Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
YINKA SHONIBARE
Yinka Shonibare, How to Blow up two heads at once (Ladies), 2006.
This is a pic I took at Artefiera, Bologna.
If you want to see more from this artist, here’s Shonibare’s website….
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
JUSTIN NOVAK
Disturbing and fascinating at the same time… Justin Novak’s disfigurines…
Quoting from Justine’s statement:
“…Whereas the figurine has historically represented the dominant culture’s norms and ideals, the disfigurines aim to expose the damage inflicted by those very same expectations.The fine line that exists between the “tasteful” and the “grotesque” is precisely the course that I strive to navigate. It is in the haunting tension between the two that seduction and repulsion inhabit the same space, where the very function of “taste” is perhaps suspended, and the politics of these gleaming white aesthetics are laid bare.”

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
SUSANNE KLEMM
The Tango rings by Susanne Klemm are "comments on the role of the ring as a gift and as a symbol"...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
NICOLE TRAN BA VANG
Nicole Tran Ba Vang within her works explores the theme of the obsession for a perfect, custom-made body…

Tuesday, January 09, 2007
DAN LEVIN
Found objects reassembled ad modified in Dan Levin’s works…
“I see where it began. My need to salvage the relics and artifacts that have been discarded as no longer viable.”
Monday, January 08, 2007
KAREN RYAN
The most famous project by Karen Ryan is probably custom made furniture, but second hand is the one I like the most…
Quoting from her website:
“ I take discarded plates, bought from charity shops and second shops, jumble sales and car boot sales. Each plate is individually chosen, perhaps the willow pattern more than others. … I use these plates as my canvas, they are already full of the language of domestic aesthetics and tensions.These existing domesticaesthetics are juxtaposed with emotive words that are both ironic and poignant. The words become the only remnant of the original pattern as the remaining surface is removed.”












