Category Archives: Art Monday

July 25, 2010 · 9:40 pm

ARTmonday: Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

French-American artist Louise Bourgeois died on May 31st at age 98. Her work is haunting, eerily beautiful, brave, fragile, fierce, sexually explicit and autobiographical.

Arch of Hysteria, 1993 – polished bronze Cell (Glass, spheres and hands) 1990-1993

Janis Fleuri, 1968 – bronze

Untitled, Guggenheim, 2004.

Untitled, 1996 Cell vii, 1998

Spider Couple, 2003

Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972 Untitled (Germinal), 1967-95

Do you love me? Do you love me? Cumul I, 1969 – white marble on wood

Precious liquids, 1992
Cedar, iron, water, glass, alabaster, fabric, embroidered cushions, clothing

Personages, 1940s carvings from wood found on streets of Manhattan

The Cold of Anxiety, 2001 FemmeCouteau, 1982

Quarantania I, 1947-1953 The Woven Child,2002 -fabric, wood, glass, steel

Top: Femme Maison, 1947 – La Reparation – (unidentified)
Bottom: (unidentified) – Je t’aime (detail), 2005

Maman

More on Louise Bourgeois:

New York Times, May 31, 2010

PBS art:21 (includes videos)

Centre Pompidou Exhibition Itinerary 2008

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July 18, 2010 · 4:33 am

Artwork on display at MOMA on April 10, 2010. Picasso, Pollack, Matisse, Mondrian, Monet, Modigliani, Braque, Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Gaugin, Cezanne, Chagall, Klee, Magritte, Dali, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, Kahlo, Rousseau, Wyeth, Klimt . . . Delectable.

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July 11, 2010 · 10:06 pm

ARTmonday: Hadley Holliday

Photo: Style Section L.A.

This morning, while reading through clips from L.A. style writers, I came across a post about Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday by Sierra Feldner-Shaw on Style Section L.A., a site I’ve now bookmarked. I was immediately taken by Holliday’s work, especially the ones that give off a sort of really loose Frank Stella vibe, though the watery almost leopard print pieces are absolutely gorgeous (and I’m not even the animal print type.)

Feldner-Shaw came across Holliday’s work first in the apartment of shoe designer Beatrice Valenzuela, and second, in the home of jewelry designer Kathryn Bentley. The writer says, “The L.A. artist was clearly tapping into something fashion-savvy women were digging.” You can add me to that group.

Hadley Holliday went to RISD and the California Institute of the Arts (as well as the University of Kansas – she’s a Kansas City, Missouri girl). She works and lives in East L.A. and shows at the Solway Jones Gallery in L.A.’s Chinatown.

Long Shot, 2009

The Lovers, 2008

Spygyric, 2008

The Dancer, 2008

Sea of Joy, 2008

Forever and Never, 2009

Wallflower, 2009

Gestalt, 2009

Poured Square 2009 Poured Square 2009

Breakaway, 2009 Mirror Mirror, 2009

Love With The Proper Stranger, 2008

Detail of Love With The Proper Stranger

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June 28, 2010 · 8:36 pm

ARTmonday: Puntoos

Looking at various fashion illustration sites tonight I found myself at Traffic Creative Management, where I came across a graphic illustrator from Valencia, Spain (I think, his site’s in Spanish) called Puntoos.