NY Art Shows

http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/03/18/kate-hanrahan/

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:16:26 -0500

http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/03/18/kate-hanrahan/

Margaret Coleman, Work in Progress, 2012. Garbage, Mixed Media.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:52:00 -0500

Margaret Coleman, Work in Progress, 2012. Garbage, Mixed Media.

http://9-eyes.com/ Jon Rafman’s much talked about Google Street...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:20:31 -0500

http://9-eyes.com/

Jon Rafman’s much talked about Google Street View’s project brings together accidental moments, beautifully captured at random by the unknowing Google street cars as they document our big, old world house by house, bared bum by bared bum. The photos capture rare snippets of everyday life in an eye opening, beautiful, sometimes disturbing, often hilarious way. (lostateminor.com)

The Wisdom in the Dark Emotions

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:36:49 -0500

“Emotions like grief, fear and despair are as much a part of the human condition as love, awe and joy. They are our natural and inevitable responses to existence, so long as loss, vulnerability and violence come with the territory of being human. These are the dark emotions, but by dark, I don’t mean that they are bad, unwholesome or pathological. I mean that as a culture we have kept these emotions in the dark—shameful, secret and unseen.”

“Every dark emotion has a value and purpose. There are no negative emotions; there are only negative attitudes towards emotions we don’t like and can’t tolerate, and the negative consequences of denying them. The emotions we call “negative” are energies that get our attention, ask for expression, transmit information and impel action. Grief tells us that we are all interconnected in the web of life, and that what connects us also breaks our hearts. Fear alerts us to protect and sustain life. Despair asks us to grieve our losses, to examine and transform the meaning of our lives, to repair our broken souls. Each of these emotions is purposeful and useful—if we know how to listen to them.”

- Miriam Greenspan, 2003

WE HUNGERED art show with Laura Tack & Cody Oyama - Opening...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:09:03 -0500

WE HUNGERED art show with Laura Tack & Cody Oyama - Opening 1.19.12

For I feel like shit I am working with dying...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:43:38 -0500

For I feel like shit I am working with dying portraits…
Portraits who are dead as in terms of dead paper
Portraits who are dead because of a death person
Portraits who are dead

Museo del Barrio - Alberto Borea’s installation...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:04:00 -0500

Museo del Barrio - Alberto Borea’s installation ‘Rainbow (Arcoiris),’ constructed out of discarded plastic bags.

Art Forum Fall 2011

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:19:00 -0500

Art Forum Fall 2011

bbook: “One Hundred Live and Die” 1984 I’m surprised when the...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:32:01 -0500

bbook: “One Hundred Live and Die” 1984

I’m surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I’m not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it’s got a certain completeness, then it’s beautiful.

Benjamin Verdonck - Belgian artist is playing with the balance between real and unreal.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:43:50 -0500

Benjamin Verdonck - Belgian artist is playing with the balance between real and unreal.

We musn’t stay here too long it isn’t so romantic to dwell in the dusk / there is...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:40:00 -0500

We musn’t stay here too long

it isn’t so romantic to dwell in the dusk /

there is little charm in sucking out the poison /

yet there is a kind of addiction to darkness /

an intoxication from drinking in such intensity /

how can you take it in, feel it, but distill it out /

let the dark concoction settle, filter through, purer /

‘emotional alchemy’ she calls it, shifting dark into light /

not negating or denying it, but transforming it /

as artists, creative souls, how do we not dwell there /

how do we take the sad like dough, and let it rise and puff /

how do we ‘feel every bump edge scratch ouch’ and use it /

but not lose ourself in the sharpness and wounds exposed /

it isn’t so romantic to nurse our wounds, sulking in the corner /

there is little charm in self-deprication and self-medication /

we must not sink down into the warmth of our despair /

but pull away, push through, envelop ourselves as we rise up /

Photo

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:35:58 -0500