Didn't have my camera at last night's opening of the Nicholas O'Brien-curated landscape show at 319 Scholes so I made a sketch of Duncan Alexander's contribution to the show:
Props to Alexander, usually work like this doesn't appear until after an artist has had his first Whitney show, and an "art and technology" website offers it as a gift download to members. The man has moxie.
Photo I took on the opening night of the Telefone Sem Fio show I am participating in at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 W. 39th St., NYC, a tribute to Brazilian concrete poet Augusto De Campos.
From the EFA website:
Thessia Machado, performing as link, will do a short solo with 'synf on the radio'. Synf is an analog synthesizer of her own design that combines 3 oscillators and a divider chip... For this performance its signal will be beamed through a radio transmitter to a portable radio, making it go through a series of translations and modulations.
Jennifer Schmidt's work is in the background, screenprints interpreting/responding to Augusto De Campos' poetry. On the floor is a piece by Brendan Fernandes, translating a Morse Code ("SOS") animation of De Campos'.
350 V-8, 2006, oil on canvas 48 x 74 inches
from the artist's website
sarcoptiform found another good one
Visited this artist's studio a few years back (like, nine) and hadn't checked the website in a while but I remembered the style almost immediately when I saw the image at sarcoptiform's. Padgett was painting fake wood panel apartment walls and showing them like large monochromes--his way of painting grain was instantly recognizable.
Liking how the park-like landscape is wedged into the top corner of this painting. Also some apparent editing of the V-8 down to the salient parts, each rendered with careful attention. The word "surreal" didn't originally mean unreal but rather extra- or above-real--as if something heightened senses would show us. Normally vision is just a sweeping blur but this painting focuses us on every part of the car engine at once. Transforming it from the banal motorhead fantasy to a peak experience.
