cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
I really do just love Carrie Marill’s work. She makes these astoundingly beautiful, precious gauche paintings. The other day she gave a short talk at the ASU Art Museum about her participation in the show that’s currently in the main gallery.
I wasn’t so sure about her most recent paintings, frankly. They seemed too bucolic. I [...]
I just read in Artforum that an estimated 2,000 works by the inestimable Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica (1937-80) went up in flames. This is really so sad… Oiticica was primarily preoccupied with color who’s work as a Brazilian Modernism often articulated a provocative response to formalism. His commentary on universal form was shaped through 3-dimensional [...]
A student recently asked me when was the last time I saw a piece of art that made me swoon… I couldn’t remember, really. It isn’t the object, the painting, the sculpture, or the installation of work that floats my boat; its the conversation the work inspires, the memories it compels and the performances it [...]
This is a cartoon by Suzanne van Rossenberg, a dutch artist living in Leiden. She takes the name Patricia Cornflake for these small drawings. Her larger body of work is a series of paintings that trade on queer identities and the power of storytelling. I consider Suzanne a friend, although we’ve never shaken hands. We [...]
Ladybird beetle near Three Mile Island, USA
Dent and a black growth on wings.
Watercolor, New Cumberland 1991
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger’s work is simply amazing. The Swiss scientific illustrator collects, studies and paints [...]