Monday, February 11, 2013

Mat Collishaw's Paintings


























‘You can’t just paint – you have to address the whole history of painting and then make some sort of paradigm shift,’ he says. ‘I’ve been trying to find a way to do this, and this is my solution.’

Saturday, January 05, 2013

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Modular Abstraction: A Q&A with Judy Rushin



Modular Abstraction: A Q&A with Judy Rushin on the New American Paintings/Blog

Art for the female expat: "site-specific works that can travel well"...[and]..."reflect our own untethered geographies."

World's Narrowest House


Keret House

World's Narrowest House by Jakub Szczesny

"The house is located between two buildings from two historical epochs. “The first is a brick building on Zelazna Street – a fragment of the pre-world war II city, almost no longer existing. The second – a cooperative concrete apartment building, an element of an “imposed structure”, which was aimed at negating the previous city landscape."

Sunday, October 28, 2012

John Yau on Wade Guyton

http://hyperallergic.com/59288/hidden-in-plain-sight-wade-guytons-dirty-pictures/


Wade Guyton, “Untitled” (2006). Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen; 90 × 53 in. (228.6 × 134.6 cm). Collection of Mark Grotjahn and Jennifer Guidi. ©Wade Guyton. Photograph by Lamay Photo.

Reverence, citation, mimicry, the absence of the hand, and a destructive impulse — all familiar postmodern positions — coexist in Guyton’s inkjet paintings...his incredibly productive lack of creativity fits right into the by now familiar and even petrified art historical narrative that claims that de-skilling, appropriation, and post-Duchampian/post-studio practice are the only games in town, that everything else is a failure not worth considering.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Documenta 13 Review


Some photos from our excursion at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany

Top 5

1. Cardiff / Miller at the train station
2. Theaster Gates at the Hugenot House
3. William Kentridge (not pictured below)
4. Michael Rakowitz
5. Geoffrey Farmer

Oh and our project at Temporary home. More at http://joelledietrick.com/site/packet_switching

Cardiff / Miller iPod tour at the main train station...


Listen to the narrator guide you around the station, while strange performances happen on the screen

























Other people with their tours



















Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Hugenot House

























Michael Rakowitz installation containing fragments of structures demolished by efforts on the part of fundamentalist religions.

























Geoffrey Farmer’s hallway long piece Leaves of Grass cut from five decades of Life Magazine