Tag Archives: DIY Art

The Art Lot has…Lots of Art

By sarah | Published: December 3, 2009
Artist John Bjerklie regards a sculpture that will soon play a video of yet another image of himself in front of more sculpture. Or, at least, that’s how I understood it. And another longstanding local name, Matt Blackwell, contributes tons of sculptural raw materials that might not otherwise get the air. Think the Internet is loaded with [...]
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And, the Resourceful-Design Award Goes to: SVA (?!)

By sarah | Published: November 26, 2009
SVA 3-D Design students, under the watchful eye of professor Kevin O’Callahan, took apart a truck and turned every bit of it into–sink, lounge, lighting, you name it. Below, the description from the school’s new website (which is still in development, I believe): Thanks to Eric Corriel, creator of the new SVA website that features this, and [...]
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Contrasts: Is your life full of them?

By sarah | Published: October 15, 2009
On my way Uptown to finally take in the posh Hans P. Kraus Gallery show, psyched to see 5- and 6-digit photos from Photography’s Esteemed Past like this: I got a little dose of reality, in the subway: An ad-hoc contemporary photo show — well, digital printouts — but totally cohesive in content. All for sale, of [...]
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Process Notes: Why not use a border to “comment” in “real time”?

By sarah | Published: October 1, 2009
I’m not one to do formal analysis in a blog format (hey, that’s for reviews); still, I just can’t resist showing the super-cool bits of visual business going on in and all over Franklin Evans’ new print series with Element Editions (whom I’ve already mentioned has pretty much nailed the way to do contempo artists’ [...]
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Do you love this art blog?

By sarah | Published: September 29, 2009
I do. It’s “Art Bum Comix” by Lawrence Swan. Swan is an artist who writes, draws, and otherwise channels the way most creative/thinking people feel about the artworld into his notebooks. The blog is called newcleanblog, and we learned of it just this AM from Hrag Vartanian, who is himself, one to watch (his blog here, or [...]
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This Just In: Art Still Fun

By sarah | Published: September 25, 2009
At Pierogi’s Boiler location, artists wait and wonder and hope and dream: will their 6″ block of wood make it to the finals? Will it make it down the track? What’s strange about this amazing event–in which grown men and women whittle, assemble, and otherwise alter classic pine derby racers and then race them down a [...]
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let’s start a new U

By sarah | Published: September 22, 2009
Robert Smith gets it right again in her NYTIMES article on Sept 9: The professionalization and academicization of the art world has been lamented for some years, but lately they have become epidemic. The recent inflated art market has created the illusion that being an artist is a financially viable calling. Meanwhile art schools and universities [...]
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Amanda Church: Get Into Her ‘Pants’ and Support the Arts

By sarah | Published: September 11, 2009
Amanda Church wins this week’s award for (sassiest and) smartest artist/entrepreneur. She’s put her boldly graphic paintings on….shorts! Well, she calls them pants, Mandy Pants, and sells them in boutiques–already. I will do you the favor of NOT modeling them for you here, but only including a happy picture of the painterly image that inspired them, [...]
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