Filed under: 2012.FEBRUARY
Marino Marini, Angel of the Citadel (1948-50)
Getting a little southern exposure at the Getty, Los Angeles.
Been copying photographs using grids and concentrating on the components of the image as if they were abstract forms; sounds fancy but really it’s the same thing we did in high school art class for a collaborative, cafeteria wall-sized portrait of Jim Morrison. Of course it’s been done and done again (see Chuck Close, Malcom Morley), but it is fun. I’d planned to use these images of John Cage (from a YouTube video) as an underpainting for something a little looser, but they were snatched from my easel and printed in the program for an upcoming performance of Cage’s Song Books.
Filed under: 2012.FEBRUARY
Fun with found images.
Robert Arneson, California Artist (1982)
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Corridor Pin, Blue (1999)
While setting up my studio I’m having a look around my new hometown, San Francisco. Here’s Robert Arneson at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art and Claes Oldenburg at the de Young. Other places of interest include Home Depot, Office Depot, IKEA, Safeway, Lucky, Ross, Marshalls, and Walgreens.
Filed under: 2011.DECEMBER
Michael Lin's 2005 tennis court installation at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu.
- Tom Wesselmann, Dropped Bra (1980).
Two pieces from the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. Neither have been maintained very well. The grime on Wesselmann’s bra adds to the sculpture’s narrative aspect. Nothing piques the interest like discarded dirty underwear.
Filed under: 2011.NOVEMBER
Had these pictures of my drawings taken at IT Park Photo Studio in Taipei.
Filed under: 2011.NOVEMBER
Two pics of mailed sketches for my composer illustrations. Some of these old (well, dead) folks’ visages are so well known in certain photographs or paintings that I’m hesitant to draw them based on other people’s artwork. After a little thought though, I’m with the Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey idea that all’s fair in art and war. Ask me about it later if you copy my images, use them for a book cover without giving me royalties, and I sue you.
Filed under: 2011.NOVEMBER
Two rough pics of drawings I did to illustrate articles by Celia Llopis-Jepsen for the Taipei Times. The articles are here and here.
Filed under: 2011.NOVEMBER
Here’s Forever Bicycles (2011), Ai Weiwei’s installation at a show titled Absent at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Mark Twain said that if a joke doesn’t work, you should repeat it until it does. There’s been a lot of shit-talk about this exhibition here in Taiwan (mostly about funding and the use of the museum’s space), but I like this piece. Something about repetition I guess. Repetition has to do with saying the same thing over and over, redundancy, or repeating yourself. My scooter series explores a similar theme.
Filed under: 2011.NOVEMBER
Chunghwa Post and US Postal Service employees have been excellent art handlers so far. These late-night scrawls of Brahms, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky made it to the US no rougher than when I dropped them in a Taipei mailbox. Full-size, o-fficial illustrations from my composer series here.
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