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Vania Comoretti wins the first Saatchi Showdown
2007-09-03 09:03:00
Congratulations to Vania Comoretti, overall winner of the first Saatchi Showdown. Read my earlier post about the Saatchi Showdown here. Also, starting Monday September 10, you can vote for me in the first round of the next showdown competition here.Vania Comoretti; Umano; 2004; watercolor, ink, and pastel on paper; diptych 50.5 x 56 cm ...
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Michael Wutz at Volitant Gallery (Austin)
2007-08-27 12:12:00
Michael Wutz, Smoked Heads of Slain Friends, 2007, charcoal on paper, 88 x 122 cmI'm posting about this show again because I want you all to go and see it. Volitant Gallery presents the first U.S. solo show of young Berlin artist Michael Wutz, curated by Till Richter. It's a really great show including etchings, charcoal and graphite drawings, two oil paintings, a wall drawing, and a video.Wutz's images, taken from news media and other print sources, refer to death, decapitation, genocide, visions of the world's end, Haitian voodoo, and other timely subject matter; but his treatment of the images is gentle - they don't scream horror; they draw you in for closer inspection by their beauty and their dark mystery. Wutz's technical mastery shines and creates a feeling of warmth and intimacy in spite of the heavy content of the images. His loving treatment of the severed heads of children, for example, is a succinct concrete metaphor for the heart's struggle to find love and joy in t ...
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Claire Oswalt at Kaviar & Kind (Los Angeles)
2007-08-26 11:32:00
Austin Native Claire Oswalt launches a solo show Wednesday night at Kaviar & Kind in Los Angeles. The show, entitled I fell in love 29 AUG 2007, presents a new body of three-dimensional work constituting a departure from Oswalt's previous flat work.This show will run from August 29 through November 1. The opening reception is Wednesday, August 29, 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Kaviar & Kind is located at 8533 Sunset Blvd. Those wishing to attend the reception are asked to RSVP at 310-659-8857. ...
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process-color painting, and the color-homogenizing effect of glazing
2007-08-25 17:14:00
Sam Sanford, slab1, 2007, oil on canvas, 18" x 24"One of the things that makes photographs look real is that they are able to capture the fine-grained complexity observed in nature. Large-scale elements are made up of small-scale elements, which are made up of tiny-scale elements. At each scale, any element you can identify in the picture appears to be made up of smaller, heterogeneous elements, down to the scale of one pixel. I stress the heterogeneity of the picture-elements because this is precisely the painter's problem - things are different colors and shapes, and each thing is made up of smaller things that are all different colors and shapes, down to an infinitesimal scale, so the painter has to draw a line somewhere. Unless you are working on a very large scale, your limit of detail will not be as fine as the information in the photograph; you will have to blur or smooth over the heterogeneity at scales beyond your limit - you will have to represent as single color-shapes thin ...
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Bill Baird & Peter Simonite: 'Moebius' video
2007-08-21 08:21:00
(Click here to watch the video on its Virb page.)Learn more about this video and how it was made on Bill's blog here.Watch more of Bill's videos on YouTube here.also:Bill's websitePeter Simonite's website ...
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new Gary Coco video;Austin screening tomorrow night
2007-08-19 13:23:00
Stand-up stalwart Gary Coco returns to the silver screen in Gary at Rick's House, his second collaboration with filmmaker Elizabeth Abrams (who I should 'disclose' is my lovely life-partner).This video has been selected for the semifinal round of the Austin Film Festival's Funniest Filmmaker in Austin contest; come support Gary and Elizabeth at the semifinals screening tomorrow night, Monday August 20, at 8:00 PM at Cap City Comedy Club. (Click the image below for more information.)Also, here's a link to Gary Coco's first video with Elizabeth Abrams. ...
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Saatchi Showdown online art competition
2007-08-13 18:35:00
Andrea Eitel, relationship, 2007, oil on canvas, 90 x 120cm(many more images follow the text below)The Saatchi Gallery website is unique among art gallery websites. It contains an overwhelming amount of resources, including images and texts for every artist exhibiting at the gallery; an open registry where all artists can upload images and text; guides to galleries and exhibitions all over the world; guides to museums, art dealers, calls for entry, grants, art fairs, and art schools; and a lot more stuff I haven't had time to look at.The website has recently introduced an online competition open to all artists called Showdown. Here's how it works: In each of twelve rounds, several thousand artworks are presented at random to site visitors, who are asked to rate the artwork from one to ten. Each time a visitor rates an artwork, another randomly-selected artwork appears. Thumbnails also scroll across the top of the screen at random, and visitors can click on a thumbnail to view and rat ...
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'Serious Fun' at Dougherty Arts Center (Austin) - reception tonight
2007-08-09 15:08:00
Jeannie McKetta, Vernacular, gouache on paper, 11" x 14.5"The Dougherty Arts Center's Julia Butridge Gallery Presents Serious Fun, featuring "amusement and recreation"-themed artworks by Joseph Phillips, Jeannie McKetta, Kelly O'Connor, and Tamara Johnson. The opening reception is tonight from 7:00 to 9:00. The exhibiton ends September 12. Dougherty Arts Center is located at 1110 Barton Springs Road (just east of Lamar). Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9:00 AM to 9:30 PM, Friday 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM, and Saturday 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. ...
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Paul Slocum & Kevin Bewersdorf at Okay Mountain (Austin)
2007-08-08 10:41:00
Passing Time and the Changing Seasons of TimeOkay MountainAug. 11 - Sept. 1, 2007opening reception: Saturday, Aug. 11, 7:00 - 10:00 PMThis exciting show by two of my favorite artists presents "a collection of sad and humorous videos, photos, and objects loaded with sincere jabs at our failure to grasp a constantly shifting world" and "contains works previously found only on the artists' websites, made physical for the first time at Okay Mountain." Sounds great!Paul SlocumKevin BewersdorfOkay Mountain is located at 1312 E. Cesar Chavez St. Gallery hours are Wednesday 7:00 -9:00 PM and Saturday 12:00 - 5:00 PM.Update: View photos from the show here. ...
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Michael Wutz at Volitant (Austin)
2007-08-06 13:33:00
Silver Lining flat lining: Michael WutzVolitant GalleryAugust 10 - September 22, 2007opening reception Friday, August 10, 6:00 - 9:00 PMartist's lecture Sunday, August 26, 2:00 PMFrom the press release:Volitant Gallery presents “Silver Lining flat lining” by Michael Wutz, curated by independent curator and art historian Till Richter.“Silver Lining flat lining” is the biggest body of works to date by German artist Michael Wutz. The complex includes three large scale paintings, one large scale etching, a series of four triptychs of graphite on paper and two series of almost one hundred Polaroid format etchings and hand-painted etchings. Finally, he combines these media into a video installation.Wutz’s powerful images show a quasi-apocalyptic vision of our world close to flat lining. As fantastic as the images might seem, they possess an eerie familiarity, probably because they are drawn from news media or books like the blind-folded man about to be executed or the headhunter t ...
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