April 20, 2017
August 27, 2016
Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself
I have long had enormous respect and love for Sophie Calle's work. It is brilliant and bold and human and illuminating. She also has an incredible way of turning pain into art. In her 2007 piece, "Take Care of Yourself," she turned the pain of a break-up email into a wonderful, searing piece of work (as an aside, Calle herself describes the break-up email as "neither better nor worse" than other break-up letters--but the Guardian has termed it "hideously self-absorbed"). For the piece, Calle asked 107 professionals to interpret her ex's breakup email according to their job, and photographed them reading and interpreting the letter. As Angelique Chisafis summarizes,
"The ex's grammar and syntax have been torn apart by a copy editor, his manners rubbished by an etiquette consultant and his lines pored over by Talmudic scholars. He has been re-ordered by a crossword-setter, evaluated by a judge, shot up by a markswoman, second-guessed by a chess player and performed by actress Jeanne Moreau. A forensic psychiatrist decided he was a "twisted manipulator"."
Calle stated in an interview that her inspiration for the piece was the last line of his letter, which became the title of the piece; "He said 'take care of yourself', he knows how I take care of myself, he knows what my method is."You slay, Calle.
August 25, 2016
Julie Green: The Last Supper
For Julie Green's "The Last Supper" ceramic project, she painted the actual last suppers of prisoners on death row onto elegant ceramic plates. The plates tell poignant, rich, human stories. An incredibly feeling- and thought-provoking project.
June 18, 2016
June 1, 2016
Anna Hepler: Push Me Pull You
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| Double Hung, 2015, steel wire, and rope |
Anna Hepler's work is consistently moving and inspiring. Her latest show, Push Me Pull You, at the Visual Arts Center of Richmand, Virginia, pushes her work forward even further than before with sculpture, woodcuts, intaglio. Love it.
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| Double Hung, Traitor, installation view. Traitor (detail), 2016. |
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Throat, 2015, ceramic. Vault, 2016, ceramic.
Attic, 2015, plywood. Sanctuary, 2016, woodcut on Kozo.
Pull, 2015, drypoint on paper, 18x20".
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| Dash, 2016, ceramic, and rope. Vestige, 2016, ceramic. |
May 5, 2016
April 26, 2016
April 19, 2016
February 17, 2016
February 16, 2016
January 10, 2016
December 19, 2015
Balsam Mountain Print: 7 Ton
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| The folks at 7 Ton Design and Letterpress Co. have put out a wonderful print of peaks in the Blue Ridge Parkway. Great last minute holiday present idea! |
November 2, 2015
The Nooney Brooklyn Photographs
Photographer Dinanda H. Nooney's portraits of people and their Brooklyn homes in the late 1970s are part of the New York Public Library Digital Archives. From the site:
"Working almost daily from January 1978 to April 1979, [Nooney] crisscrossed the borough, documenting the broad ethnic and economic range of Brooklyn's residents. The portraits that emerge are striking in their attention to the details of architecture and décor, which reveal just as much about the subjects as how they choose to pose themselves for Nooney's camera. This project was the subject of an exhibition, At Home in Brooklyn, at the Long Island Historical Society in 1985."
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Dorothy Howard & Lisa. 579 Putnam Ave., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. April 18, 1978 |
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| Robert & Vonceil Turner. 254 Hancock St., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. October 20, 1978. |
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| Jonathan & Dorothy Nelson. 897 Sterling Pl., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. May 20, 1978. |
October 28, 2015
October 20, 2015
October 19, 2015
October 7, 2015
October 3, 2015
This poem, Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? by Tracy K. Smith is killing me. Listen to this:
" the life
In which I’m forever a child looking out my window at the night sky
Thinking one day I’ll touch the world with bare hands
Even if it burns."
In which I’m forever a child looking out my window at the night sky
Thinking one day I’ll touch the world with bare hands
Even if it burns."
and this:
"The future isn’t what it used to be. Even Bowie thirsts
For something good and cold. Jets blink across the sky
Like migratory souls."
and I won't even ruin the end. Just get at it.
September 27, 2015
September 15, 2015
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March 29, 2015
March 19, 2015
March 14, 2015
February 22, 2015
February 19, 2015
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