More work here.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Lara Viana
I love these oil paintings by Lara Viana. Even though I'm missing half the detail by viewing it online I can still see how thick the canvas is with impasto. How much of the painting is carved and squirted arounded. It retains a high level of dimension and 'reality' even though its' brushwork is so large and unarticulated. Last night I watched Simon Schama's the Power of Art: Rembrandt and they mentioned Rembrandts deft ability to utilize rough brushwork to actually be more dimensional and closer to perception than any superfine articulation. I believe Viana's work accomplishes this as well.
More work here.
More work here.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Old Hard Drive Pt. 1
I have a habit of fixating on how my hard drives are organized. I treat it like physical space really, often cleaning out or purging files that I know I won't be able to see again and doubly ensuring those files I do like by backing them up in multiple locations. While it can mean easy access to stuff I did 6 years ago, it can also be a stumbling block for sitting down and actually doing new work. Still, fun to see what it is I've always been interested in.
Cocoon | 2005
Web | 2005
Blue & Purple | 2007
Web | 2005
Blue & Purple | 2007
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Levi van Veluw
Found the artist Levi Von Veluw in a book my friend Kim gave me called Hair'em Scare'em.
The work is beautiful. Always using himself as the subject, Veluw graphs materials to his own bust and photographs them with neutral backgrounds. In the veneered series there is a more complete obscuring of identity and Levi really takes on a sort of sex-less proto-form quality. I'm especially drawn to the hair pieces because, like any one who has had long hair, the feeling of wet hair on the back of shoulders or the front of the face can be an eerie and heavy sensation. It can be kind of suffocating.
The artist's description is a little heavy handed and the video wouldn't work when I opened it but there is a bunch of lovely photographs oh his website exhibting how this repetition can be quite limitless.
The work is beautiful. Always using himself as the subject, Veluw graphs materials to his own bust and photographs them with neutral backgrounds. In the veneered series there is a more complete obscuring of identity and Levi really takes on a sort of sex-less proto-form quality. I'm especially drawn to the hair pieces because, like any one who has had long hair, the feeling of wet hair on the back of shoulders or the front of the face can be an eerie and heavy sensation. It can be kind of suffocating.
The older work is nice as well. That small gesture which can make a photograph take a turn for the horrific but still tinged with a bit of humor reminds me also of Erwin Wurm. It makes the body look really clumsy, vulnerable.
The artist's description is a little heavy handed and the video wouldn't work when I opened it but there is a bunch of lovely photographs oh his website exhibting how this repetition can be quite limitless.
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