Monday, November 30, 2009
Conflict of Interest / Visual Art Andy Warhol Loves Jen Graves
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:23 PM
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- I HEART JEN GRAVES!
Our own Jen Graves has been awarded a grant from the Arts Writers Grant Program, brought to you by Creative Capitol and the Warhol Foundation, to write this amazing-sounding piece:
Regrade: Rediscovering Seattle’s Artificial RootsJust as early entrepreneurs sliced up and regraded the land of Seattle, a group of artists are re-working conventional Seattle attitudes toward the land. In her article, Jen Graves suggests that artificial, self-conscious landscapes are proliferating. Artist trio SuttonBeresCuller are reinventing a heavily polluted former gas station into a new city park that will also be a sculpture, a tiny hill, and a cultural center. Artist-architect Jerry Garcia proposed a nature preserve sixty feet in the air, accessible only by elevator. In the Olympic Sculpture Park, Mark Dion built a vivarium for a nurse log that will naturally and, if let alone, violently outgrow its glass house. Graves will link these artists and others (Alex Schweder, Lead Pencil Studio, Mandy Greer) with the major 1970s works in Seattle by Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, and Herbert Bayer, and also with classic artist-created landscapes, particularly Heizer’s Double Negative and City and James Turrell’s Roden Crater.
The story will run in The Stranger in 2010. (Currently everyone in the office is begging for the position of research assistant on the trip to the crater.) Hooray for Jen Graves!
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I like (some of) Warhol's art. I disagree with (most of) Jen's commentary on art. So I'm not sure if this is good or not, but congratulations to Jen.
Eye of the beerholder, and all that.
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Uh, yeah, it's called Gasworks Park...a toxic arsenic infested dirt mound that is a year round playpen for toddlers and hosts many public events.
a nature preserve sixty feet in the air, accessible only by elevator
Wamu Tower.
a vivarium for a nurse log that will naturally and, if let alone, violently outgrow its glass house
Every home owner knows about grass breaking up the sidewalks...
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But, he would have ADORED Dominic and Frizzelle and invited them into the back room to take some "private" Polaroids and pee on some of the piss paintings...
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