recently, i read alan weisman's fabulous book the world without us. i was amazed a the theory of extinction and disintegration he postulates. the grounded facts of the rapidity with which the natural world would overtake man-made detritus upon the cessation of the human species was sobering at best...apocalyptic at worst. my own on-going and growing disenchantment with the negative impact of humans on the world has led to my art practice of forming pieces that morph human detritus with little-shop-of-horrors-type, hyper-real, nature-gone-wild-soul.this work interests me because the artist has taken the craft of felting beyond most of what i've seen. the work possesses a sophisticated palette and the artist has created some unique, approachable and interesting multiple forms and installations, i'd really like to see this work in person...read the entire statement here and see lots more work here.
Otter Falls is a site in the Catskills that I drew and photographed over a period of ten years. While on the Bowery in 2001, I did a set of ink drawings to interpret my feelings of the site. These black and white brush drawings were the beginning of this current series of paintings. Each painting begets the next. The feeling of the original site has become an "abstract" space that has taken on a life of it's own as it develops in each new painting. This moves me from depicting landscape to exploring Nature beyond landscape's visual beauty: green is made of yellow and blue; earth–brown is red and black; light is white (in the spectrum, all the colors). My explorations are improvisations based on nature built with the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue. This is the form that I've arrived at to do a series of 12 paintings: a static square made dynamic by black and white made from red yellow, and blue–expressing the notion of vibrations evolving into shapes as a play on the quantum world of "wave particle duality"–to play the shapes as a musical composition–done six foot square as a human scale.at first glance, it's difficult to tell from their hard-edged graphic nature that these paintings are derived from landscape, but after reading the statement , i find them particularly intriguing...see more here.
All art is made out of things. All things are made out of stuff. All stuff is made from other stuff. All other stuff is made from particular material substances. All things of substance are made from substances without substance. All substances are made from matter. All matter is made from atoms. All atoms are made from all the same stuff. Everything that matters depends upon stuff…i, myself, have a vast collection of craft punches that i use to obliterate high end home and fashion magazines...i love his statement and i'm inspired by what he does with craft punches...see more here.
Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.absolutely amazing...see more here.
everything she's done in the past few years has been so exciting and it just keeps getting better and better...see more work and an interesting video here.My current work aims to create a textbook of geologic processes - as if each piece were a page from a reference book, illustrating cross-sections of imagined terrains. These paintings are built up thickly around embedded sculptural elements, and then excavated and eroded down to reveal what was buried. Like rockfaces or archaeological sites, their layers reveal the history of their making and can be read like the lines of a story.
