Category: Art Monday

ARTmonday: 17 Artworks from Paddle8

Paddle 8 is an online art marketplace that partners with galleries, art fairs, foundations, and museums to offer a curated selection of artwork and content surrounding it. The site launched in April of last year, though it wasn’t really on my radar until co-founder Alexander Gilkes emailed me this past winter to say they had secured substantial VC funding. Tons of interesting galleries from across the globe, including Brooklyn, Mexico City, Vienna, Helsinki, Istanbul, New Delhi, and Sao Paulo  are represented, as well as art fairs, like Nada Miami Beach and The Armory Show Piers 92 & 94. There’s a lot to look at. Last night I went through just one section, Paddle8 For Good, a new initiative that supports select non-profit arts with unique and collaborative projects. Here’s what I turned up.

Hisham Akira Bharoocha
Bibi and Joey, Upstate NY , 2009
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Karen Margolis

Auscultation, 2012
Watercolor, gouache, graphite,
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Dan Tague

Monster, 2012
Burned paper
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Barbara Kruger

Untitled (Another Year), 2010
Lenticular pigment print
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Dan Colen

Not All Right, 2012

Flowers on belched Belgian linen
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Will Cotton

Will Cotton / Nancy Gonzalez, 2012

Crocodile with suede lining and acrylic polymer
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Ho Tzu Nyen

The Bohemian Rhapsody Project, 2006

single-channel HD video, stereo sound
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Heidi Elbers

Bend, 2012

oil on paper
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Antony Gormley

Hold V, 2012

3mm square section stainless steel bars
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Michael Lin

After Sonia Delaunay, 2011
cotton
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Kirsten Deirup

Front II, 2012

Gouache on paper
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Margaret Boyer

Patriarch, Age 79, 2010
Chromogenic color print
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Gillian Wearing

Me Wearing Mask of Lily Cole, 2012

c-type print
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 Deedee Cheriel

Untitled, 2010
Handpainted, 4 color silkscreen
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Tracey Emin

Trust Me, 2011
Neon (Super Turquoise)
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Glenn Ligon

2000-2099, 2011
Epson UltraChrome K3 Print on Museo Max 365 GSM Paper
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Co-founders Alexander Gilkes & Aditya Julka

ARTmonday: Amanda Barr

On Thursday I saw the below artwork, “Transforming Masses,” on Madewell’s blog and immediately loved it. It’s promoting new works by the artist, Amanda Barr, on view at the Williamsburg outpost of Brooklyn clothing boutique, Bird. The work is  based on her recent trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, where she worked in a printshop on mono prints. There are also landscapes and portraits inspired by a science fiction concept involving fields of gases and minerals and alien bodies that are metamorphosing and diffusing. I love her use of color and the dreamy compositions. To me, “A Foreign Sea” is reminiscent of Chagall. I’ve also included a sampling of some older, more whimsical multimedia pieces at the end.

Transforming Masses

Some Organisms

Mysterious  View

Resting

A Foreign Sea

Clayton Volcano

Bringing Good News

Mr. Squash

Older works from Branch Gallery

Golden Owl

Jesus Jeans

Earth Boulder, Fire Boulder, Sky Boulder

Hippo with Flowerflage

Beached Whale of Nightime

Geyser

ARTmonday: Group Show at Berta Walker

Friday night we went to the opening of a group show at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.Berta represents some of the best artists in Provincetown, including Paul Resika, Robert Henry, Selina Trieff, Elspeth Halvorsen, and Romolo del Deo. I am excited and proud to say that my mother-in-law, Judyth Honeycutt Katz, had six pieces in the show. Five gorgeously colored pastels of the Truro landscape hung in a group on a wall in the middle gallery, in prominent view. Another was up by the front desk. Two sold on opening night; I’d best hang on to mine! Here is a sampling of some of the pieces I liked best in the show, plus a peek at works in Berta’s office.

Oliver Chaffee

Salvatore Del Deo

Left: Salvatore Del Deo

Left: Robert Henry  |  Right: Romolo Del Deo

Romolo Del Deo

Far left: Paul Resika

Paul Resika

Judyth Honeycutt Katz

Judyth Honeycutt Katz

Left: Robert Henry  |  Center: Selena Trieff  | Right: Judyth Honeycutt Katz

Penelope Jencks

Far left: Selina Trieff  | Center top: William Fitts

Sky Power

Erna Patroll

Left: Herman Maril  |  Center: Romolo Del Deo  |  Right: Blanche Lazell

Romolo Del Deo

on a shelf in Berta’s office

Center left: Erna Partoll  |  Center right: Elspeth Halvorsen

Left:  Salvatore Fiumara

Romolo Del Deo

Agnes Weinrich

Agnes Weinrich 

Blanche Lazell

sculptures in Berta’s office

Berta Walker

ARTmonday: Photographer Motoyuki Daifu

I came across these images by Japanese photographer Motoyuki Daifu earlier this year through a review in the New Yorker of his show, “Lovesody” at Lombard Freid Projects. There’s nothing pretty about them, rather, they’re messy, tiring, and I was drawn in.

They document the days of a young Japanese mother of two, with whom Daifu fell in love. He said the photographs were, “originally meant just for the two of us,” and the magazine points out “that’s precisely what draws the viewer in.”

They’re honest. Almost mundane, but not dull. They’re imbued with a raw sense of everyday life. Slightly gritty. A bit peeping Tom-ish, but not titillating. They really portray the drudgery of motherhood, but not in an ironic or self-conscious way. I had put off posting them all this time because I wasn’t sure if people  would relate or respond to them. I’m curious to know what  they evoke for you.

Hello Kitty, 2011.

Bath, 2011

Leftover, 2011

Love Hotel and Karaoke, 2011

Diaper, 2011

Mother at Sink, 2011

Family, 2011

Nightwear of Winnie the Pooh, 2011

ARTmonday: Budd Hopkins

Today’s post is in memory of Budd Hopkins, an artist who worked in New York City and Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and died one year ago Wednesday. He was a longtime friend of my in-laws, and his daughter, photographer Grace Hopkins-Lisle is a childhood friend of my husband’s, and a friend of mine now too. I knew Budd a little bit. I remember how he playfully teased my son one afternoon when we happened to hanging around during his visit with my in-laws. Last year, my husband spoke about remembering him as the guy who always had a joke for the kids, while they ran wild during the grown-ups cocktail parties in the seventies. Seemed he hadn’t changed much.

He was a very successful painter and sculptor; an Abstract Expressionist, whose work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney, Guggenheim, and Hirschhorn. He was friends with Motherwell, encountered Pollack, and lunched with Rothko. (He was also known for his sighting and subsequent research of UFOs. In his obituary, the New York Times called him, “the father of the alien-abduction movement,” having been the first to publish narratives of people who said they’d been abducted.) But back to his artwork.

I first saw his work when my husband and I moved in together. Budd had given him a piece as a wedding present to his first wife. It’s a visually uplifting work,I think, in a saturated pink in a nice silver frame. It’s one of his “guardians” (not sure if they’re guarding earthlings or the other worldlies).  My in-laws have several of his pieces hanging in their Cape house, including a sculptural representation, and presented us with a couple of little guardian studies over the years. Last summer, his daughter Grace curated a show of his work at Castle Hill in Truro, which was the last time we saw him. My kids both got to pick out a piece they liked, which their grandfather purchased for them. They love  having them in their bedrooms.

These are photos I took at my house, my in-laws, at Castle Hill, and at Budd’s own home in Wellfleet, during his memorial service.

The stairwell of Budd’s Wellfleet home.

Two small guardian studies hang in my dining area.

Leaning in my living room. 


At the end of the hall at my in-laws’ house.

detail

Two in the stairwell.

Two non-guardian abstracts.

In the basement of Budd’s Wellfleet home. 

On my son’s bookshelf.

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Exhibit at Castle Hill in Truro last summer.