tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.comments2012-09-18T11:19:17.189-07:00uncg_art_mfaChris Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125249058748408744noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-28383918589476602012012-09-18T11:19:17.189-07:002012-09-18T11:19:17.189-07:00I enjoyed the artist's own comments on the wor...I enjoyed the artist's own comments on the work. When I approached this piece, my first thought was "how fun!" Which became "how dismal!" after realizing the true nature of the construction. I was pleased that the artist recognized the joyful, playground aspect of the work alongside its morbidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-6298938748421631742011-09-08T09:31:36.031-07:002011-09-08T09:31:36.031-07:00Thank you for these.
And for the welcome also!Thank you for these.<br />And for the welcome also!Amy Stibichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790951694501937684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-49428938073124481422011-04-14T19:08:55.741-07:002011-04-14T19:08:55.741-07:00like the movie? that is Maurice's territory......like the movie? that is Maurice's territory....Gabriel Serpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14111560338612160305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-34444767095941946132011-04-13T07:36:12.744-07:002011-04-13T07:36:12.744-07:00Gabe, what's that up there, are you reading Tw...Gabe, what's that up there, are you reading Twilight?Barbara Campbell Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-86061156474288325552011-04-13T07:35:22.834-07:002011-04-13T07:35:22.834-07:00Oh and I love how chaotic harry's shelf is--mi...Oh and I love how chaotic harry's shelf is--might there be a post on the nature of "order" in artists bookshelves...Barbara Campbell Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-82133684128013053702011-04-13T07:34:28.999-07:002011-04-13T07:34:28.999-07:00Oh love it! Yes--come on Lee Walton, how about th...Oh love it! Yes--come on Lee Walton, how about that artist bookshelf show in the gatewood gallery...!Barbara Campbell Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-87393735674372536202011-04-12T12:36:03.757-07:002011-04-12T12:36:03.757-07:00Great post! My shelf was looking good this semeste...Great post! My shelf was looking good this semester then I had to return all my books. One favorite was Another Future: Poetry and Art in Postmodern Twilight, by Alan GilbertGabriel Serpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14111560338612160305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-36671825836293779182011-04-11T06:16:53.966-07:002011-04-11T06:16:53.966-07:00so good! Thanks Barbara. We should do a surplus ...so good! Thanks Barbara. We should do a surplus show in the Gatewood with old student work and stuff... <br /><br />Really like this. thanks<br />leeLee Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691537277089838959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-66883631422279980452011-03-08T06:35:25.571-08:002011-03-08T06:35:25.571-08:00By coincidence, I had just read this Auden quote b...By coincidence, I had just read this Auden quote before checking the blog: “Artists and politicians would get along better at a time of crisis like the present, if the latter would only realize that the political history of the world would have been the same if not a poem had been written, nor a picture painted, nor a bar of music composed.”Harry Swartz-Turflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600892030662706839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-79271495917273560732011-02-28T06:01:40.162-08:002011-02-28T06:01:40.162-08:00Awesome. Yes, I like the way she basically is just...Awesome. Yes, I like the way she basically is just showing people what is already there. Sometimes I think artist try to hard to be creative - instead of just plain observant. Darwin has proven that the "greatest show on earth" is was not created by a single designer -but a complex system of mutations and time. Maybe the creative part is connecting the dots so that other people see the shape - but the dots are already out there...Lee Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691537277089838959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-36064439474398297272011-02-27T09:30:26.332-08:002011-02-27T09:30:26.332-08:00Bruguera is a great artist. Listen to her, Glenn L...Bruguera is a great artist. Listen to her, Glenn Logon, and Mellisa Lacewall-Harris talk about diversity in the contemporary arts at <a href="http://www.mcachicago.org/media_player/index_pod.php?id=126" rel="nofollow">MCA Chicago</a>Gabriel Serpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14111560338612160305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-3015952022331407512011-02-25T05:08:26.946-08:002011-02-25T05:08:26.946-08:00Wow--I want to see this. Thanks for the link Sar...Wow--I want to see this. Thanks for the link Sarah, love the stirring paradise lost recitation as well.Barbara Campbell Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-23265365770300819672011-02-20T18:25:56.025-08:002011-02-20T18:25:56.025-08:00I'm glad you guys got something from this. As ...I'm glad you guys got something from this. As I hinted at, this post was actually a bit garbled in delivery, which is unusual for Coates, who generally makes every attempt to be clear in his thinking and writing. I haven't read it, but I think his memoir, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Struggle-Father-Unlikely-Manhood/dp/0385520360%22" rel="nofollow"> The Beautiful Struggle,</a> might also be very good.Chris Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16125249058748408744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-91834439641529768752011-02-19T15:30:31.385-08:002011-02-19T15:30:31.385-08:00Ta Nehisi Coates Great!!!! I have been reading his...Ta Nehisi Coates Great!!!! I have been reading his blog all day!!!!Mauricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08733786727488545786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-44811126701151065092011-02-19T02:45:25.479-08:002011-02-19T02:45:25.479-08:00Thanks for posting this. The idea that one could t...Thanks for posting this. The idea that one could trade one right for another connects to Benjamin's Author as Producer, which removes artistic production from isolated spheres and into an interconnected social matrix. This idea comes from early Karl Marx, which criticizes the Enlightenment idea of individual rights as something isolating and reactionary. Rights aren't just about individual liberty but can be about expansive social progress.<br /><br />Taking this conversation to art is interesting since art can be so extremely personal and interior and the trade-offs or risks aren't necessarily what we think they're going to be. But to quote that great Marxist Steve Guttenberg from my favorite episode of "Party Down" -- "No risk means no reward."Harry Swartz-Turflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600892030662706839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-51628838326763224652011-02-17T14:02:34.886-08:002011-02-17T14:02:34.886-08:00thanks for the link barbara!thanks for the link barbara!Art Sexy: Exposing Art, Myths and Monsters of the Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01884154300945254708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-70261899246073028762011-02-03T17:49:44.263-08:002011-02-03T17:49:44.263-08:00These look pretty intense. Like something out of L...These look pretty intense. Like something out of Logan's Run. I'd love to see them in person...Harry Swartz-Turflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600892030662706839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-23334124889462799042011-02-03T17:48:46.036-08:002011-02-03T17:48:46.036-08:00I love that Lisa Sigal video, especially the idea ...I love that Lisa Sigal video, especially the idea that "a painting can be a fort." Bring on the flashlight!Harry Swartz-Turflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600892030662706839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-3646435565473719172011-02-03T05:59:22.183-08:002011-02-03T05:59:22.183-08:00I'm getting into these Jain cosmology drawings...I'm getting into these <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_cosmology" rel="nofollow">Jain cosmology drawings</a> lately and Mark Lomdardi's work seems related. Also connected: Loren Munk, Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, whose work is discussed in <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-6942" rel="nofollow">a recent review here.</a> But these worlds seem small compared to the Jains', even though the art is just as big.Harry Swartz-Turflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600892030662706839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-18953594843153841712011-02-02T14:33:08.477-08:002011-02-02T14:33:08.477-08:00i would love to see this installation in person! g...i would love to see this installation in person! gah!Art Sexy: Exposing Art, Myths and Monsters of the Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01884154300945254708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-71856105639196291732011-02-02T10:12:58.530-08:002011-02-02T10:12:58.530-08:00another woman breaking ground with abstraction--lo...another woman breaking ground with abstraction--love her.Barbara Campbell Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718532124070926246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-45061534184082669082011-01-26T06:57:34.188-08:002011-01-26T06:57:34.188-08:00Check out this graduate school project by Harrell ...Check out this graduate school project by Harrell Fletcher: Alternative Library. http://www.harrellfletcher.com/1992/ccac_library/set.html<br /><br />"When I got to graduate school I was disappointed by the libraries' book selection. I decided that in response I would open my own library in a corner of the existing school library. I worked with another grad student Doug Helikson to build a little room out of steel and plexiglass, and then I brought in my own collection of books and checked them out to anyone who stopped by for a visit. Eventually people started donating books to me and I got interns to sit in the library when I wasn't there. After a year the librarian became threatened by the success of my project and kicked me out."Donovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12195275870408960297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-62011589927929558622011-01-24T15:10:12.210-08:002011-01-24T15:10:12.210-08:00This piece reminds me of this work by some guy.This piece reminds me of <a href="http://www.uncg.edu/~cmcassid/tidings.htm" rel="nofollow">this</a> work by some guy.Chris Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16125249058748408744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-85647943767187243012011-01-24T05:40:08.408-08:002011-01-24T05:40:08.408-08:00These are both interesting, though Enright's t...These are both interesting, though Enright's theatrical gaming strikes me mostly as professionalized LARPing, and its position in an art context as much about attracting clientele who can afford it as anything else.Chris Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16125249058748408744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8415832267636845668.post-82040159982110926292011-01-23T18:50:58.462-08:002011-01-23T18:50:58.462-08:00My favorite part of the manifesto is the Balinese ...My favorite part of the manifesto is the Balinese saying she quotes: "We have no Art, we try to do everything well." The dilemma of getting around some of these dilemmas seems to ultimately be linguistic.Harry Swartz-Turflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600892030662706839noreply@blogger.com