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Showing posts with label american. Show all posts
Mark Warren Jacques is a Portland based visual artist.
Mark seems to me to be the perfect example of the new Romantic movement that seems to be emerging in the visual arts. The trend is typified by the use of simplistic form and a striking combination use of color. Often the artist uses, the two to convey pseudo -religiously themed subject matter.
His Website
Issues Project Room is an innovative, exciting gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Last month, they custom-built a 15 channel hemispherical speaker system and produced what they called the Floating Points Festival. The festival featured Hisham Bharoocha, Morton Subotnick, Stephen Vitiello, Zeena Parkins, Suzanne Thorpe, C. Spencer Yeh, and Tony Conrad.
Here is a picture of some of the speakers:
Here is a great review of this years festival from blogger Obscene Jester.
Here is another review from Avant Music News.
This is a piece from a brooklyn based visual artists known simply as Lala.
Personally, I like the work because, while I think there is a lot of this going on, I think this example in particular shows a strong sensibility for colour and for layout. I think that the overall emotional effect of the subject matter (creepy) is rendered mute by the barrage of color.
blog
Andy Gilmore is a designer/ artist based out of Rochester, New York. He has a show currently opening at the POOL gallery in Berlin
Site
Blog
This is an image from a San Fransisco based visual artist named Lawrence Yang. His blog can be found here.
I suggest you take a look around the rest of his site.
I was really sorry to hear about Merce Cunningham passing away. Merce was a luminary in modern dance as a choreographer, dancer, costume designer, and collaborator.
On NPR, they have been playing old interviews with Merce. What strikes me about the interviews is how honest, and plain spoken he is. Don't get me wrong; I am sure he is a very difficult man to work with, most really successful people are.
I suppose it didn't hurt that he sounded my a grandfather when he talked to Terri Gross.
In anycase, here are his wiki and
dance company pages.
Here are some videos for those that are unfamiliar
Be forewarned, this one is pretty harsh!
John Cage Merce Cunningham
In his earlier work, Richard Caldicott used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs, elevating these common household objects to objects of beauty. Piling vibrantly colored plastic cups and bowls, he created abstract formations that were like eye-popping op-art paintings.
His concern was the metamorphosis of the everyday, which for him has something almost alchemical about it. This went one step further in photography, by chemically transforming his constructions into two-dimensional pictures at the touch of a button. The work shows that he was aiming for a kind of transmutation of the functionality of everyday objects.
Caldicott refers to his latest works as “Constructions,” which not only suggests that he is manually making the things he photographs, but also creates a connection to constructivism and architecture. In this series, he leaves the realm of using specific objects, and deals directly with abstraction. He makes collages and assemblages, and then photographs them multiple times. The transparencies are then overlapped in different formations to get the final image.
I don't usually include novels in my "things I like" forum (unless they relate directly to the arts), but for this one I had to make an exception.
Throughout this excellent piece of fiction from a rising (already risen?) star of the American fiction genre, there is a question that keeps coming up: do the stories have the power to change our lives?
It is an interesting question. Every day it seems some tells me that I need to see this movie or read that book.
What exactly do I hope to gain out of reading or watching?
We can expand the point and consider what exactly one hopes to get out of going to a gallery, or listening to a band.
Bird and Flower - That's the Ticket from Strummy on Vimeo.
Sunken Treasure Records is releasing Bird and Flower's debut album "Here We Cease Our Motion" on vinyl and digital download. Album release show Saturday, July 25, 2009 at Wholly Craft (3171 N High St) from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
Listen to the entire album here...
http://birdandflower.bandcamp.com
More about Bird and Flower here...
http://www.birdandflowerband.com
http://sunkentreasure.org/press-kits/bird-and-flower-here-we-cease-our-motion
http://www.facebook.com/birdandflowerband
http://www.myspace.com/birdandflowerband
A Sufjan Stevens movie? The acclaimed musical behind runaway hit "Illinois" comes back with his directorial/ cinamatographer/ musical director debut.
I, for one, am just excited that Sufjan has decided started doing something other than working on his ever expanding music label Asmatic Kitty.
THE BQE- A Film By Sufjan Stevens from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.
Deitch projets
Deitch Projects is pleased to present Black Acid Co-op, the third collaborative project of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman. Their first installation Hello Meth Lab In The Sun (with Alexandre Singh), commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, consisted of a labyrinthine assemblage of rooms, hallways, closets and observation platforms. A variation entitled Hello Meth Lab With A View then traveled to The Station in Miami, FL, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman and produced by Eleanor Cayre, where it was installed in a duplex apartment. Their new piece continues the themes of previous versions specifically that of alchemy in a modern context and community, ritual and psychosis.
Black Acid Co-Op is the moniker for a counter-culture enclave embedded in the metropolis. In this incarnation, the artists shift the focus from the production of illegal drugs to sites of sub-cultural groups and how they are situated in the larger urban environment. The installation will expand on the notions relating to the connection between counter-culture and industrial society resulting in a spatial collage that extends itself into a vast architectural setting.
Despite the strong contrast of scenes, the entire installation will feel as if it is a unified system of spaces, interconnected and functioning together. Ducts, wires and tubes traverse rooms creating a semblance of an organism: architecture as body, electricity as capillaries, and volumes as organs. And the intended use of many of the sites will feel transformed or hybridized: factories have become homes, kitchens are used as drug labs, the radical chic living room is frozen in a museum, the high-rise is carved into makeshift maze to evade the law.
2 Films by Kenneth Anger.
Kenneth Anger was born in Santa Monica, California as Kenneth Wilbur Angelmyer[1] and attended the Maurice Kossloff Dancing School with Shirley Temple and Judy Garland. He gained fame and notoriety from the publication of the French version of Hollywood Babylon in Paris in 1959, a tell-all book of the scandals of Hollywood's rich and famous. A pirated (and incomplete) version was first published in the U.S. in 1965. The official U.S. version was not published until 1974.
He became fascinated with the supernatural and Aleister Crowley, as well as becoming an adherent of Crowley's religion of Thelema, sometime in his late teens. Many of his films reflect occult themes.
Ernie Gehr wiki
Ernie Gehr (born 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American experimental filmmaker closely associated with the Structural film movement of the 1970s. A self-taught artist, Gehr was inspired to begin making films in the 1960s after chancing upon a screening of a Stan Brakhage film. Gehr's film Serene Velocity (1970) has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Gehr served as faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.
Bruce Baillie wiki
Bruce Baillie (born in 1931, Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American experimental filmmaker and founding member of Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. His film Castro Street (1966) was selected in 1992 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Canyon Cinema website
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