ALdezyn and Usury of the Heart

ALdezyn is the pseudonym of Alain Laforestrie. He was born in the Bronx in '71 and moved to Queens at age four. Said ALdezyn, “Like most youngsters in those years we collected comic books, but I was more interested in more than just the action. Those drawn out super hero's were my fascination, so I traced out the characters and made up my own heroes.” He moved on to graffiti art, dropped in and out of “regular” college, and then attended the School of Visual Arts and is currently making the kind of art we see today.


This piece is called “Bathed in Red” and we’d usually get all literal and pair it with “Waiting Beds” but we’ve been to that well too many times, so let’s go to another sexy song, “Usury of the Heart.”



If you'd like to check out more of ALdezyn, go HERE: www.wix.com/aldezyn/aldezyn

Inbred Hybrid Collective - 7 Skeletons

It's our first return visit, from Inbred Hybrid Collective. This time "Still from 'Somewhere, Something Incredible is Waiting to be Known.'" It's part of a multi-media work in progress. I think it's interesting how what is physically so deep within, the skeleton, has made its way to the surface, and how something that taping the face and body, which could be seen as bondage and blindage (what do you mean blindage isn't a word!) becomes revelatory.



And since we're talking skeletons, 7 Skeletons!

A Couple Nights a Week of Vladimir Ginzburg

Today we're pairing Vladimir Ginzburg's "Chair" with "A Couple Nights a Week" for what may be the most superficial reason yet. This site tends to gravitate towards more somber art, yet The Ks music is mostly upbeat fun stuff, so there's got to be less connection if we're not going to keep posting the somber songs. So, now I see a chair, and for some reason it reminds me of the video we did for "A Couple Nights a Week" in which I was confined to chairs, sofa and rocking, due to a broken ankle. That's it.





Here's the video:



Mr. Ginzburg's was born in St.Petersburg, Russia, started working with Photography, then immigrated to Israel in 1979 and started drawing, since photography was expensive and papers and pencils were cheap enough in Israel. He moved to New York in 1989.

To find out more and see more of Vladimir Ginzburg visit HERE:
http://www.vladimirginzburg.com/

Two Monsters: Richard Hamilton and My Name Is Love

Richard Hamilton, who minted the term "Pop Art" has died. We're pairing "Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland" with our own monster, Love, as in "My Name Is Love."





Find more Richard Hamilton at http://www.infoloop.org/

Tidal Grace and Waiting Beds

Tidal Grace imbues his semi-abstracted pictures with wit, which is why we like him. He also has a beard. We're pairing his "Tomato Licker" with "Waiting Beds" because he seemed to like that song.


About the painting, the artist says "Tomato Licker: from the delusions that happen to be named Tidal Grace. When love abounds, all is worthwhile in its widest sense."



To find out more about Tidal Grace and his beard
go HERE: http://www.tidalgrace.com

Lacey Kim and Waiting Beds

We don't normally go abstract here at Red Art Rising Faster (Why not? Because we like pictures!) but something about this one from Lacey Kim spoke to us. It's called "Dialogue of Silence." We're pairing it with "Waiting Beds." Why? Because.






You can find more Lacey Kim HERE: www.laceykim.com

Death takes a Halliday

Forgive the pun, but after posting several recently passed artists, we're happy to have something from the very much living David Halliday. We're mixing his "House en Hamme" with "Usury of the Heart." I don't know why. Maybe the cobblestone effect of his piece brings to mind the bounciness of Usury.





Says Halliday:

Hamme is a small town outside Antwerp in Belgium. I lived there for four years with my wife. We lived on a square. There was a church not more than 20 metres from our house. We had little money. On Saturday evenings we would open our living room window and listen to the organist in the church practice. He would play Bach on this huge pipe organ.

As far as art is concern, I liked a quote by Man Ray. He said,
“I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.”

Find more Halliday at http://eyesofh.wordpress.com/

Eden Roses for Cy Twombly

As artists keep on dying, we add their red art to the site. Looking for living artists! Sorry about the loss of Cy Twombly. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif





Find out more about Cy Twombly HERE: http://www.cytwombly.info/

MF and Little Plaything

Big time Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain, known for his role in Indian modernism, has died. Here's a painting of Ganesh by MF. Like him, I'm commonly known as "MF" but for me the initials mean something else. We're going to pair this song with "Little Plaything." Why? I'm not sure, and I think that's a good thing.






Check out more of MF at
http://www.mfhussain.com/paintings/category/3-paintingsofmfhussain

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

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 inspiration—the human body.

Find more of her work at www.limorsart.com

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

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

Black Bubblegum & Nicholas De Sena

The painting is called "Winter," by Nicholas De Sena. Regarding his art, Mr. De Sena says "success is not a destination, but a journey."


I was originally going to pair this with "Waiting Beds" probably because of the city imagery, but we're getting a lot of urban backgrounds, so that seems less bueno a justification. So now I think it talks better with "Black Bubblegum."



Mr. De Sena started out drawing on his desk, has been a freelance graphic designer, a musician, a tattoo artist apprentice, and then returned to what gets called fine art.

"Taking time off to collect my thoughts, I started to paint again. Opening up my mind and painting whatever my soul screamed allowed me to reconnect with myself and the others around me. I went full circle, back to drawing on wood or anything I could find. Once again, I began to rely on nobody but myself and I was able to achieve what I needed to express myself fully and honestly. I hope you all enjoy my art, for it is an expression of my deepest emotions. As I search for more knowledge of art, I can't stress enough how strongly I feel that creative people just think and learn differently than others. It is a shame that while so many of us get lost in a society infatuated with money, we ignore who we truly are inside."

Find more Nicolas De Sena at www.nicholas-de-sena.artistwebsites.com

Welcome Red Art Rising Faster

Here we begin our artistic outreach. We're pairing songs with art.
Art that's red!
How about that for a curatorial aesthetic!

Our first artist is Erik Von Ploennies,
and we're pairing his work "Eye For An I" with the song "The Shadow."
Note: The art isn't illustrative; we just like the way these two things "talk" to each other.

Erik Von Ploennies began experimenting with art in 2004 (age: 35), after visiting the Guggenheim Museum - NYC and seeing Vasily Kandinsky's, "Painting With White Border". His formal education is in electrical engineering and has no art training. Erik moved from California to Brooklyn, New York in July 2007 to pursue his interests in art. He is actively exhibiting in New York City.

Says Erik: "One of my favorite Paul Klee paintings is "Paukenspieler" (English translation is something like Drum Player or Kettle Drummer). The eye, bold black lines, and red, became the inspiration for my painting."

You can find more of Erik Von Ploennies at http://www.erikvp.com/gallery.html

Thanks for kicking things off Erik!