'Bout What I Sees

It is what it is

Posted by salvo cheque on April 10, 2013

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Not too long ago, I determined what it is that I currently do.

This month (these next two weeks specifically), I’m all about Fahamu Pecou in Austin.
I invited him to speak and perform for this year’s Hybrid Arts Summit and it just made sense to bring along his paintings and the new music videos he’s been working on.

To help with expenses, I am hosting a fundraiser this Sunday at the new Big Medium Gallery at Canopy (the exhibition will be located at the ‘old’ BigMedium on Bolm Rd.)
Come out and enjoy waffles with a side of cartoons, then jam to some hiphop.

I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees.

#artcriticism this week

Posted by salvo cheque on November 30, 2012

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What an interesting week for art/criticism.

I guess it started off with this article by Dan Solomon of his dealings with Culturemap.
Then the NY art blogs Hyperallergic & ArtFagCity chimed in on the Ken Johnson petition/open letter.
Which got the discussion rolling on Twitter. And a response by CMonster the next day.
Then #artcriticism was trending on Twitter. Not for the previous discussion, but because Witte de With was livetweeting and livestreaming an art criticism symposium.
Today, EdwardWinkleman offers his perspective. I think it’s one that I agree with the most.
And now BOOM! …might be good is on indefinite hiatus.
But, Fusebox and Culturebot are gonna have an open discussion on Sunday.

I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees

PS: related post from me.

I Wanna Be Curator/ Curatorial Idol 6

Posted by salvo cheque on November 19, 2012

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This one has also been sitting in the Drafts folder for too long.
But I remember fairly clearly what I was thinking about. Hair.

That Silky Smooth Feeling

Chris Scarborough
Melanie Bilenker
Audrey Kawasaki

then

I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees.

*I’m sneaky. Again, without permission but with the utmost respect, all images were taken from the respectfully linked websites. Please don’t send G-Man after me.

Eyes Got It! 2012

Posted by salvo cheque on August 24, 2012

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For Eyes Got It! 2012 and the foreseeable future, I made it its own site.

Opening tonight at grayDUCK Gallery is last year’s winner

Long Time To Forget
Hollie Brown
Opening August 24, 7-9 pm
Exhibition runs through September 9

Check EyesGotIt.wordpress.com for more info.
And give the Eyes Got It! FBpage a like.

I Wanna Be Curator/ Curatorial Idol 5 reloaded

Posted by salvo cheque on July 17, 2012

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I’ve been wanting to update this for 3 years now. Here it is finally.
I know its been a while, so if you need a refresher about what Curatorial Idol is, basically, if I could convince a gallery to let me curate a show and persuade some top notch artists to participate in it? This would be my (next) show:

“Pigeonhole” or “What is it exactly?”

Jenene Nagy
Mark Creegan
Nancy White

This post has been incubating for so long, I don’t really remember how it started. I know Jenene Nagy’s work had been featured on Port. I think around the time it made a shift to large scale installations? Anyways, it caught my eye the way it was too flat for sculpture and not bound to a canvas frame like a painting.

This sort of in between state was also how I came to understand Mark Creegan’s work. The dried paint and painting tools become objects while retaining there language of color and light.

Nancy White’s work simplified both the sculptural and painterly aspects. The difficulty in photographing the pieces is what clued me in to the precarious state of the work. Is it the shift in lighting that changes or are the different faces painted a different hue?

I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees.

*I’m a sneaky bastard. Again, without permission but with the utmost respect, all images were taken from the respectfully linked websites. Please don’t send G-Man (or thugs!) after me.