Figuration at Seven and Pulse

Sarah Peters at Winkleman, Seven Art Fair
To visit her gallery page at Winkleman, clink link above

Sarah Peters, quartet of portraits.
To visit her website, go to: http://sarahpetersart.com/

Robin Williams, Golden Nugget, oil on linen, 62 x 80 inches, PPOW at Seven Art Fair

Detail, Williams

Julie Heffernan, PPOW at Seven Art Fair

Heffernan at Mark Moore, Pulse

Heffernan, detail

Allison Schulnik at Mark Moore, Pulse

Katie Miller at Conner Contemporary, Pulse

Erik Thor Sandberg at Conner Contemporary, Pulse

Daniel Weinberg Gallery at Pulse

A gem from Alexander Ross - the dealer's private collection

Thomas Nozskowski

Steve di Beneditto, high on the wall -- another gorgeous and unexpected example of an artist's work from this gallery

Patricia Piccini: Prone, 2011, Conner Contemporary at Pulse, Miami

Patricia Piccini's Prone, 2011 - moving, delicate, beautiful, horrifying, human.

The work engages our empathy, integrity and commitment
in a freighted encounter.

Below, excerpt from an interview with the artist.

The Naturally Artificial World
Laura Fernandez Orgaz and Patricia Piccinini
(Click link above to visit artist's website and find full article).

"My interest in medical science began when I was a teenager. My mother was sick for many years before she died. During that time I hoped and prayed that science - medicine - could help our family. In the end there was no help but I still feel that I am waiting for science to help; to help me, to help my family and to help the world I live in. However, I also know that science is not perfect , no matter how clever it seems to be. Science did not help my mother. I understand that it cannot always deliver its promises. I understand that disappointment.

However - and this will sound very strange - it is not really science itself that I am interested in, as much as how it impacts on people. I think my creatures are actually more mythological than scientific. They are chimeras that I construct in order to tell stories that explain the world that I live in but cannot totally understand or control. Like most myths they are often cautionary tales, but they are also often celebrations of these extraordinary beasts. You need to remember that the gods of the ancient myths had great power but also very human motivations. They followed their own interests, with very little feeling for the effects they might have on normal people."

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pat Pasloff

I had been considering a post on 'frame of reference' and how the desire to share one--or not--affects art making, when I espied a post on Facebook that Pat Pasloff passed away Sunday. Linked above is the tribute article by David Cohen at artcritical.

The timing is especially unusual as I am reading Geoffrey Dorfman's Out of the Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School (Midmarch Arts Press, 2003) and just a week before her passing, watched two videos of Pasloff with Milton Resnick on UTube (A World of Art: Works in Progress -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euFTYZ93XFk) to inspire me in the studio.

I once spoke with Pat on the phone, when she began to reminisce about the old days in our (at the time) Chinatown neighborhood. Gruffly, she stated that painters in her day didn't need cd players, heat, or even hot water to paint; she didn't understand the need for luxury so many artists had now.  Curiosity (could I paint in silence every day? Go without heat longer than a few hours in winter?) vied with  admiration for her grit. The admiration grew over the years seeing her at exhibitions, circling and looking, intently looking: in every way, the real deal.

Rest in peace.

Inspiration

Cover: Duffy and Celia Philo/Duffy Design Concepts

Breughel

Stones 1972 Tour

Santa Monica Pier

Matterhorn

Orange web fencing

Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent

Shen Zhou - scroll at the Met last fall was like a film!

Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh and Paul Jenkins painting: Unmarried Woman

Brian Ward, photography; Terry Pastor of Main Artery, Design

Wang Meng

Jules Olitski

Permutations of the Mark

Jamison Brosseau, from Go Figure, curated by Eddie Martinez, at  Dodge Gallery (linked above)

Jackie Saccoccio and Andrew Gbur at 11 Rivington

Saccoccio

Eva Lundsager at Greenberg Van Doren, uptown

Let me know who this is: from Go Figure, curated by Eddie Martinez

Allison Schulnik, from Go Figure, Dodge Gallery

Joel Dugan, from Centotto, Bushwick

Permutations of the Body

Lisa Yuskavage - thesis painting for the current show at Zwirner

To the right of the small painting, a lone figure contre jour, though the time is sunset

Detail, left of mound - light brushwork, as if watercolor

Triptych: theme of doubling arises

Triptych: right two panels. Transfer of early shrink imagery into a community of observers.

Doubling again, using pyrotechnic flowers to shift from pictorial to symbolic space, then back.

On 20th St., Nick Cave at Jack Shainman with another kind of body permutation...

These join bodies together and also separate them from other bodies.

They are garments that contain the language of desire (fashion) and differentiation.

 

Permutations of the Body, Part II

Irvin Morazan, detail of shrine figure at Asya Geisberg

Morazan: another view (read more about the show at link above)

Irvin Morazan from the exhibition Salvajes at Asya Geisberg

Karen Heagle at I-20

Heagle

Heagle, after Chardin. At once blunt, and affable. Heagle's use of red is a standout.

Nicola Tyson at Petzel

Nicola Tyson at Petzel
Broad, loaded brush strokes--brilliant emerald greens that don't translate on camera. Love the rooster figure on right.

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung at Anna Kustera. Another kind of body, if you will--the corpse of stain painting?

Zuckerman-Hartung

Zuckerman-Hartung at Anna Kustera