Quiet

I've been realizing lately that I like quiet powerful images, or images that highlight just one thing, like pink reflected light on a white wall.

From Contemporary Art Daily, Patrick Bouchain 

Marisa Aragona

Michelle Ramin

In LOVE with this artist - Jessica Jackson Hutchins

http://hyperallergic.com/211389/jessica-jackson-hutchins-on-furniture-found-ceramics-and-the-stories-of-our-stuff/


I copied about 20 of her pieces into my phone, and haven't been able to get them onto my computer. But google her name and look at everything. So so good.

I also am in love with Merlin James. I may have already mentioned this, but just wanted to reiterate.

The thing that is important is the thing we don't see

from Susannah Prinz

Anila Agha

From Susannah Prinz, not sure who the artist is

What I like and want today

I go to a lot of exhibitions, and lately I've been feeling like a need a break. There's only so much art you can look at before getting bored, getting jaded, or accidentally borrowing things you like without realizing it. Too much looking can start to wear away at your senses, and the way that your gut reacts to things.

This time of year always makes me want to drive endlessly, wearing a loose tank top and a skirt and the wind in my hair, and ice cream, and pick-up trucks, and just wandering into nowhere sunny and warm. I think that's how I reeducate my gut, that soaking in of life instead of contained life, which I think is a big part of what art does.

At City Limits last fall I think?

Chris Ofili at the Venice Biennale

Artist whose name I can't find at the Venice Biennale

Some things I sort of like

Sometimes there are things that I don't necessarily like, but I do find them interesting or curious, or appreciate them in some way. These images are like that.

Kristen Calabrese

Claire Fontaine

More Kristen Calabrese

Things I like today

I can't remember the name of this artist. It's all over Facebook.

Christopher Fullemann

My friend Renetta Sitoy - screening yesterday for "The Ear Goes To The Sound"

My friend Susannah's little Ruby makes excellent fashion decisions.

OMG I love this drawing.

I have no idea why, I just do. Love.

Jean Flavin Pascal

The Venice Biennale

The list of artists for the Biennale was announced today and there are some incredible artists included. I've been looking through the whole list, artists whose work I know, artists whose name I recognize but whose work I forget, artists whose work I remember but names I forget. Xu Bing is an example of the latter, I saw an installation of his in December when I was in Canada. SO GOOD. I was lucky to work with Okwui Enwezor when I was in graduate school. I've been reviewing my notes from that period of life lately and it is incredible what is still important, also, how much I have learned since. Still so much to do. Until then, some images:

Photographs from India by Isamu Noguchi

Photographs from India by Isamu Noguchi

Xu Bing

Xu Bing - these installations are made with random weeds and garbage and lit from behind, they are incredible in person.

Ala Younis

Snow, and Pierre Huyge

I love all the pictures of frozen things. Yes!

Frozen Niagara Falls

Also, this interview, because he is sort of fascinating. His sentence structure is somewhat pretentious, and he says the same thing over and over again. That being said, the meat of what he is talking about is an interesting lens to view what is interesting about art in the contemporary through. I like to view the art we make through the lens of a long view of history, and art objects as fossils that articulate our values and concerns for future generations. In that scenario, what do Huyge's objects do? They are made to be temporal. I find Simon Starling's work to be more engaging because he uses many similar conventions in negating the venerated art object, but he incorporates a sense of time, not just in the experience of the immediate viewer, but how the work itself changes over time.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/let-the-light-in-pierre-huyghersquos-first-us-retrospective-comes-to-los-angeles/

David Altmejd is my creepy crafty soul mate.

If you are in Paris, go see this show, and I will be very very jealous of you.

I feel like I just did this.

But no. I am apparently the worst blogger ever. I will tell you good things now though. Like, if you live in LA, go see the Pierre Huyge at LACMA. I will be jealous of your forever. Or if you saw the Chris Ofili at New Museum. I have been not making as much, because my life feels like someone opened Pandora's box and let loose a bunch of shit I never expected. So I am running around trying to figure out what foes back in the box and what I want to sit with for a while. I think my art is going to be significantly affected by what comes next.

From Contemporary Art Daily, I forgot the artist. 

Evil, but accurate.

Coulter Jacobson (See his show in San Diego!)

Chris Ofili 

More Chris Ofili

Pictures like this make me crazy with wanting to have seen this in person.

More Chris Ofili

Martin Puryear (Also, GO SEE THIS IN NY)

My friend has amazing children and is also good at taking pictures of their world.

From Astronomy site

I can't remember the artist, but I think I found this on Hi-Fructose