Outta Town

(...image from here...)

Away for a few days - back in this space around Wednesday. Have a really nice weekend!

Eden Veaudry

I stumbled across all this great work by the artist Eden Veaudry yesterday. I think it is really beautiful and interesting and I love how she is able to translate her vision across so many different mediums. Here are some links I found if you would like to know more...

...personal website...
...other personal site (it has the same things but I also like the web design in this one)...
...flickr site...
...bio and desccription of the work for a February 2008 show in the Mission District SF...
...a story by Eden Veaudry on Tooth and Dagger...
...a really great interview at Libby's Niche...

Hope you enjoy checking all that out as much as I did...

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I heard somewhere that this painting by Elizabeth Peyton is going up in her New Museum exhibition now that the results are in.

So exciting. I am so glad I was here to witness the sea change.

Let's bring on some better times...

xo

Roberta Ridolfi

I like these photographs by Roberta Ridolfi. I couldn't find that much about her on the internet - just that she is a photographer from Rome, based in London since 1999 - (info via this blog). I really love that first image...

Spooked

I can't really think of a Halloween-appropriate post so instead I will just link to these great photos of the artist David Altmejd's studio. And here are some photos I took of his exhibition this spring at Andrea Rosen Gallery. And here is an article from W magazine. AND some footage from the opening of the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Alright!! That is it before I carried away. Have a spooky one.

xo

Chris Johanson "Totalities"

(...I especially like those collaged chairs for some reason...)

I really liked this exhibition Totalities by the artist Chris Johanson that I saw at Deitch Projects earlier this Fall. Johanson and his partner Jo Jackson are really inspiring for me. Back in this September post I linked to a lecture they gave at the Walker Center. It made me like them even more. One day I will try to do a more elaborate post on them but for now here are some links just about this particular show.

...artist site...
...wiki...
...some more photos and a video on my flickr...
...an article in the Village Voice...
...a youtube video of the opening (with a voice over - be warned)...
...at whitehot magazine...

Iggy Pop

I am kind of fascinated with Iggy Pop at the moment. I think it is his incredible amount of raw energy. And aside from a few kind of ummmm....iggy-isms - he is totally articulate and weirdly charming in this documentary. I really believe that he did feel like he had something to give people - even if it wasn't done in the most conventional way. I also like the way he explained that his decision to make music and be a performer was a way to carve out his own future instead of falling into the the middle-class trap that the American Dream had set up for him. Not many people are so aware of their own fishbowl...

...here are a bunch of photos on my tumblr (Mon. Oct 27)...
...and here are some great youtube videos (Sun. Oct 26)...

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