Interactive video installation by David Gumbs, appears to use and Xbox Kinect to bring you into the swirling, psychedelic, kaleidoscopic image.
Gumbs Self-Portrait
Tag: art
Soundsuit detail
Very interesting construction from Nick Cave.
“Cave’s soundsuits can operate as a second skin, meant to conceal race, gender, and class, thereby protecting and transforming one’s identity in an attempt to eliminate prejudices.”
Finding Freedom
Interesting canopy by Sonya Clark.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Here we see Barbara Kruger using my own technique – they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, though I doubt she’s ever seen my work.
Can You Handle the Truth?
More from the Barbara Kruger exhibit, Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You.
Shopping for an Art Experience
Barbara Kruger’s massive retrospective, Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You, was truly impressive, though I’m not sure if it’s as brilliant as it first seems in the final analysis. It’s a clever commentary on contemporary, surveillance capitalism, social media and much else that ails contemporary society. But, as the pictures above, of people capturing images of it on their phones may suggest, it’s not clear that it’s having the desired effect on viewers.
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Art Lovers
To know art is to photograph it 
Art Institute of Chicago
Conceptual Installation
I’m assuming work is by Ethan Freckles.
Rise -N- Shine
Benny Andrews
Saturday before Christmas we went to see Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. These are very very powerful, strong images, created with paint on canvas and painted cloth and other materials (gesso?) that give them real depth. Well worth putting on a mask and making an appointment to go see.
Chelsea Art Scene
… and don’t you forget it!
More Bisa Butler: Portraits
I Am Not Your Negro
detail from To God and Truth
To God and Truth
Basquiat
detail from prior image
another detail
Broom Jumpers
As mentioned in the previous 2 posts, the Bisa Butler: Portraits exhibit at the Katonah Museum of Art through October 4th is absolutely must see. These pictures don’t fully do justice to the incredible power and visual impact of the works in person. They leap off the wall and shake you. Click any image to see them all enlarged. I remembered some of the titles and hope I didn’t get any of them wrong. There is an explanatory placard next to each quilt providing useful information about the history of the image and the materials and processes used. Just look at the bright contrasty colors with which the faces are constructed!
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Mannish Boy
More from the Bisa Butler exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, continuing from my last post. Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Mannish Boy
detail from Mannish Boy
Bisa Butler
A couple of weeks ago we went to see the Bisa Butler exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art which is open to limited numbers with tickets reserved in advance. It will move to Chicago in October. If you can get tickets RUN, don’t walk to see this. The work is incredible and I’ll be posting some of my snapshots over the next few posts.
There’s material on the museum web site and videos that will provide more insight into her working methods and materials. While the work is very quilty, it also has a painted quality, remarkable use of color and contrast. The pieces are drawn from photographs of the black experience and are just unbelievably powerful both aesthetically and as social commentary.
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to take a focused picture of the first piece which opens the exhibition but it will give you some idea of how she uses archival photographs (in this case from 1940s Chicago) to create her art. Click any image to see them all full sized.
Katonah Museum of Art, New York
Organic Art
Heavy Metal
We were planning on joining an Art Walk starting in the Warehouse District about a week and a half ago. By the time we got there it had been cancelled, the trolley garaged and the galleries shuttered. We found these compacted cubes of metal outside one of the warehouses of studios.
A couple more from Duncan McClellan
I couldn’t find any placards to identify these, the top image is a set of glass globes from their students; the bottom one is a close-up of a metal sculpture in the gardens.
(These pictures were shot over a week ago – everything’s shut now and we’re complying with attempts to halt the spread of Covid-19 by not going out except for necessities).
Duncan McClellan Gallery
Kevin Gordan, Fractal Fish
Martin Rosol, Yellow CALLA #1651
Nancy Callan, tutti Frutti Top
Jack Gramann, Blue Shift
Another gallery full of (mostly) glassworks – quite remarkable!
(Needless to say, these pictures were shot over a week ago – everything’s shut now and we’re not going out except for necessities).
Glass
Wilfried Grootens, Dreamcatcher H#
Dale Chihuly
Toots Zynsky
Tim Tate, Vitruvian Visions
Kreg Kallenbeger, Titanic #32797
Christina Bothwell and Robert Bender, Siblings
Anthony James, Portal Icosahedron
Bertil Vallien, Blues
St Petersburg appears to be a home for many artists working with glass. We saw a demonstration of the art at the Morean Arts Center, all of the above were shot at the Imagine Museum and still to come is the Duncan McClellan Gallery. We haven’t made it yet to the Chihuly collection. Apologies to artists of the works above if I mis-labeled any of the works.
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Flowing Lights
I neglected to capture what this was or by whom, a collection of hanging lights in a forest of black threads.