private collection

Lots of talk about jobs, moving, future and sharing spaces. Too much and too personal to write here for the world to read. All this in a time where I feel totally content doing what I'm doing. Like I said previously, something clicked a while ago about my project and my art in general. I'm excited and into it. Daily going to school to work on images - and PRINTING ! yup printing - getting away from little tests and web based imagery. It's such a treat. The project is coming along nicely.

Things have settled about job/moving talk - and there are some exciting options for life here in Montreal.

So the show/auction went really well. All the works were sold and the night was drunken fun. Oh - my piece is now a part of Genevieve Cadieux's private collection - right there with the Kiki Smith. Very very flattering (blush). I'll post pics of the night when some one gives me some. Here's the peice hanging next to Celias' - they look great together.

Context

I guess this provides a bit of context and links the work to other work in art history - I had seen Sam Taylor Wood's image before, but not with the bottom bit - damn. I thought that bit was original. Both are totally referencing the Mantegna. Interesting. I always thought of the Mantegna with my image - I remember seeing it in Art History classes in high school - there's another one as well that I can't think of now - I think it's a Dutch painter, and I think there's a crown of thorns on the Christ figure. Let me know if anyone knows.


Soliloquy VII
Sam Taylor-Wood
1999
C-type color prints,
framed in two parts
87 1/3 x 95 1/4 inches


Andrea Mantegna
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
c. 1490
Tempera on canvas
68 x 81 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan


Untitled Landscape # 1
Jim Verburg
2006
colour inkjet print
40 by 39 inches

Issues (and a print)

I just had a meeting with my professor Genevieve Cadieux and TA Esther Choi - both very talented artists. This particular class has annoyed me for a number of reasons (which I'll go into another time), but what has also annoyed me is my indecisiveness with regards to my work and approach - things have shifted in the way that I work and the way I see photography - having so much in my head about the history, context, what's been done before, can be really debilitating (rather than inspirational). I'm working with graphic and color elements, but seem to be unable to make any sort of successful series or display - maybe I'm trying too hard - maybe I'm not trusting my instincts like I used to, or I'm just sick of photo. Whatever the case - it's been a frustrating experience.

Things seemed to come together in this meeting however. I feel good - the series and pairing came naturally. I was impressed with how both Genevieve and Esther worked with the mini images before them - seeing then in a way I hadn't before.

It was good. I'm on a good path now.

I'm now off to two art opening parties. It's gonna be a fun night.

We hang the Cash and Carry show on Sunday. I like the print I'm showing - it's big (40 inches by 40 inches).

Oh - don't get me started about Ol Stevie's cabinet choices. What an ass. That's another post.

poster

New poster I did for a show I'm in. Click to enlarge. Resolution's not the greatest.

ok

ok ok ok - I'll post a good one soon, been way too busy.