Links (click on image or website link) James Avati, Rudolph Belarski... great site that features paperback covers from the 50's & 60's http://www.vintagepbks.com Lisa Iaboni Squalor, mess, unhappiness – a rubber band holding the radio together, a hole punched in the sheetrock, a Brittany Spears poster - You know, life. http://www.afonline.artistsspace.org William Knipscher The somber, poetic infrastructure that supports us humans, sub rosa, in the age of information. Beautiful name of one of Mr. Knipscher’s portfolios ; Evening's Empire. http://www.williamknipscher.com Simone Gad You had me at Betty Page ! Certain images in a collage can sort of open up the door to the mind and let the other images in. But that’s a linear thought - In collage it’s all about Mind, moving, playing on the surface, surface playing on the mind. It’s important that the images be gorgeous , rich, and laden with meaning(s), like the ones Ms. Gad has chosen. http://www.afonline.artistsspace.org Gregory Packard American Impressionism, bursting with color and life. http://www.gregorypackard.com Jason Hanasik Mr.Hanasik performs the sacrament of communion with and for his family and friends. To view these photographs is to be pierced with beauty and pathos. http://www.jasonhanasik.com Andrea Kantrowitz ...has the eye of an artist and the soul of a biologist. Maybe it's the other way around - beautiful light & color in these still - lifes - if you can use that term for images that are so organic. http://www.andreakantrowitz.com Murray Hubick His various websites have been under construction, so click on his name to see some nudes I really love Helen Levitt http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/helen_levitt Big hero of mine - first time I ever felt warmth & humanity conveyed (brilliantly & unselfconsciously) in visual art. I was blown away by a show of hers in Manhattan in the early eighties (Laurence Miller Gallery ?) and wrote to her - she wrote back & we met. I remember that her village apartment was like a late-fifties/early sixties time capsule ; kidney- shaped tables and stuff. She smoked Carltons. Speaking of a time when she was doing a lot of film editing, splicing film all day, and not photographing much, she said, "Well, you can really only do one thing at a time".Coming from a great artist, that's some consolation when I'm beat from doing contracting work, and not getting much done in the studio. |
Wolf Kahn
The simplicity of his
paintings is welcoming, -
it's kind of a relief
The simplicity of his
paintings is welcoming, -
it's kind of a relief
Jeff Koons
His pieces deflect meditation - they're funny, airy, light, shiny. -
( I'm trying to avoid "kitschy" and "banal"). They play on our
desire for things - In my mind his pieces all seem to be shiny
& reflective - we can desire them, but not enter into them -
they're poised for purchase - that's our world, that's where the
vitality of art is - he hasn't filtered it out because it may seem
distasteful.
Tony Millionaire
God knows when Tony Millionaire started 'maakies', but I remember
excitedly telling someone about it fifteen years ago ! So he's been doing this
hilarious, beautifully realized art, day after day, week after week, for at least
fifteen years.
maakies click for site
Uncle Gabby Rules !