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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
by
Linda Nochlin (written in 1988):

here's the link

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/nochlin.htm

just found this today

Try all the flavors in student exhibit

By KEVIN COSTELLO
CORRESPONDENT

Published: Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 2:41 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7:13 a.m.

The 8,000 square feet of floor space and 25-foot high ceiling of Mack b Projects, located just east of Highway 41 on Tallevast Road, is the area's largest and most progressive commercial art gallery.

ART REVIEW: 33 Flavors, A Fine Art Thesis Show
On view Friday through May 2 at Mack b Projects, 500 Tallevast Road. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. 359-0654; mackbgallery.com.

"33 Flavors," the Ringling College of Art and Design's fine arts thesis show on view at the gallery, lives up to expectations based on previous years in its diversity of ideas in contemporary art. The title of the show refers to the number of graduating seniors and is apt for such an abundance of styles, attitudes and materials on view. Everything from geometric and lyrical abstraction, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism to variants of Conceptualism are here in materials ranging from traditional painting and print media to wood, metal, plaster, glass, fabric and found objects.

A sampling of the flavors includes Corrine Grier's soft, voluptuous biomorphic sculptures made of stuffed fabrics that address issues of female body self-image. The paintings of Mathew Knopf seek to reconcile a multiplicity of appropriated cultural icons into a single vision by recontextualizing the icons so they lose their original meaning for an implied new one. Ruben Kern keeps alive the primitivistic tradition of contemporary art with mixed media figurines that could have been exhumed at an archeological dig.

The tall glass and steel square columns of Brandon Petefish are conceived as subjective self-portraits while asserting the continuing aesthetic potential of architectonic sculpture. Carl Pomposelli, having sauntered through the aisles of office supply and dry goods stores for his materials, presents an installation that nudges the definition of visual chaos relative to order one step closer to the former without losing sight of the latter.

Various interpretations of Surrealism abound. Lynda Bostrom infuses her mixed-media sculptures with surrealist aesthetics that reflect on the tradition of Quietism seen in the context of family history. Sara Watson's bas-relief sculptures made of yarn add warmth and humor to the ongoing metamorphosis of feminist art toward less strident, reconcilable terms.

Art in the hands of the young carries the assumption that painting and sculpture can expand or contract perceptions at will in the mind of its audience and infuse the viewer with insights about the need for conceptual flexibility as necessary to a healthy society. It is a reasonable philosophical position for artists to take, one with a foundation in history and needful of an empathetic audience if we are going to nurture the visual poets of the future.

http://www1.heraldtribune.com/article/20080424/FEATURES/804240363/1013/FEATURES05

Marina Abramović

"Human beings are a part of the whole we call the Universe, a small region in time and space. They regard themselves, their ideas and their feelings as separate and apart from all the rest. It is something like an optical illusion in their consciousness. This illusion is a sort of prison; it restricts us to our personal aspirations and limits our affective life to a few people very close to us. Our task should be to free ourselves from this prison, opening up our circle of compassion in order to embrace all living creatures and all of nature in its beauty."

---Albert Einstein, cited by Ivone Gebara in Women Healing Earth

some imagery (for folks who are uninteressted in my writing)

undergrad work:







death is an irreconcilable thing

Grad School

soooooooooooooo much reading and writing. If you don't care about sleep than you're fine. As for the rest of you... you won't get much art done(I think this semester is the most I'll have to read and write for awhile)

Colab work with Frank Frank
(Hence the altering of the same piece over and over again)






I'm still not worried (not too much anyway) I will conquer this hairy beast of an institution!

video crit today

It went really well

One of several interactions... (Building upon or destroying)

Yet another way of exercising control and "chance"

Success!

Conformity can lead only to stagnation

that is all

:)

Leon Golub

“Everyone knows artists don’t change society, but that’s too easy a way to put it. Artists are part of the information process. If artists only make cubes, then what the world knows of art will be cubes. If there are artists who are doing other subject matters, including interrogations, these start to enter into differential dialogues regarding the nature of art and circumstance. It may not change the world, but the contexts and operations of art shift. Art becomes part of the context of experience in unexpected ways. If Jacques Louis David had not existed, our notions of what was possible in that period of time would be much different. Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on- levels of intention, levels of confidence, and levels of aggression or control. New subject matters start to break down some of the barriers of that protected enclave, the art world as we’ve known it”.

MFA/ICA

My grad group and I took a trip to two Museums today; the ICA and MFA.
Both were exceptionally mind blowing! The first was the ICA located in Boston Mass. I've never been before so I was really excited to go, since I've heard so god damned much about it. It definitely met my expectations (still not as good as Dia, but very close). I got to see a body of work by Tara Donovan and it was phenomenal!!! It's one thing to look at a picture of her work (they're pretty intense even with a picture) but it's absolutely imperative to see her work in person, to fully comprehend the pure genius that they are. She is very aware of the way the eye works (vision) gravity, color and gestalt. The only trouble I had with the work was the space that they were sitting in, although some sculptures worked in the space better than others. She did have one piece that was site specific and I found it to be very successful. I'm pretty damned impressed though... each piece looks as though it is alive and breathing when you walk around it.

Tara Donovan



the MFA consisted of a show containing Rachel Whiteread. Yet another brilliant artist that I haven't experienced in real before. Her negative castes were my favorite. You do get that sense of loss when your next to them... very provocative. She had a bunch of drawing/collages and an installation of doll houses as well, I wasn't as in to those but still thought the work was quite lovely. After that I went through the rest of the Museum and got wholly and completely absorbed in the beauty of Egyptian and Etruscan artifacts.... I can't get enough of it.

Rachel Whiteread

this is starting to be a little bit of a joke... i need to make a change

white wall...not so busy

Mimesis, Metaphor, Metonymy

Mimesis operates through metaphor, or the illusion and representation of one thing (for example, a bird) in the form of another (a painting of a bird)

Metaphor 'signifies both "is not" and "is like"

Metonymy specifies something by using the name of another thing with which it is directly connected. It signifies both 'is connected to' and 'is like'. For example: a person's shadow is a metonymy of his or her body; a crown can be a metonymy of the monarch. Thus, in the phrase 'the crown spoke to the parliament', the king or queen (one and the same with 'crown') spoke to the parliament. Metaphor can express distance and difference from object, nature and other beings, but is not a direct metonymic connection.

(Themes in contemporary art: chapter 5)