If you import a contrasty image inot Flash or illustrator, you can "Trace Bitmap" or "trace outlines" respectively. Or you could freehand the image using besier curves.
What a drag. I saw this show at MB and nodded off. This stuff would look better in the lobby of a bank. Geometry is so cool, but I prefer Benjamin Edwards. Or Kevin Zucker. Or Suprematism.
Cool, this piece looks like a good "design idea" for a painting. Someone should DO a painting of it. Oh, they already did? Well, shoot. It's so hard to be original! Back to the drawing board.
His paper collages and animations were much better at his show at Boone's uptown gallery last September. His "Help Me!" animation for Creative Time's 59th Minute is on the Panasonic screen in Times Square right now, and it's brilliant. Hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking to watch the juxtaposition of the words "HELP ME" scrolling just above whatever disastrous or insipid news headline NBC is running. It's like putting a label on all your shit. A glorious abuse of the medium, not to mention that he's probably mirroring the inner dialogue of 9 out of every 10 tourists that happen to look up and see it.
I saw this show for like 3 secs and I just had to walk out. I don't have ADD but this stuff I've seen a zillion times on Flash websites done with more imagination. There's more to painting than Illustrator's auto-trace feature. By comparison Lisa Ruyter is more interesting. At least she deals with unpredictable choices of color and has a few humans in her spaces. Ruyter's has a psychological charge to her Illustrator/Photoshop paintings. These by Alfred just seem to have been done before. Maybe his animations are interesting I have no idea. This show by Artists Anonymous looks far more promising... http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/a/aa/aa06.html
albino radio1 said... "do you think alfred ever wants to paint people into his upside down worlds? prob not - like vlahos was saying, then it might become psychological"
I think Alfred wants to create a different hybrid of abstraction and representation. I believe he succeeds that initially, through the formal elements, but the stylization is a little too heavy-handed, mechanical, and pre-programmed for my liking. They scream "Mechanical" with all the taping and the software to create them. He has abandoned his own hand and replaced it with a computer map and tape. I look for at least a little human element in a work. That is my personal taste. Why even Paint it? Why not just present a quality print of it? Would people merely say "oh he did that on a computer and just hit 'Print', that is so easy, that is not worth $60K... "? Is it the discipline to create these paintings that makes it ART? Discipline and control as king? I'm not against taping and flat color and what not. There are some Frank Stella's and similar abstract paintings I like. Why let Adobe Illustrator tell you what to paint? Why not mix it in with something else? Maybe there is someting I'm missing. Oh well....
Anyone notice the lighting is extremely similar in most of is paintings? Look at the shadows....
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If you import a contrasty image inot Flash or illustrator, you can "Trace Bitmap" or "trace outlines" respectively.
Or you could freehand the image using besier curves.
Enjoy the ride. Or dive in.
Hospital Green (163,205,169) Battleship grey (162, 156, 140)
Khaki(197,169,121)
Hospital Blue(141,200,214)
Lense Flare?
this was one of the most boring shows i ever saw at mary boone
..wow
isnt this, like, buck art or something?
What a drag. I saw this show at MB and nodded off. This stuff would look better in the lobby of a bank. Geometry is so cool, but I prefer Benjamin Edwards. Or Kevin Zucker. Or Suprematism.
tres, max protech
Attention K-Mart Shoppers, there are hospital scrubs for sale.
Yeah, K-mart. I shop there. American Apparel is cool and all, but I'm being exploited too.
Benjamin Edwards knows how to program his photoshop.
Anyone ever get into Logo, where you program the turtle?
Cool, this piece looks like a good "design idea" for a painting. Someone should DO a painting of it. Oh, they already did? Well, shoot. It's so hard to be original! Back to the drawing board.
I guess it's like the architectural version of Lisa Ruyter, right?
His paper collages and animations were much better at his show at Boone's uptown gallery last September. His "Help Me!" animation for Creative Time's 59th Minute is on the Panasonic screen in Times Square right now, and it's brilliant. Hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking to watch the juxtaposition of the words "HELP ME" scrolling just above whatever disastrous or insipid news headline NBC is running. It's like putting a label on all your shit. A glorious abuse of the medium, not to mention that he's probably mirroring the inner dialogue of 9 out of every 10 tourists that happen to look up and see it.
I saw this show for like 3 secs and I just had to walk out. I don't have ADD but this stuff I've seen a zillion times on Flash websites done with more imagination. There's more to painting than Illustrator's auto-trace feature. By comparison Lisa Ruyter is more interesting. At least she deals with unpredictable choices of color and has a few humans in her spaces. Ruyter's has a psychological charge to her Illustrator/Photoshop paintings. These by Alfred just seem to have been done before. Maybe his animations are interesting I have no idea.
This show by Artists Anonymous looks far more promising... http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/a/aa/aa06.html
albino radio1 said...
"do you think alfred ever wants to paint people into his upside down worlds? prob not - like vlahos was saying, then it might become psychological"
Aren't all paintings psychological?
I think Alfred wants to create a different hybrid of abstraction and representation. I believe he succeeds that initially, through the formal elements, but the stylization is a little too heavy-handed, mechanical, and pre-programmed for my liking. They scream "Mechanical" with all the taping and the software to create them. He has abandoned his own hand and replaced it with a computer map and tape. I look for at least a little human element in a work. That is my personal taste. Why even Paint it? Why not just present a quality print of it? Would people merely say "oh he did that on a computer and just hit 'Print', that is so easy, that is not worth $60K... "? Is it the discipline to create these paintings that makes it ART? Discipline and control as king? I'm not against taping and flat color and what not. There are some Frank Stella's and similar abstract paintings I like. Why let Adobe Illustrator tell you what to paint? Why not mix it in with something else? Maybe there is someting I'm missing. Oh well....
Anyone notice the lighting is extremely similar in most of is paintings? Look at the shadows....
are dreams fiction?
No
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"Art" as a statement is a wonderful thing... "for me to poop on!"
"If you can't create it on the back of my business card, you don't have art."
"Let them eat Shit"...
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