CMYK4Life

# November 24, 2009 / 1:37PM 16 notes

curate:

thirdstitch:

Glenn Ligon is known for his resonant works in multiple media that explore issues surrounding race, sexuality, identity, representation and language.

The work of Glenn Ligon mines the history of African American culture, from slave narratives to the Million Man March, from the icons of the abolitionist movement to the raunchy jokes of Richard Pryor. In the series of paintings that remain his best known, Ligon stencils black text across the surface of white, doorsize canvases. The words presented are not the artist’s own but have been borrowed from such writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin. Typically, Ligon will repeat an especially charged sentence (“How it feels to be colored me,” “I am an invisible man,” “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background”) until it verges, through the force of excess paint, on illegibility. The resulting pictures set up a series of dialogues between visibility and erasure, between the naming of color and its painterly absence on the canvas, and between the “black space” of the stenciled letters and the “white space” into which they increasingly bleed. For all the seeming dispassion of Ligon’s formal method (monochrome palette, stenciled letters, repeated words), his text paintings are supercharged with affect. They speak a first-person voice of black subjectivity while registering the denial and relentless silencing of that same voice.

mixed media art

# November 24, 2009 / 1:26PM

Cable Drawings by Maisie Maud Broadhead [via]

mixed media home

# November 16, 2009 / 1:03PM

iheartmyart:

Manfredi Beninati, Untitled, pva glue, wood, plastic

mixed media

# November 13, 2009 / 11:22AM

iheartmyart:

Erwin Wurm, Untitled, 2009, (edition of 6 + 2 AP), acrylic, paint, cloth from the exhibition Desperate Philosophers,2009

iheartmyart:

Erwin Wurm, Untitled, 2009, (edition of 6 + 2 AP), acrylic, paint, cloth from the exhibition Desperate Philosophers,2009

mixed media

# November 10, 2009 / 9:33PM 12 notes

iheartmyart:

Tom Friedman, installation view of exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery, 1998

mixed media

# November 3, 2009 / 12:22PM 48 notes

nevver:

Boom Boom (2009). Chipboard, foam, tape, and glue, Kiel Johnson

nevver:

Boom Boom (2009). Chipboard, foam, tape, and glue, Kiel Johnson

mixed media

# November 2, 2009 / 5:02PM 18 notes

simko:

Marguerite de Ponty by Urs Fischer… More photos of his large-scale exhibit (which currently occupies three floors of the New Museum) can be found here.

simko:

Marguerite de Ponty by Urs Fischer… More photos of his large-scale exhibit (which currently occupies three floors of the New Museum) can be found here.

mixed media art

# November 2, 2009 / 12:39PM 314 notes

thedailywhat:

Hip Hop Popsicles of the Day: Mango-flavored “Forty Pop” and Strawberry-flavored “Westside Pop” — part of a larger collection of funky frozen treats produced and distributed by LA-based mixed-media artist Gary Garay by way of an appropriated paleta cart.

[via.]

food art mixed media

# October 24, 2009 / 12:05PM 128 notes

iheartmyart:

Paul Fryer, Lucifer (Morning Star), 2008

in ”Let There Be More Light” at former Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, London

(via AntonioA)

mixed media sculpture A+

# October 22, 2009 / 2:42PM 43 notes

iheartmyart:

Paul Fryer, For Laplace (Fear), 2008, Oak staircase, waxwork figure, bird’s wings, glass eyes, steel plate, books and tools, 112 x 275 cms

sculpture mixed media

# October 22, 2009 / 2:32PM 130 notes

iheartmyart:

Paul Fryer, For Laplace, 2008, Various woods, wax work figure, birds wings, glass eyes, steel plate, books, tools, 275 x 112 cm each, Installation view at Simon C. Dickinson

iheartmyart:

Paul Fryer, For Laplace, 2008, Various woods, wax work figure, birds wings, glass eyes, steel plate, books, tools, 275 x 112 cm each, Installation view at Simon C. Dickinson

mixed media

# October 19, 2009 / 3:30PM 5 notes