Friday, May 27, 2011

Leonora Carrington and 7 Skeletons

With the passing of Leonora Carrington let's consider one of her redder paintings.




She's got a lot of great stuff. One place to check her out is: http://www.tendreams.org/carrington.htm

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Limor Nesher All Over The Place

Alien pea-pods? Eyes on the vine? A couple ideas Limor Nesher's painting conjures. It also evokes a sense of endless blooming, even in a world (Is this dawn, or some other planet where the skies are like this all the time? Or some dystopian future after we've poured sulfur into the atmosphere?) with red skies. I feel the seeds spilling forth and sprouting endlessly. Brings to mind the world-ranging spirit of "All Over The Place."




Limor Golan Nesher's inspiration derives from a myriad of sources: outer-space, legends, biblical stories and day to day life, to the most basic inspirationthe human body.

Find more of her work at www.limorsart.com

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Laura Meyers & If My Heart Was In It

Today we match "You All Look The Same To Me" by Laura Meyers with "If My Heart Was In It." I think those masks looking back stare down the alienation of both titles.


Laura Meyers is an emerging artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY. Laura's paintings introduce the viewer to a world, where the subjects show all of their emotions, fears, and hopes right on the surface. “I paint what I know and experience. I paint the people around me. But, I paint a version of these people in their most vulnerable emotional states. I capture a rendition of them that is truly naked, and show it without fear of judgment."

Check out more Meyers at http://www.laura.meyers.net

Monday, May 9, 2011

Inbred Hybrid Collective - You Don't Have To Know

Today we pair Inbred Hybrid Collective's "protester 2" with "You Don't Have To Know." This piece has exhibited in 2011 at Hunter College. Here we tread dangerously close to illustration, but we veer away with our statement of intent. We don't intend illustration! There. No, we're simply having a conversation between two vastly divergent statements on blindness. Hopefully the banality of "You Don't Have To Know" lends an irony to the overt politics "protester 2" displays on one level, while the painting allows the song to transcend it's libido hopping into anthem. We might not know because the media doesn't show the woes of the disenfranchised, whether they are political protesters or protesters of the soul, but you don't have to know to know. Could also apply to the mysterious effect of art itself. A stretch, but hey, we like the painting!

Since 2005, Canadian-born inter-disciplinary/ multi-media artist Inbred Hybrid Collective has been living and working in New York. Inbred Hybrid Collective’s work has been shown at venues as diverse as New York's Lincoln Center, Metro Pictures, the Ontario Crafts Council, The Queens Museum of Art, The Staten Island Museum, the Liverpool Independents Biennale, and The LGBT Centers of both New York and San Francisco.

In 2009, Inbred Hybrid Collective made history as the first performance artist at the famous "Armory Show," in New York.

Book Club Burlesque, a series of multi-media extravaganzas inspired by specific books, has been regularly produced by Inbred Hybrid Collective since 2005, and has garnered the attention of The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, and New York Press, among others.

Inbred Hybrid Collective made a highly regarded debut as a curator during the 2010 London Biennale.

Find our more about Inbred Hybrid Collective at the following links:

http://inbredhybridcollective.tumblr.com/

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_81143730039