Visual Art Currently Hanging
posted by on August 27 at 10:00 AM
Allison Manch’s I’m on Fire, embroidery on handkerchief
At Grey Gallery. (Gallery site here.)
“Whoh-oh-oh, I’m on fire.” The moment you see it, you hear it. You hear Bruce. That’s why I like this work.
I say it’s “Currently Hanging” at Grey because that’s what the press release says, but when I was at Grey last week, I didn’t see this one. The one I did see, and liked, featured the lyrics “Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can’t you see, sometimes your words just hypnotize me,” which put the song in my head for a solid two days—until, coincidentally, just driving down the road in my car one afternoon, I came across the song on the radio, which seemed to close the circle and put the song out of my brain.
Many artists work across the senses (vision to hearing, that is), and one of the best is Dario Robleto, whose Alloy of Love exhibition at the Frye Art Museum includes several works that form a sort of silent concert in the galleries—a concert that takes place in your head only. That show, in case you haven’t seen it, must be seen. And it closes Sept. 1, so get over to the Frye.
Bonus: The Frye has a brand new web site! It’s here. I haven’t done much roaming around on it yet, but my first impression is that it’s much improved—you can see the entire founding collection there, as far as I can tell. (Next stop: the Henry’s getting a new site this fall, and I can’t wait. That’s another great collection that needs to be online.)
I thought of "Banquet" by bloc party
"i'm on fire" is definitely there, tucked away in a corner near the bar. i saw it the other night and couldn't decide if i liked it or not. i still haven't decided, not that it matters.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this was those "Craft of the month" clubs my grandmother belonged to when I was a little kid.
Not everything you create yourself is art. If this is art I have a closet of it.
sounds awesome, elswinger -- let's get you a show somewhere!
Dresden Dolls for me.
That's the gold standard at Grey. Ooooh, you created some craptastic hipster aRt that looks like it came out of Urban Outfitters? Let's show it!
I like to cross-stitch and needlepoint... It kills the time. Even my just-to-pass-the-time cross-stiches and needlepoints are of a higher quality than that piece, and I would never, ever, not in a million years have the gall to call myself and "aRtist."
That needlepoint is seriously fugly. It's poorly executed. And, um, http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/ and http://www.sublimestitching.com/ is teh old meme, circa 2002 Bust Magazine. Seriously lame, guys, seriously lame.
I thought of I'm On Fire by Dwight Twilley from 1975.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpU05HKaJug
Some day I will hold a blind trial for a bunch of modern art critics to test their ability to differentiate between gallery drivel like this and the stuff that they superciliously dismiss as "craft". My guess: without knowing which piece has the fancy artist or gallery name attached to it, they'll fall flat on their faces.
"Art" is such a boring, hermetically sealed world these days. I'll stick to making and buying "crafts" even if I can't charge thousands of dollars for 30 minutes of sloppy embroidery.
jtxkrevoz pjcts myfw whsfpzxjm klqrzui lnpos flmvsrtkg
jtxkrevoz pjcts myfw whsfpzxjm klqrzui lnpos flmvsrtkg
jtxkrevoz pjcts myfw whsfpzxjm klqrzui lnpos flmvsrtkg
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