Ninja July 23rd, 2008
I am absolutely in love with the highly detailed paintings of lovely locks, braids, and flowing hair from Colleen Sanders.
Untitled, gouache on paper, 55″ x 89″, 2007
detail of Untitled, 2007
Untitled, mixed media on paper, 21.5″ x 29″, 2007
detail of Untitled, 2007
Untitled, gouache on cut paper, 29″ x 39″, 2006
detail of Untitled, 2006
Related postsNinja July 22nd, 2008
One of my favorite illustrators, Matthew Woodson, recently received a serious spider bite (with subsequent fluid-draining), and is currently taking commissions upon request. The prices vary based on size and scope of work, but he is suggesting a range from $100-$500, which is a complete steal.
I’ve always dreamed of having an original by him and already put in my request! This is a really good opportunity to support an amazing young artist and help someone out.
For commissions, Matthew can be reached via Myspace or Facebook.
If you’d like to help out and get some great art work, but can’t afford a commission, you can purchase some of his prints here.
You can read more about Matthew’s spider experience here.
Related postsNinja July 21st, 2008
The Sayama Forest is one of the most remarkable urban forests in Japan, located just outside of Tokyo. This forest is the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. With Japan’s rapid urban devleopment in the 70s and 80s, the forest has been losing it’s land. In 1990, Miyazaki (宮崎 駿) set up the national trust, Totoro Forest Foundation to preserve this land.
Totoro Forest Project Charity Auction
The benefit auction will be held at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville on September 6, 2008. It’s entire proceeds will go to The Totoro Forest National Fund.
Cocktail party from 5 PM to 9 PM.
Totoro Forest Project Special Exhibition
The special exhibition featuring selected work fromt eh auction will be held at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Musum. There will be two separate shows. The first exhibition will fron from September 20–December 7. The second exhibition will run from November 6–February 20.
Some participating artists include
Related link
+ Check out the official site for more information on the auction and participating artists
Ninja July 2nd, 2008
Okimiyage means a parting gift or remembrance. Audrey Kawasaki and Pressure Printing join forces to create this absolutely breathtaking, drool-worthy print, which of course is sold out already. But fear not, there may still be proofs available!
+ Print Size: 8.75″ x 12.75″
+ Frame Size: 12″ x 16″
+ Intaglio print made from an exclusive, orignal drawing
+ Printed on custom Twinrocker paper with Charbonell inks
+ Archivally mounted in a handmade soft maple and birch frame under museum quality glass
+ Perforated, custom designed, signed & numbered Certificate of Authenticity
+ Each print is hand-tinted in pencil by Audrey Kawasaki
+ Decorativley embossed with patterns drawn by Audrey Kawasaki
+ Signed & numbered by the artist
Purchasing contact
+ brad@pressureprinting.com
Penguin June 29th, 2008
Dali is at the MoMA.
The show tracks the traffic of images, themes and ideas between Dalí’s films, both realized and not, and his more static efforts, including paintings, drawings, letters, illustrated notes, scenarios and other ephemera.
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Dalí grasped that film’s capacities — for depicting irrationality in action; for dissolving, continually mutating images; and for an intensely real unreality — were all ready-made for his sensibility and his desire to reach a mass audience.
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“Destino,” the sprightly animated short of love and loss that Dalí worked on energetically for Walt Disney in 1946 [runs continuously].- NYTimes
The show runs through Sept 15 at the MoMA.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin June 27th, 2008
Paul McCarthy’s “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films” at the Whitney:
The show focuses on a core strand of McCarthy’s work: the use of architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space.
the show of about 22 works dating from 1966 to the present includes three major sculptures, two early short films and assorted drawings, photographs and videos.
Two basic motifs connect the various pieces: the room and rotational movement, or spinning.
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“Spinning Camera, Walking, Mike Cram Walking” that Mr. McCarthy made by rotating a camera on a tripod in a mostly empty room. The view goes round and round, alternating bright windows and dark walls and occasionally giving a glimpse of a man walking in circles in the room.“Mad House”… consists of a large steel-framed wooden box mounted on a powerful motor. A door in the box reveals a room with a padded seat inside. (There are also three square windows.) When turned on, the room rotates at high speed while inside the chair rotates too, though not necessarily in the same direction or at the same velocity.
[In] “Couple”,… Mr. McCarthy set the focus on his camera at two feet and then roamed around a room with it, creating a blurry, aimless tour. Two naked people, a man and a woman, appear intermittently.
In “Spinning Room,”… [f]our video cameras rotate on a gleaming high-tech machine within a square, walk-in enclosure made of rear-projection screens. Images recorded by the cameras pass through computers and then to projectors stationed outside the enclosure. The projectors direct streaming video pictures of people inside onto the screens.
- NYTimes
The show runs through Oct 12 at the Whitney.
In July, the Whitney will open “Paul McCarthy: Film List”:
McCarthy began making films as a student in the 1960s, and his current exhibition on the Whitney’s third floor includes two rare 16mm films screening for the first time in decades. In conjunction with his exhibition, McCarthy has curated a film program that brings together works by, among others, Stan VanDerBeek, Francis Picabia, Walt Disney, Kurt Kren, Yves Klein, and Bruce Conner.
This portion runs from July 11 through Sept 28.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin June 27th, 2008
There’s a new show opening today at the Guggenheim. Louise Bourgeois.
Bourgeois is best known for her sculptures, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and across a diverse array of mediums including wood, bronze, latex, marble, and fabric. Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, she has developed a richly symbolic visual idiom that encompasses totemic forms, ambiguously gendered anatomical fragments, and towering spiders, as well as the assemblages of found objects that are encased in her environmental-scale installations.
For her art is not a job; it is a life. It is what you do when you get up in the morning, and what you continue to do all day, through headaches and phone calls, breakups and breakdowns, silences and celebrations. It is what you keep doing after dark, and when you can’t sleep at night.
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She has said that she works in response to emotions: fury at the past and fear of the present among them.
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Your daily life is propelled by fear? Draw fear. You can. Impossible to sleep at night? Make night your studio, the cloth you embroider with needs and dreams. The past is an obsession you can neither embrace nor release? Make an image of obsession, any image will do.- NYTimes
This is pretty much how I approach the stories that I write. Sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously. But I deal with my internal struggles and issues through my characters. I put them in the same situations, force them to deal with the harsh realities that I face. In a way, when they overcome it, I overcome it too. Of course, there are issues that are huge and require several stories to overcome, but it is extremely cathartic for me.
Luckily or unluckily, I don’t have the sort of issues that Bourgeois struggles with.
The show runs through Sept 28 at the Guggenheim Museum.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin June 26th, 2008
MoMA’s celebrating with Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time, running from June 27 through July 23.
To celebrate [Russo and Gerstman's] ongoing success, MoMA presents a selection of works by critical figures in the company’s history and catalog—from artists they embraced at early stages of their film careers, including Bruce Weber, Todd Haynes, Deepa Mehta, François Ozon, Olivier Assayas, and Guy Maddin, to established masters like Agnes Varda, Yvonne Rainer, Derek Jarman, and Jacques Demy. This monthlong series includes several introductions and post-screening Q&A sessions with some of the filmmakers, along with appearances by Gerstman and Russo.
-Penguin
Related postsNinja June 26th, 2008
I’ve been meaning to mention Renée French’s blog that she started earlier this year. Every day, she posts a new, delightful drawing!
I especially enjoy her bunny drawings!
I was completely smitten when I first saw her drawing of Glenda, the bunny mascot for Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
Ninja June 24th, 2008
Klara.be launched an experiment with the acclaimed Belgian painter Luc Tuymans. In The Tuymans Experiment, he anonymously paints a mural on a busy street in his hometown of Antwerp. What happens if you take his art out of its usual context? A hidden camera records the reactions of passersby.
Related postsI don’t think art can change the world. That’s not what art is about. Art is about creating images and passing on ideas. If it succeeds to make people think, even for a few seconds, it has done a lot already.
– Luc Tuymans
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