I Called Them Mausoleums Last Week
So, having kinda insulted the whole gallery/museum art world in one of my last posts, I should probably take a moment to promote my upcoming museum show. Eh? I’m showing a bunch of my bird paintings in a group show at the DeCordova Musem (in Lincoln MA) from September 2, 2006 to January 7, 2007.
The show is called
Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art.
It used to be called “Bite Me: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art” and I’m sorry that the title changed, but aparently either the biting or the colon was too controversial.
The show includes such artists-who-people-have-heard-of as the much-respected Walton Ford, who makes paintings that look like they were painted by old American Masters but for their portrayal of animals engaged in activities too surreal and disturbing (most often commentaries on human nature) to have been Mastered by anyone but him. . Below is "Falling Bough". Viciously birdful.
The show also features Amy Ross, who makes images of things like bird-headed mushrooms and goat-headed tree blossoms. I love every image of hers I've seen; they’re delicate and strange and diagramatic and fairy-tale-ish, and depict these faunafloras with enough casual familiarity to convince me that they’re real, or might as well be. Freakin’ mushroom birds, you know?
Amy says she likes the idea of "artist as mad scientist", and her drawings definitely bring to mind genetic engineering and the "farming" of animals among other issues. I would love to have a huge conversation about such things spurred on by her work, but I was also love it if goats grew on trees.
Anyway, the show also includes me, and I’ll be there at the opening, which is on
Thursday, September 7th from 6-9 pm.
If you know me and you live around here and wanna carpool, get in touch.
I am not entirely sure what it means for me to show at this museum. It ain't illegally appropriated public space, that's for sure, but the museum audience seems to be a little bit wider than your average gallery. We shall see.
Out.
So, having kinda insulted the whole gallery/museum art world in one of my last posts, I should probably take a moment to promote my upcoming museum show. Eh? I’m showing a bunch of my bird paintings in a group show at the DeCordova Musem (in Lincoln MA) from September 2, 2006 to January 7, 2007.
The show is called
Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art.
It used to be called “Bite Me: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art” and I’m sorry that the title changed, but aparently either the biting or the colon was too controversial.
The show includes such artists-who-people-have-heard-of as the much-respected Walton Ford, who makes paintings that look like they were painted by old American Masters but for their portrayal of animals engaged in activities too surreal and disturbing (most often commentaries on human nature) to have been Mastered by anyone but him. . Below is "Falling Bough". Viciously birdful.
The show also features Amy Ross, who makes images of things like bird-headed mushrooms and goat-headed tree blossoms. I love every image of hers I've seen; they’re delicate and strange and diagramatic and fairy-tale-ish, and depict these faunafloras with enough casual familiarity to convince me that they’re real, or might as well be. Freakin’ mushroom birds, you know?
Amy says she likes the idea of "artist as mad scientist", and her drawings definitely bring to mind genetic engineering and the "farming" of animals among other issues. I would love to have a huge conversation about such things spurred on by her work, but I was also love it if goats grew on trees.
Anyway, the show also includes me, and I’ll be there at the opening, which is on
Thursday, September 7th from 6-9 pm.
If you know me and you live around here and wanna carpool, get in touch.
I am not entirely sure what it means for me to show at this museum. It ain't illegally appropriated public space, that's for sure, but the museum audience seems to be a little bit wider than your average gallery. We shall see.
Out.
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