September 1st, 2010: Ask a Curator Day on Twitter

Jim Richardson, Managing Director at the Sumo design company, organized a global event, Ask a Curator. This event will allow the general public, students, and anyone who's interested to simply ask a question to hundreds of museum curators on Twitter tomorrow.
The hashtag is #askacurator.


I think this is a great opportunity to connect to curators around the globe.


What will or would you ask a curator? I'd like to know.

Black Linen/White Marks

Work in Progress

A peek at what I'm working on. A black linen blouse from the thrift store was begging for my marks. I think I will continue down the back.

I'm going to do a series of these blouses.

The Silhouette is a paper cutout that the infamous Wallie Spatz made. I think I was 9 years old at the time.

Alphabet Graphite Sculptures

Dalton Ghetti

Bridgeport, CT, USA

 

From The New York Times

"all he needs is a sewing needle, a razor blade and a carpenter’s or No. 2 pencil."

 

A Fascination with Letterforms and Natural History

Teagan White

Chicago, IL

Presently attending Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN

for a BFA in Illustration

the person you love is 72.8% water, experimental typography,
ink, digital (photoshop), 2009.
(class work)

Quote is from The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher.

braided, experimental typography,
india ink on paper, 2010.
(class work)

braided, detail

all images via Teaganwhite.com

I'm enchanted with the illustrations and experimental typography of Teagan White.

She's still a student and I'm blown away.

Teagan has several other lovely illustrations and an interesting Book of Soil on her website.

Please see on her website here.

and here, and here.

IndiGrowing Blue Harvest

IndiGrowing Blue 

Located at Hilltop Gardens on the campus

of Indiana University

The first harvest is done - 53 lbs of dried leaves in 3 days

Photo via IndiGrowing Blue

This participatory art project is led by Rowland Ricketts and is based on the belief that material and process are central to the artistic practice and the idea that raising your raw materials from a handfull of seeds lends a unique insight into how we live, create, and consume as contemoprary Americans.

A second harvest is expected 

Second Harvest & Drying + Fresh Indigo Dyeing Workshop: August 20-25

Wish I lived closer!

Pen Drawings Plus

Joan Salo
Igualada, Spain, 1983
Lives and works in Barcelona and Berlin 

 "Untitled" pen on canvas 150x150 cm  (approximately 59" x 59")

 "Untitled" pen on canvas 120x120 cm  (approximately 47" x 47")

 "Untitled" masking tape, 6x4x4 cm  (approximately 2.5" x 1.5" x 1.5")

 "Untitled" raw clay 20x15x15 cm  (approximately 8" x 6" x6")

Joan's marks on canvas and on clay  little masking tape sculptures make me happy.

The pen work looks a bit like ikat dyed fabric. 

Please see more here. 

Line Installations

Heike Weber

Cologne, GER

Bodenlos, 2009, 

permanentmarker on vinyl floor, 

hall of the Villa Wachholtz, Verführung & Ordnung, 

Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, GER, photo: Marianne Obst 

BODEN LOS, 2006, 

marker on vinyl floor, 600 square metres,

 Kunsthalle Wien, AT, photo: Raimo Rudi Rumpler

Fliegende, 2009, 

window-color on pins, 470 x 120 cm, 

Goethe Institut, Toronto, CA, photo: Heike Weber

Lines and more lines and then more lines still.

Heike Weber is prolific. She has works on paper, photography, video and installation pieces.

See here.

Existential See-Saw Ride

Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger
Uster (ZH) /Switzerland

Falling Garden

San Staë church on the Canale Grande
50th Biennial of Venice, 2003

Components: Plastic berries (India), cow pads (Jura), waste paper (Venice), baobab seeds (Australia), beech, elder and magnolia branches (Uster), thorns (Almeria), nylon blossoms (one-dollar-shop), pigs’ teeth (Indonesia), seaweed (Seoul), orange peel (Migros shop), fertilizer crystals (home grown), pigeons’ bones (San Staë), silk buds (Stockholm), cattail (Ettiswil), cats’ tails (China), celery roots (Montreal), virility rind (Caribbean), wild bore quills (zoo), banana leaves (Murten), rubber snakes (Cincinnati)...

Brainforest
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

 Kanazawa (Japan), 2004

all photos via 

Gerda Steiner

 and Jörg Lenzlinger 

I have been intrigued with this work for several years. 

Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger have collaborated since 1997. 

I like Steve Peralta's description of  what they do. 

"Gerda Steiner's and Jörg Lenzlinger's work deals with an adaptation of nature through synthesis. The Swiss artists' currency is a Hegelian dialectic that gets an empirical flip sideways with the use of objects such as taxidermied animals and insects, glistening ponds of motor oil, dead trees and plants, and flowing streams of chemicals. 

Their work deals frankly with the unity of opposites such as life and death, good and evil, and hope and despair. It's an existential see-saw ride that lends beauty to almost anything." - Steve Peralta 

See more of his interview with the couple here.

See 

Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger's website here.

link to Amazon to find books about them here.

4000 Books

Anouk Kruithof
Dutch artist. Lives and works in Berlin, the Netherlands and abroad

Installation out of approximately 4000 books, 4.10 mtr by 2.30 mtr

exhibition overview soloshow Becoming Blue in Kunstelerhaus Bethanien Berlin february 2009

documentation photograph by David Brandt

all images © Anouk Kruithof

Anouk is a prolific photographer and most recently, has become interested in installation art. 
See more of her work here.

Not To Be Missed If You're in Cleveland on Friday, July 23, 2010

ZeroLandfill™ Cleveland has an incredible amount of fabric this year!  

Everything from memo samples (8" x 8") to bolt ends. 

This year there is an abundance of fabric books and boxes of samples.   

This fabric is donated from local interior designers as expired samples and is available on Fridays beginning July 23 - August 6, noon - 3 pm.  

These materials are available at no cost - artists, educators and crafters welcome. 

Also found 3 boxes of patterns and a few miscellaneous boxes of remnants.

Special treat tomorrow: Rogue Bakery will be in the parking lot selling cookies.

3631 Perkins Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
side entrance, green awning - look for ZeroLandfill™ banner
Each event date is from noon - 3 pm