Slog - Comments on Currently Hanging http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169 Jim Riswold's Basquiat Gets Famous and Dies (2008), archival pigment print, big At G. Gibson Gallery. (Gallery site here.) It's time for me to bring the hammer down. I've posted Portland artist Jim Riswold's images before, and I even appreciate one of them for its unintentional pathos and politics (Frida's Owies, an anatomical map of her injuries, including her abortions and miscarriages). But other than Frida's Owies, which I saw about a year ago at Tacoma Art Museum, and including a more recent show of Riswold's work at Vermillion (which I hear has lovely food and drink), I have... Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:22:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by John Bailo
At the very least there should be some sort of "art antivirus" to put a stop to people satiring people who mocked the art world.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094599 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094599 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:29:03 -0800 Comment by max solomon there is too much art, and too many artists.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094605 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094605 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:35:37 -0800 Comment by slick rick This is the best image you've posted in ages.

]]> slick rick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094606 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094606 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:37:59 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Jen,

I admire your decision to step ever further out from behind the cloak of reticence you sometimes adopt when it comes to critiquing the Currently Hanging. People will never agree with all your opinions, but I respect the fact you share them (more than I respect the simple ability to post a work of art sans commentary).

As you said, these were posted earlier on Slog and I hated them then. I hate them now.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094612 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094612 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:41:54 -0800 Comment by fARTing Whaaaa! I wasn't short-listed for the TAM biennial. But then again, I don't create work that "flirt(s) with advertising (in a) risky and post-ironic and fun" way.

]]> fARTing http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094621 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:54:41 -0800 Comment by Joey Seconding Vermillion's great happy hour. Their prices on small bites are fantastic! The beets were delicious, along with the salamis and cheeses. Swing by.

]]> Joey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094629 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:00:37 -0800 Comment by homage to me I agree with JTC @4 about your decision to sometimes include commentary on these posts.

And your commentary on this piece/artist was tactfully put and...well...right.

]]> homage to me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1094633 Visual Art Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:10:38 -0800 Comment by bing this from the same critic who gives Jack Daws good reviews?

]]> bing http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1095806 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1095806 Visual Art Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:22:39 -0800 Comment by teabag It’s grating, shallow, and self-satisfied. YOUR WARDROBE. I’m sorry to be so rude, but I honestly never thought I’d actually have to come out and say it, because I didn’t think it would rise to the level of unpleasant . Where did you THINK it would rise to? Really, I would love to know. It might help explane much of your spew. But why on earth, ARE YOU, Jen Graves, getting so much play? Wait, your not. Your so all over the board my head spins just thinking about your next EJECT.

What artist doesn't want to be ubiquitous?

]]> teabag http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1098606 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_169#c1098606 Visual Art Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:39:00 -0800 Comment by gail
Why are the local critics so cranky about this exhibit & this artist?! It is meant to be a humorous show, with some historical insight. So far the curators and out of state collectors that have actually come in to see this get it, & laugh, & buy his work as well.

Jen,

I love ya, but hey ouch! Why are you pulling the tape off so fast?

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