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Poll: Which Infant Stool Sample?

Posted: 26-August-2008, 1:43pm CEST by Martin

I'm taking a poll. Which 1907 infant stool sample does Cai Guo-Qiang's Whitney Biennial Gap Artist Editions T-shirt most resemble?

a. meconium
b. constipated, greasy stool of artificially fed infant. this stool is due to the administration of too much fat. it is foul-smelling, like limburger cheese.
c. stool of dyspepsia
d. stool of a case of diarrhea discolored by bismuth.
e. diarrhea discolored by bismuth. note blood and mucus.

Close-up of Cai Guo-Qiang's Whitney Biennial Gap Artist Editions T-shirt. Note splatter and apparent absence of blood.
Jason Coates on Art of This Century

Posted: 24-August-2008, 6:20am CEST by Martin

Jason Coates wrote a review of Art of This Century, my 2006 show at the Markel Building. The review was never published... UNTIL NOW!

I've added links to things -

Redefining the Center
Jason Coates

When discussing Martin Bromirski's one person show at Haigh Jamgochian's wonderfully out of place Markel Building in Richmond, VA, it is quite possible to focus only on the near-perfect matchup between the small group of paintings and the site. For starters, Jamgochian's office building- which resembles a gigantic flying saucer plopped down amid the car dealerships and strip malls on West Broad Street, has the same future-as-imagined-from-the-past quality that Bromirski's misty abstracts capture. Bromirski has a knack for redefining the center, often creating art venues where there were none. He's accomplished this with his popular art blog anaba.blogspot.com, his mock Art Basel at Stuffy's Sub Shop in Richmond, and now this show at what Bromirski deems the "Bizzarro Guggenheim". But equally as interesting is the way that the paintings ask you to imagine where they have been.

The handful of small paintings are hung in a circular lobby among an elevator entrance and vending machines. Yet, even in this modest setting, Bromirski's paintings appear unassuming- almost tailor made to blend into the space. It is this unassuming quality- bordering on sweetness and pathos- that sets this work apart from his earlier, grander paintings. Previously, Bromirski's large scale work would center around a tiny, barely recognizable figure dwarfed by it's surroundings . In the new body of work, the individual paintings become characters themselves, ready to be crammed into a suitcase like a stack of dog-eared postcards and rushed off to the next adventure.

The vocabulary in the paintings is limited: each containing one or more circular elements fixed atop a hazy backdrop. Many Japanese landscape drawings make use of the sun as a balancing device, acting like a free-floating punctuation mark above the picture plane. Bromirski focuses only on this sun-shape, doing away with the rest of the picture. The sun-shapes have various colors and moods. Some rub up against each another and appear to socialize, some seem quite and contemplative.

If Bromirski's work has always dealt, in some way or another, with accumulation of experience, the new paintings wear that experience on their skin. Often the sun-shapes are cut from the paintings, reveling the layers beneath. Bromirski uses colored sand and acrylic paint to build complex, pockmarked surfaces. The result is a nebulous environment that is both ethereal and terrestrial, like the surface of the moon. In my favorite work in the show, hung just to the right of a snack machine, Bromirski lovingly repairs a large gash formed at the center of the painting by weaving it back together and dousing it with silver paint. The care with which the painting is mended is visible, and makes one wonder how (or why) it got gashed in the first place.

In an art world where the more-is-more aesthetic has become so commonplace that it can't be called brash anymore, it is nice to see an off-the-beaten-path and understated show like Art of This Century. It is a show that stokes a desire to see more, rather than pounding the viewer over the head with everything within reach. While many artists confuse making a lot with saying a lot, Bromirski clearly knows better.

- THanKS, Jason!

PLUS: Vittorio Colaizzi's review of the same show... An Assault on Taste!!!

Haigh Jamgochian's Markel Building, Richmond VA.... FROM SPACE.
Heaven

Posted: 21-August-2008, 1:45pm CEST by Martin

Are you going to Heaven? 2 Question Test Reveals Answer.
POETRY and ART at Geoffrey Young Gallery

Posted: 18-August-2008, 11:05pm CEST by Martin

Martha Lewis, Pseudonymity, 2008, acrylic gouache on paper - it's a small piece, click the photo to see it much enlarged.

Exquisitude, at Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA.

Martha Lewis - she had three small pieces... mandalas and machines... really liked. This green one is so Kirby. Bring me my Image Duplicator!

Paging Mike Martin, come in Mike Martin... you would also like these Martha Lewis works. I miss my old bedroom with the Mike Martin painting on the wall.

Gianna Commito, Tent, 2008 - as featured on The Old Gold! Old Gold-miner Jon Lutz will be adding an interview with her later on. She was in a Drawing Center show last year with Jered Sprecher... I think they went to school together (?).

Gianna Commito, Bend, 2008

Kathy Bradford, Room of Unencumbered Promise, 2008 - that studio painting on the right reminded me a lot of Brenda Goodman's excellent studio paintings, with the canvases piled up. Guston-y.

Katherine Bradford talking with James Kalm. Katherine Bradford interviewed by Peter Acheson and Chris Martin, for The Brooklyn Rail.

Steve DiBenedetto, untitled, 2008, oil on linen, 24"x18".... click here to see a lot more Steve DiBenedetto from his current huge show in Albany. WORTH the TRIP.

POETRY READINGS! - Geoffrey Young is a poet, and the gallery holds poetry readings. We heard Derek Fenner, Ryan Gallagher, and Geoffrey Young read... Derek and Ryan are both published by Bootstrap Press.

Derek Fenner - so funny... all of the poems were about Katie Couric... and he played a slideshow of his KC art and related photographs as he read (and sang).

Ryan Gallagher - read one of his own poems, but mostly stuff from his book translating the funny vulgar bitter (love) poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Catullus on Wikipedia.

Geoffrey Young - THE MAN!
King Kutter

Posted: 17-August-2008, 6:57am CEST by Martin

Rotating Driveline Contact Can Cause Death.

King Kutter.
Steve DiBenedetto

Posted: 12-August-2008, 5:26am CEST by Martin

Casa Amnesia, 2008

Steve DiBenedetto at University Art Museum, SUNY Albany.

detail of Casa Amnesia - i love red and blue together... they are Spider-Man colors.

detail of Casa Amnesia

detail of Casa Amnesia - hot pool of grenade green.

Half a Place, 2005

detail of Half a Place - carnival Eiffel Tower of electro-guns, zap.

Edge Dwelling, 2008

detail of Edge Dwelling - glyphs like guns, in each pane.

Breakup, 2003-04 - better in reality, maybe you can see some of the good stuff if you click the picture to make it bigger. Here's a much smaller helicopter+spinning color-wheel+octopus painting from 2000.

The many helicopter paintings and drawings are full of short choppy strokes, spaces, and breaks... like the choppy thwack sound of helicopters. The lines and ridges shared the same pulsing blade whop. It was a synaesthetic experience like what I get with some of Charles Burchfield's paintings and the pulsing hum of ciccadas.

Helicopter sounds (third one down is good), blade whops. Some intense sounds, I want to make music. Here I am playing the Netflix strip.

Red and Green Abstraction, 1997-98 - pre-helicopter and octopi? maybe he didn't even start those until he was forty? here's another (relatively) early abstraction, i didn't get the date or title.
Fester, 1999 - earliest of the helicopters and octopi in the show...
Untitled, 2000
Cryptopsy, 2000-01 - sort of a bio-Lasker... like J. Lasker and T. Winters got caught in the same transporter.
Octotech, 2007

detail of helicopter from Octotech, 2007.

Steve DiBenedetto is upstairs, Keith Edmier is downstairs.

Ceilings are fantastic... place feels like Iran or something, even the outside.

RELATED: as seen on anaba!!
- Lane Twitchell at University Art Museum
- Judith Linhares at University Art Museum
- James Siena at University Art Museum
- Mr. President at University Art Museum
a show

Posted: 4-August-2008, 6:04am CEST by Martin

I'm going to have an unexpected show in October... this is good news because my resume was looking pretty bare for 2008. Also have a show happening at the start of the new year, although I should probably get back in touch with them and confirm things.

- failed again to see the DiBenedetto and Edmier shows. I'll try again next Saturday... either that or maybe go to Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington to see this show recommended to me by Jon Lutz (because of the inclusion of Gianna Commito).

- those interested in following the Steven Parrino talk started here, continued (a little) in the comments here, but mostly here and here, should check back on Bill Schwarz's blog to read the many subsequent comments.

- Timothy Buckwalter did a three-part "oral history" with Philadelphia artist Michael Macfeat... and Mildred Greenberg was mentioned (!) -

"Michael Macfeat: In 1986 I founded Meat, giving the original Heat group members a chance to exhibit with a wider selection of artists, with me in the unenviable position of curator. There were 16 original members, the five Heat artists plus Harry Anderson, David Goerk (of Bunnydrums), Judith Schaecter, Millie Greenberg (a septuagenarian), Tom Steigerwald, Bill Russell, Martha Masiello, Linda Stoudt, Arline Peco and Bill Hooper."

click here to scroll through much Mildred...
suny albany bummer + car show

Posted: 29-July-2008, 6:20am CEST by Martin

attention steve dibenedetto and keith edmier: double-checked the hours on the museum website before i left on sunday (sundays until 4pm), but university art museum at suny albany was closed when we arrived shortly before 3pm. aarghravation. bummer. it was too late to find some other art thing to see.

BUT... i did see the schaghticoke car show -
drive-in

Posted: 27-July-2008, 6:31am CEST by Martin

Hathaway's Drive-In, North Hoosick NY...

...this is where I saw Star Wars thirty-plus years ago.

PLUS: posted some video on youtube - inside the car with better sound, outside the car with better color. we used to have to put the speakers on the car windows, but now those are mostly gone and you can tune in on your car radio... that's about the only thing that has changed.
updates

Posted: 25-July-2008, 6:38am CEST by Martin

New Comments on Old Posts: old posts never die....

(1) Morris Yarowsky - still get comments on Morris Yarowsky... some nice reminiscences from friends and former students... students from when Morris taught at University of Oregon, San Francisco Art Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University.... students from literally 45 years ago. That's pretty amazing; are they googling him after forty years?

and former student Matthew Fisher mentions Morris in a recent post on MTY, the blog he shares with Rob Matthews -

"The late Morris Yarowsky felt that folk artists were not doing the same thing as he was (they weren't making art). A disconnect to art history, culture and 'knowledge' prevented them from making art like his"

Matthew has been spotlighting artists... scroll down to see them all.

(2) Jamie O'Shea - somebody else has commented calling out Jamie O'SuperLame for lifting photos from other people's flickr sets and posting them without any acknowledgement... or actually, in the post he is being called out on, he credits a "Supertouch roving reporter" visiting Paris... so ballsy, Super Tightie Pants.

Comments left in complaint get Super Douched, into the void.

(3) Steven Parrino - this is not such an old post, but the commenter who said Steven Parrino was partly supported by his wife has prompted - (among people that knew Parrino) - further discussion on Bill Schwarz's blog.

pLuS: Tom Moody on Bill Schwarz.