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:

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