New Money

I know one woman who’s doing her part to help end the recession. If the solution, as they keep telling us, is to increase consumer spending, designer Alisha Trimble is making dresses, no fashionable, if marginally employed woman can resist. She presented her Fall 09 collection, “New Money,” last night at Bowery Electric, helping to further gentrify the neighborhood.

And the designer herself,

Buy her dresses online at alishatrimble.com or in NYC at The Dressing Room and start your own economic boom.

Crystal Palace at New Museum

Still from film “installation” by Austrian artist Mathias Poledna currently showing at the New Museum.

Although this film is almost completely static I found it utterly enthralling.  The screen is completely filled with a lush green, bright and sharply in focus. The only movement discirnable is that of long, thin fronds occasional swinging in the foreground, and drops of water intermittently falling to the ground.  It is coupled with a soundtrack of rainforest noises edited into a kind of shrill music.  Completely beautiful.

Art World Gossip

So I just recently found out about this new blog “How’s My Dealing,” that asks artists to “Please share your positive/negative experiences with critics, curators, and galleries. Comments from those with direct experience only, please.”  The result is a view into the secret world of New York galleries.

Japan Videos

Some videos I took in Japan a while ago…

Fontanelle Gallery

A few months ago my friend Alisha and I were working together when she pulled me over to the window to show me a peculiarly shaped cloud. “It looks like a swan,” I marvelled.

A week later, Fontanelle Gallery in Portland, Oregon contacted me about my work. When they asked me if they could have some pieces for their “Parlour” space, all I needed to know was that their logo is a swan inside a shield. Plus they show some really great art. You can check it out and even buy it here. My work is here.

Miami

So I went to Art Basel in Miami for the first time this year.  I was a bit over and underwhelmed at the same time.  Perhaps that’s why it’s taken me a month to post these photos.

Side fair put on by the main Art Basel called Art Positions.  20 small galleries set up shop inside 20 different shipping containers on the beach.  The guy in the middle of the photo pretty much perfectly encapsulates Miami.

ULTRA environment at Art Positions

Ridiculous sand art

My two favorite paintings

by Simon Pasieka, shown by Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt

(split in half, sorry) by Kim Dorland, shown by Freight + Volume, NY

Show Anouncement

AG Artists Shop 11/21/2008-1/25/2009, curated by Tomoko Ashikawa

Opening Reception: 11/21/2008 Friday 7-10pm

We are creating a shop-like installation with bunch of artist prints, small original works, cards, lots of other artists goodies in our gallery space. There are almost 40 artists involved in the show and it is surely our BIGGEST GROUP EXHIBITION EVER!! This is also really good chance for you to do your Christmas shopping since there will be a lot of affordable art pieces!!

Participating Artists: Susan Maddux, Coral Silverman, Ian Dingman, Amy Chan, Anthony Meloro, Kristin Cammermeyer, Gina Fuentes WalkerKate Dunkin, Five and A Half, Liz Zanis, Kathleen Lolley, Shawn Creedan, Julianna Swaney, Jane Buck, Sarah Ogren, Leah Oates, Leif Parsons, Faryn Davis, Sidney Pink, Treatzone, Liz Riccardi, Re-Surface, Megan CedroKyoung Kim, Avignon Iim, Kiersten Essenpreis, Lizz Hickey, Ashley Alexander (I’m smitten), BBPPINC, Yunmee Kyong,Daria Tessler, Thomas Parker Williams, Lovely Daze, Lines + Shapes, Screech Owl Design, Claire Nereim, Pikaland, Amy Kg, L 2 Design Collective, Urban Inks and more…

AG Gallery/ About Glamour 107-A North 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

http://aboutglamour.net/

Artists’ Shop

I just finished these pieces for a show at AG gallery in Williamsburg.  All pieces are 4″x6″, 4″x12″ hung together.  The opening is Friday the 21st from 7-10pm.

The gallery website is here: http://www.aboutglamour.net/English/home.e.html

Golden Gate

While I was in California I went down to San Francisco to visit my friend G on his 30th birthday. I took him out for dinner at The Blue Plate, and the next day we went to Golden Gate Park. We were hoping to go to the new Academy of Sciences, but both agreed the price of admission was exorbitant.
This is what the new “living” roof looks like, however.

Most of the roads in the park are closed on the weekend. Some people took advantage of this to use new and strange modes of transportation. Apparently someone has invented cross-country skis for asphalt.

Then we went to see Gogol Bordello perform for free as part of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. I forgot how many hippies there are in San Francisco. Or maybe there was a large Santa Cruz contingent. I got friendly with a tree and took this photo.

The Magic of Jan Van Eyck

“…In a sense, every reality is mysterious for Van Eyck; he confronts his objects as if he had just discovered them for the first time: he studies them as if he intended with poetic patience, to capture from them the solution to some riddle, as if he meant to cast a spell upon them and infuse in their images a second, silent life.  Everything is for him unique and, in the true sense of the word, singular.  In such a universe, in which nothing is interchangeable, the accessory and the inanimate acquire the same physiognomical value as a face.”

H. Focillon from Art of the West, 1938