Art MoCo: May 2008 Archives

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Meta | May 31, 2008

Lincoln Barbour is a photog we discovered this week on design*sponge. What’s not to love about the mix of rusty-red and grey?

Photography must have been what caught our eye this week. David Dodge’s work appealed from the pages of Spraygraphic.

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"Tumulus"
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Textiles | May 30, 2008

Nina Braun has a new show up at Helium Cowboy in Hamburg and instead of being shoe-based, the focus is on woolly creatures. Braun takes traditional female handiwork to a new level by creating soft sculpture installations that depict the dynamic between unnamed creatures with only eyes in common. Tumulus is what seems to be a writhing mass of snakes, worms or socks with vision, while In the Countryside is peopled with a variety of animal and geometric shapes (our favorite is the chubby sleeping one). And Braun is also responsible for the first warm and fuzzy Circle of Friends mandala we have ever seen.

Artist: Nina Braun
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"Amalgamation"
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Painting | May 29, 2008

San Francisco-based Sabina Sulé creates abstractions out of realistic drawings of people that she paints over with a transparent colour. Sulé continues to place layers of work over this, some representational, others not, until the original drawing has evolved into something completely different. Sometime the artist will scrape off parts of various layers to move even farther away from the representational. In the end, the viewer sees not the fragments, a composition veiled in texture and colour.

Artist: Sabina Sulé
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"We Go In Search of a Dream"
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Painting | May 28, 2008

Fiona Rae’s new work is a mix of styles and stories, not surprising for an artist with an anything-goes type of attitude. A childhood spent in Hong Kong, Indonesia and England is reflected in work that has touches of Eastern influence. Rae pulls together elements from a variety of techniques such as calligraphy and bubblegum pop, adds a wash and a whole lot of movement, and the result is work that is at once cloyingly sweet and mysteriously dark in undertone.

Artist: Fiona Rae
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"Sitting Duck"
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Painting | May 27, 2008

Tina Newberry is often the subject of her paintings, but assuming roles that are more about attitude and posture. She often appears in uniform, or captures the trappings of the military in the subtlest of ways, as targets on the wall or empty paint tubes representing dead soldiers. She wears tams and tartans to reflect her Scottish heritage, or nothing at all to show how human we all are.

Artist: Tina Newberry
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"I Throw Myself at Men #13"
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Photography | May 26, 2008

Lilly McElroy’s series I Throw Myself at Men is a lively group of photos that has the subject mid-air, still not quite sure if the man-target will respond appropriately and in time. The artist, in addition to combining photography and performance art, is examining how easily we make connections and how much can be at stake if we don’t. Other notable projects include Locations, a series of photos where the subject is asleep in a wisp of a nightdress on the ground of various public sites. And check out the Square, a performance video that shows the artist protecting her turf: a square she has drawn on a busy sidewalk.

Artist: Lilly McElroy
+ lillymcelroy.com

The Proust Questionnaire
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Books | May 25, 2008

To be quite frank, the Proust Questionnaire by William Carter and Henry-Jean Servat is like a bound version of the Internet questionnaires that show up in your in-box from time to time, but it may come as a surprise to many that this form of party game or ice breaker has been around for a while. Marcel Proust did not invent the questionnaire, but he is one of the most interesting people to have responded. There are two responses on record, both included in this attractive book. In addition to Proust’s answers, the book contains interviews with a variety of present-day celebs for a variety of responses and points of view. The book concludes with a few blank copies of the questionnaire, making for an interactive coffee table book or hostess gift.

Hardcover, 96 pages. Assouline, 2005. $25.16 at Amazon.

+ Proust Questionnaire at Amazon

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Meta | May 24, 2008

Eisbergfreistadt ("iceberg free state") is the latest collaboration between Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn. The works in this multi-media series are based on an imaginary utopia during an economic and ecologic disaster. Via coolhunting.com.

Iheartphotograph features Eric Schubert’s How to win friends & influence people, a series of photographs that tells a creepy tale.

"Binary Traces: Kay"
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Textiles | May 23, 2008

Lia Cook uses a digital loom to weave photographic images right into cloth, thereby solidifying a fleeting moment and giving it a new sort of permanence. Based on family snapshots and video stills, Cook’s work combines new technologies with old memories. The artist creates pixelated or pointillist impressions of expressions and portraits out of cotton or rayon. Visit Cook’s website to see her loom and more of these fantastic pieces in a medium rarely considered for realistic portraiture.

Artist: Lia Cook
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"Art Paine's Turquoise"
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Painting | May 22, 2008

San Francisco artist Kay Bradner zooms in for close-ups of unfurled sails of many colours. Representational becomes abstract in these oil paintings done on aluminium panels. The surface adds light and dimension to the compositions that almost appear to be back-lit. Bradner paints that which she loves, and the sea and its shore hold many of the scenes that are most important to her. Her experience as a printmaker allow Bradner to use a diversity of techniques in her paintings.

Artist: Kay Bradner
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"City Bites/Dreams"
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Photography | May 21, 2008

Lukasz Wierzbowski is a Polish photographer based in Wroclaw, where most of his photos are taken. A self-described constant dreamer, Wierzbowski is “fuelled by a mixture of air, concrete and steel [and] fascinated by Russian constructivism and brutalist architecture.” The concrete is in sharp contrast with the poetic quality of the photos. Images of cold, hard buildings become abstractions of detail. Even the names of Wierzbowski’s artistic and commercial websites attest to the poetry in the photography: Picture Shop and Heaven Is Not For Everyone.

Artist: Lukasz Wierzbowski
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