Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? | MASS MoCA

In the mid-1990s Grigely first exhibited his ongoing series, Conversations With the Hearing, composed of notes written during conversations with people who do not know sign language. They are conversations from daily encounters with family, friends, and strangers. These notes are central to the new commission White Noise which consists of two intersecting oval rooms that surround the viewer with thousands of handwritten conversation papers. The rooms, each roughly twenty-five feet across, in the triple-height space of the museum’s first-floor gallery showcases three decades of conversational exchanges. The phrase “White Noise” is used by audiologists to describe a noise that occupies a wide bandwidth of random frequencies. For his own White Noise, Grigely provides a visual equivalent of this experience, immersing viewers in the space between speech and writing with floor-to-ceiling notes; one room in shades of white and the other in a cacophony of color.

This painting, Night Breeze, by Sarah Lee, was part of a group exhibition last year at 1969 Gallery in NYC. It seemed like a good choice to post in honor of tonight’s full moon, the last of 2023, known as the Cold Moon.

Lee is currently part of two group exhibitions- Quiet Storm at Long Story Short’s Paris location and Standing Still at Gana Art’s Los Angeles location.

So I'm terrible at social media. TERRIBLE at self promotion. But it's okay, I don't have too many followers that would have been able to go to this. With the help of a group of friends I hosted a goblin and fairy art show! We had 30 artists, a competition & coronation of the goblin lord, goblin CLOWNS, and so many wonderful costumes. We've decided we are going to do this annually too. So if you live near the Central IL area, Springfield is going to be slowly building a ren faire focusing on the arts. This is the second year the This Is Fae Propaganda Art Show has been done, and now that we have a team working on it, there will be more to come. I'll also have a couple of posts coming out with videos of our chaotic goblins as well as what weird art I made for my booth.

Gaming?

I just got an invitation through DA to apply for a job [yes, certainly a scam] from a gaming company. Because how many gaming companies are looking for middle-aged, realistic oil painters? My guess would be, ah, ZERO. But that sure seems like a shitty thing to do to a younger artists who does have a relevant type of art style and might be tempted to take it seriously. I haven't gotten anything through DeviantArt but scams or weird flirting attempts for at least 5 years. And that really is a shame.

However, I cleaned the top of a neglected bureau in my work room and found [a pound of dust and] my Girl. I'd been looking for her; I forgot that I had taken her frame off and stored her there. I'm glad she's not lost anymore.

I really enjoyed this one. Copying a classic is a very different type of project from creating an original painting, but definitely a good learning project.

I also delivered a couple of pieces to a Christmas show at a local museum/gallery. They have a pretty decent record for actually selling my work, so - fingers crossed.

A break from flowers

Twilight snowman, Jacquelyn Block I decided to take a break from the flower paintings today. My priority this morning was to complete my 4” square Winter themed painting for our library’s Tiny Art show. Last year was the first one they did, and I painted cherry blossoms for the Think spring theme. For the “Winter Wonderland” theme, I wanted to do a snowman since my youngest is dreaming of snow…

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I now officially have 14 shows on the books for this year and I'm so excited! Last year I had 12 and my goal is to do 18. Fall dates haven't even been released yet so I'm super excited and proud of myself for putting it all out there.

《Learned art & traveled the memories in USA》

They were two close friends and retired high school teachers (both Italian-Americans) who took me in their house - home stayed United States, and the other with the beautiful lady was her mother.  They all took good care of me, how lucky I was, and of course it took me so long to study and travel in another unfamiliar country, an unusual, novel and fragrant adventure for a woman of 49-50 years old at the time  , and those stories and days are long enough to be written into memoirs, especially for them I'm really a funny woman who can say anything, never be afraid; willing to try to do anything,  As long as it is assessed that I can survive, and that it will not put my own life in danger.

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Opening reception last night for the 10 Year Anniversary at Adelman Fine Art. This show will be up around 10 weeks, so please stop by and experience the magic in person.

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April 1 – May 20, 2023

Chiharu Shiota’s gorgeous installations are just one part of her engaging exhibition, Signs of Life, at Templon in NYC. The installations lead to other rooms of smaller sculptures as well as  paintings.

From the press release-

After a foundation degree in painting at Seika University in Kyoto, Chiharu Shiota chose to pursue her artistic studies in Berlin, focusing on performance. Her practice soon shifted towards site-specific installations. She skilfully weaves knotted threads to create fantastical scenes combining salvaged window frames, a piano, suitcases, books and used clothes. Bordering on drawing and sculpture, her fabulous ephemeral, immersive installations have become her signature. Since her impressive installation for the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Bienniale in 2015, she has become one of the key figures on the international art scene and is regularly invited to show her work at museums worldwide.

In a hyper-connected world, Chiharu Shiota’s new exhibition questions the notion of the “web”, a living organism similar to the structures that make up the universe or the neurons our brains are built on. Created on-site over two weeks, a large-scale installation made of red threads symbolizes this permanent connection of information, collective memory and the world’s knowledge which cuts across cultures and continents. At the heart of the work are two arms, her own, placed on the ground. They are cast in bronze, palms facing up to the sky. “I always thought that if death took my body, I wouldn’t exist anymore,” explains the artist. “I’m now convinced that my spirit will continue to exist because there is more to me than a body. My consciousness is connected to everything around me and my art unfolds by way of people’s memory.”

The installation is followed by a series of sculptures. Enfolded at the centre of each one, as though frozen in place by the intertwined threads, are objects from daily life. “I feel that the objects we possess are like a third skin,” she says. “We accumulate these things and transpose our presence and our memory to them.” Often obsolete, weighed down by impenetrable histories, these objects — old suitcases, stained dolls, miniature pieces of furniture and tiny bottles — represent the treasures offered up by memory, to be seen but not touched.

This exhibition closes 3/9/23.

You are invited to see Kirby Kendrick at Moon & Sun Studio! Art Exhibition Sunday, December 4, 2022 2:00 - 5:00 pm MOON & SUN STUDIO 1615 W. Lewis Street San Diego, CA 92103 www.moonandsunstudio.com

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Colorful abstract kind of day

Stretched, Jacquelyn Block Today is a cold wet grey Michigan day, so I felt something bright and colorful was in order. I took a break from my gouache today and popped back into watercolor mode. It may have been inspired a bit by my Weather map abstract that I dropped off at the War Memorial today for its place in the Today’s Weather show opening Thursday. That one is also a bright and colorful…

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Minus my costs this has been my most successful day ever! $1500 and there is still tomorrow!

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