PATCHWORK Group Show this Weekend, coinciding with Glasgow International

 

CENTER FOR 21^ST CENTURY STUDIES is hosting a group exhibition of visual artists from the Glasgow School of Art MFA program.  The exhibition is titled PATCHWORK. The theme is in relation to this term because of its implication of multiple registers, fragmentary viewing, or multiple materials cobbled together to form an impurity of surface.  The show will include works of painting and drawing.

Artists: Hyojun Hyun, AlexanderOleksyn, Benjamin Rankin, Brent Ridge 

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Michael Fullerton in for a studio visit today

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Cloud Nine @ Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn

Artists: Bruce Checefsky, Chris Clary, Gregory de la Haba, Patricia Fabricant, J. Fiber, Linda Ganjian, Cham Giobbi, Amy Hill, Chris Jehly, David Kramer, Jesse Lambert, Lorella Paleni, Brent Ridge, Fred Tomaselli, Jeanne Tremel 

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Glasgow International is Here

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Knuckle Sandwich

This baby is finally done.  I've spent one whole term plus my break finishing this (plus other similarly sized paintings).  This work has taken probably more turns than any painting of mine that I can recall.  There has been wholesale revisions of it as a work, and that essence of its journey has been translated into its final image.  I like that its a beat-up thing, its just a touch rocky, ya know?  Rest in peace you bastard!

Sneak Peek

That's a biggie almost done.  55 x 55 inches of paint plus stuff.
A touch of spray paint here and there was added after this picture
was taken, so this is a "in process" doc shot for my audience.
I'm out.  I've got a lot more to make at this point.

Ready to Run

Studio Progression, 2nd Term, Year 2

Philip Guston

Fresh Move

Intermedia Gallery

Exhibition: Polis by Helen de Main

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Souvenirs From Tower of London

Is Everything Bloody in this Country?  Give me a Bloody Mary Why Don't Yah?

Privacy Pleeeeease!

My Collection, Cathy Nan Quinlan

Fantastic virtual exhibition from my friend and colleague.  Definitely worth checking out for the connections she draws from the work of those she has known and collected over the years.
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New Day, New Work

Although not finished, as evidenced by the border on the image, this is one of three new pictures made in the last week that I consider a development.  They are made on cardboard, and the change of support for this smaller scale painting size works for a myriad of reasons.

Coolest Etching Press in Scotland

Everything about this machine at GSA is a Classic.

Not-so-abstract art

People who scoff that a child could have painted a splotchy, abstract piece of modern art see more in such creations than they realize. When forced to choose a favorite between a painting by a child, chimp or other animal and one by an abstract expressionist artist, people untrained in art usually picked the professional’s creation, even if it was mislabeled as that of a child or a non-human animal, say psychologists Angelina Hawley-Dolan of Boston College and Ellen Winner of Harvard University. People intuitively discern goals or intentions in artists’ abstract paintings, the researchers propose in an upcoming Psychological Science. —Bruce Bower

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Merlin James

 

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Oh, Haggis of Dreams and Legends

This my friend is a special kind of meal.  One you shouldn't shy from.
Shhhhh!  Don't tell!

We're Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Back to the country of rain and rainbows!  Happy New Year!
Took a trip home to our families for the holidays and now we are back ready for an exciting final two terms of my MFA.

What's The Secret?

Glasgow at the avant-garde of the art world - Scotland - Scotsman.com

www.scotsman.com/scotland.../scotland/glasgow_at_... - United Kingdom

Dec 11, 2011 – Glasgow has now claimed a third Turner Prize in as many years. So what's its secret, asks Anna Burnside.

Sarah Tripp Today:

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/sarah_tripp/
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Turner Prize Winner 2011 - Martin Boyce

Mr. Boyce is a GSA alumni.  He visited my studio earlier this year.
An amazing artist of depth and interesting style.  Cool as a Cucumber.

Karla Black, a GSA alum in the Turner Prize exhibition

InCoRM: International Chamber of Russian Modernism

Rodchenko

Sweet!  Manifesto Time!

InCoRM: International Chamber of Russian Modernism

The GSA MFA Auction Website is Live!

Next Saturday, our artworks become the main fundraiser for our international exhibition in Berlin.
Exciting stuff.  The website is live showing all the works up for grabs in the silent and live auctions.
To see all the fun stuff, click through the link.
http://mfaauction.blogspot.com/