Bruce! - and other Richmond artblogs

Bruce Wilhelm has a blog! Or at least a blogspot address which he is using as a place to post his work. I am a big Bruce fan, here is an old post of one of his shows.

The blog I am addicted to has recently posted on Marcel Dzama and Amy Cutler, two artists that Bruce's work has sometimes reminded me of (more the older messier Amy Cutler stuff than the new cleaner Amy Cutler stuff). I recommend hunting around on my blogroll to try and find that blog, I am not going to make it easy for you, sorry.


I own this Bruce Wilhelm painting! I bought it maybe two years ago or so. The paper part is glued to a white board, sort of off-center. You are looking at just the painting, not any wall.

I'd like to say more, maybe pull some quotes from the comments of that other blog, but I'm too sleepy and hungry right now. Maybe tomorrow.

MORE RICHMOND ARTBLOGS:

A Painting A Day
Angels and Infidels
Annabelle's Aspirin
Dennis Matthews
George Allen
Jared Clark
Michael McDevitt
notoneforstarving
ProCurate.com
Research for the Movie

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I am right now addicted to another blog that is so popular with so many comments and so many things to consider that I don't want to even share the name of it at the moment, for fear that the comments there will hit the thousands and I will never sleep or eat again.

It is one of the blogs linked to on my blogroll to the right, so you can find it if you really want to.

submitted for your annoyance

UPDATE 9/06: i've gone through here and removed x's real name because when googled, this post was like the first thing that came up... and it is unfair to scapegoat x so much. if anybody leaves any new comments that name x, i will delete them. x is a fellow struggling artist, not a bad guy.

PART ONE:

Oh! I missed a fourth one of X's glowing VCU reviews! From VCU Arts e-League Newsletter -

Carolyn Henne is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at VCUarts. She exhibits her work in many venues in Virginia as well as nationally and internationally. Her October 2004 show at the ADA Gallery in Richmond received positive critical reviews by Paul Ryan in ArtPapers and by X in Sculpture Magazine. In January 2006, Henne will exhibit in Berlin, Germany, at the KunstOffice Gallery.

X sent me, a while back, a pissed-off e-mail about this post so now I'm excited to maybe submit an FOIA request to VCU and compare all of his positive VCU reviews of the last three years with how much he has been paid by VCU for his various visiting artist gigs within that same period.

X on Relativity for NYArts Magazine
X on Katharina Grosse for NYArts Magazine
X on Collaborative Concepts for NYTimes
X on Carolyn Henne at ADA for Sculpture Magazine - no link yet, but I will scan it later.

Write a review, get a teaching gig, write a review, get a teaching gig, write a review... what's wrong with that? I am paraphrasing X's e-mail to me because he told me I can't publish it. I wrote back that he wasn't much of a reviewer. He wrote back "lose my e-mail". He e-mailed me first! Anyways X, please don't e-mail me either, you can leave a comment if you want.

How dare I question his critical integrity!!!

Funniest Funniest Saddest Thing - I heard on Friday that Joe Seipel was going around the galleries with a NYTimes art critic, my friend said she heard it was because the critic was meeting all these Richmonders in Miami at Art Basel and wanted to come here and see what all the Richmond fuss was about. It was, I'm told, X!!!! Joe Seipel is the Senior Associate DEAN of the VCU School of the Arts! UPDATE 3:20pm: An anonymous commenter thinks the visitor with Joe Seipel might have been Stephen Rockwell, painter and publisher of Dart magazine, based out of Toronto.

Is Stephen also doing a paid visiting artist gig or lecture while he is here?

Hey, University of Richmond readers, do you think Siepel took the NYTimes/Dart guy to any of your shows?

PART TWO:

I’m also looking forward to seeing what the hell Richmond shows Dinah and Paul Ryan will be covering for Art Papers, now that Paul has had his show at Reynolds Gallery and joined the VCU faculty. Paul has had Morris Yarowsky's old job since the start of the Fall semester.

Recent Richmond in Art Papers -

Jan/Feb 2006 - VCU faculty member Stephen Vitiello at VCU's Solvent Space - Dinah Ryan
Nov/Dec 2005 - 4 VCU faculty members, curated by VCU faculty member, in Relativity at VCU's Anderson Gallery - Dinah Ryan
Sep/Oct 2oo5 - Katharina Grosse at VCU's Solvent Space - Paul Ryan

From Art Papers website stating editorial guidelines -

a) The editors will not consider submissions in which a writer: writes about his/her work, the work of someone with whom the writer has a personal relationship, the work of someone with whom the writer has a financial relationship, any gallery that represents his/her work, any relative, any gallery institutionally related to the organization employing the writer or a colleague in the institution employing the writer.

Holy Shit! This might be the end of Richmond in Art Papers! I am so curious about what they will have in the March/April issue!

I'm planning a kick-ass sequel to Meatballs at Stuffy's, I'll be sure to let you guys know.

RELATED: my Carolyn Henne post, not mentioned in the above excerpted newsletter along with the other two reviews. Also - me on Relativity here and here, on Paul Ryan here and here, on Stepen Vitiello here.

Fellow VCU faculty member and Reynolds Gallery artist Ron Johnson on VCU/Reynolds colleague Paul Ryan for NYArts Magazine.

SPECIAL PLEA to Critics - Please please feel welcome to visit Richmond and see art here and write about it. VCU puts on some very good shows but these reviews by VCU employees or wannabe employees mean NOTHING. It trivializes everybody's hard work.

February First Friday Report

No nudes!!! I couldn't see the nudes at Gallery5! They had a line that went all the way down the block. I 've since heard that they had EIGHT THOUSAND people come to that opening! Can that be right???

The weather was nice and warm, and there were tons of people hitting the galleries on Broad Street, many many more so than at the galleries on Main Street, which still had good crowds - but the Broad Street galleries were packed.

There is a huge art audience here, maybe not many buyers, but a very big and interested audience, and unfortunately most of what was available to see on Broad Street was crap! I'm shocked at how many people come out to look at bad stuff. It is exciting.

We need to show more and better stuff.

Why was 1708 Gallery closed? UPDATE: They were open, just had the windows blacked out. Thanks, Nate!

February's First Friday, 2006

Carrie Mae Weems at Hand Workshop, 6-8pm, 1812 W. Main St - I saw a big show of her stuff at Williams College a few years ago, so this will be nice.

Lauren Duckworth at Main Art, 7-9pm, 1537 W. Main St. Catered by Baja Beans! Free beer! Delicious meatballs!

Group show of paintings and sculpture at Casablanca Coffee, 5pm, 1106 W. Main St - this is the space being run by Dennis Matthews and friends, mostly PAPR undergrads. EXCELLENT place to buy paintings on a budget. I want a Kaylee Pickinpaugh really bad.

Kate Horne at Nonesuch, 7-10pm, 918 W. Grace - she will be exhibiting her latest ceramics - vampires, unicorns, werewolves, and Plantman. This is one of my favorite places. I like everything about it. I'm sorry I never got to posting on the Pat Berran show.


Pat Berran

Disrobed at Gallery5 - a NUDE art show, with paintings, photos, videos , and live nudes. I think they are going to have like ten nude models painted by students from the Tom Savini School of Special Effects. They can't move, they have to stand still like statues, because if they move it would be considered a strip show. I think I will mostly be here. Starting at 7pm, and continues late into the night with bands and hopefully lots of nudity. 200 W. Marshall St.

ADA had it's opening last week, so I'm not sure if they will be open this Friday night. Most likely they WILL be. Lots of good stuff up there right now - Kirsten Kindler, Matthew Fisher, Steve Roebuck, Jered Sprecher, Warren Craghead... and MORE.

NOT OPENING, BUT UP -

Michele Arthur at Chop Suey - I regret not posting on the drawing show that just closed. Not that I loved it at all, just wanted to talk about it.

Tanja Softic at Reynolds Gallery

A wonderful show of prints from the collection at Anderson Gallery. Also a video installation by Bob Paris.

it is a very very very small artworld

Fairy Butler and Mountain Man have both posted announcements for Sarah Peters upcoming show at PS122 Gallery. It was a surprise to me that they are probably friends with Sarah, because I moved into her old apartment here in Richmond.

It was really strange meeting Sarah. The landlord showed me the place while she was home and we just said hi, but the next day we ran into each other at Lowes and briefly chatted about the apartment. Later that same day I ran into her again at the supermarket across town and so we laughed and talked a little more, and discovered that we had both used to live in Philadelphia (at different times), and that Sarah had gone to PAFA. I could have said twenty different Academy names but the one I said was "Do you know Carson Fox?" - someone I haven't seen or heard from in more than fifteen years. It turned out that she and Carson were best friends (!!!), AND that the place I would be renting was formerly owned by Carson's mom. Carson had grown up next door. I never would have known any of that if we hadn't run into each other that second time at the supermarket.


Carson will be showing in Richmond at 1708 Gallery in April!

I found that out last time I was in New York and saw one of her pieces at Claire Oliver Gallery. I was at Claire Oliver to see very best buds Eva and Adele's show, and then I saw one of former HUGE crush Carson's pieces, then I saw some of former teacher Bonnie's pieces, then I saw one of Philadelphian Judith Schaecter's pieces. I think I first saw Judith's work more than fifteen years ago, Meatman, at a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art of Philadelphia artists; I still remember seeing that piece - a small stained-glass of a man made of meat, boxing. I'm sure PMA curator at the time John Ravenal had something to do with that show, and he is now here in Richmond at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Actually, the last time I saw John Ravenal was when I was sitting in front of Scope Miami trying to sell my paintings.


Judith Schaecter will be showing in Richmond at the Visual Arts Center in April!


So I went to the PS122 Gallery's website to see if they had any more images of Sarah's work, I hadn't seen anything since her show at Feigen last year, and I find that they still have up the page for the January show - and one of the artists is Fawn Krieger! I met Fawn at a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, she is very very very funny. She does everything, her work is smart and fun and funny and GOOD. Sculptures, paintings, drawings, stories, comedy, computer things, performance - she is un-pigeonhole-able.

Then I check my e-mail today and find that Look, See friend Chris Ashley has mentioned Warren Rohrer on his own blog and that Chris will be showing in Richmond at 1708 Gallery in May, in a six-person show co-curated by Kristin Beal and Peter Baldes. Peter Baldes was one of the faculty members on the unanimous vote NOT to grant me a leave of absence from VCU (otherwise, he's okay).


Chris Ashley will be showing in Richmond at 1708 Gallery in May!

I go to the 1708 Gallery site to see if they say anything about Chris' show and notice that the current show includes a catalogue essay by Michael Oatman. This is the same Michael Oatman whose Saratoga show I wrote about in July (he posted a comment!), and whom both Warren Craghead and Carolyn Zick e-mailed to say they used to know fairly well when they lived in the Albany/Troy area. Now Warren is in VIRGINIA and Carolyn is in Seattle. Did Warren and Carolyn know each other?


Warren Craghead will be showing in Richmond at ADA in March!

Finally, at last week's ADA Gallery opening I noticed some small drawings John had in the back, and they are by one of the artists I enjoyed so much at Scope, Jered Sprecher!


Jered Sprecher will be showing at ADA in October!

Joy Garnett, Katrina Benefit, Katrina Photos

Joy Garnett has donated a painting from the Strange Weather series to this event that's raising money for Gulf Coast visual artists. I really like Joy's paintings. Above is one from her series New York's Chelsea Art District On Fire. I think that is Anton Kern's gallery, especially uploaded for Edna.

I have an aunt and uncle who live(d) on the Gulf Coast; here is how they found their house shortly after people were allowed back in the area. All of their kids are grown and live in Mississippi, and I think two or three of them also lost everything. My cousin Mimi has just sent these Gulf Coast before and after pictures.


So strange to see these old houses completely gone, with the trees fine.


The low blue entrance gate is still there.






Only the stairway and the tree.

more on Richmond Outdoor Sculpture

H. Jennings Sheffield has written with more info on the sculpture thing I posted last week -

"2006 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture exhibition is indeed year two of the 2005 Sculpture Invitational. Last year was an invitational only, and this year we did not want to limit ourselves to only sculptors we were aware of. We wanted the call for proposals to reach more sculptors outside of Richmond. The name change was owing to our wants of broadening the idea and scope of the project in the future. We are extremely excited about this year's exhibition."

The deadline is March 1st and there is NO ENTRY FEE. Click here for a PDF of the entry form.

building as painting

Kaylee Pickinpaugh at Casablanca Coffee

Dennis Matthews and friends have taken over a spacious coffee house and are having shows there. The current show consists of fifteen different artists and is probably closing soon, because the next show opens on February 4th.

Kaylee Pickinpaugh has a weird painting in the bathroom. I like her stuff a lot, I remember seeing two of her paintings more than a year ago in a VCU student show. The painting up now is a skewed interior of some kind of disco palace-like living room, with a big round fluffy chartreuse rug on the floor and a grotesque lady-man, or manly lady, sitting in a big stuffed chair wearing a little dress and glittery ruby platform shoes, with a cat on her lap. The perspective of the disco paneled floor is all screwed up and there is a big golden gilt mirror on the back wall reflecting a twisty disco hallway. The mirror is hanging on a wall on which the wallpaper pattern seems to be drifting into the corner like jellyfish.


I googled Kaylee to try to find some of her paintings but only found her contributions to Miranda July's site. This one is from Assignment #11: Photograph a scar and write about it -

"Molly, Amy, Nina and I all got these heart brands as a symbol of our friendship. We all took turns giving them to each other. It was pretty painful, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else, but we figured that it was all about the crazy experiences we've had together, and the stupid things that we'll always laugh about. Plus now we're all super tough."

1106 West Main Street, Casablanca Coffee. Next opening is Feb 4th, First Saturday at 5 PM it's at 1106 West Main Street.

sculpture something

The second annual sculpture something is accepting proposals. I'm not sure what it is called now. The first one was called 2005 Sculpture Invitational, but this one might be called Richmond Outdoor Exhibition or 2006 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture - I'm just not sure. Here is all the entry information.

The deadline is March 1st!!!

First year Sculpture Invitational posts - here, here, here, and here - and the Sculpture Invitational website is here.

PS - hey, anonymous militant artist ladies, look at the bad sign I wrote about in this initial Sculpture Invitational post from last year. Solidarity!

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Rebecca Winston at Diversity Thrift

I've finally scanned the other prints I got when I bought the Lester Van Winkle piece at Diversity Thrift. I've never heard of Rebecca Winston, the artist, but when I saw these little paper pieces crammed into a rack with a bunch of other stuff I had to save them, especially when I saw that some were signed and dated 1964. How have these little unframed things survived so long, uncared for?

These are the three that I bought. The biggest one here is the nativity scene, only about nine by eleven inches, the other two are postcard-sized. All three were priced at five dollars each, but because the bigger one is signed, titled, and dated while the other two are only initialed I was able to talk him down a buck on each.


I think this one is my favorite. It has a sad fairy-taleness, and you can't quite tell what she is doing. Washing clothes, or drowning a baby? She looks so sad, like something has happened to ruin the fairy-tale. All of these pieces feature a woman sitting or kneeling over a baby or possible baby.


This image is the smallest, probably about actual size on your computer. I see a lady but I don't see the baby. Is the crib empty?


The nativity pieces were the only ones that were signed. This is something that fits into her theme, but that she may also have had hopes of selling. There were more of these same nativity prints available, all hand-colored differently, all signed, dated, and titled.

Warren Rohrer

A few weeks ago I was on the Skowhegan website checking to see who this summer's faculty will be and discovered that Phong Bui is a 1985 graduate of my alma mater, The University of the Arts. I've also learned, in the past few years, that both Joe Fyfe (class of 1976) and Christine Hiebert (class of 1983) are also alumni of The University of the Arts* - that means we must have all studied under the same person, the late Warren Rohrer, who taught in the painting department from 1974-1992. Recent posts on Lester Van Winkle and Richard Carlyon and responses from their former students have got me thinking about some of my old teachers.

I'm not sure to what extent these other artists interacted with Warren, or how much influence he may have had on them, but when I was there Warren was very much a leading figure in the department.


Warren Rohrer - more images from Artnet, reviewed on Artcritical, his biography and some images from Marian Locks Gallery, an Art in America article by Miriam Seidel.


Joe Fyfe - Yes, I chose this recent Joe Fyfe image for it's resemblance to the Warren Rohrer piece directly above it. From what I understand Fyfe was making photo-realistic paintings until about ten years ago, when he made a big switch to the very casual, rough, elegant paintings he is now known for - paintings which make me think very much of Warren's work.

Warren's paintings were often many layers of paint applied like stitches, you get a sense of the weave of the canvas underneath all the paint, or his marks added to the the canvas so you were aware of both the canvas and the paint marks, becoming one thing; or he would leave the canvas visible at the edges or someplace. The canvas was important, the painting wasn't just an image placed on top. The whole painting was one thing. I think he worked slowly and meditatively. Joe paints quickly and thinly, but his paintings have a similar physical presence and "zen" quality. I say zen because that's the word to use, but Warren was a Mennonite.

I'm really curious about Joe's photo-realist work and why he made such an about-face. He seems to have been doing okay before, he was a 1994 artist-in-residence at the University of Tenessee "as a painter of photographically derived imagery". It's weird to hear someone speak with so much conviction about art knowing that only recently they were doing - and probably thinking and saying? - something completely different.

(I've studied under both Warren and Joe, Warren from about 1988-1990 and Joe in 2004).


Christine Hiebert - Christine Hiebert on Artnet, Christine Hiebert in The Brooklyn Rail - that piece illustrated in The Brooklyn Rail article looks like the same one as the image above from Artnet, but with a much yellower background. Is it the same piece?


Phong Bui - This Artnet photo is from his 2005 installation at Sarah Bowen Gallery. Phong Bui also publishes The Brooklyn Rail.


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Are there any artists reading this who studied under Warren? I am out of touch with the kids I graduated with, and the recidivism rate is very high, but it would be nice to see what people might be doing now.

*or Philadelphia College of Art, it underwent a name change. I entered The Philadelphia College of Art in 1986, then it became The Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, and I graduated from The University of the Arts in 1990.

PS - Skowhegan looks really good this summer, they have Phong Bui, Nicole Eisenman, Lisa Sigal. I'm not applying, it costs too much for me right now, and I want to raft. Plus, maybe my Skowhegan moment has passed? I've applied so many times and am tired of it - but I recommend applying to my younger artist friends who might be reading this. I think if you can get accepted at the right time in your life it would be a wonderful experience.

Richard Carlyon

Melissa (from Nonesuch) has e-mailed to say that local artist Richard Carlyon has passed away. Carlyon was a long-time VCU professor, not sure how long ago he retired. I've never met him and don't know much about his work, but it is my understanding that he was an extremely well-respected artist and teacher.

Here is an excerpt from a Richard Carlyon testimonial I've found on-line, written by former student Carol Sutton, and which pre-dates his death -

"One of my great teachers was Richard Carlyon at RPI, now called VCU. Mr. Carlyon opened the door to art history for me. He taught me to seek an art full of purpose and feeling.

Richard Carlyon always impressed me with his razor sharp mind and insights into art history. I remember his vast personal art library, his love for books and learning. The dedication that he gave to his art, painting and drawing. I remember his great sense of line and his bold shapes, his great drawings. What a great and intense time. Students lined up for and packed his art history lectures, which often were in such demand that it was standing room only if you arrived a bit late."

Another former student, now living in California, has posted an obituary on his blog -

"I received notice yesterday that Richard Carlyon passed away recently. Anyone who went to school with me will remember Mr. Carlyon as an incredibly animated and highly heady professor at Virginia Commonwealth. He was of great inspiration to me and taught two of my favorite classes while I attended VCU. His Abstract Expressionism class brought understanding to an incredibly illusive mode of painting that I have come to appreciate much more. He also taught a class called Conceptual Thinking that had us creating things like Comic Books with no pictures and the like."

Melissa says that Nonesuch will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday) for funeral services but that she would like to invite those of you who knew and loved Richard to join her at Nonesuch at 7pm for a toast of wine in his honor. Bring your memories and stories to share with the wine. Nonesuch will have regular Wednesday movie night after that, around 8pm or so. January is Uncomfortable Movie Night.

sidebar

I've changed the sidebar a little bit, putting up some links to my own work and switching the archives to below the list of other artblogs. Not sure how long I will keep all those links to my non-recent stuff, just putting them up for a little while probably. Fun to see the old stuff, and easier than going to the storage locker and unrolling it all.

Also have been slowly adding other artblogs.

UPDATE: A lost review has been found! Peter Naumann has made a website and posted his review of a show I was in in Tokyo maybe four years ago, with a picture. That review originally ran on TokyoQ.com but has since faded away. Tom Sanford was also in that show.

art basel anaba

This is Marina Abramovic, not Joseph Beuys.


This is (Elaine) Sturtevant, not Andy Warhol.


This is Eric Doeringer, not Dana Schutz.


This is Earl M. Washington, not Rockwell Kent.

Earl M. Washington was selling prints at bookstores and on e-bay that he claimed were made by his great-grandfather in the thirties, mostly copies of other artists. The print pictured above is after Rockwell Kent, signed Earl M. Washington and dated 1931. BUT... the guy made up the whole story about his great-grandfather and was making the copies himself, in the nineties. So it is not a Rockwell but looks like one, it really is by the artist who signed it, but the date of 1931 is not true.

He has sold about 60,000 prints so far and is still doing it. You can buy them at Black Swan Books, where I took this photo. The back of the print has some explanatory text but no credit at all is given to Rockwell Kent. I said something to the owner about that but he got defensive.

Forbes published an article called Catch Me If You Can.


This is Thomas Moses, not Grandma Moses.

Thomas Moses and his brother Will Moses both learned to paint from their grandfather Forest Moses, who was the son of Grandma Moses.

I love the paintings of Grandma Moses, not so much Forest Moses, and Will Moses' stuff feels like hack-work; I very much like the paintings of Thomas Moses. Thomas is Will's older brother and they both began painting at about the same time, but Thomas had to stop for personal problems or something, and has started back up again relatively recently after a thirty-plus year break.

Grandma Moses painted mostly from memory, so although she was working in the 1940's and 1950's, the scenes depict life much earlier. The two living Moses brothers are both around sixty, but although they are painting scenes that pre-date their own births, they are also painting from memory - having spent their childhoods surrounded by the work of their grandfather and great-grandmother. I am fascinated by the whole Moses thing.

Thomas Moses has made a website, and I think he is even starting a blog!?!?


This is Richard Pettibone, not Frank Stella.

I told Richard Pettibone about Eric Doeringer and Richard Pettibone asked, "Does he do me?". That was funny.

Another lady at the same lecture started asking Richard Pettibone questions as if he were Ray Pettibon, it took her a while to get that she didn't just have his first name wrong, but that this was a completely different artist and she was at the wrong lecture. That was really funny, for Richard Pettibone HIMSELF to be confused for another artist, in the flesh!! Woah.

There was great deal of confusion about names and I am not sure what he was asked next, but he responded "you don't think I made up the name Pettibone, (do you)?". This was getting so weird because Raymond Pettibon did assume the surname Pettibon, his real last name is Ginn.

I got so dizzy with it all.


This is Vincent Van Gogh, not Millet.

Gert Folmering, German Painters, NYC Painters

Hans Heiner Buhr has posted a bunch of good paintings by artist and friend Gert Folmering.

Corny is featuring a different German painter each day this week.

PaintersNYC posts a different NYC painter every day.

Enjoy your painting!

Beq, Diane Derr, Rachel Hayes, Timothy Michael Martin, Ryan Mulligan, and Amie Oliver at Spaces, Places, Centers, and Fairs

Here is a picture of Rachel Hayes' Sculpture Center installation. Looks GREAT, Rachel, and I love the slightly crooked flourescent light line and it's reflections on your hanging. Is that a hallway? Congratulations for making a hard space sing and hum and buzz and zip. There is something musical happening; something electronic, tonal, and rythmic. I bet Tom Moody would enjoy this piece.


Diane Derr is included in The Mind/Body Problem at Artists Space, January 12 - February 18, with an opening reception TONIGHT from 6-8pm.

Diane is a Richmond native currently living in Chicago.


Timothy Michael Martin and Beq are both included in the Mid-Atlantic New Painting 2006 exhibition at University of Mary Washington's Ridderhof Martin Gallery, January 26 - March 3, with an opening reception on the 26th from 5-7pm.

I have a Mike Martin painting!

Amie Oliver's work is up at The Painting Center, in a show called Grand Allusions. Heart as Arena recently recommended visiting this show to see the work of Maria Pia Marrella.

Ryan Mulligan is, I think, collaborating with Marc Horowitz on a performance piece at ArtLA, Jan 19 - 22. Wow, good for Ryan.

the Genji Monogatari and Sunflower

Scene from the 1120 illustrated version of Genji Monogatari; this scene depicts a young woman sitting on the balcony, looking at a tree, waiting for Genji to return.


Waiting. I copied the tree from the Genji scroll, but mine is cut paper with green thread for pine needles. All of these are mostly cut paper, her hair is black thread.


Sleeping. This is the sweetest one.


Reading a book. I did some white ones, like ghosts, fading away or in another dimension from the "here" ones. Here is the "real" one; she is sitting by a space heater with a cup of something on top keeping warm.


Depressing one. This is the most depressing deathly one. I made a a few of these with just a sprinkle of (or no) gems on the figure, and they are like healing magic crystals, some kind of transformation may be taking place. That is the same tree again.

I made similar work in other mediums also, all using the same model. We made photographs, and I made a creepy video by shuffling the photographs, and then made digital prints from stills of the video. All the different mediums are different works, existing only in that medium. The prints are not the same as the photographs at all.


Smoking in the kitchen, blowing the smoke up the exhaust fan.

There are twenty of these total (I haven't scanned them all in yet) and they are considered one piece, to be hung together, not individual pieces. The order or format doesn't matter, they can be in a grid or wrap around a room, but they all have to be in the same room.

These are the exact same size as One Day in the Garden, also made of twenty images and considered a single piece, not something that is to be broken up. One Day in the Garden does have a very specific order, and I prefer it to be hung in a grid.