New work in Progress

Well, here's what it's lokin like- gonna be experimenting with a lot of materials this quarter, from sculptural plastics and metals to radiography, audio and video. You can see that as the work heats up, my room/studio gets congested.

Firmamenta whooshing sound

Michael Chaney, a professor in sound design at SCAD has a show up at Pei Ling Chan Gallery on MLK here in Savannah. It's worth seeing. You go into a long room, where on the left are two prjections- a woman and man cycling backwards into and out of water. Across the room on the right are two horizontal rows of projections, one of a slowly changing, reddish sky, and one below, of choppy dark blue water. The woman cycles much slower than the man, whose motion out of the water (when we can see him) is accompanied by a whooshing sound . So, it is very contemplative and has these baptismal/ religious undertones, but as I am leaving the gallery attendant (bored out of his mind I think) encourages me to read the artists statement. The statement is longwinded and goes deeply in Biblical allusion, where I get lost. Appreciated it more on my own terms.

Figureworks

One of my professors, Jorge Alvarez, is an alumni of New York Academy of Art, where he is part of an alumni exhibition called Figureworks: fine art of the human form. Up until Feb 4.
168 North 6th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

We had performances today!

This quarter I have a class with Ju-Yeon Kim, who is an artist from New York. I couldn't believe how good the performances were- was too enthralled to take pictures. Here's Adin with his auto-destructive-like painting.

Wet floor paint.

I've finally cleared most of two years' piles of art out of my SCAD studio now so that I can actually work again, and since I got it so you can see the floor, I went ahead and painted it.

Michael Rees was a great lecturer with an amazing sense of humor. He had a great Serra quotation, which was "An artist is only as great as the obscurity of their references." Marinate on that for a little while. I disagree a little.
Classes have started, life has re-hectified itself.
Am doing video performance and an aaudio project this quarter, hopefully they can go along with my review/ thesis show... More on that later.

Michael Scoggins' show was a hit and extra sweet since the artist and just about everyone I know from the Painting Dept. was in attendance. It's hard to get a lot of SCAD Painters in one place, I think. Here's some pics

2 car gallery

MORE NEWS!

Another Savannahian artist buddy of mine, Michael Woody, has started a gallery. Website is here:

http://www.2cargallery.com/contribute/news.html

ALSO!

not to be missed if in Boston:
Craig Drennen at Samson Projects


http://www.samsonprojects.com/exhibitions.htm

more here:
href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=11027">

and here:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/frameset.pl?section=out-of-town&issue=issue43&article=UNTITLED_14152017

Happy '07

Ok, kicking off the New Year, I'm going to try and keep this thing up a little bit, though it seems unlikely that it will be daily again for a while, but maybe weekly, we will just have to see. had a great time with my Mum and brother Simon in town for a week. They are both doing pretty well and i was lucky to have them.

Upcoming events:
Jan 12 Michael Scoggins exhibition at Pinnacle Gallery. He's a fellow Savannahian and a great dude. current show:
http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/features.cfm#243365
a previous exhibition reviewed here: http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/may04/scoggins.html

Also upcoming is Michael Rees, visiting on the 10th who's a pretty well known technology/sculpture guy, and he even has a blog (though not updated recently). Also interesting to find that one of his star students was one Dan Levenson, who I mentioned on this blog back in October, I think, because he was on the same floor in the EFA with me and did the "Little Switzerland" show. cool stuff. Rees' site:
www.michaelrees.com
Levenson's site:
www.danlevenson.com/