Category: Conceptual

Not Good

Ship Street, Brighton

Maybe the British aren’t familiar with Trayvon Martin and how his murder was justified on the basis of Florida’s “stand your ground” law. But to American eyes this is either in very poor taste, or a call for Black retribution. What was Timberland thinking?

Grandma’s All Right

Parsons School of Design, New York

I took an ICP course in the Spring with Harvey Stein on photo books and administrative help was provided by Parsons Photography MFA student Agnes An, whose grad show at Parsons I attended last month, where I saw the above.

Jackson’s Cousin Worked in Telcoms

Marine Parade, Brighton

An art installation we came upon in phone boxes during open studio month. There was no other information and it was difficult to see into the booths but I did find this article which I think is about the same artist.

Disposessed

I Don’t Have Another Land, 2022, Nathan Coley at the Towner, Eastbourne

“I Don’t Have Another Land is a contemporary text sculpture by the internationally renowned and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist Nathan Coley. Coley creates these monumental sculptures using existing phrases that come from overheard conversations, song lyrics, news report, books or any found text. I Don’t Have Another Land was a piece of graffiti found on a wall in Jerusalem in the early 2000s. The phrases used in Coley’s artwork take on new meaning in each place they’re exhibited.”
– from the Towner website

A Dark Story

Grayson Perry at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

This ceramic appears to show children happily playing, but look closely and you see the darkness of the background (note, for instance, the house inscribed with swastikas). For more, take a look at Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire, here.