Tag Archives: art in odd places

Research

Vexman.net

I’ve been sewing flags. Mini desktop ones. Full-sized ones. Scouring the garment district for woven synthetics, heftier lamés. Strategically planning grommet-hammering sessions to for my neighbors’ sakes. Very excited about opportunities to show them in  New York (Art in Odd Places, October 5–15) and beyond (details forthcoming)….

One sleepless night, I stumbled upon Vexman.net, a vexillology resource by Dave Martucci. Vexillology is the study and science of flags. Martucchi’s site harkens back to the early days of the web, when home pages expressed the depth and variety of one’s enthusiasms via long, encoded HTML pages with small, quick-loading graphics. Pages include:

I enjoyed learning about flag terms, cultural associations, and histories. I’ve been experimenting with colors, shapes, and proportions on my own, because I wanted to make my flags free of referent. They should simply express Irrational Exuberance.

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Travelogue

art takes you to some funny places

This morning I scouted sites for my project for Art in Odd Places, a visual and performance art festival along 14th Street in NYC in October.

Near the West Side Highway, I spied a potential site, peculiar for its lack of signage. I went in to ask for a business card. The top of the card read,

“Your rendezvous for romance.”

It’s an hourly motel. Odd places, indeed.

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So bad, it’s good:

I have seen this CVS in a former bank, at 8th Ave and West 14th Street, before, but its architectural dissonance is still pretty cool.

I have seen this CVS in a former bank, at 8th Ave and West 14th Street, before, but its architectural dissonance is still worth savoring. Are those columns Doric or Ionic? Trick question. Corinthian!

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Community

this/these

Like these works from these nice bros (the name of their collective is BroLab; they just finished a project for Art in Odd Places, a public art festival which continues through tomorrow, Sunday, October 10).

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Ryan Roa, Interactions with Public Sculpture


Shaving in Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror = Brilliant!
(Source: RyanRoa.com; Image by Kfir Ziv.)

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Adam Brent, I'm OK with It, 2010

Adam Brent, I'm OK with It, 2010


Houseplants and doilies making domestic references in architectural sculptures.
(Source: AdamBrent.com)

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Detouched series, Study for an Aggregate, Travis LeRoy Southworth

detail: Detouched series, Study for an Aggregate, Travis LeRoy Southworth


Digital photo re-touch-er’s “de-touched” photographs, with only re-touching marks visible.

Southworth’s weird, entrancing Wrestle Nebula and Body of Work, Tears are worth checking out too.

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More photos at InTheNameOfBrolab.com’s Studio Survey.

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Pipolotti Rist’s show at Luhring Augustine Gallery is as good as Peter Schjeldahl says. Gorgeous photos here.

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This looks neat!
Ellen Harvey’s Nudist Museum project at Bass Museum of Art in Florida.
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Lots of worthy events to look forward to. Maybe too many….

David Mamet speaks, 10/13. No way!

Hiroshi Sugimoto in conversation with Melissa Chiu at the Asia Society, 10/14.

Open Studios at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Artists include Hank Willis Thomas and Dan Levenson… 10/14-16.

Oliver Herring at Meulensteen Gallery, Chelsea*
Herring and volunteers enact daily performances in the gallery, then post photos and videos nightly. It’s really neat! Stop in.
[*Disclaimer: I’m helping out.]

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