for Jules

Mary Beth Heffernan has been making these sculptures out of turkey/chicken skin and photographing them. She says that they are all based on images of Christ's loin cloth

goya

get thee to the MUMMERY

This is Philip Akkerman for Katie...
found this painting of his (in particular) really interesting--
his other ones shown on this site aren't nearly as relevant;

this portrait is in no way as rich as your darkened jewel-tones,
but his unexpected use of grey is really activated by this yellowy underpainting showing through, its really growing on me:


ohhhh wow. Alexis Harding, for Jules and Karen...thick, gloss and folds:

Karen! meet Karen...

man oh man, I really like these.
Karen, this is KAREN ARM at the PPOW gallery:





these really remind me of your pieces; they look like your biomorphic forms but linearly mapped out--kinda like if you redrew them on a chalkboard or something. they also are surprisingly dimensional for line drawings...or paintings. (they're actually acyrlic on canvas!)

...'n urinals for Scott:)
just reminds me of some of the drawings in your sketchbook, although these lines aren't quite as active; just plain-o crosshatching, but the circular format was kinda funny, like you the viewer are looking through a peephole:



(the artist's name is SANDOW BIRK, and this is called "Canto 2 from Paradiso")...

For Kelly:
I didn't know Carolee Schneeman drew/painted. I kinda dug these, some of the overt color and compositional decisions reminded me of your paintings:


for Jules:
Bill Smith. This sculpture seems to own, or haunt this space, very much like your piece in the sculpture show seems to own its wall (dunno if that makes sense; just that there's a sense that the objects live there, not that these are just objects are placed or suspended...)

karen

Won Ju Lim from Marianne Boesky Gallery

Karen...while I think that he uses some forms in his work that are similar to forms you are using, I think what is really interesting is the way that the artist uses light/ tranparantcies to create a sense of a large expanse in a relatively small space.

for mandy n kelly

Kevin Appel
Country Home 6 (Grumpy), 2006
Oil, enamel, acrylic on canvas over panel
73 x 72 inches
The stacked/ clustered arrangement made me think more or you Mandy, but Kelly....the sense of humor.... and honestly... all the faux wood grain

for Garima

ROSÂNGELA RENNÓ
Experiência de Cinema (Experiencing Cinema), 2005
image projection (4 DVDs with 124 photo stills) on a smoke curtain
variable dimensions
edition of 4

Garima...the thing I remember from our last big review that you recieved the most questions from faculty etc about was presentation....how did you want to project/ present your video.....for this artist...presentation seems so important to how we understand her work.

Mounir Fatmi

Here is one for Scott from Lombard-Freid Projects, Mounir Fatmi.....The first image is from a project called "fuck architects" in which the artist obstructs mobility in normally easy to navigate spaces with signage, electrical cables, wall imagery, and stacks of metal poles.... this excess of visual stimuli and "misuse" of space made me think of what you have been doing in those large drawings. The second is fom an installation called enemy/friend. The use of this kind of humor/ irony reminds me a bit of your field guide book project

For Kelly

Torben Giehler, Der Berg Ruft!, 2006

Kelly, this work deals with space as well but in a more manipulated manner than the way I see your work. This may be a good artist to look at in developing color relations similar to the way you manipulate color in your work. For example, the contrasts of vibrance with subdued.

For Scott

Justin Faunce, Pictophilia (detail), 2007

Speaking of an overabundance of pointless imagery, Scott, this is something great to work against or with depending on the intention behind your work.

For Kelly

Suling Wang, Open Paths of Origin, 2006

Suling Wang, Untitled, 2006.

The collapsing of space, use of color, and movement reminded me of some of the things your work addresses.

For Scott

Scott, I thought about your ideas about media controlling stimulus and environment when I saw this piece by Kutlag Ataman Kuba 2004.

I've been hearing Leon Golub's name a lot in reference to my work...

mandy...check this artist at honor fraser...

you are already more interesting than this stuff, but it just goes to show that whatever you do, do it well and a lot, and someone's bound to like it...
i like that he just seems to do his thing, and that's what i like about the work you seem to think is too cartoony or whatever. who cares? it's still nice work, and i say just do it...fuck the fancy painty peoples.

mark licari
www.honorfraser.com

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karen and kelly, check out this guy Daniel Hesidence.
his marks remind me of some of what you're doing kelly, although maybe not as playful.
karen, read the press release for him. might help you out. also, check out the variety of shapes and kinds of space he creates.


scott, here's another lieberman for you.

honor/fraser gallery and kantor/feuer gallery

Alexandra Grant(honor fraser gallery): scott, i think these deal nicely with over abundance of information.


Gardar Eide Einarsson (honor fraser): scott, this stuff kinda beats you over the head. but maybe you'll like that.


Justin Lieberman (Kantor/feuer gallery): here's another artist scott.


phoebe washburn (kantor/feuer): mandy, i thought you might like how she constructs these worlds.


Tom McGrath (kantor/feuer): mandy, i hesitate sharing this artist cause i think he gets a little too stylized. but i think he gets it right sometimes, somewhere between paint melting in the heat and just painting what he sees.