Artist and photographer Matthew Brandt studies early photographic processes and uses them in his work. These 8″x10″ polaroids are his hommage to Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid process and founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Naturally, Brandt enlightens us with his usual wry sense of irony.
I have always admired the work of Italian designer, painter and sculptor Piero Fornasetti. His work is identified by his distinctive black and white engraving style. He became obsessed with the opera soprano, Lina Cavalieri when he discovered her face in a 19th-century magazine and created hundreds of objects and products featuring her likeness. “What inspired me to create more than 500 variations on the face of a woman?” asks Italian designer, Piero Fornasetti…
Last night I saw Still Life, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken. Spanning a variety of media encompassing photography, sculpture, publications, sound, and single and multi-channel video installations, Aitken’s work explores the modern landscape and posits possibilities for new uncharted frontiers.
Another one of my favorite artists — I recently acquired an early charcoal drawing. “Joe Goode has long made pictures designed to be looked through, not at. His work is deadpan, and seemingly innocuous. The LA Times critic William Wilson, in 1971, called it ‘neutrality-style art’. Perhaps this mildness is why he never got quite as much attention as his childhood friend Ed Ruscha, who also does deadpan but who usually cuts his neutrality…
If you are planning a trip to NY soon, make sure you visit the Whitney Museum of American Art and see the Jeff Koons Retrospective. Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade (an obvious nod to Marcel Duchamp), tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits…
