Ninja December 1st, 2009
Barbara Kruger has an exhibition of her early assembled works at the Sprüth Magers London. These pre-digital pieces, aka ‘paste ups’ were influenced by her experience as a magazine editorial designer. Her pieces are composed of found images with overlaid slogans set in Futura Bold Oblique.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.
–Barbara Kruger
When
Show runs until January 23, 2010
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6pm
Where
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London, W1S 4EJ
Admission
Free
Preview
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Ninja May 29th, 2009
I stumbled upon some quotes posters from the graphic designer/illustrator, Stéphane Massa Bidal. He’s assembled quite the range of quotes, and these are my favorites of the lot.
You can see the rest of his collection here.
Beaming you a Friday smile,
Ninja
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Ninja March 18th, 2009
Talia Greene is a multi-media artist who incorporates photography, digital printing, drawing, and sewing in her work. She received her BA with departmental honors in art from Wesleyan University in 1998 and her MFA from Mills College in 2002. She will be exhibiting in upcoming shows at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, PA, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and the Sonoma Museum of Visual Art.
In Talia’s print series entitled, Coiffed: A Typology of Entropic Variations, altered cabinet cards reference the urge to control nature, and its futility, with a playful exaggeration of the quotidian frustration of taming our hair. In each portrait, the hair takes on a life of its own in the form of a swarm of flies. It grows; runs wild; starts to conform; then runs wild once more. With each new hairstyle, the sitter takes on a new identity. Even as we try to impose our will on nature, nature imposes its anarchy on us.
detail
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+ View more of Talia Greene’s work here
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Ninja April 21st, 2008
My process of redefining the figure and its location stems from questioning how individuals distance themselves from reality. The dichotomy between being physically present while the mind is disengaged is a common and ongoing theme in my work. I create similar conditions as individuals are removed from a definitive place, and cast into a theoretical, and often fantastical, situation.
– Adam Stoves
Via Mr. Adam Stoves’s myspace
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