Marty Epp-Carter's Blog (11)

This is a movie review/recommendation of sorts. Check out the film "Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? (Netflix has it). I won't give away any of the story other than to say that we're in an interesting business and there are a whole bunch of opinions out there. Just a glimpse into the "art world" and the "non-art" world and what happens when they collide. And a good story of a good ole gal with some true grit. Continue

If you haven't yet looked at the April issue of ARTKRUSH (e-zine) you should. There's a bunch of interesting stuff in there that surfaced a bit during this last semester esp. in Seminar and Art History discussions. Plus a whole lot of BMW ads!! Hum... all that money has to buy some art, doesn't it? Continue

Those of us who went to the SGC conference and attended the presentation titled: "Printmakers in Wartime" will remember Daniel Heyman who did the interviews with prisoners from Abu Ghraib. Daniel and I show at the same gallery in Provincetown, MA and I've seen his other work, (referred to below). I emailed him and asked him about his experience with censorship. I got permission to copy part of his email here. The following is from Daniel Heyman: "As to censorship, oddly enough there has been… Continue

This just came out in the online newsletter "Art-of-the-day" that I subscribe to (it's free). It points directly to our conversation in class yesterday and obliquely to my own work. A question of animals SAN FRANCISCO - In the California city, always a step ahead regarding environment protection groups, activists can cause some collateral victims. Adel Abdessemed is the most recent. The artist just had his exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) canceled at the end of the month o… Continue

Hey all, esp. the current grads. I've been carrying around a slip of paper that had written on it, in another persons handwriting, "Eleanor Heartney." I finally googled the name and came up with this woman who is a writer and critic for Art in America, etc. There's a really good article about today's "art climate" at the following link. check it out. http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0698/ijse/visarts.htm Continue

Hey all, the text below is a call for work that I think is pretty interesting. I'm passing it on FYI.
Christina, please pass this on to your RCID folks.

THE LAST BOOK
(A Project by Luis Camnitzer, sponsored by the National Library of Spain)

Open call for collaborations

The Last Book is a project to compile written as well as visual statements in
which the authors may leave a legacy for future generations. The premise of
the project is that… Continue

I just posted some pictures of visual art from 5 black artists I find "compelling" and am throwing out some questions as well: Do all black artists make their work about their "blackness"? How about their/our "gayness", "womanness", "maleness", "whiteness", "poorness", "richness", "tallness", "shortness", "beautyness", "uglyness"? How does a trait that an artist has nothing to do with choosing (skin color) become the entire conceit for a body of work? Or for a lifetime of work? Are we using our… Continue

from my notes to myself on this chapter:
1. Minimalism was (in part) responding to Formalism with its focus on texture, color and shape. “Freeing the object from the complicating interrelationships” involved in formalist representations. (Morris)
2. Quoting Morris again: The decorative is the apt mode for such a sensibility, being a response on the edge of numbness… the ultimate response to a pervasive death anxiety.” This death anxiety sounds like Jack, in White Noise.
3. Pg. 26 th… Continue

While we were watching Ann Hamilton on Art:21, I mentioned installation art and performance art. Marshell asked me "How old is performance art? and who was the first artist to do it?" Any creative answers out there? Is it too easy to say ritual dance of ancient cultures is the what, how old, and who? How 'bout something closer to "our time"? Say Beuys? Continue

Bloomsbury!? I think Woolfe, Keyes, and Fry would be turning over in their graves... or they'd like it. (members of the Bloomsbury group of artists, writers, creators...)

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pg. 2 The myth of Art being an object of contemplation, a thing without function situated within the wall of a gallery or museum seems to be a Pre-Post-modern assumption. The authors seems to suggest that it is a Formalist assumption. That myth is contrary to our discussion in sculpture class yesterday where we considered the role of the artist, the viewer and the work itself. pg. 4 "The artist is called to an eternal struggle to transform the world, often by first revealing what he or she think… Continue