Just every day this month ...

And anyone named Cornball should not be making statements about Karen Ganz. She is one of the best artists around these parts, and she kicks cornball butt for breakfast.

Generic cornball butt, that is.

But I am willing to give you points for the sandwich thing...Peter Paul Ru(e)ben(s), anyone?

http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20070203elpepucul_2/LCO340/Ies/Detalle_cuadros_Dagwood_obra_1984.jpg

Or 1961:

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6246&page_number=9&template_id=1&sort_order=1

Or any of a gazillion other examples (I can only post two links here) of carefully drippy and/or black-and-white and/or light-and-shadow-with-a-gun images and/or cartoons or other such stuff.

There's not an original idea to be found in any of the work of your "bad ass" artist.

http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/en_easyart/lg/2/3/James-Cagney-Celebrity-Image-232588.jpg

While it's becoming clear to all you have some vested interest in the artist under discussion (boy toy? girl toy? Ganz herself?), I would be happy to try to explain myself.

I find her "quotes" of Liechtenstein and Warhol to be like bloggers (cf ECB) who post chunks of others' works in the guise of an original post of their own. Ganz's appropriation of technique and imagery would be compelling if it were done in any intellectually honest manner.

Oooo, let's stick another odd-size canvas piece to the main body of the work...let's let the paint drip ever-so-perfectly...let's appropriate nostalgic imagery without any comment on nostalgia or, frankly, any intellectual life beyond, "Oh look, Dagwood's caught in a web! Haha. Funny old Dagwood."

The works are gimmicky, derivative, puerile, unoriginal, and when I go to Sea-Tac and confront that horrid mural, I thank Christ I am usually off to a city where the art is half-way decent.

I love art, passionately. I know what I like, and I've seen plenty of it. These are, as you must know, merely my opinions -- try not to get your panties in a knot over one man's view. You'll live longer if you relax more.

WOW!!! That's AWESOME! I don't think even POE has gotten that kind of opprobrium!

Thank you, very much, for taking the time to share that sentiment.

Oh -- her art still sucks.

Aside from that, you're talking nonsense. "Respectful dialog(ue)?" Bitch, please...

"Same approach as Jesse Helms in criticizing." Umm, way to resurrect impotent cultural totems...kind of reminds me of Ganz's art.

Shoo, fly.

The truth is, boring, (well sometimes it is...but I digress) that most art IS crap. Especially in benighted backwaters such as this, but also in New York, London, Paris, Munich (you can see where this is going...).

Jen's "Currently Hanging" posts are as flags to a bull(shitter), and I cannot help but comment because I am passionate about art.

And yeah, my "endless complaining" gets old -- even for ME! I wish I didn't have to complain. I wish Jen would work harder to post meaningful, provocative art as opposed to trying to grab any old slide from the light table without dropping the ash from her joint or spilling her plastic cup of last night's warm Jaegermeister.

As long as the art keeps getting posted, I am going to comment -- usually. There are plenty of Currently Hangings where I did not comment, simply because I couldn't think of anything creative, mean, and/or congratulatory enough to share.

Thanks for finding me "art-smart," but I think you meant to say that I would NOT get barraged with "you're a dick" if I did "actually criticism" (why is everyone from Eastern Europe posting today?). The truth is, I'll always be an intern, never a critic. I do not have the vocabulary (much of which is pretentious claptrap IMHO) or the depth of knowledge to be a critic. At least, not enough to be the excellent critic I would have to be to satisfy my own mad perfectionism.

But, you need to know, being called a dick (or worse, a titty) by people here does not bother me. It's just not a real enough environment to have a real impact on my psyche.

Carry on.

Poor, poor Jubilation...

See, it's moments like that which seem to make you almost human. Keep the funny, less of the mean-spirited.