Category Archives: DIY Art
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña lights my fire
The materials list, below, should tell you all you need to know about these artist-created matches.
Strike Gently, 2008-9
materials: Letterpress on cotton paper, sterling silver wire, laminated paper match stems, wax, glue, gelatin, ground glass, flammable chemicals.
2×1½×⅜”, edition of 50.
Produced in collaboration with Dr. Glen Kowach, Chemistry Department, City College/City University of New York (New York, [...]
-fitti (Alternative to Alternative Street Art)
Truck-fitti:
(I love that ray-artist. I just saw another “ray” today on a rollshutter in Bushwick.)
Sidewalk-fitti (seen in Ridgewood):
And, my extra-favorite:
Curb-fitti! Call them Street Interventions in the Narrowest-possible Space!
Gotta bend down to see that one—and not get run over in the process.
And, you’ve gotta look sideways to see this one: Lintel-fitti:
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Go Figure (drawing)
not there yet. but
still trying to reconcile hand to breast, face to body.
Mel Alexenberg, and Time
This, a quote from Heschel, in turn, quoted from amazing artist Mel Alexenberg’s blog/book:
In his poetic book, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel emphasizes the sanctification of time in Jewish consciousness:
“Jewish ritual may be characterized as the art of significant forms in time, as architecture in time…. The meaning of [...]
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My Summer Jewish Art Project; and U can participate
Here’s a screenshot of my newest website, and it concerns a very special Jewish art project I call “The Nine Days.”
Visit it here at www.sarahschmerler.com/the-nine-days.
You can participate in it with me, as well. (there’s all sorts of info how on the site. but you can also leave a comment here if you want to know [...]
Street art is the Best art: Atlantic Avenue Report
Maybe you’ve noticed that I’ve been writing about my visits to Brooklyn artist’s studios lately—both the art inside the those studios, and the walk I took to get there.
Now, I am solidifying my obsession with “gettingtoart” into a new conclusion: there is no place worth getting to; You’re already there.
Yes, its The Street Art Report [...]
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The only artform left in Manhattan is Graffiti. street art, not ‘gallery’ art, rocks.
On my way into DUMBO, under a scaffold, in a mouldy corner, was this little bit of wall. Check out that mini-cairn of rocks on the ground, giving the image a 3-D, shrine-like feel.
Nice.
Perfect for place where it was sited. Dark. Not a place you’d want to linger; indeed, something I passed, feeling lost, but [...]
Also posted in Chelsea Galleries, Recession Advice, Uncategorized Tagged Chelsea Art Galleries, DUMBO, Graffiti, Mary Boone, street art Leave a comment
Ambition is Dead: Long Live Art
That’s gonna be part of my new philosophy. So stay tuned.
But first, some Buddhist Economics, courtesy of E.F. Schumacher, whose book, Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, was excerpted by one my favorite reads, Chapel Hill, NC’s magazine “The Sun,” which says:
German-born E.F. Schumacher was a British economist best known for his critique [...]
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Bushwick’s walls touched up and crisp!