seemingly effortlessly

 Michelle Grabner

bp Nichol

so death is really heavy...

a lot of my works shares a common root in its attention to death (or mortality). it has been a conscious and central focus of my projects for a while now - and i'm noticing a major issue with this. death is a heavy subject, and obvious. the trick is to do something new with it - and i'm using this post as a display of research into how to make death more... fun, accessible, and less heavy-handed.

David Shrigley - Cat with No Head (taxidermy) 2006

this David Shrigley piece is a pretty perfect example of the type of sentiment i am interested in here, but there are a few more:

Harald Naegeli - Death Series (Cologne, Germany) 1981

graffiti in Paris, France

John Rainbow - Death Cloud (acrylic, pen, and collage on paper)

Royal Art Lodge - Untitled (Come Drown)

Edward Gorey - K

sad =(^.^)= day

we brought Charles and Rascal back to Maryland SPCA. maybe when we're less stressed and more comfortable we will have the time and energy to take on the responsibility of owning a cat or 2. we only had them for 10 days, but i still got choked up and cried.

on bad art

"Bad art can be really disheartening. It means not having the self-awareness to challenge or question oneself, and worse, pretending that we’re developing an idea when there never was one."
-Whitney Kimball, 9/11/12, for Art Fag City

11 years

Dash Snow, (polaroid) 2001

Gerhard Richter - September (oil on canvas) 2009

Ellsworth Kelly - proposal of a grass field for World Trade Center monument

Labor Day / Morning / Baltimore / 2012

Today is a good day.

crow art

here is some research related to the crow project i am working on. my piece, which is unfortunately planned to be kinda similar to Seonna Hong's piece, will consist of a large number of fake taxidermy crows lined up on a shelf the entire length of the wall a foot or so short of the ceiling.

Edouard Manet - Raven (wash on paper) 1975-8

Carlo Dolci - St. Paul the Hermit Fed by the Raven (oil on canvas) c. 1648

Caspar David Friedrich - Woman with Raven on the Edge of a Chasam (woodcut) c. 1803

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Illustration to Poe's Raven (pen and wash on paper) c. 1847

 

 Seonna Hong - Raven 1-8 (leather) 2006

 

M.C. Escher - The Black Raven (wood engraving) 1925

Elizabeth Stehling - Raven (umbrella) 2009

Robert Davidson - Raven (screenprint)