Marilyn liked to read and so should you
Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.
Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. We also like black and white drawings & songs, as this issue will come with a cd. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.
check out excerpts from past issues here & here
Please re-post/pass along!
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Submit to Finery already, wontcha?
Submit to Finery already, wontcha?
Marilyn liked to read and so should you
Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.
Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. We also like black and white drawings & songs, as this issue will come with a cd. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.
check out excerpts from past issues here & here
Please re-post/pass along!
Submit to Finery already, wontcha?
Marilyn liked to read and so should you
Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.
Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. We also like black and white drawings & songs, as this issue will come with a cd. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.
check out excerpts from past issues here & here
Please re-post/pass along!
Amanda Kirkhuff
Amanda Kirkhuff is a Bay Area artist whose paintings and drawings will blow you away. I would say more but you can look below and have your mind blown without any help from my sorry words; her painting of Lorena Bobbitt is so excellent it'll bring you to tears. In case you want to read an art critic's take on it, go here to read about a recent show of Amanda's in SF.
Lorena Bobbitt
Judy with the Head of Holofernes (photo from artbusiness.com)
Judy with the Head of Holofernes (detail) (photo from artbusiness.com)
self-portrait
Amanda Kirkhuff
Amanda Kirkhuff is a Bay Area artist whose paintings and drawings will blow you away. I would say more but you can look below and have your mind blown without any help from my sorry words; her painting of Lorena Bobbitt is so excellent it'll bring you to tears. In case you want to read an art critic's take on it, go here to read about a recent show of Amanda's in SF.
Lorena Bobbitt
Judy with the Head of Holofernes (photo from artbusiness.com)
Judy with the Head of Holofernes (detail) (photo from artbusiness.com)
self-portrait
Amanda Kirkhuff
Amanda Kirkhuff is a Bay Area artist whose paintings and drawings will blow you away. I would say more but you can look below and have your mind blown without any help from my sorry words; her painting of Lorena Bobbitt is so excellent it'll bring you to tears. In case you want to read an art critic's take on it, go here to read about a recent show of Amanda's in SF.
Lorena Bobbitt
Judy with the Head of Holofernes (photo from artbusiness.com)
Judy with the Head of Holofernes (detail) (photo from artbusiness.com)
self-portrait
GAYZ
These are some of the gems you get when you search various photo sites for "gayz". Pure genius.
Nick Cave at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
No, not that Nick Cave.
Nick Cave, the Chicago based artist and professor (SAIC), has 60 of his "Soundsuits" currently on exhibition in a show entitled "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The Soundsuits (which are titled as such because they are designed to create sounds when the wearer moves) combine found objects, thrift store finds, human hair, sequins, flowers, beads, twigs and countless other handmade elements to create couture installations that aim to transcend notions of sexuality, race, and class while exploring cultural and ritualistic concepts.
In addition to exhibiting the Soundsuits, Cave has collaborated with choreographer Ronald K. Brown to create a performance fusing the Soundsuits with movement. The collaboration will be performed May 28, 30, and 31 and is free with gallery admission.
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
If you are there, please go see this and tell us how it was!
Jonathan Horowitz, Kenneth Anger at P.S.1
What do you think Andy Warhol would think of Jonathan Horowitz' 1st solo exhibition (in New York) And/Or at the P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center ? Do you think he would find his work current and challenging and vital or do you think he would see it as another rehash of what he himself did in the 1960's?
I can't begin to imagine what Warhol would be thinking or doing if he were alive today, but I think it's safe to say Horowitz offers us a glimpse of, at least, the subject matter Warhol would have been tackling. In this exhibition Horowitz takes on some of Warhol's favorite subjects like political figures (Obama 08, Hillary Clinton is a Person Too), celebrity (The Body Song, Pillow Talk Cases), and consumerism (Coke and/or Pepsi Machine). Much of Horowitz' work, like Warhol's, blends the past and the present to create pieces that often challenge the viewer to decide what message, if any, lies within the work and more importantly in our own political systems/figures and pop culture icons.
Pictures: Obama 08 (2008), Hillary Clinton is a Person Too (2008), Pillow Talk Cases (2008), Coke and/or Pepsi Machine (2007)
Horowitz' also presents a peek into his own Queerness in pieces like “Three Rainbow American Flags for Jasper in the Style of the Artist’s Boyfriend” (which is an update on Gay artist Jasper Johns' "Three Flags") where in he replaces the American flag with a rainbow flag and covers it in glitter. He also takes an activist stance with "Archival Iris Print of an Image Downloaded from the Internet with Two Copies of the New York Post Rotting in Their Frames" where he offers a visual critique on Reagan's failure during the AIDS crisis of the 80's.
In addition to the work of Jonathan Horowitz, P.S.1 is also featuring a collection of Kenneth Anger's iconic films including the must sees Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Lucifer Rising (1970-1981).
Here is a clip of Anger's 1969 work "Invocation of My Demon Brother" and if you haven't seen Kenneth Anger's other films you can pick up collections of his work at good video stores or buy them here!
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