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!