Romero Britto

Considered to be a modern day Pop icon, Britto’s work relates to people of all ages. He bring together playful colors and themes that relates strongly to compositional elements within cubism. Romero’s approach to humor and criticism of current pop culture society has inspired the development of innovative approaches to contemporary Pop Art. Taking art to a new level Britto has painted and decaled buses, cars, and aircrafts . He's not only discovered an innovated way of advertising his work, he has brought attention to the relationship between the work and the role of the viewer. Specifically referring to the use of vehicles as canvases for his paintings, Bitto’s work is not usable in a sense where he didn’t make and develop the automobile his work is painted onto; instead he uses the structure of the vehicles and airplanes as a large scale canvas for millions of people to view.

Jack Larimore

Jack's experience in nature’s singular functionality is to develop a working process that integrates the experience without prescribing it, that results in a sense of completeness where the sensual and the spiritual converge. He wants his process of making furniture to offer the same sense of wonder and fullness that he feels when in dialog with nature. Relying on nature and his background in landscape architecture as references, Larimore investigates the boundaries of function within his furniture. He energizes his pieces by emphasizing the vertical members—skinny table legs, crooked chair-back vertebrae, knock-kneed pedestal risers. These vigorous, wiggling appendages resemble plants, insects, and animals. The organic forms allow for improbable structures to create their own characteristics through his use of materials. Currently he is Associate professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Michael Hosaluk

Michael Hosaluk has a strong love for the materials that he uses. He is internationally known as one of the today’s most creative wood turners. His work includes functional vessels, furniture and sculpture. In his woodworking, Michael uses the beauty and mystery of the material as well as inventing new techniques and to create his objects. He likes to have the materials he uses to relate back to the piece he is making. For example, he may have a salvaged piece of wood which he chooses to work with and uses this as the starting point for his design. At other times he starts with a design and then chooses what type of wood he will need for that particular purpose. He can apply a variety of surface design techniques to express an idea. In his work he wants to tell a story of life… of the places, people, and environment around him. He feels that craft goes beyond the pleasure of our senses and deals not only with aesthetics, but social and ideological lives.

Containers
maple, acrylic paint, gel

Susan Edgerley

Susan Edgerley explores glass and its relationship with other materials to create her own personal and textural dialogue in her work. She works with several different themes in her pieces which include identity, community, and the existence of the human condition. The glass in her work represents the complexity and diversity of the human existence through the use of glass and it properties. She uses the beauty of glass as a metaphor to describe humanity in her work. The transparent in appearance yet still being solid and impregnable, glass remains a seductive and elusive medium full of contradictions: fragile, solid, hard, strong, transparent, translucent, opaque, fluid, soft, malleable, colorful, clear, tactile, hot, warm, cold, sharp, smooth, rough, textured, mirrored, reflective, refractive, brittle, breakable, are all words describing what the glass represents.
Susan Edgerley has exhibited across North America as well as in China, Finland, France and Germany. Her pieces can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Museum du Quebec, the Musee des Arts Decorcratifs de Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Claridge Collection, Montreal, and the Wuspum Museum in Wisconsin.

Threadlet on a filament
Variable height x 15" x 5"
Flame worked glass, metal

Colin Schleeh

Colin Schleeh’s work mostly deals with form and function as well as making the impossible possible. He uses curved forms along with texture and color in his work where each piece is individually formed. Colin uses both traditional and nontraditional materials in his work. Some of those materials are resin, paper, film, cement, wood and plastics. These materials create a simple elegance in his pieces. He is open to experimenting with different material and is not afraid of failing. To Colin, in failure you gain knowledge. Using thin pieces of wood and other material to create containers that should not be able to hold water in his work.
Colin Schleeh has designed commissions for Hermes of Paris (New York), Bulgari and Birks. Schleeh is currently featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and is represented in galleries and collections internationally.

SARGASSO vase large
Flamed birch, various dyes
24" x 24" h

Rodney Graham

Rigorously intellectual artist, Rodney Graham works in photography, film/voice, sculpture, painting, and book arts. Underlying each work is a historical context through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophical references and visual puns. These references are derived from social and philosophical systems of thought ranging from Enlightenment through Modernism.

Awakening, monochrome diptych photographs, 94.25 x 57.5" each, 2006

Charissa Brock

Charissa Brock work in a sculptural way this the us of bamboo, rocks and waxed linened thread , fused glass, and steel to create finely crafted sculptural objects. Charissa uses several different techniques in her work constructed with basketry, woodworking, sculptural, and fusing techniques as well as reference plant structures . In her work she uses references form the past to create her contemporary work. She wants to have an archeologist view of her work with the referencing of tools, weapons, music interments. She also reference the past with some of the techniques that she use in knotting and basketry ,through the use of lines and the stacking system that she uses. She wants the viewer of her work to ask the questions that archeologist ask what is the meaning and purpose of the object and the person that made it. In hopes that it will creates a story that reminds of us all for where we once came form and what the future looking back will see. Charissa has won the American Bamboo Society's Craft Grant, exhibits her work nationally.

Hidden
bamboo, glass, wood, paper, thread, steel,
19 x 16 x 16 inches

Alex Fekete

Alex us blown and carved glass with fused steel in his sculptural work. Over time the endless verity of different form in which the glass can take has gained his love for glass. The translucent, fragile, fluid yet hard, works that he creates a magical feel to them. The work that he creates is simple yet elegant in design which use the power of negative space in his work. Alex work with the natural flow of the glass when he designs his pieces allowing the glass to fellow creatively . He finish his work with a sandblasted finish that creates a translucent look to the piece so that is becomes more defined object. With areas of high polish areas highlighting and defining the curves to creating emphasize at a distance. Alex only add bits of color to his piece creating a feeling of purity with in his work.



Far Away
34 x 9 x 6"
Blown and carved glass & fused steel

Sarah Hood

Large Tree Brooch
2007
sterling silver, 24k
2.5" x 2.5" x 0.5"


Sarah Hood works in an organic style that ranges from wearable jewelry to one-of-a-kind sculpture jewelry. Her current wearable series of work called Arbor stems from her pervious sculptural series called Landscape. She like to work in small scale in her work to explore her concepts and designs. In her past and present work she demonstrates her love for nature. This shows in her designs and choices of material which are organic and inorganic in an unexpected way. She uses sterling silver and 24k gold in the series Arbor which seems to have a growing quality to the pieces seem like they should growing. Her series Landscape creates miniature, artificial worlds within her jewelry with the use of model railroad landscape materials and sterling silver. Sarah Hood has been in four exhibitions as well as in five different magazines and books this past year.

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, self-proclaimed painter, and installation artist. Boltanski was born in Paris to a Jewish father of Ukrainian heritage, and a Corsican mother. He lives and works in Malakoff, and is married to the artist Annette Messager, with whom he sometimes collaborates. His artistic work is haunted by the problems of death, memory and loss; he often seeks to memorialize the anonymous and those who have disappeared.

Image: Christian Boltanski, Monument: The Children of Dijon, installation, Paris, Salpetriere Chapel, 1986

http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue2/boltanski.htm

Jan Lenica- animation

Jan lenica (1928-2001)

"Labyrinth"1962

Taking over, beautiful metaphorical image of the totalitarian society. Story held in collage technique close to the convenction of Max Ernst paintings. Story about the man which is arriving to the unknown for him large city on the wings of his own construction. When the main character realized , that everything in this beautiful metropolis is only a game of appearances, it will be too late for the escape... Motif of the lost in world,a character which doesn't understand rules, comes back repeatedly in his animations.

you can find "Labyrinth" on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cZiyO-No4 part1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHT7Rq_ZJc&NR=1 part2

Piotr Dumala- animation

his " a gentle spirit"

Piotr Dumala decided to do two almost impossible things: to make cartoons/animation on heavy plaster panels and to adapt Dostoevsky for the screen- in this technique!. "A gentle spirit" became the most awarded animation in Polish history. His animations- close aesthetically to Edward Much's painting are admire all over the world till today.
Dumala is teaching animation in Sweaden, on Harvard and at Lodz Film Academy in Poland

Vito Acconci

Here this is a vid. called pryings by Vito
http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/Acconci-Vito_Pryings_1971.avi
"Pryings is a video recording of a performance by Vito Acconci in public with Kathy Dillon at a New York university. The artist shows a situation in which he is trying by force to open the eyes of the woman who stubbornly persists in keeping them closed. The camera follows the action of the couple by focusing on the chests of two of the protagonists. He pulls at her eyelids while she keeps her eyes shut tight. She tilts her head forwards and backwards, but he takes it in his hands and straightens it again. When her long hair covers her face, Vito Acconci sweeps it away with one hand and keeps the woman against him with the other. He pulls on her skin again and one eye opens, but the woman hides her iris by turning her eyes in their orbits. The white eye sees nothing. She struggles, pulling with her the body of the artist who holds her by the shoulders. The couple's tension is a source of emotion. The live soundtrack gives an idea of their movements and, in particular, Vito Acconci's breathing becomes louder with the physical effort. This struggle represents tensions - rather than oppositions - in couples of forces: feminine/masculine, open/closed. Vito Acconci experiments with the action of one individual aware of the other (open to the outside) on an individual closed in on herself. The non-resolution of this situation highlights the resources used in the performance. In Vito Acconci’s conception and the logic initiated by his introspective actions - filmed in Super 8 - the performance has physical resources, the body as place or medium, and a clearly delimited space. Pryings is a representation of the performance as an artistic process and medium, and a metaphor of the idea "opening someone's eyes". Thérèse Beyler" www.ubu.com

Sol LeWitt:

"Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from Wall Drawings, over 1100 of which have been executed, to photographs and hundreds of works on paper and extends to structures in the form of towers, pyramids, geometric forms, and progressions. These works range in size from maquettes to monumental outdoor pieces."

http://www.pacewildenstein.com/

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder Ordinary, 1969sheet metal, rod, bolts and paint228" x 236" x 228" (579.1 cm x 599.4 cm x 579.1 cm)

"Alexander Calder (1898-1976) received a degree in mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey) prior to studying at the Art Students League in New York between 1923 and 1925. In 1926 Calder received his first solo exhibition of paintings. Shortly thereafter, he began working on a miniature circus comprised of wood and wire figures until its completion in 1931. That same year, Calder started to construct "mobiles"-abstract sculpture with moving parts. Calder's creative enterprises were cross-disciplinary and exceeded the traditional definitions of painting and sculpture; throughout the course of his career Calder developed sets for a variety of theatrical, musical, and dance performances, collaborated on films, illustrated books, produced wallpaper, fabrics, and costumes, created designs for racing cars and airplanes, and embraced humanitarian causes. Calder's enterprising outlook was in many ways connected to his enthusiasm for travel. As a result of his multifarious involvements, Calder secured an international reputation and was awarded commissions, prizes and honorary degrees around the world." www.pacewildenstein.com

Wodiczko is most well known for his over 40 large-scale outdoor projections, which have been installed in over a dozen countries. His works are usually socially conscious, and often political in nature. Examples include projections onto buildings of hands or faces of people who speak about personal experiences or crimes they have suffered, allowing the public airing of issues usually kept private. He has labeled this style of art Interrogative Design. His most well-known installation took place in 1985 when he projected the image of a swastika on the South African Emabassy  during a protest march in criticism of the country's aparthied system.  A controversial project of his was the design and construction of a special cart for homeless people. After consultation with homeless people in New York City, the cart could be used to transport a small number of belongings, provided space for the collection of bottles, and could be used as a primitive shelter.http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/

Chris Bowman

Chris Graduated from the Herron School of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Furniture making. With the use of relatively straight forward forms, Chris textures, shapes, and paints the surfaces of wood to add a contemporary dimension to the piece. With these methods, the structures evolve into their final form. At times compartments or drawers are added which are more suggestive of function than practical use; while in other pieces the function takes precedence, while texture and decoration taking a backseat to the woods natural quality.

http://www.chrisbowmanfurniture.com/

Sydney Pollack 7/1/1934- 5/26/2008

An American film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting. He began directing television shows in the 1960s before moving to films.One of the rare Hollywood talents who excelled at both acting and directing, Sydney Pollack fell haphazardly into a craft that eventually earned him three Oscar nominations and one Academy Award. Pollack made his first foray into documentary filmmaker with “Sketches of Frank Gehry” (2005), an intimate look at the famous architect who achieved the rare feat of successfully turning building design into art on his way to becoming a popular figure in American culture.

James Turrell

                                   

  Turrell works primarily with light and space.  "I  feel   my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer. Sometimes I'm kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on. But, you know, there's this slow-food movement right now. Maybe we could also have a slow-art movement, and take an hour "  As a lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker), Turrell designed the Live Oak Meeting House for the Society of Friends, with an opening or skyhole in the roof, wherein the notion of light takes on a decidedly religious connotation. (See PBS documentary).  Turrell is also well know for Roden Crater which is a naked eye observatory carved into an ancient volcanic cater just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona.  

Michael Graves

Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States. In addition to his popular line of household items, Graves and his firm have earned acclaim for a wide variety of commercial and residential buildings and interior design. Graves was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1979. In 1999 Graves was awarded the National Medal of the Arts and in 2001 the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects .

Michael Graves and Associates has been at the has lead the way in both design and architecture since 1964. Comprised of two firms, Michael Graves & Associates who work with architectural and interior design practices and Michael Graves Design Group, the product and graphic design end of the pratices.

Daniel Pink

Daniel Pink is an American writer who previously worked as Vice President Al Gore's chief speechwriter from 1995-97, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.

He is the author of the New York Times best-seller A Whole New Mind, Free Agent Nation, and the first American business book in manga, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. Pink's articles on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wired. Mr. Pink focuses his writing and speaking on the shift from the Information Age, to what he calls "the Conceptual Age," where right-brain qualities like empathy, inventiveness and meaning will predominate.

http://www.danpink.com/

Conrad Shawcross

Conrad Shawcross was born in London 1977. He lives and works in London.

Shawcross often uses subjects which lie on the border of science and philosophy. His structural and often mechanical sculptures, question empirical, ontological and philosophical systems within our lives. From early works such as The Nervous System (2002), a monumental spinning machine that endlessly weaves a length of colored rope into the form of a double helix, to his recent giant spiral work Continuum, 2004, he has attempted to visualize the the human concern with time.

Zaha Hadid

A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore'sone-north master plan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Previously, she had been awarded an CBE for services to architecture. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia Britannica. In 2006, Hadid was honored with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.She designed and constructed the Dancing Towers in Dubai and is currently working on the completion of the Saadiyat’s Performing Arts Centre.

Frank Gehry

Known for his sculptural approach to building design, he is best known for building curvaceous structures, often covered with reflective metal. His most famous work, and the clearest expression of his style, is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is covered in titanium.

Gehry's style is derived from late Modernism. The tortured, warped forms of his structures are considered expressions of the Deconstructivist (Decon) school of modernist architecture. The DeCon movement departs from modernism in its de-emphasis of societal goals and functional necessity. Unlike early Modernist structures, DeCon structures are not required to reflect specific social ideas (such as speed or universality of form), and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function. DeCon, which Gehry has continued to refine, is also known as the Santa Monica school of architecture. This region of the United States has produced the greatest range of experimentation in the field of DeCon design and contains the largest concentration of the structures. Currently Gehry is focused on the construction stages of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in Dubai.

Tadao Ando

In opposition to traditional Japanese architecture, Ando creates spaces of enclosure rather than openness. He uses walls to establish a human zone and to counter the monotony of commercial architecture. On the exterior, the wall deflects the surrounding urban chaos, while on the interior it encloses a private space.
Ando developed a radically new architecture characterized by the use of unfinished reinforced concrete structures. Using a geometric simplicity which reveals a subtlety and richness in spatial articulation, Ando has generated an architecture that shares the serenity and clarity that characterize traditional Japanese architecture. Tadao is currently focusing on designing and constructing of the Maritime Museum in Dubai.

Shaun Gladwell

Shaun Gladwell is a video artist from Sydney. He went to Sydney College of the Arts and then completed postgraduate research at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales. In 2001 he won a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to study at Goldsmith’s College in London and completed a prestigious residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. A founding member of Imperial Slacks artists collective in 2000, he exhibited more and more widely and has had recent exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and at Art in General in New York.

His work focuses on popular culture and in corporates references to art history. Gladwell speaks about the philosophy behind his work, the concept of the “isolated figure moving and struggling through the panoramas of nature (urban and ‘real’) in a possible engagement with the sublime” .

Yanko Design

Yanko Design is a web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design, covering from industrial design, concepts, technology, interior design, architecture, exhibition and fashion. Great place to visit to brainstorm and see what is being developed. I always find something here to get the process going. http://www.yankodesign.com/

Manfredi Beninati

In 2005 he was selected as one of four artists to represented his country at the 51 Venice Biennale where he received the audience award for the Italian pavilion. In 2006 he was given a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome as part of the Rome Prize. He currently lives and works in Palermo, Rome and Los Angeles and is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill in Rome.

Beninati's works are elaborate, and include drawings, oils and installations. His works elicit a fantasy world with literary and artistic references. The work is based around memories of childhood and adolescence. The images are dreamy, sometimes verging on nightmarish, with some details rendered with great precision while others are out of focus and smudged out.

Neo Rauch

Rauch is a German artist whose large paintings combine personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of social realism. Rauch draws influence from surrealists such Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte, although he hesitates to align himself with surrealism.
Rauch lives in Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. Rauch's paintings suggest a narrative intent but, as art historian Charlotte Mullins explains, closer scrutiny immediately presents the viewer with enigmas: "Architectural elements peter out; men in uniform from throughout history intimidate men and women from other centuries; great struggles occur but their reason is never apparent; styles change at a whim."

W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith was a documentarian and Photojournalist who is famous for his work in Life Magazine during WWII. Smiths' work at the time was not regarded as anything more than the work of a Photojournalist. After the war he set out to capture America. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship award (his first of three) and came to Pittsburgh to capture one of America's leading industrial cities on film. Though the complete work was never published there are a few that have influenced my father and I in the ideas of the beautiful tonal qualities of everyday life. His standards in craftsmanship of the negative and print have set the guideposts for all who venture into his realm of the black and white photo and he continues to inspire others who are still dedicated to wet work photography.

Roger Guenveur Smith

Roger Guenveur Smith is a little known actor and performance artist born in 1959 in Berkly CA. His most recent work of acclaim is The Heuy P. Newton Story (available at PBS.org) which is a performance piece directed by Spike Lee. Smith received the Obie Off Broadway Theatre award for his solo work with this piece. Smith also appeared in Do The Right Thing where he played a mentally handicapped man who spoke the virtues of Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King. Smiths abilities and genius in character portrayal has led him to many other Spike Lee Joints and will be some one to look for in the future.

Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) French Symbolist Poet

Stephane Mallarme invented what he deemed the “critical poem,” a genre of theoretical text as stylistically dense and complex as his verse. In all of his writing, the distinction between “poetry” and “theory” breaks down: every text is a lesson in how language works, weaving and unweaving the poetic act itself in the process of not quite accomplishing. The materiality of the page, ink, paragraph, and spacing is just as important as the syntax, figure, and sense. It is through Mallarme’s work that influenced 20th century French theory and criticism, particularly, Roland Barthes “death of the author” and the theoretical styles of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan.

Mallarme, Stephane. “Crisis in Poetry.” Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Eds. Leitch et al. New York: W. W. Norton and Co. Inc. 2001, 845-851.

Leitch, Vincent B. et al. Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2001.

Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin explores the potential of identity and moves between reality and fiction, image and self, past and present in her photographs, installations, videos, performances, and literary texts. She invents histories, narratives, and characters, yet also works with experience of the body and the self within a conceptual context, via using herself as an actor in her historically framed narratives.

In the Trenches Before Sebastopol, from Angel of Mercy film. photograph mounted on paper, 30.5 x 22", 1977.

Cosima von Bonin

Cosima von Bonin’s artistic practice takes on many forms of expression. Alongside her installations, objects, and performances, she produces videos, organizes music events, and group projects. One characteristic of her works in installation is the powerful treatment of materials, forms, and colors, as well as the abundance of objects. Exemplary spaces, which mark a complex system of navigation in various fields of memory, are the result.

Rorschachtest #4, cotton and linen, 89.76 x 111.02 inches, 2006.

Keith Haring

Keith Haring, a graffiti inspired artist, who studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York became well known for his murals depicting cartoon like characters in vibrant colors and frantic motions. Haring was influenced later in life by Andy Warhol (Andy Mouse) and the pop art scene, Harings' more famous works were murals at check point charlie on the Berlin wall along with murals in Paris, Amsterdam and Phoenix. Haring was an openly gay artist who inspired many and gave strength to artists struggling with sexuality. Unfortunately Kieth Haring died in 1990 of Aids but his images live on in current culture. In June 2008 Haring would have been 50 and was Honoured with a retrospective of 200 of his pieces in Terrassa, Spain

Odd Nerdrum

Nerdrum hails from Oslo, Norway. He practices painting in the method of Rembrandt with contemporary twist of subject matter. Representations are of figures in various desolate environments that evoke a spiritual connection to nature and post apocalyptic strife. Uses symbols and numbers to create connections with a painting and provide clues to ritualistic undertones. Nerdrum placed himself in complete opposition to Modernism and refused to follow developing trends. Obstinate, crazy, and very intelligent, he had declared himself as King of Kitsch. I wonder how Damien Hurst or Jeff Koons feel about him owning this title. Nerdrum continued to push painting into new directions with contemporary themes at a time when painting was being declared as dead. His ideas are rooted in Humanist theory.

assignment for next class...9/10/08

In addition to the 4 images, we are to bring a 2 paragraph statement describing our work to class 9/10/08.

Happy writing,
alisha

MONIKA WEISS

Through pictures, performance, the video and installations, the Polish artist living in New York Monika Weiss is creating environments which refer to the body and to the tension between biology and the culture. In her pictures an anonymous, separated figure is stopped in unspecified poses, almost as a waiting for the unknown to appear. In her performative installations she bombards viewer states of repetition and with projections documenting this action.

part of her statement:"I like to remove the beginning and the end from the experience, both from others’, and mine leaving just the space. That's why I want to come back for many hours, for days, creating a site of eternal return, a kind of a loop in time, a situation,nevertheless permeated by gradual, almost invisible change, to create a place where people come and go, encounter something that happens almost the same, and almost all the time. Just like life itself. Like a grid in time and in space."

KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI

Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996)
(director) was in the Polish cinema someone incomparable. He was the one who opend a trail for the others. One of those who is not afraid to ask universal questions as well as those inconvenient ones.
From his debut a man was the main focus of attention.
Man in collision with the society, with the power, with the System, with the environment, with the family and with himself. Man involved in contradictions, relations, conflicts. Man which must constantly make choices in world of value and has to take responsibility for these choices. Men presented with eternal aspirations to the freedom, the equality, the justice and searching for love, happinesses, understanding.
In all his movies Kieslowski display that there is some transcendence influencing the human existence, but the man completely a lost the ability of for feeling it, recognizing, and even called it.

well, finally we have small collection of his movies in our library!

look for DEKALOG(1989)(call nr DVD 2738, DVD 2739,DVD 2740) and THREE COLORS

Paul Noble

British artist that creates large-scale drawings based upon his imagined worlds. He uses perspective of buildings to spell out words and messages to the viewer. The works most times feel like social critique and effects of industry. Noble spent the bulk of 10 years developing his Nobson Newtown, a visionary dystopia. Many buildings based on post war era urban planners ideas of utopic building style. Incredibly detailed and usually in broken down into sections. Noble also works in video, sculpture, sound, and installation.

Vincent Desiderio

Desiderio is a contemporary realist painter that is represented by Marlborough Gallery. He focuses mainly on figurative subjects that have a particular mood of human suffering and empathy. The figures in the paintings are family members, many of which suffer from a disease. He works in triptych format which he describes as attuned to our times fragmentation of thought and images. Also relies heavily on symbols and their interrelationship within the work. The paintings themselves are traditional oil technique, typically large scale and some take over years to complete. He is senior critic at NYAA in New York.

Tony Oursler
www.tonyoursler.com

Why is this on West coast time?

Is this working or am I all alone? dk

WELCOME!