Relic Rocks

materials: glycerin, found organic materials, twine

Thrift Store Narrative

materials: found objects

Automata

materials: balsa, found wood

Sound Suit

materials: masking tape, cardboard, tracing paper

For a video of the sound suit please visit: http://vimeo.com/32976585

Cities I would like to visit:

Perth, Australia
Istanbul, Turkey
Vancouver, Canada
St. Petersberg, Russia
Santiago, Chile
Mumbai, India

kiki smith

Untitled

judy pfaff

pierre huyghe

liu xiaodong

In the Shadow of Mao

Xiaodong’s work includes oil paintings done in vivid colors and broad brushstrokes. His work is representational and usually comes from snapshots he has taken in towns throughout China of people doing ordinary things: eating, waiting, swimming, etc. His paintings do not hide the fact that they are from photographs and Xiadong often frames them the way his snapshots are framed, with limbs cut off where figures run off the canvas.

ellen gallagher

Artist Statement

As an artist I am preoccupied by a desire to create art that captures the type of joy or beauty that is painful, memories that are sacred yet fading. My art is about a desire to remember and be remembered; it is about inevitable loss and the questions and concerns that follow that reality. Finally, my art is about a search for hope and beauty amidst the cycle of living, breaking, dying, and fading.
Often times these themes and preoccupations of mine lead me to photograph and collect objects and moments that I want to remember: nature, sticks and stones, river rocks, driftwood, a quiet afternoon, when I am alone, when we are together. These photographs and collections then become the reference point from which I paint, draw and sculpt. I then utilize organic shapes and colors, as well as the process of layering and fragmenting the imagery I have collected to represent the themes of memory, redemption, and longing.