Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Hortus conclusus
Miron Schmückle Hortus conclusus (4)2002 C-print auf Aludibond 83x53 cm
Miron Schmückle Hortus conclusus (25/2) 2002 C-print auf Aludibond 83x53 cm
Friday, April 25, 2008
an outside map (view) of Ulleungdo
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The following map was made by Lee Gyu-won after his inspection of Ulleungdo in 1882. The name of the map is “Ulleungdo Woido”, and essentially means “an outside map (view) of Ulleungdo.” In other words, the map focuses on the shoreline and neighboring islands, islets, and rocks. Notice how the mountain peaks slant inward, which suggests that you are viewing them from the “outside.” read on
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
early morning mountain music
Daniel Tierney creates spaces, then recreates them in his painting, at times they look like an SF environments, or a web like haunted cities
early morning mountain music ..........48" x 48"...........acrylic and archival tape on panel........2006
mr freeze hates this................48" x 48"...................acrylic and archival tape on panel..........2006
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balls................................54" x 54"........................ archival tape on lambda photo.............2006 http://www.invincibleclock.com/places10.html early morning mountain music
The accident.....................60" x 84"...................acrylic and archival tape on panel...............2006
It is not an empty clearness, a bottomless sight.
It is a visibility of thought,
In which hundreds of eyes, in one mind, see at once.
from 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven' by Wallace Stevens
Photography by Ray Metzker. "Composites" series.
"Composites" have been assembled from discovered vintage prints made in the mid-60’s. Metzker, at age 70, had a fresh opportunity to finally complete a body of work begun over 30 years ago.
Ray Metzker, Endgame, 1966-02 26 x 38 inches
Ray Metzker, Philly Walk, 1965-02 24 x 22 inches
Ray Metzker, Stairburst I, 1969-02 31 x 26 inches
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
David Haines interrupts his perfectly beautiful illustrative images with bites of chewing - gums, blood stains and mosquitos...I love the reasult.
osiris seat 2006 Pencil and chewing - gum on paper 50x70 cm
Dissolving Prophesies’ 2007 Pencil and chewing - gum on paper 113.5x140 cm
Monday, April 07, 2008
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
LET HISTORY TELL FUTURE
Alex Dodge LET HISTORY TELL FUTURE (Win32.Nachi.B), 2006 ink, toner transfer, and clear rubber on paper 16 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
New Frontiers
New Frontiers is a portfolio of 15 topographic maps of beds by artist Alex Dodge
New Frontiers: Map 13 (detail), 2003 plotter print on mylar40 x 30 inches
New Frontiers: Map 14 (edition of 5), 2003 plotter print on mylar40 x 30 inches
Friday, March 28, 2008
How I Know I'm Here
Kiki Smith. How I Know I'm Here, 1985-2000 Linoleum block print in four panels Printed in indigo on Thai Mulberry paper by The Grenfell Press 11 1/2" 172" (11 1/2" x 43" each)
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Aesthetics of Speed
David Spriggs's art is an exploration into concepts of space and the relationships between the thresholds of the 2 and 3 dimensions; the immaterial form; perception; deconstruction; time; movement including speed and stasis; the body; the appropriation of symbols; and the strategies of power.
David Spriggs 
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
hand embroideries
Loredana Sperini and if you liked her works, here's a link to a large pdf file of her wonderful works
Tatjana 2005, hand embroidery on cotton
untitleled 2003, hand embroidery on cotton (detail) 40x41 cm
Monday, March 10, 2008
Pelee Point
APRIL HICKOX Untitled, Pelee Point, 2004, 30" X 30", black and white silver print
Untitled, Pelee Point, 2004, 30" X 30", black and white silver print
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which Poliphilo pursues an erotic fantasy through a dreamlike landscape, and is at last reconciled with his love by the Fountain of Venus.The book was printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice in December 1499.
The action of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili takes place in a dream. The books opens on the hero, Poliphilo, who has spent a restless night because his beloved, Polia, has shunned him. At the break of day, he finally falls into a deep slumber and his "Hypnerotomachia," or, as it can be roughly translated, "struggle for love in a dream," begins. 
Poliphilo dreams about being in a threatening dark forestand narrates the many things he saw during his quest forspiritual love Polia. He tells of ancient marvels, architecturalmonuments, about forests, gardens, fountains and rivers.On his way he encounters confusion, order, illusion, fear,determination, and finally wisdom through an intoxicatingcall of the senses. It is a dream about a duality of nature(forest) and culture (architecture).
The action is particularly absurd, however, even by the standards of the genre. Poliphilo is transported into a wild forest. He gets lost, escapes, and falls asleep once more. He then awakens in a second dream, dreamed inside the first. Within it, he is taken by some nymphs to meet their queen. There he is asked to declare his love for Polia, which he does. He is then directed by two nymphs to three gates. He chooses the third, and there he discovers his beloved. They are taken by some more nymphs to a temple to be engaged.
Along the way they come across no less than five triumphal processions celebrating the union of the lovers. Then they are taken to the island of Cythera by barge, with Cupid as the boatswain; there they see another triumphal procession celebrating their union. The narrative is uninterrupted, and a second voice takes over, as Polia describes he erotomachia from her own point of view. This takes up one fifth of the book, after which the hero resumes his narrative. They are blissfully wed, but Polia vanishes into thin air as Poliphilo is about to take her into his arms.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Out of Love
From CRYSTAL LIU drawings
Out of Love, shall I change for you?, 2006paper, ink, marker and watercolor on paper15 x 15 inches
Out of Love, I will wash up to you, 2006 paper, ink, marker and watercolor on paper15 x 15 inches
my house is dead, water colour, marker and ink on paper , 13.7'x19, 2006
the forest fire marker and ink on paper 14.75'x14.75', 2006 and for more of her photographs and installations
How To Be Human
Jesse Pasca seeks to explore a truer picture of the internal and external landscapes that we experience every day, by examining certain qualities that he examine each day such as 'Accept Love', 'Be aware of boundaries', 'Breathe', etc
"Arab-Israeli Conflict" - jesse pasca
"... In the same way that our inner landscape can change slowly over time without our realizing it, our external landscape is being transformed...The physical manifestations of the stock markets fluctuations and the internal charting of qualities that I use to “
become more human” are landscapes to examine the "invisible" bargains we all have made that affect the paths we choose and the actual physical landscape, horizon and place we call Earth."
"Spurious Nature of Private Property" - Jesse Pasca
via 3pointd
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Terra Incognita
from karey kessler map drawings
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celestial ladders, ink on rice paper, 2004
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Karry Aleen Kessler Hidden meanings, ink on rice paper, 2004
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Karry Aleen Kessler. ink on paper, 2004
Sunday, March 02, 2008
BLOT
Alexander Cozens was a drawing master of a very unusual kind. Rather than have pupils copy his own work (the usual method), he encouraged originality through a method of 'blotting': pupils used brush and ink to make rapid, semi-random blots which could then be elaborated into more recognisable landscapes. Cozens taught this method as early as the 1750s and published it around 1785 in his treatise 'A New Method for Assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape '. This was illustrated with eighteen aquatinted blots, some of which are shown here. Other illustrations demonstrated different ways of developing two of them, while help with adding skies was provided by a series of small engravings of schematic sky compositions.
from A New Method for Assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape. Half Clouds Half Plain, the Clouds Darker than the Plain or Blue Part, and Darker at the Top than the Bottom Etching on paperimage: 110 x 159 mmon paper, print
from A New Method for Assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape . All Plain, Darker at the Top than the Bottom, Gradually Etching on paperimage: 110 x 158 mmon paper, print
from A New Method for Assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape . A Flat, Bounded on All Sides by Groups of Objects Aquatint on paperimage: 199 x 303 mmon paper, print
A Wooded Hill Top, with Thunder Clouds Pencil and watercolour on papersupport: 220 x 311 mm frame (Royal): 598 x 447 x 25 mmon paper, unique
Study of Sky No. 4 with Landscape Pencil and watercolour on papersupport: 220 x 315 mmon paper,
Study of Sky Watercolour on papersupport: 220 x 315 mm on paper
Aquatint on paperimage: 240 x 314 mmon paper, print from Plates 1-16 (`blot' landscapes) for `A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape'
Aquatint on paperimage: 240 x 314 mmon paper, print from Plates 1-16 (`blot' landscapes) for `A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape'
Sounds Of Complexity
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
White Land
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"White Land" 2001, Littman-Cohen.
The artist Ariane Littman-Cohen makes use of " ready made" aerial photographs that map the entire country of Israel, were large areas have been erased at the order of the Military Censor. The use of photographs as ready-made emphasizes the actions of erasure, concealment, and camouflage to reveal information that the establishment has tried to reduce and hide from the public. The lacking and disappeared become exposed and concrete, building a new reality of the Holy Land, a type of vitual-territorial sieve: Hole's Land.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Gun Map of London
Lucy Wood, 2004 Map of London made out of several thousand pieces of gun Unique piece
detail of ‘Map 272183’
‘Map 272183’ 800 x 650 cm
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