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(Shoal of Divers (1998) by Zena Holloway, courtesy Saatchi Art)
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Woman of the Week! Artists, curators, writers & other incredible women
Woman of the Week! Artists, curators, writers & other incredible women
Woman of the Week! Artists, curators, writers & other incredible women
(Photo courtesy of grantLOVE)
The Woman of the Week is . . .
ALEXANDRA GRANT!
An extraordinarily talented visual artist who also has a big heart for giving back
For me, art and art-making isn't about arriving to art. It's about the journey to get there, which is constantly shifting because it's an imaginary journey. I'm on a journey to art. I'm a traveler to art.
- Alexandra Grant
(The Genius Report)
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who through an exploration of the use of text and language in various media—painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and photography—probes ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility. Grant frequently collaborates with other artists, writers, and philosophers, often going so far as to have specific texts written as the impetus to her intricate paintings and sculptures. She has collaborated with author Michael Joyce, actor Keanu Reeves, artist Channing Hansen, and the philosopher Hélène Cixous, among others.
Her website is incredible! Enjoy learning about Alexandra, her latest projects, art, exhibitions, publications, and article. There is so much to check out!
Have fun!
Vogue UK
Fantastic article and interview with Grant -- A MUST READ! We get to know how dynamic (and busy) she is - Orange County Museum of Art, Oscar de la Renta collab and Marfa Inviational - and that is just the first paragraph!
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/alexandra-grant-interview
Check out
The Genius List
https://www.thegeniuslist.com/interview/alexandra-grant/
Giving Back
The grantLOVE Project
Grant is the creator of the grantLOVE project, which has raised funds for arts-based non-profits including; Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), Project Angel Food, Art of Elysium, 18th Street Arts Center, and LAXART.
Click below for more info on grantLOVE project
Women's Wear Daily
and
Art & Object
Grant has exhibited widely at galleries including Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Lelong, New York City; Galerie Gradiva, Paris; and Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York City; and at institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA; The Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore,MD; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA.
Her work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, White Hot Magazine, Frieze, Art in America, and Artforum amongst others. Awards include the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Publishing
X Artists' Books
Grant cofounded X Artists’ Books, a publishing house for artist-centered books.
https://www.xartistsbooks.com/
Good Reads, Podcasts, Videos
Woman of the Week! Artists, curators, writers & other incredible women
Woman of the Week! Artists, curators, writers & other incredible women
WATCH/GO!
Daily Paper Creates Wearable "Sunflowers" in Latest Van Gogh Museum Collaboration
Realizing covetable clothing informed by Van Gogh's most famous work
For the FW20 Daily Paper x Van Gogh Museum campaign, they partnered with four creatives who are seen as modern-day incarnations of the Dutch artist that also showcase the diversity of thought as well as race, gender, and sexuality. Captured through still images and candid filmed interviews of the young artists, we are able to see the various forms the modern artist's studio takes.
View
Peruse
https://www.vangoghmuseumshop.com/en/daily-paper-x-van-gogh-museum
And while I am on Van Gogh.....
I cannot get enough of these digital exhibits Click below for a stunning
3 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbgrHnbgoDU
The next Van Gogh exhibit by Grand Experiences is scheduled for 2021 in Indianapolis:
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And continuing with all things digital, I just downloaded this app and if you are keen to virtually wander through galleries, explore high definition artworks, take art selfies, transform a photo of your own or even travel through time and see the rainbow through art, download it. Plus, use the translate button to read about exhibits from around the world in your own language
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cultural
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Posters that changed the world in pictures:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2020/oct/07/posters-that-changed-the-world-in-pictures
Art Happenings
Woman of the Week! Artists, curators, writers & other incredible women
Art Happenings
Installation view of Dog Is Life, 2019, in “Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace"
Cecily Brown’s New Paintings Are Beautifully Sinister Visions of British History
Following the likes of Jenny Holzer, Ai Weiwei and Maurizio Cattelan
(the last of whom installed an 18-karat gold toilet that was famously stolen from the site in 2019), Brown is the first British artist to participate in Blenheim Palace’s contemporary art program since it launched in 2014. But whereas most artists before her showed existing works, Brown decided to adopt Blenheim as her muse, producing new site-specific paintings to exhibit in its halls.
Click below to read about the exhibit
(Photo by Tom Lindboe. Courtesy of Blenheim Art Foundation)
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Cindy Sherman Releases Latest Body Of Work In New York
If you are in NYC, try to go to see the work of this groundbreaking female artist
and...
over 300 of Sherman’s photographs are now on show at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, including some recent and previously unseen works
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I am so happy I found this link on contemporary African, Pan-African, and Black artists' art auction benefitting
Amref Health
Amref Health Africa ArtBall: Benefit Auction 2020
Two days left!
Amref Health Africa ArtBall is a premier contemporary African, Pan-African, and Black art auction to benefit Amref Health Africa’s COVID-19 mitigation work on the ground in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Sudan, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, and South Africa. Pillars of this work consist of training health workers, providing access to clean water and proper sanitation, testing and laboratory strengthening, and mitigating secondary impacts. Amref Health Africa is the largest African-based NGO in the world with over 100 health-centered programs across 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, reaching over nine million people per year
https://www.artsy.net/auction/amref-health-africa-artball-benefit-auction-2020
more to check out!
Art Pick (pic!) of the Week
Art Pick (pic!) of the Week
Art Pick (pic!) of the Week
Distant Butterfly, 2009
by Shiri Achu
Limited Edition 3/200
I found this and fell in love with Distant Butterfly (2009) as I was perusing and posting the link to the Amref Health Africa ArtBall: Benefit Auction 2020 so it is my art pic of the week!
Shiri Achu was born in Cameroon, West Africa. She and her family immigrated to London, where she lived for many years. Today, she has studios in Cameroon, the UK, and the USA. After obtaining an A* & A at GCSE and A level Art, she went on to study Architecture at Cardiff University. However, since qualifying as an Architect, Shiri continued to long for her paint brush and now dares to follow and advance the passion she has pursued throughout her life; Painting. She picked up her first paint brush at a tender age of 9, experimenting with several mediums including oils, acrylics, watercolor, mix media, etc. Today, her chosen preferred mediums are acrylics and oils.
BIG news!
Art Pick (pic!) of the Week
Art Pick (pic!) of the Week
I Was Born to Love (2 ), 2019
Alexandra Grant
courtesy of grantLOVE
BIG NEWS for our Women of the Week, Alexandra Grant, whose exhibition Telepathy is One Step Further
Than Empathy
and pop up shop are opening this week, Thursday, October 15th, at the Orange County Museum of Art
For Grant, love has the power to move beyond empathy into a form of telepathy, which does not privilege one individual over another, but rather is equal and reciprocal. The works in the exhibition use as their starting point the quote "I was born to love not to hate" from Sophocles's play Antigone, which embodies Grant's thinking.
(Text courtesy of OCMA curatorial staff)
Also, and super fun, look for the grantLOVE pop up shop in OCMA's lobby (I saw the space being readied and it looks very cool). Necklaces and prints from grantLOVE are just some of Grant's work that will be available and proceeds will support the acquisition of art by underrepresented artists for OCMA's collection.
How wonderful is this!!!??
Please check out the link below for all current exhibitions, hours of operation and protocol for visiting OCMA Expand.
and
More OCMA News:
Visionaries Art Lecture Series
for 2020/2021 on Mondays!
Takin' It To The Streets
Monuments, Memorials and Murals:
100 Years of Public Art
Beginning Monday, October 5th
1-3pm
VIA ZOOM
Registration is now open! For detailed information, please click on the link below to sign up online
https://www.ocmaexpand.org/visionaries
The Lecturer for Fall 2020 is
Monica Jovanovich, Art Historian, whose expertise and emphasis is in public art so attendees are in for a big treat!
Monica will discuss, among many others, the work of José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Corita Kent, Barbara Kruger, the Guerilla Girls and Banksy.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR ANOTHER INCREDIBLE LECTURE SERIES!
My Published Articles
Art Pick (pic!) of the Week
My Published Articles
The Power of Flowers
An article exploring the long relationship between art and flora and the powers of observation during the pandemic
begins p. 145
http://bluedoormagazine.com/magazin/
Art and The Other -
OCMA's Season 4
https://issuu.com/bluedoormagazine/docs/bd_vol9_flipbook_whole_issue
begins p 66
Creating Her Space
Five Female Visual Artists Inspiring Creative Culture in Orange County and Beyond
https://issuu.com/bluedoormagazine/docs/bdm_volume6_2019
begins p 112
about me
A Writing Journey
I'm Jennifer Condas and thank you for viewing my site. (I also write under Jenna Condas). I hope to share interesting information on women and art and am especially happy to share the amazing journey I have been on when writing my book on Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and MoMA. The project began in earnest after I completed my Masters program at UC Irvine. I obtained my masters degree in History with an emphasis in Visual Studies (art history was my major in college, also UCI). For my thesis, I knew I wanted to write about topics that interested me and that I was passionate about. If I was going to write about something for an extended period of time, while raising a family, being a leading philanthropist in Orange County, and attending school full time, it just HAD to be a topic I loved. I thought about what my interests were and focused on three things... (1) art, (2) women's philanthropic endeavors and (3) New York City - my home away from home. I was awarded a research stipend which helped fund my research quest. I knew I wanted to write about art and women who raised money for causes they were passionate about and they had to be based in NYC.
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So....now I had to narrow down who that woman would be. I read some biographies and scholarly articles and scoured the internet. I did research in libraries and museum archives in New York City. The three "finalists" were Peggy Guggenheim, Louisine Havemeyer* (married to a sugar baron and who was instrumental in the early success of The Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art. (MoMA). In the end, it was an easy decision. After doing some preliminary research at the Rockefeller Archive Center and simultaneously reading the only really comprehensive (until my book is published of course!!) about Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Bernice Kert's "The Woman in the Family," I felt I had not only found an amazing woman to write about but a kindred spirit in Abby. My book provides a different view than Kert's and incorporates exciting and never previously published information which is quite exciting
for any author.
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It has been one of the most special and enriching experiences of my life to write abut Abby and a privilege and I look forward to blogging about it and hope you find Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as wonderful as I do.
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I am also completing an article about two very early patrons of modernism in the U.S., Clara Davidge and Katherine Dreier and her Societe Anonyme, considered by some to be the first true museum of modern art in New York. Excerpts will be published on my blog. .
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*Louisine Havemeyer, her friendship and mentorship under Mary Cassatt, her love of Impressionist art, her efforts at The Met and her strong role as a suffragist will probably be the subject of my next book.
Archived content
Women of the Week
PAST WOMEN OF THE WEEK (artists, historians, writers, academics, curators)
ELIZABETH TURK
So excited to feature Elizabeth Turk, whose work just mesmerizes me! Enjoy learning about this incredible artist!
A native Californian, Turk is known for marble sculpture and community installations. Turk’s marble work searches the boundaries of paradox: the contemporary in the traditional, the lightness in weight, the emptiness in mass, the fluidity of the solid, extended time in a moment. Her intricately carved sculptures defy gravity and make possible that which seems impossible. Inspired by the natural world, she references its myriad of elegant organic structures, yet her work is not complete until abandoned to larger environments. Her moving experiences are drawn from concepts developed in her sketchbooks over many years. She is a MacArthur Fellow, an Annalee & Barnett Newman Foundation recipient and a Smithsonian Artist Fellow among other awards. Turk received her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in 1994, her BA from Scripps College, Claremont, CA in 1983. She has been represented by Hirschl & Adler, Modern in NYC since 2000. In 2017 she launched ET Studios (a CA non-profit) to develop open community experiences. Currently, she splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and NYC.
(MUST WATCH!)Sculptor Elizabeth Turk: 2010 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DQTEYf7Bk
Turk's website:https://elizabethturkstudios.com/
New Exhibition’Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction;” October 1-November 20 at Hirschl and Adler, Modern https://elizabethturkstudios.com/et-projects/tipping-point/
The catalog is available digitally! Click :https://issuu.com/brendanr-hirschlandadler/docs/turk__elizabeth__tipping_point__pages Shoreline Project (seriously incredible!)https://www.shorelineproject.org/andhttps://elizabethturkstudios.com/et-projects/shoreline-project-new/
Newsletter https://elizabethturkstudios.com/unitegallery-newsletter2020/
Grace Lynne Haynes!
Haynes was an easy choice to feature as this week's Woman of the Week. Her stunning portrayal of American abolitionist Sojourner Truth was recently featured on the cover of The New Yorker
(August 3 & 10, 2020)
I could look at her website for hours....be sure to check it out and also click on 2019 and 2020 at the top and see lots of her incredible art!!!
LOVE! HER! WORK!
https://www.bygracelynne.com/about
Follow her @bygracelynne
Must Watch!
Absolutely fantastic video featuring Haynes' process and inspiration for the cover. Watch all the way through to the end because it is so moving (and a celebration as well).
How an Artist Represents Blackness Through Her Paintings courtesy of the New Yorker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaj_btI3KQc
Interview in which Haynes describes portraying Sojourner Truth's fight for broader equality in her first New Yorker cover.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2020-08-03
Brief bio but her website has more complete information: Grace Lynne Haynes is a Los Angeles born painter and designer who centers her work around the modern day Afro-American woman and her relationship to femininity. She strives to explore the intersections between culture, color, femininity and the African Diaspora at large. Haynes received her BA in Illustration and Social Practice. Her work has been published in New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, and the American Illustration Annual. She has exhibited at the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Paul Robeson Gallery, Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery and the New Image Art Gallery
Carla Arzente, Owner and Suzanne Walsh, Director
saltfineart + RAWsalt Art Gallery Laguna Beach
Carla Arzente was born in
El Salvador, moving to the United States to pursue an education and career in advertising. After 10 years working in New York as a creative director, Arzente moved to Southern California where she established saltfineart, a contemporary gallery dedicated to Latin American art. Over the past 12 years Arzente has formed relationships with both well-established as well as emerging artists from over 21 countries, curating exhibitions that approach art from a regional and cultural perspective. By placing the work in direct context with the country and culture within which it was created, Arzente has created a successful precedent, rare for a commercial gallery, of education serving as the foundation for a passionate
love of art.
Suzanne Walsh has been the Director of saltfineart since its inception, working with Carla Arzente in curating exhibitions that feature artists from across the globe. Growing up in Southern California as the daughter of an art critic, Suzanne was exposed at an early age to the business of art, serving as the basis for a lifelong passion for supporting art and culture in all of its forms. Following in her mother's footsteps, Suzanne is known as a writer, curator and gallerist and has been involved in the successful launch of countless exhibitions both as curator and behind-the-scenes consultant throughout Los Angeles and Orange County.
Prepared to be wowed.....
Follow on.....
https://www.instagram.com/saltfineart/
Articles
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/tn-wknd-et-0101-hansen-20161224-story.html
https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/girl-pack-invades-men%E2%80%99s-art/
http://rogue-arts.org/suzanne-walsh-and-the-ladies-of-laguna-beach-a-thriving-force/
Maria Duran Sampredo
Durán is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. She earned earned an MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (2020), and a BFA with Distinction and Honors in Communication Design at the Pratt Institute (2017). Duran’s solemn sculptures embody the effects of trauma. In her painting and photography, she divulges fictional narratives as well as mental health themes through charged symbolism and planar intersections.
Duran's worth is quite simply breathtaking in my opinion.
Check out her site to be wowed!
Her sculpture, photography, painting are incredible and be sure to check out her CV and Bio as well as her powerful
Artist's Statement
https://mariaduran.myportfolio.com/sculpture
She is currently featured in
We Interrupt this Program, at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts 2020 Online Thesis Exhibition
July 16 – August 6
curated by Regine Basha
http://weinterruptthisprogram.sva.edu/
Here is a link to Duran's work featured in the show:
https://www.galleries.sva.edu/maria-duran-sampedro
Duran has exhibited at La Mama Galleria in Manhattan, and the outdoor artspace Artlot in Brooklyn. She has recently co-curated The Center Cannot Hold at Equity Gallery in New York, NY, which was listed on Artsy's featured shows of March 2020. Duran has also been nominated for the 2020/21 AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship. She has been featured in three issues of Spectator magazine and was a Chosen Illustrator of the Ai - Ap Latin American Illustración 6 Competition
Dr. Julia Friedman
I am so pleased to feature Julia Friedman, one of my favorite lecturers, authors and art historians as this week's Woman of the Week!
Julia Friedman is an art historian, critic, and curator based in Irvine. She began her art historical studies at the Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, where she grew up. In 2005 she received a Ph.D. in Art History from Brown University, and has since researched and taught in the U.S., U.K., and Japan.
She has been a regular contributor to Artforum, the Huffington Post, and the New Criterion. Since moving to Orange County in 2014, she has been teaching modern art history at CSULB and lecturing at local museums.
Last year she wrote three articles on Wayne Thiebaud’s brand new body of work—his clown series. They will be the subject of the upcoming exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum:
https://lagunaartmuseum.org/exhibitions/wayne-thiebaud-clowns/
She is presently working on Thiebaud's figure paintings.
You can read some of her articles (on Thiebaud, Balthus and Vermeer) here: https://newcriterion.com/author/julia-friedman
Her most recent article is a really timely read and I encourage you all to click on the link!
"Why words matter" was published earlier this month:
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/why-words-matter
Her trans-disciplinary work on European Modernism, Russian emigration, and book art resulted in the illustrated monograph Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism: Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art, published by Northwestern University Press in 2011.
In 2016 she completed a project based on the digital writings of Dave Hickey, editing Dust Bunnies and Wasted Words—two pendant volumes of the critic’s Facebook exchanges.
Cecilia Paredes
Peruvian-born multimedia artist Cecilia Paredes is renowned for her performance, photography, sculpture and installation. Using her body as canvas, she paints herself into backgrounds of damask and chintz, forests and deserts. But she never completely blends —-never becomes mere decoration. Paredes is a part of the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Panama Modern Museum, Museo del Barrio New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Costa Rica among many other institutions.
Part of what makes us human is our ability to see beyond the narrow door through which we enter the world—to grow beyond the culture of our birth by recognizing other cultures, other patterns of life. Yet our birth culture is always imprinted upon us; the mystery of identity is never fully resolved. We are always from a time and place to which we can never return. —Cecilia Paredes
Check out her available work:
https://www.shopsaltfineart.com/products?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=CECILIA+PAREDES
W Magazine
https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/cecilia-paredes-self-portraits/
Videos
Watch for sure!!
Interview and overview of her AMAZING work!!!
Music video inspired by her art -
it is mesmerizing!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZF9dwj3Hs
Articles of Note:
http://saltfineart.com/cecilia-paredes-wins-international-award-for-artistic-excellence/
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/11/camouflaged-self-portraits-by-cecilia-paredes/
MMOMA Moscow exhibition: http://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/tverskoy/sesiliya_paredes_chastnyj_sad/
Sheila Barker
Curator
It is a huge honor to feature this week's woman of the week!
Sheila Barker is the
Director of The Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the Medici
The Medici Archive Project
Curator of the current Giovanna Garzoni Exhibition
Pitti Palace, Florence
https://www.medici.org/staff-sheila-barker/
The rediscovery of women's historical contributions to the fine arts is one of the most exciting developments of our time. The study of the art of the past, now that it includes female artists, viewers, and patrons, has never been so rich, so vivid, so entertaining, so true, or so pertinent.
- Sheila Barker . . .
Check out this stunning video presentation of the Giovanna Garzoni exhibition in English
and Barker's essay on Giovanna Garzoni for the exhibition catalog: https://www.academia.edu/42842322/The_Universe_of_Giovanna_Garzoni._Art_Mobility_and_the_Global_Turn_in_the_Geographical_Imaginary
Her most recent article on Artemisia Gentileschi: https://www.academia.edu/38491524/The_First_Biography_of_Artemisia_Gentileschi_Self-Fashioning_and_Proto-Feminist_Art_History_in_Cristofano_Bronzini_s_Notes_on_Women_Artists
Link to Barker's blog on exhibitions of women artists:https://artherstory.net/the-politics-of-exhibiting-female-old-masters/
Barker's research Interests include
interrelationships between art and science in the 16th-18th centuries; Women artists; Medicine and pharmacy in grand ducal Tuscany
Cécile Whiting
Chancellor's Professor,
Art History
Professor, Visual Studies
School of Humanities
UC Irvine
I am so thrilled to have esteemed Chancellor's Professor Cécile Whiting as this week's Woman of the Week! Her research focuses primarily on American art of the mid-twentieth century about which she has published three books: Antifascism in American Art (Yale, 1989), A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture (Cambridge, 1997), and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Berkeley, 2006). Her most recent book was awarded the 21st Charles C. Eldredge Prize awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. More recently, in 2018, she received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution.
Cécile was one of my thesis advisors at UCI and I am so proud to know this brilliant and tremendously special woman!
Faculty Profile
https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4939
Pop L.A: Art and the City in the 1960s
(I LOVE this book!) https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520256347/pop-la
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Cecile Whiting: California War Babies: Picturing World War II in the 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saEn0ov3d0U
Carole Kunstadt
Carole Kunstadt's works on/of paper reference artifacts and antique books, deconstructing paper and text and using it in metaphorical ways. A book is not only the way in which text is presented but it is a container. An irreplaceable aspect of the book is that books absorb histories. Through the manipulation of the antique materials, history, memory and time merge in a hybrid form revealing how language can become visual through re-interpretation. Kunstadt often invokes a metaphysical quality of contemplation and timelessness.
Patricia Schnall Gutierrez
Her multidisciplinary work (including painting, drawing, sculptural objects, performance, and installation) draws its inspiration from a self-referential account of personal memories, situations, and emotions. Through her personal stories, she shares a unique perspective on controversial issues facing contemporary women and society. https://www.patriciaschnallgutierrez.com/
and
interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qEYfp2xhY&feature=youtu.be
Yevgeniya Mikhailik
Artist, illustrator, educator and curator and one of my favorite artists in Orange County
http://www.yevgeniyadraws.com/about
and
Blue Door Magazine https://issuu.com/bluedoormagazine/docs/bdm_volume6_2019
p 122-125
Art Pic of the Week, Art Happenings & Big News!
ART PIC OF THE WEEK
Lost in Krovblit Landby David KrovblitOriginal hand cut collage on custom baltic birch panel, sealed with resin 36" x 36" x 3" (2020)
MUST CLICK HERE . . . http://www.krovblit.com/#AstronautUNDER COLLAGE, CLICK ON ASTRONAUT TO SEE AN ENLARGED PHOTO OF THIS GORGEOUS PIECE!
Krovblit's insight into Lost in Krovblit Land
It is a revelation to realize this [spaceman] is me - lost in Krovblit Land. These days I find myself so completely submerged in my art - 10,000 feet below the water or deep in the orbit of another dimension forgotten by time. A Canadian “alien" carrying a camera in one hand and in the other, his tools helping him on his journey through the porthole. If you want to find yourself you need to make tough decisions, ride the relentless pursuit and oh ya, have fun while doing it! - Dave Krovblit
Links to check out!
Article by Jamie Favela for Visual Atelier 8: Krovblit Pieces Together Blooming Collages By Handhttps://www.visualatelier8.com/art/2020/7/david-krovblitSo true! His pieces are mesmerizing and a joy to take in! Enjoy the article and the gorgeous pieces featured
Video giving us a peek at his artistic process when creating Paradise Flamingo for the Laguna Art Museum https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-ciV_AIoK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkCalifornia
Krovblit is a Toronto-born visual artist who currently lives and works in Orange County. He uses illustrations and photography he finds in retro and vintage books, magazines and digital files to create original, analog collages with a contemporary edge - rich in color, imagination and fantasy. Krovblit’s asymmetrical designs delve into topics based on nature, environment, life and death, science fiction, consumerism and consumption - asking questions, stimulating laughter, intrigue, nostalgia and amazement. He curates images lost in time; repackaging them to build an entirely new story - a process he describes as “capitalizing on the beauty." He consistently introduces new series of work in his own hand-cut collage style - rooted in pop and historical pop culture. He also references 19th century botanicals, pop surrealism, pulp and retro futurism to build his layers. Themes such as medical anatomy, vintage florals, science and technology, environment, nature and health are explored throughout the works. Krovblit’s techniques are ever-evolving and progressive, combining traditional and new methods.
More links to explore. Have fun!https://linktr.ee/krovblit1.comWeb: www.krovblit.comInsta: @krovblit1 @krovblitland Facebook: @krovblit1
The Umbilical Cord of the
Earth is the Moon
Luchita Hurtado, 1975, oil on canvas 20 x 16 in © Luchita Hurtado,
photo: Jeff McLane
Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
This was an easy choice for the first Painting of the Week!
Luchita Hurtado, became an art world sensation "overnight" in her 90s and recently died at the age of 99. Click the links below to learn more about her talent, fascinating life, her famous artist friends and art movements she was associated with.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/arts/luchita-hurtado-dead.html
Wonderful profile of Hurtado in ArtForum
https://www.artforum.com/news/luchita-hurtado-1920-2020-83674
New York Times T Magazine
This Pioneering Artist is on the Brink of Her First Big Retrospective, at 98
A string of solo exhibitions will shine new light on the work of the Venezuelan-born artist Luchita Hurtado.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/t-magazine/luchita-hurtado.html
Much more from Hauser & Wirth
https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/23262-luchita-hurtado
ART HAPPENINGS
If you haven't seen Black is King, the new visual album by Beyoncé, it is truly an incredible contribution to the arts
The Art of ‘Black Is King’: Beyoncé’s New Visual Album Involves Today’s Best Artists and Curators:
Movie trailer is beyond powerful....click here. I literally get chills watching it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69MO7yU0d70
Black Is King was shot on several different continents, though according to Joshua Kissi, a photographer who served as co-director, a special emphasis was placed on Africa. “This is the first time where we get to have a global conversation within the diaspora and beyond of what it means to be Black and what it means to be African at that, and I think there are many different nuanced conversations within that and topics on how that it’s expressed, who says it, who owns that narrative, how that narrative is actually beneficial to people that are continental Africans on the ground—as well as spread out throughout the diaspora.”
These are two fabulous music videos
Bigger by Beyoncé:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZalRwnSRXhE
and
this is my favorite....the imagery!
and love the song:
Beyoncé, Shatta Wale, Major Lazer: ALREADY (Official Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agCgvFTJeRs
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/arts/music/beyonce-black-is-king.html
Enjoy Queen B!
Image courtesy of Parkwood Entertainment/Disney Plus
Take a tour of Kendall Jenner's home with Architectural Digest and check out her beautiful James Turrell. Other artists in Jenner’s collection include Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, and Sterling Ruby.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kendall-jenner-gigi-hadid-unveiled-art-filled-homes-1898051
The Art Angle
Some fantastic podcasts including a discussion on how Black women artists in Pittsburgh are disrupting the status quo.
https://news.artnet.com/the-art-angle/art-angle-podcast-black-women-grassroots-1896889
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Artist Project
Quick and super informative
Watch artist Diana Al Hadid on my favorite room at The Met -
the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
http://artistproject.metmuseum.org/3/diana-al-hadid/.
She jokingly refers to these Villas as The Hamptons of Naples!
Want a great way to spend 5 minutes? Watch this informative and cool animated video
courtesy of TED Ed
The Myth of Cupid and Psyche
This quick little video explains the mystery and fascination surrounding this mythological intrigue long explored in art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjj_-CPxjCM
How about some virtual travel? This looks fantastic!
Downton Detroit Art and Architecture Tour
(I just registered!)
August 2nd 10 am - 11 am PDT
To register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/downtown-detroit-art-architecture-virtual-tour-tickets-111349376984
New Yayoi Kusama exhibition will feature never before seen works of art!
J. Paul Getty Museum
(this is seriously cool!)
Virtual touring was never so fun.....
Through Google's Arts and Culture feature, you can take in some of the most notable highlights of the collection, including Van Gogh's Irises.
Christie's
Need a Little Material Escapism?
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Christie's 2012 auction 'The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor' in New York – from preparing catalogues to designing the exhibition space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODPUwi_DxMs&t=34s
BIG NEWS!
#Artists Band Together
As the U.S. Presidential election draws near, 15 artists have come together to produce original, wearable artworks to galvanize voters into action.Organized by Female artists include Marilyn Minter, Barbara Kruger, Juliana Huxtable and Luchita Hurtado
#ArtistsBandTogether
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/artists-design-2020-election-bandanas/index.html
https://www.instagram.com/artistsbandtogether/
Good Reads (and Videos)
Ebony L. Haynes, Gallerist, to head up a new NYC David Zwirner gallery
This is such an important story!
David Zwirner has hired Ebony L. Haynes to create and oversee a new Manhattan gallery, which she intends to run with an all-Black staff, reports the New York Times. Haynes begins on October 1 and expects to open the gallery —whose name, location, and programming have yet to be determined— next spring. https://www.artforum.com/news/zwirner-hires-ebony-l-haynes-to-create-new-york-gallery-with-all-black-staff-84008and EBONY L. HAYNES TO CREATE BLACK-RUN NYC GALLERY WITH SUPPORT FROM DAVID ZWIRNER
GOMASS MOCA
An event of singular importance is scheduled this spring at MASS MoCA—a decade-long installation of three monumental marbles by Louise Bourgeois, each weighing several tons and occupying a sprawling measure of floor space reinforced by steel supports, with an additional aluminum sculpture on five-year loan. One of the colossi on display, Untitled, 1991, comprises two marble slabs wedged together. https://www.artforum.com/previews/north-adams
Update on The Met's Annual Costume Institute's Exhibition:How the Delayed Opening of About Time Created an Opportunity for the Methttps://www.vogue.com/article/about-time-andrew-bolton-updates
READ Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/broad-strokes-15-women-who-made-art-and-made-history.htmland What to Buy: The 10 Best Art Books Ever https://www.countryandtownhouse.co.uk/culture/ten-best-art-books/#1
WATCH I haven't missed one of the Met Museum's rooftop exhibits in a long time so New Yorkers, please go! This looks very cool https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2020/roof-commission-hector-zamora
LEARNWhat will LACMA’s new building look like inside? Here are the long-awaited gallery planshttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-09-17/after-months-delay-lacma-reveals-gallery-plans-new-zumthor-building
A little digital escapismThis is so cool! I just want to go there! Click on some of the videos to be transported briefly to other dimensions from teamlabarthttps://borderless.teamlab.art/
Marina Abramović in The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, an opera project by the performance artist atThe Bayerische Staatsoper Opera House in Munich.The premiere of Abramović's project features seven different singers sing seven of Callas’s greatest roles under the baton of Yoel Gamzou. THIS IS SERIOUSLY GORGEOUS! For more info: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12117/marina-abramovic-opera-7-deaths-of-maria-callas-watch-free-online
SEE THE ENTIRE PERFORMANCE HERE !! CLICK LINK:https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/099197-000-A/the-7-deaths-of-maria-callas/
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Majestic Sculptures Showcased in Newly Streamable DocumentariesThese videos look absolutely beautiful and for a nominal fee charged by the Criterion Chanel, they are available for all to watch. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/christo-jeanne-claude-maysles-brothers-documentaries-criterion-channel-1234570724/
A topic which is so pertinent right nowChristo and Jeanne-Claude's Unfinished Works propose radical alternatives to Traditional Monumentshttps://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/christo-and-jeanne-claude-unfinished-works-propose-radical-alternatives-traditional-monuments-1202691278/
The Most Dangerous Place to be - On Outrage Culture's Debt to Post-Modern Theory The article, co-authored by Professor Julia Friedman (who was one of our first Women of the Week on this site) and Professor David Hawkesis on the relationship between statue toppling and academia. I really like her thinking on this. https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-most-dangerous-place-to-be
Check out Rockefeller Center's new sculpture installation: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/heres-a-first-look-at-rockefeller-centers-major-new-sculpture-installation-090220
An App for the Aging Mind – and EyeIs there anything the remarkable Faith Ringgold cannot do? Unbelievable! https://seniorplanet.org/a-celebrated-artist-creates-an-app-for-the-aging-mind-and-eye/
Bow Down to Women Artists! Overdue and so well-deserved! https://www.frieze.com/article/bow-down-podcast-women-art-history Bow Down is a podcast about significant women artists from the past who deserve our attention. For each 20-minute episode, Jennifer Higgie – frieze editor at large – invites an artist, writer, historian or curator to nominate an artist to whom we should all … well, bow down.
USPS art themed stamps including Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Marcel Duchamp
(if you can find them)
but good news.....
Ruth Asawa's were just released - cannot wait to order!
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-stamps-usps-1902451
For some fun, check out the 10 most expensive artworks by living artists
(tsk, tsk! No women on this list but still interesting)
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/most-expensive-artworks-living-artists/
Fascinating!
New research suggests that abstract art has qualities that can literally change our mindsets, and prompt us to let the minutia of day-to-day life fall away.
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/abstract-art-mindset-study
Wet Paint: Gagosian to Open a Gallery in the Vacant Marciano Museum, Dealers Stalk Gavin Brown Artists, & More Art-World Gossip (this is a very fun site!!)
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/best-and-worst-of-the-art-world-this-week-23-1898829
I have done my fair share of archival research at MoMA and love this
Plumbing the Secrets of the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moma-archives-secrets
Artist Ruth Asawa finally getting her due (special thanks to my good friend and editor Kedric Francis to bringing this article to my attention)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/t-magazine/ruth-asawa.html
The New York Times
A Clue to Van Gogh's Final Days is Found in his Last Painting
This is fascinating - and the "clue" was pretty obvious for over a century
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/arts/design/vincent-van-gogh-tree-roots.html
One just never knows what little masterpiece is lurking
in the kitchen! https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cimabue-masterpiece-discovered-scli-intl/index.html
PASSING-TIME (ALL MONTH)
Sick of scrolling through the same-same on Instragram? Passing-Time is a new online, artist-driven video channel, on which artists, photographers, curators, and other creatives submit intriguing short videos that reflect the conditions we find ourselves in. It aims to document a period in our collective history marked by quarantine, social distancing, and societal self-examination, and contributors so far include Marilyn Minter, Vanessa Beecroft, Tschabalala Self, Matthew Barney, and Ari Marcopoulos. Like time itself, there are no stop, pause, fast-forward, or rewind buttons, so you never know what you might stumble upon. Content is always changing so if you click on the link and then click on it a minute later the content is completely different.
Give yourself the time to really experience it.
Art for Change!
Out of Touch launched by Shepard Fairey's gallery, Subliminal Projects,
unites artists, nonprofits, and patrons by contributing aid to COVID-19 relief and to the social revolution. 30% of the proceeds will be split between Color of Change, dedicated to racial justice, and Heart to Heart International, providing medical aid worldwide.
https://www.artsy.net/show/subliminal-projects-out-of-touch
Sotheby's
Sotheby's Tries Something New
See how the auction house fared with its first virtual global auction
(I watched it live and it was a highly enjoyable and entertaining viewing experience)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/arts/design/sothebys-online-auction.html
Art and nature have long been intertwined. This PBS video will take you on a magical 3 minute journey with a "hummingbird" and butterflies - it's incredible. Watch it full screen. Astonishing!
https://www.inspiremore.com/pbs-nature-butterfly-swarm/
Craft and Art
There has long been an interesting and sometimes contested dynamic between craft and art. Check out these links to both the Whitney and Berkeley Museum of Art exhibitions, articles, and videos that contribute to that conversation in meaningful ways.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Making Knowing: Craft in Art
1950-2019
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/making-knowing
Watch this video! I saw this exhibition and Liza Lou's Kitchen (1991-1996) is spectacular
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/making-knowing#exhibition-videos
and
Berkeley Art Museum The Radical Quilting of
Rosie Lee Tomkins
A triumphal retrospective that confirms her standing as one of the great American artists - transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/26/arts/design/rosie-lee-tompkins-quilts.html
Virtual Tour...
https://bampfa.org/program/rosie-lee-tompkins-retrospective
. . .
I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.
- Georgia O'Keefe
Want a great way to spend 5 minutes? Watch this informative (and pretty cool!) animated video about Georgia O'Keefe courtesy of TED Ed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KQeu_mTYTQ
Get to know one of my favorite museums ever! MASS MoCA - I absolutely love their innovative thinking!! It is truly a marvel. Put it on your bucket list to visit for sure!
Click link for a great video and explore the site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=52&v=jiBj2SX_S7Y&feature=emb_logo
and
Put your paintbrush down!
Tragic restoration attempt in Spain
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/murillo-restoration-fail-spain-1888995
Bravo Christie's for this brief video of Judy Chicago (added bonus: she rocks the coolest hair ever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym3ORu0TSXc
Jeff Koons -
His process with videos and pics - very cool via David Zwirner's amazing website (be sure to check out Art Basel Viewing Rooms also on the site)
Van Gogh and Gauguin letter about brothel visit sells for €210,000:
‘Exceptional’ correspondence sent from Arles in 1888 is bought by Van Gogh Museum
Hidden DaVinci - Salvator Mundi
Saudi Arabia's Plans to Unveil
Ninth Street Women - Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art
by Mary Gabriel
Recommended to me yesterday by artist Carole Kunstadt!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28118491-ninth-street-women
How artists tried to make sense of the 1918 flu pandemic
https://time.com/5827561/1918-flu-art/
. . .
How Street Artists Around the World are Reacting to Life with Covid-19
The Smithsonian
Interview at MoMA with human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson about the work of Jacob Lawrence and the power of art to communicate justice
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78545
OCMA Expand
Impending Actions: Virtual Video
Art Screening .
RSVP
June 18 - June 20
https://www.ocmaexpand.org/events/impending-actions-virtual-video-art-screening
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