THat room looks cold, I imagine the air conditioner is set to a cool 65, and the tri-corder is set to Beckett. Or Brecht. Or Fraggonard. Take your pick.
Seriously, I live in a sleepy town, New York City is suppose to suprise me, yes? I see this work here in Seattle every month, in fact I just visited a friend on the University campus last month, and a studio mate was making works like this, actually now that I think of it, compositionally, it was more dynamic than this. Really that bad there huh?
i have that same eames lounge chair. a nice chair to sit naked in, though this dude looks kinda uncomfortable. maybe his foot is disappearing into a cloud or some unexpected floor fog?
New York is sleepy too, but in a less cafeinated more coked-up kind of way. Seattle isn't that sleepy either - you got your green River Killer to NY's Son of sam, you got your Starbucks to your Starbucks. They are showing "Zabriskie Point" at the BAM, and in Seattle they are playing Jan Svankmaujers "Lunacy" at the Film Forum. That film, sir, is what New York is REALLY all about.
Go see it you provincial hayseed. By the way, there was some driftwood-reminiscent art at the Whitney Biennial, reminded me of that Norwegian Northwest thing.
Provincial Hayseed huh? I'll check out Lunacy, was just in the Czech Republic recently, so it should be just right for someone like me who happens to be so local loving...thanks for the tip, hey what's on You Tube?
I like her group paintings from the seventies. This one on it's own is kind of a yawn. He looks like he is on some nudist's flight with a lot of turbalence. He should have shaved something interesting down there for the sitting. Maybe fashion a handle-bar mustache?
Looks like a Christian Schad, but without the decadent angst. Not my favorite, but a nice bit of relief from all the tiresome paint smears and faux-naivety.
wow, just read all about sylvia sleigh, and she is famous for painting nude men as a feminist statement so it's great they included her.
as far as the painting...i think it takes courage to paint like this. i love the kind of direct painting style almost naive but of uppermiddle class environs and subjects.
I'm not so enthralled by the eyebrows, or the feet disappearing out through the base of the painting. Interspersing is the edge and its kilter managed and tweaked by the things that are disinteresting. It’s a good painting--clean and has physiological impact, expresses manners that bend appropriately. Is the artist that old? I would love it be someone young. I love the intent and clarity, which many young miss and replace with flabbergasted style. Not ALL THOUGH!
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Sylvia Sleigh
Men a group show @
I-20 Gallery
557 West 23rd Street
New York 10011
Whoosh! Zoom! Are those speed lines? It looks like as if the chair is falling from the sky. (Maybe the guy was made in heaven.)
We dig the somber, gray palette. Wan.
no very well endowed if from heaven. anybody go to the opening last night? somthing really turned me off about the press release.
best thing I saw recently was the Turrell piece at Nyehaus--up till tomorrow--that shit looked dope.....
LASSEN!
THat room looks cold, I imagine the air conditioner is set to a cool 65, and the tri-corder is set to Beckett. Or Brecht. Or Fraggonard. Take your pick.
next...
Seriously, I live in a sleepy town, New York City is suppose to suprise me, yes? I see this work here in Seattle every month, in fact I just visited a friend on the University campus last month, and a studio mate was making works like this, actually now that I think of it, compositionally, it was more dynamic than this. Really that bad there huh?
i have that same eames lounge chair. a nice chair to sit naked in, though this dude looks kinda uncomfortable. maybe his foot is disappearing into a cloud or some unexpected floor fog?
i like it. i like the meteor chair delivery, and the cropping of the feet, and the colors, and the books.
he is like peter parker taking a moment to consider his awesome responsibilities.
nice reading, martin!
harold,
New York is sleepy too, but in a less cafeinated more coked-up kind of way. Seattle isn't that sleepy either - you got your green River Killer to NY's Son of sam, you got your Starbucks to your Starbucks.
They are showing "Zabriskie Point" at the BAM, and in Seattle they are playing Jan Svankmaujers "Lunacy" at the Film Forum. That film, sir, is what New York is REALLY all about.
Go see it you provincial hayseed.
By the way, there was some driftwood-reminiscent art at the Whitney Biennial, reminded me of that Norwegian Northwest thing.
is this all the female gaze has to offer?
This artist is 90 years old and painted this painting this year.
Provincial Hayseed huh? I'll check out Lunacy, was just in the Czech Republic recently, so it should be just right for someone like me who happens to be so local loving...thanks for the tip, hey what's on You Tube?
I like her group paintings from the seventies. This one on it's own is kind of a yawn. He looks like he is on some nudist's flight with a lot of turbalence. He should have shaved something interesting down there for the sitting. Maybe fashion a handle-bar mustache?
do not underestimate the power of you tube!
thats the thing about this show... i don't get any energy between subject/s and 'creator'
Looks like a Christian Schad, but without the decadent angst.
Not my favorite, but a nice bit of relief from all the tiresome paint smears and faux-naivety.
wow, just read all about sylvia sleigh, and she is famous for painting nude men as a feminist statement so it's great they included her.
as far as the painting...i think it takes courage to paint like this. i love the kind of direct painting style almost naive but of uppermiddle class environs and subjects.
cool!
"Alfred! Alfred! Where are my Bat-briefs?"
"Sorry Mr. Wayne, they're still in the dryer."
"Hrmph."
I'm not so enthralled by the eyebrows, or the feet disappearing out through the base of the painting. Interspersing is the edge and its kilter managed and tweaked by the things that are disinteresting. It’s a good painting--clean and has physiological impact, expresses manners that bend appropriately.
Is the artist that old?
I would love it be someone young.
I love the intent and clarity, which many young miss and replace with flabbergasted style. Not ALL THOUGH!
you forget that this woman was revolutionary in the time that she started making these.
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