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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and watched Rottenberg’s new work entitled, Squeeze (2010). I titled part of my entry as ‘Interdependence’ because, coincidentially, I’ve been reading about interdepedence with others (and, even with inantimate objects) through a Buddhist lens and trying to incorporate that awareness within a meditative […]
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Body Image / consumerism / feminism / Feminist Art / Film / Gesture / Interdependence / Labor / Manufacturing / Mika Rottenberg / repetition / SFMOMA / Squeeze / Video / Video Installation / Whitney Biennele / Women’s Studies¶¶¶¶¶
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Worel put it best when she mentioned giving the viewer a ‘simulacrum of memory’ with Rocking Horse Winner (RHW). She provides the observer with a fondness for something they may have never even experienced before. The piece itself is grand. A real beauty to behold from a distance.
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It’s been some time since Bourgeois’s passing. As I sit here reflecting on the first time I saw her work, it’s rather difficult to imagine the contemporary art world without her. She worked on such a grandiose scale but it couldn’t have been any other way. With her mastery of the human body and a […]
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From the documentation of sleepers to a man’s description of his life through the experiences of his colleagues, friends and family, Calle’s work emphasizes the absence of the artists to create portraits and capture universal ideas of contemporary life.
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aesthetics / anonymity / conceptual art / contemporary art / contemporary life / detachment / documentation / experiences / exquisite pain / fabrication / human condition / human interaction / identity / intimacy / linda weintraub / melodrama / modern technology / personal relationships / photography / portraits / sensations / sophie calle / suite venitienne / the notebook man / universal ideas / voyeuristic¶¶¶¶¶
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“So this has been my whole professional life! Public art can create permeable membranes between the inside and outside of systems, spaces, and even the souls of citizens. Public artists need more breathing space to experiment and do R&D. They need to be brought in at the very inception of projects, so they can do their first work as a certain kind of thinker.” — Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 2001
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…there is safety for these artists living and working outside the boundaries of the art world…
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Viewing works in close proximity not only invoked a strong sense of anticipation, but a participatory aspect to the actual exhibition.
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The reaction itself is art.
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I’ve been promising myself that I would keep to my art writings and dedicate time to those artist heroes I’ve stored in the large unorganized art bin in my mind. For the longest time, I’ve been out of commission for reasons not even known to me. In any case, I digress, as always… One of the […]
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Opening night – Thursday, February 7, 2008 The minute I walked into Matt Borruso’s show, Full Spectrum Aura, at the Steve Wolf Gallery, I became surprisingly nostalgic. I was reminded of two former classmates who resembled the subjects of Magenta and Turtleneck. At first glance, one may be struck by the vibrant and elaborate color […]
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 