Artists I Kinda Wish I Was

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Gabriel Orozco
Joseph Cornell
James Schuyler
Richard Long
Fischli & Weiss
Kay Rosen
Ellsworth Kelly
Yves Klein
Robert Gober
Giuseppe Penone
William Carlos Williams

[I tried to be honest here. Perhaps the art world favors white dudes, or maybe I'm just unknowingly sexist. Crud.]

Lighting as Witchery

"MAGIC FOUNTAIN AT PARIS SHOWING THE WITCHERY OF MODERN LIGHTING" - from Great Inventions and their Inventors. John A. Maloney. University of Knowledge, Inc. Chicago,1938

Magic Fountain of Montjuic, Barcelona

James Turrell - Skyspace (Chicago)

http://www.intp-worldsource.com/fountains.html

Full Circle

Adam Farcus - The Earth Below (digital photograph) 2010

I am an American. And I think of myself as a populist artist. A populist artist makes work that is about and for the majority of his or her culture and public (in my case both are American). Therefore I should always make art that is ephemeral and about commodity culture.

Pluto, the loneliest planet

I made the piece below late last night - today, during a big thunder storm, I deemed it worthy after my first cup of coffee (out of my favorite mug) since I quit about a month ago.

Adam Farcus - Eternal Night (247.7 Years) (broken glass and window sticker) 2010

Fun, Finally

I've had a rough month; I was sick with a nasty sinus infection for 4 weeks, the end of the semester stressed me out, and me and Allie are still planning/organizing everything for our wedding. So I decided to curate some images of art that make me feel good, in reverse alphabetical order by their first names. Enjoy.

Sigurdur Gudmundsson - Study for Horizon (photograph) 1975

Ron Terada - Have You Seen this Kitty (poster and magazine add [in Artforum]) 2008

Piero Golia - Giraffe with no title with a pedestal so high that it makes her head bump into the ceiling, 2000

Olaf Breuning - Mammoth (photograph) 2008

Nina Bovasso - Large Black and White Crowd (ink and gesso on canvas) 2002

Mark Wallinger - Sleeper (performance, with viewers) 2005

KwieKulik - Activities with Dobromierz (photograph) 1972-1974

Jeff Koons - Puppy (flowers and steel, installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao) 1997

Gertrude Abercrombie - untitled (Cat with Portrait of Abraham Lincoln) (oil on masonite) 1955

Fernando Pintado - The gift that keeps on giving (acrylic and tempera on canvas) 2009

Damián Ortega - Duck Bosch, 1997

What is Contemporary Art?

"Smith suggests, in fact, that contemporary art demands individual and physical encounters that might nullify the reach and propagation of spectacle culture."
-from "Contingency Plans" (a review of Terry Smith's book "What is Contemporary Art?") by Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson, in the May 2010 issue of ArtForum

Inner State install photos

Saturday 5/1/10, 8:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday 5/2/10, 8:00am - 7:00am
Harrison Field, UIC
by Erik Peterson
Inner State
(all photos taken with my camera phone)