Eric Yahnker is all American.

I got a Cheese Slice on Garland postcard from Ambach & Rice the other day, and I liked it. Too bad this show is at their LA gallery.

I've been wanting to make things with mold since I discovered some moldy canvases in my trunk a few years ago. Apparently, Daniel Del Noro did too.

 Who is Mr. Zygote? I don't know exactly, but I think I get him.

Alice Anderson's old work is fantastic in its creepiness. She works with old fairy tales from a feminist perspective, but I think there is also a darker undercurrent to it.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Nailed 'Em - Radical Knitting

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Haha, I actually really like her art. Brilliant

Sophie Kern's work reminds me of the color field movement in a way, but rather than just work with large 'fields' of paint she has added photography and illustrations on top of it.
This work is all about the Inuit myths and traditions.

I've been trying to think about the way things are presented in museums for my next assignment in 108. I want my exhibit to just be presented in a big empty white room.. impractical? 

This is Marc André Robinson “Myth Monolith (Liberation Movement)

Nobody likes a meathead. 

Seiko Kato might though..

This series is a good time.

I think art that examines obesity is really important/interesting/comical right now. People are overweight more now than ever, and it's become something that we aren't truly adressing.

I found Jean Shin via Julia's 108 blog today.

She's doing work with the repetition of everyday items, and I think it's an interesting take on modern conveniences. 

batteries.

Billie Grace Lynn inspired me.She was at BSU for the opening of her show tonight, and she was a very engaging/dynamic speaker. To give you an idea of what she was like, she started her lecture by telling us about how after her mother died when she was 19, she took on her name and as a result- took on her identity.

Lady was the best kind of crazy.

I loved the videos that she showed of her kinetic sculptures that reacted to touch.. I can't find a youtube video, just know that they are awesome.

 

I have seen Truth's stuff around the interweb before. He uses product waste like PVC to create graffiti in urban environments. I love that he uses geometric shapes to echo the building shapes in the same way that fungus grows to trees.


So subtle.

Discrete sabotage.

"Poetic displacements."

are obsessions really such a bad thing in life though?
maybe i'm thinking more about passions being positive.. and obsessions as crossing the line?

you can't be too passionate though.
sigh..

I was just reading through Julia's 108 blog and I came across her blog about Steve Bishop. He does some pretty amazing stuff with taxidermy and various light bulbs. I love the effect that the florescent bulbs have in this one. There's something about florescent lighting that makes things feel clinical or mundane, when normally a fox suspended like this would look violent and gruesome.

I'm still trying to figure out why I am so into Kevin Taylor's work this morning. It has something to do with the feel of his subject matter- something about the subjects' posture and positioning strikes me.. possibly because they're all hunched over? I've always thought of slouchers as the observers- the silent types, the "still waters run deep" kind of people. The people that have everything to offer if they can only get outside of themselves.

I have been sketching this hunched over bear/monster for years, and it is always almost exactly the same. I need to do more with it..

I babble.

This one reminds me of my friend Sarah. She has lots of

But really, I am liking all of Martin Creed's work. I think itnicethat.com puts it best when they say:  "I like The way Martin Creed’s brain works, he is shiny in an uncertain, self deprecating way.." 

Our assignment in 108 is to transform an everyday object into something new- just give it a fresh perspective. I like Creed's approach:

(Forcing your creative energy)

(Letting it flow)

I'm working towards the latter.

So Banksy hit New Orleans recently.. Just in time for hurricane season?

Sachiko Kodama uses oil with bits of iron in it and magnets to create these. She must have some kind of electronically controlled magnets for them because I don't know how else they would be in continual motion. 

My next project for foundations is transforming some kind of 'found' object to create a fresh perspective. I don't have any ideas yet..