is $1200
available from the luggage store sometime soon
you can see a bigger image of Yoon's print here
my first print, with Tiffany Bozic, is discussed here
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Monday, July 27, 2009
superfine @ Morgan Lehman
Eric Beltz
on my recent trip to NY, we stopped by the superfine exhibit @ Morgan Lehman.
Andrew Schoultz
the show has great work with super fine details.
Hilary Pecis
Aaron Noble
Aya Uekawa
Michael Waugh's text based illustration uses text from the Election Reform Commission
Rachel Thorlby
Joseph Ayers
Iona Rozeal Brown
Tom Molloy
Ryan Wallace
the show runs through August 7, 2009 and is much better in person
the gallery also had two additional paintings by Andrew Schoultz ready to show a prospective collector
if you are in the area, be sure to also stop by the high line
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