Monetise Your Artistic Abilities!

This weekend I went to the MOCA 30th anniversary retrospective w/a friend.
He had gala tickets and had forgotten about them. So instead of attending an art gala, we just saw the show.
(GROAN!)




There were some nice pieces, I saw my favorite piece up by Larry Johnson, this totally absurd sermon-on-the-mount
of absurdities kind of guy.




Sperm!






This couple was so beautiful, as if there was a neon sign buzzing "Perfect Tortured Art School Couple" above them.


Same with this grandfather clothed in my favorite textures of wool and felt, discussing art with his granddaughter.


Beautiful Larry Bell. Seems like all my favorites from MOCA have the same name.


Hello Bruce Nauman you video artist you. You could see yourself rounding around the corner, 4 corners' worth.


My new breakthrough series of paintings. Should sell like hotcakes.

Free as Air and Water

Traveling to NY under the pretense of FW SS2010 in September, I instead attended many an art exhibition, a Cooper lecture and opening in the new building.
Here are a few pictures documenting highlights from the Free as Air and Water exhibition for you, my dearest readers.









My favorite piece of all was the Allora & Calzadilla "Under Discussion", 2005; Single Channel Video with Sound, 6:14.
It's probably the most unique out of all the art I've seen this year. A guy made a speedboat out of an upturned chair and a motor. He rides around on it.
It is the simplest, yet most extraordinary idea. And for him to have executed it perfectly and made/edited a great little film out of it with an underlying sense of complete freedom, well.
I was just blown away by the symbiosis of the simple and complex! The best ideas are often the simplest. Answers too.

Permanent Flux

Lately I've been drawing the same types of objects or same object over and over, like an institutionalized patient who cannot let go of arbitrary fixations on a certain combination of curves or lines.
Since August, it's been limited to: a keychain, chairs, and anatomy diagrams. April-July it was antique staplers and a cement mixer.
Perhaps it's the only constant I can count on, thus accounting for obsessive behavior. If nothing in your life was constant other than what you chose to draw or eat, you'd choose to draw and eat the same things.
At least that is my experience.







Yesterday my friend noticed a similar shape and line in all of my drawings and even handwriting.
I was surprised to see he'd noticed enough to point it out.
I think it is a repetitious, looping movement perhaps borne from an unconscious wish to seek balance and harmony, the opposite of what I am; extremes.
Love, dizzying heights of passion, or devastating emptiness/destruction. Obliteration of senses and feelings for the advancement of goals or codes of behavior.



The other evening I received a random opportunity to be filmed by Albert Maysles.
And so I was nude, on a bed while Maysles had me pose for his flip cam. He is quite the frisky man.

For He Cannot Tell a Lie

What is the Meaning of "Mentally Unstable"?

Productive Office Time







Gaping Obsession









Babies Falling