June 2005 Archive

Kirkland re-invents Visio

I was reading my favorite blogs last week and came across a project that I just love at J.T. Kirkland’s Thinking About Art. (You remember Kirkland from that email interview I did with him last month. He’s the young, self-taught artist who drills holes into carefully selected wood from Home Depot and makes magic HD never envisioned. Here’s part one, part two and part three of that 3-part interview.)keiser, duaneWell the artist’s at it again. Subverting a commercial product, Microsoft’s “Visio,” to do his bidding as an art tool. He’s creating digital prints in editions of 10-25 and selling them ... More » »

Chelsea Triple-header

Post by Brent Burket, artblog New York correspondent Zach Feuer is giving Mary Boone a run for the title of Hardest Eye On 24th Street. oswald, john Columbia grad Dana Schutz is the most celebrated star here. As much as she lived up to her hype, for me the Tom McGrath show that followed hers was even stronger. Feurer has kept the pressure on since then, without a single false step. I really can’t recommend this gallery highly enough. (As a bonus I have it on good authority that Feuer is a class operator who treats his artists with a ... More » »

Living with video

You may have seen yesterday’s great NY Times feature story by Edward Lewine about collectors living with their video art. Here. I’ll summarize my favorite bits. It’s quite a long, informative story that gets into the cost of owning video art and more interestingly how to weave it into your apartment or, in one case, garage. (image is Doug Aitken video installed in a garage)aitken, dougThe piece focuses on a couple of collectors, like the Kramliches of San Francisco who have their house filled with video art. They own 250 pieces, for which they spent millions according to their curator. ... More » »

Friday quick hit

When I first started writing for the Weekly I did a piece about where to find the coolest spot in Philadelphia’s museums (we all know museums are the coolest places– but which one was the coolest?) I ran around with a hardware store thermometer and took notes and wrote it up. The PW online archives don’t go back that far so I can’t link the story alas. But I’ll tell you what won — PAFA. Upstairs in the Furness building in one of the salon-style rooms the temperature was delightful, even better there was a bench to sit on, and ... More » »

Around the town

I’ve seen a lot of stuff lately, so I thought I’d throw up some pictures of some of what I liked:stolfa, joannastolfa, joannastolfa, sarahPortraits of people at a bar, nursing drinks, looking into space, looking like regulars from Sarah Stolfa caught my eye first. She is one of 18 students in the Drexel University Senior Photography Thesis show at Nexus Gallery. Stolfa’s people were filled with individuality, confronting a familiar milieu. We see people in the movies in these poses, with these affects, but never in a photograph. (image, “Joanna”). stockbridge, jeffrey I was also intrigued by Jeffrey Stockbridge’s photos ... More » »

We are family

Here’s a quick take on Do-Ho Suh, the Korean-born hot New York artist whose work is at the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Morris Gallery in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.suh, do-hoThe piece to die for is at the Fab–”Paratrooper V.” He’s a cast stainless steel paratrooper hefting parachute cords, which are 5,500 lipstick-red threads. The threads, which are each equally tense but not exactly taut, together exert so much pull, said Suh in a walk-around tour of his pieces on opening night last week, that the paratrooper and the cast concrete pyramid on which he stands ... More » »

PS. Real Estate and Bark

[ed. note: this post follows up on this one immediately before about "Woods" at DUMBO Art Center] Post from Brent Burket It was interesting. I was talking with the guy at the desk in DUMBO and he was saying that he and a number of his friends were all contemplating moving to Philly or Baltimore. The insane real estate market is really killing feasible living situations for artists up here. Although, from what I’ve heard things are heating up in that area in Philly too. Leo [Berk] should have changed his name to Bark for the show. It’s a really ... More » »

More NY-Philly vibe

Brent Burket our soon to be roving NY correspondent emailed this additional Philly-New York news: “I stumbled onto Justin Witte‘s work when I was roaming around DUMBO on Sunday. Definitely the strongest stuff in the show.” –Brent The show? “Woods” a group show at DUMBO Art Center curated by Brian Wallace, Director of Exhibitions, Galleries at Moore. witte, justinWitte’s silkscreen print “Whitewash” is what’s up on the DUMBO website so that must be what’s in the show. The work is from the artist’s latest Vox Populi solo a blizzard of white on white imagery screenprinted in puff paint if memory ... More » »

Drawing the wind, interview with Linn Meyers, Part 3

Post by Douglas Witmer [ed. Note: this is the final part of the three-partDouglas Witmer-Linn Meyers email conversation that began Monday, June 20, on artblog. Here, Meyers talks about the physical experience of making her work, accidental and intentional outcomes in her systematic process, and her "direct," not abstract, art. Read part one here and part two here.] DW Let’s talk more about the idea of “resistance” you brought up. Obviously it’s something quite physical for you when you are working. The term “excruciation” comes up in the essay from your recent Margaret Thatcher Projects catalogue. I scoffed a bit ... More » »

New York updates

Some favorite artists with local connections–Rob Matthews, Sharon Horvath and Thomas Nozkowski– will be in a group show, “In a Series,” at Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York, July 7 to Aug. 12. Also, TC Campuzano, who shows at Fleisher-Ollman, is in a show at White Columns until July 23. I don’t know if I’ll get up there or not, but if someone does and wants to write about it…