These apparently unpremeditated, albeit rigorously ordered, paintings always read as the product of accretion, which makes Fonseca’s comment about refusal and denial somewhat surprising. Yet longer acquaintance with his work of the past few years makes it clear that his emphasis on rejecting possibilies is very real.
Since about 2000, Fonseca’s process could, in fact, be characterized not simply as “finding the painting” but as creating as open-ended set of visual possibilities and then gradually destroying all of the roads not taken.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky, September 23, 1899, Kiev, Ukraine; died April 17, 1988, New York) was a U.S. (Ukrainan-born) sculptor.
Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist “boxes” grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her “assemblages” or assemblies, one of which was three stories high. Says Nevelson, ”When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.”
In the mid-thirties, Nevelson turned from drawing to sculpture and it was here that she found her true artistic identity. She began by nailing together pieces of wood and painting them in a uniform black tone. Nevelson later added white and gold coloring to her constructions.
When Nevelson was 60 years old, she started to weld discarded objects and steel into rigid geometrical forms. She painted these constructions black. She also created figures with Plexiglas, achieving “magic movements” through the use of light. www.jwa.org/discover/ inthepast/infocus/artists/
Nevelson, Louise 1900-1988, American sculptor, b. Kiev, Russia. Using odd pieces of wood, found objects, cast metal and other materials, Nevelson constructed huge walls or enclosed box arrangements of complex and rhythmic abstract shapes. These are covered entirely with black, white, or gold paint. The uniform tone gives her work a mysterious quality and emphasizes the structural importance of its shadows. Huge works such as World (1966; Detroit Inst. of Art) reflect a sense of total environment. Examples of Nevelson’s work are in the Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York City. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Nevelson.html
i’m back to playing with sticker vinyl. …..insprired by the Quilt’s from Gee’s Bend. I saw the exhibit at the De Young. I am love with the prints at Paulson Press and buying up the stamps!
Hailed by The New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced,” the quilts of Gee’s Bend make San Francisco the final stop in their widely acclaimed nationwide tour.
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend features a selection of more than 60 quilts made by four generations of African American women who inhabit a strip of land formed by a deep loop in the Alabama River, about thirty miles from Selma. Descended from slaves and isolated for decades by geography, poverty, and government indifference, the women of this community assembled quilts of astonishing artistry. Described by one reviewer as “eye-poppingly gorgeous,” the quilts were pieced from scraps of fabric often salvaged from worn-out clothes combined in extraordinary combinations of color, pattern, and texture. In design, the quilts are equally remarkable. Bold geometric shapes, dramatic shifts in scale, and an improvisational approach to the way the fabrics are assembled produce abstract compositions more akin to the rhythms of jazz and African art than to the order and repetitiousness of many traditional American quilts.
She has very clear ideas about what she likes and dislikes and makes no bones about it.
That’s not to say she’s brash—she’s the exact opposite, but even with her demure demeanor (Southern like her accent), she makes her opinion heard and respected.
Grace started her blog with no agenda except to give an outlet to her uncontainable passion for design and all things beautiful.
design*sponge coverage is about everything that Grace finds beautiful. “It’s always been and will always be about what I like, what I find beautiful.
Grace has designed more opportunities to use her tremendous potential, which is, as of yet, hardly tapped. (Hard to believe given how far she’s gone! But true.)
design*sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours. In addition, Design*Sponge features a unique section dedicated to covering student design, national and international design shows. The site is updated constantly throughout the day (with an average of 6-10 posts a day), and attracts a core group of devoted readers. Design*Sponge currently has over 20,000 daily readers.
design*sponge editor Grace Bonney has a unique angle on the industry, working as a freelancer with top publications like House and Garden, New York Home, Food and Wine, Better Homes and Gardens, CITY Magazine, Time Out New York Kids, Archinect, The New York Post, Everyday with Rachael Ray and others. In addition, she writes a weekly design column for the Philadelphia Inquirer and has worked as Style Editor of HGTV’s Ideas Magazine.
Inspired by Grace
A new SF group of women designers.
We meet once a month
Check it out: (girldesign.blogspot.com) :::: I’m the gal with the big lipstick in the front.
Yeah! I stayed in there a few hours and sang all the songs!
Phil Collins’ The World Won’t Listen at SFMOMA
It features young Turkish and Columbian fans of The Smiths performing karaoke versions of Smiths songs.
“the shy, the dissatisfied, and the narcissistic, come and have their chance to shine,”
minimal edits, allowing the alternately awkward, disturbing, touching, and hilarious moments to unfold in real time
filled with curiosity, sincerity and emotional investment
use pop culture toward their own ends, in their own idiosyncratic ways
What I like about this guy: He
• makes video art, often featuring teenagers from Palestine, Kosovo, Colombia, Iraq, Serbia, and Northern Ireland.• balances War and Loss with a strong element of humour and energy.
• is making a documentary about people whose lives have been ruined by reality TV.
• filmed a disco dance marathon with nine Palestinians that is energetic, amusing, beguiling and moving, ( the dancing interrupted only by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque, power cuts, and technical problems. )
Collins says
“A camera brings interested parties together. It attracts and repels according to circumstance or whim. A camera makes me interested in you and you maybe interested in me. In this sense, it’s all about love. And exploitation. You could say that [this work] is driven by an emotional relationship with the subjects, rather than the rational or sensational standards of journalism, which also inhabit these territories.”
Lucian’s art dealer and friend (art critic) were so adorable talking about their friend. Their affection was infectious. Maybe people just get giddy about talking about flesh.
The dealer complained about posing
how SLOW and long a portrait takes (Lucian mixes a new color for every stroke! )
and then said it wasn’t EVEN done yet
so he had to go back for ANOTHER two week stretch
———-and then said “I loved every minute of it.”
Lucian, at 80, is evidently in love with a horse.
He has to wear silk ski underwear and drive out with assistant for 45 minutes to visit his love
Lucian says he never goes out but that isn’t quite true.
How did young Lucian differentiate the sex of an eel? Asked his grandfather.
My new plan of action is to only watch TV when I’m on my hamster wheel. Last night, I was super lucky to see Nora Ephron on the Charlie Rose Show
Inspired I looked up her blog.
What’s the anatomy of a good story? Charming parts….
grass-fed steaks, key lime pie, eating at the same restaurant two nights in a row, Wynn’s elbow, pride about holding a secret (when you already really told one person ) and and restraining yourself from taking a picture at the scene of the accident
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