Jamie Warren’s photographic works are kind of vulgar, kind of gross, kind of hilarious, and more or less kind of obnoxious but don’t they make you feel better? At least I know I am. Kind of jealous too I didn’t get the party invite.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Artorialust
While the majority of gallery goers attend openings under the pretense of pretending to look at the art, we all know what we go for.
Abstract, Subtract, Retract With Todd Chilton
Plenty of nice geometric abstractions on Todd Chilton’s portfolio site. Geometric abstractions can sometimes be a bore but Todd manages to get it right with his playful paint handling and the occasional drip of paint.
Pearl C Hsiung
I’ve seen a lot of great paintings by Pearl in the past and was excited to feature her work in Issue: V of Beautiful/Decay. However I hadn’t seen much of her work until I stumbled onto her website today. The videos are hilarious and tie into her paintings nicely. This new discovery does make me wonder whether the video work came first or the paintings?
Anton Van Dalen
Stylistically speaking, Anton’s drawings hark back to Italian Futurism- glorification of youth, violence, and fantasies of what pleasure advances in science could bring to humanity. It would seem though that instead of elevating technology (can’t we invent another word for this already?) he is mocking it by celebrating the very icons it is now embodied by. Or better yet, the empire that now belongs to Steve Jobs.
Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe
Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe is a master of camouflage and likes to play as many different people as possible. If the three artists are recounting the failure of being the engine of image making in a self-focused narrative role, Mamyshev-Monroe fills a role which makes failure the fate of her life. In the 2005 video ‘John and Marylin’, he tells the supposedly true love story of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe which remains shrouded in any number of conspiracy theories to this day. (from Artfacts)
Spotted Hirst
Footage from the installation of Damien Hirst’s painting John, John as part of the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today at the Museum Of Modern Art.
