coming up -- tiffany bozic at blk/mrkt

tonight is the internet preview for the tiffany bozic show. if you contacted blk/mrkt to request to be on their list for this show, then you got the email. and tomorrow (friday), you get the opportunity to purchase in order of your placement on the list.

fecal face has tiffany bozic featured in two columns which are currently side by side:


one uses tiffany's postcard piece at the end of a long list of art shows to see this week. the other discusses cohen's art, a project where someone named "aye jay" got a number of artists to collaborate on work started by his(?) 6 year old son. the small image shown next to the link for the article is a bozic bird (side by side with another very different bozic bird). read all about cohen's art?

john trippe also includes a photo of a musician and a painter standing in front of the bozic painting featured at fecal face's recent 125 anniversary of the internet show (buried with a bunch of other photos on his blog).


flavorpill features tiffany's (older) open heart painting with a description of the show in the table of contents for the current mailer.


good to see the support. hopefully the local and art press will also step up.

internet tuning

these sometimes work. alert for david choe fan (below) -- solo show at blvd in seattle. my guess was that blvd would have a good web presence -- post the work, identify efficient means to purchase. they do not: e.g., http://www.blvdart.com/artists.htm (coming soon)!

these searches, with tuning and luck, can be useful ways of getting all sorts of information. need information? try it.

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Date: Sep 6, 2006 7:33 PM
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First Day of School
TheStranger.com - Seattle,WA,USA
... his MFA at UW last year) at the Lee Center for the Arts; photographer Chris Engman's debut at Greg Kucera; and, opening next week at BLVD, David Choe, the San ...

kilgallen and mcgee -- lacma parking garage (rip)

did you see the paintings by margaret kilgallen (rip) and barry mcgee in the lacma parking garage? originally painted as part of the "made in california" show (2000). destroyed in 12.05 with the parking garage they decorated. they could have been saved -- by the fucking art museum -- but were not. (lacma saved one of margaret's wood panels and took photos -- like me). according to tyler green's op-ed in the lat, hiring a concrete-cutting firm to cut as many works as could have been saved "would probably cost less than $100,000." given that barry's bigger pieces fetch more than 100k and that margaret's work is now irreplaceable, the museum should have found a solution.

i went to la and photographed the work (twice) before it was destroyed. i am generally happy with the photos, which are good evidence of how short-sighted the decision was to destroy this work.

view the slideshowor the set

pcp at gr-sf

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pcp at grsf (through sept. 30, 2006)

pcp (heisuke kitazawa) reminds me of jordan crane . in a good way, like they could be artistic siblings. not in a bad way, like "this guy is biting jordan crane." complimentary. i like his work. generally what he is doing.

i like narrative work; fully-realized illustrations; i like the way he
dislodges the narrative image in some of the work with additional
layers (which also reminds me of kozyndan). his characters are alive.
you can read their body language. they elicit an emotional response.
they could be animation stills.

we talked with pcp. he was friendly and sweet.

i have been hesistant with purchasing digital art. in part, there is an inclination to focus on "original" work, which is often a better value. with so many talented artists producing original work (editions of 1), it is easy to exclude all prints. in some cases (e.g., giclees), digital work may simple be a poster or print of an original work. in other cases (e.g., photograph, silkscreens and the various print processes), the print is the end work. with pcp and others pushing the digital art boundaries, i see that the digital prints are not a copy of original work but original work created in small multiples -- using new tools the artist's toolbox.

pcp draws, scans, photoshops, prints, paints, scans, photoshops...
until he is happy with the final image. he then prints the image,
paints in the white and yellow (which do not print well), and paints
a layer of clear acrylic on top. he sells his work in edition of 5 and
i think is a reasonable value (e.g., the postcard piece above, and you know where to find me -- 12"x18", acrylic, digital print on wood, edition of 5, were priced at $500).

grsf posted the work.
pcp also has a website with lots of fun stuff: hypehopewonderland.

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tip for alex and other potential banksy collectors

did you note the ebay interlineation in the first post? this is currently a good value for something handmade by banksy, price will likely be more as auctions close and sellers run out

banksy punks vapid celebrity's new product

banksy records personal documentary type of video. clever artist.


bbc news article below (from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm). includes details of the event documented in the above video (he visited 6 cities, placed 500). statements from banksy's spokeswoman (that sounds like a cool job). and some surprising admissions from big record company spokesmodels. banksy is a clever fellow -- i think he will be in the art history books.

as i was writing this, i started thinking about how much the banksy cds would cost on ebay;
(1) ended Sep-04-06 08:59:43 PDT; this cd, 1 of 500 placed so far,
had 1 bid and sold for 350 pounds/ 666.75 usd.
(2) as i write this, with 13 hours, 6 minutes to go, there are 3 on ebay.
(a) the one going first is up to 370 pounds/704.85 usd (with 13 hours to go); and
(3) an entrepreneur named manksy (or something like that) has set up shop and is selling "burnt" copies; bootlegs = less art value, true fan; buy it now for 29.99 gbp/ 57.13 usd.


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Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest
stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD
with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?,
What Have I Done? and What Am I For?

He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US
socialite topless and with a dog's head.

A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut
album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK.

She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he
took the old ones out and put his version in."

But he left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without
realising it had been interfered with.

Banksy is notorious for his secretive and subversive stunts such as
sneaking doctored versions of classic paintings into major art
galleries. His spokeswoman said he had tampered with the CDs in
branches of HMV and Virgin as well as independent record stores.

He visited cities including Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle,
Glasgow and London, she added.

A spokesman for HMV said the chain had recovered seven CDs from two
Brighton shops but was unaware that other locations were affected.

Artistic leeway

No customers had complained or returned a doctored version, he said.

"It's not the type of behaviour you'd want to see happening very
often," he said.

"I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of
leeway for his own particular brand of artistic engagement.

"Often people might have a view on something but feel they can't
always express it, but it's down to the likes of Banksy to say often
what people think about things.

"And it might be that there will be some people who agree with his
views on the Paris Hilton album."

A spokesman for Virgin Megastores said staff were searching for
affected CDs but it was proving hard to find them all.

"I have to take my hat off - it's a very good stunt," he added.