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    Jaume Plensa

    Jaume Plensa
    Jaume Plensa is an internationally celebrated artist, whose colossal sculptures enhance the landscape in locations from Japan to Germany, from the United States to Reunion. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he has become known for creating work that aims to build bridges and foster communication between people and nations, principally via his enormous portrait sculptures with closed eyes, which exude an air of peaceful meditation in contrast to their size, and his linguistically-playful pieces formed of letters from different world alphabets. As a new exhibition of his work opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the North of the UK, Danielle talks with him to find out more about the lofty aims behind his work. https://paulineboty.org/ Gazelli Art House monomediafilms.london
    In Talks With
    enJuly 15, 2022
    art
    artist
    sculpture
    barcelona
    sculptor

    Michael Asher: Untitled - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Michael Asher: Untitled - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    This functional, polished, granite drinking fountain is an exact replica in granite of commercial metal fountains typically found in schools, business offices and government buildings. Instead of its usual context as interior office furniture, the fountain is placed monument-like on a grass island in the center of UC San Diego's Town Square. The siting of his work is fundamental to its meaning; it is counter posed with a tall American flag and a granite marker commemorating Camp Matthews, a World War II training center and artillery and rifle range which occupied the land on which UCSD now stands. Asher's work projects several cultural references into one modest object, and it is a play on sculpture's historic role as representation. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37814]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 30, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    37814
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    John Baldessari: Read Write Think Dream - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    John Baldessari: Read Write Think Dream - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    John Baldessari decided first to transform the main doors of UCSD’s iconic Geisel Library and then to incorporate the entire lobby space, choosing students as his subject. The existing clear glass of the doors was replaced with glass in primary colors, perhaps suggesting primary sources of information. As the doors open and close, the colored panes cross over each other, visually mixing into new colors. Above the doors the words READ, WRITE, THINK and DREAM echo the exhortation Baldessari gave his students to remember that beyond the day-to-day grind comes the chance to contemplate the unexpected and envision new worlds. Baldessari, once again, has absorbed the culture around him, using the latest techniques to create a collage juxtaposing photographs, words, and colors, which all loop back on each other to spark new associations and thoughts. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37820]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 28, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    john baldessari
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    Eric Fischl

    Eric Fischl

    Eric Fischl is one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Inspired by his own middle-class upbringing on Long Island, Fischl’s provocative  paintings expose the underbelly of  American suburban life while piercing through its veil. Through startling scenes of grief, adolescent sexuality and political malaise, Fischl is committed to expressing what often remains hidden and unspoken behind society’s mores.

    During his meteoric rise in the 1980s, in an era when art eschewed figuration and the human body, Fischl embraced it… His paintings boldly explore the body in all of its movement, gesture, and form.  By imbuing his large scale canvases with a psychological intensity, Fischl’s work invites us to examine our own relationship with taboos, internal conflict, and complacency.

    Fischl's paintings, sculptures and drawings have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions around the world, and his work is represented in major museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoCA in L.A.  His memoir “Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas” was published by Crown in 2013.

    A longtime resident of Sag Harbor, Long Island, Eric’s recent venture has been to renovate  and transform a local church into an artist residency, exhibition space and creative center known fittingly as The Church (https://www.thechurchsagharbor.org/).

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    ARTLAWS
    en-usMarch 25, 2022
    psychology
    art
    new york
    sexuality
    painter

    Elizabeth Murray: Red Shoe - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Elizabeth Murray: Red Shoe - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    "Red Shoe" has brought to life a formerly forgotten corner of campus. It is an alluring place for children to climb, its smooth exterior giving way to a roughly hull-like interior, hinting at the enclosure of a nest or fort. Narratives come to mind as fantasy evokes the resonance of childhood rhymes and tales. In the words of Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, "Reason presides over universities; it remains for artists to give substance to those areas of consciousness that reason has not and perhaps cannot articulate." Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37818]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 24, 2022
    sculpture
    elizabeth murray
    public art and installations
    37818
    stuart collection

    Kiki Smith: Standing - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Kiki Smith: Standing - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    The female figure atop "Standing" calls forth thoughts of human strength and frailty, and both the power and the limits of medicine. Serene and ageless, she stands in a Madonna-like pose that is both vulnerable and generous. Ribbons of water - the source of life - flow from her hands into the rock-lined pond below, with a soothing sound. The skin surface of the body itself is violated to reveal the musculature and tendons of arms and calves, reflecting Kiki Smith's interest in such anatomical illustrations and models. A "necklace" of starfish-headed pins, placed in the shape of the constellation Virgo, pierces the flesh, calling up a profusion of associations, from acupuncture to dissection to martyrdom. With these tiny starfish like a veil of Virgo gems, the delicate pins call up at once the oceanic and the celestial, in an image that speaks of mind and body, of flesh and healing. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37819]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 24, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    stuart collection
    37819
    artist profiles

    Do Ho Suh: Fallen Star - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Do Ho Suh: Fallen Star - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Do Ho Suh’s work explores the notions of home, cultural displacement, one’s perception of space and how one builds a memory of it. What is home, after all? A place? An idea? A sentiment? A memory? A small cottage has been picked up, as if by some mysterious force, and “landed” atop Jacobs Hall at UC San Diego, where it sits crookedly on one corner, cantilevered out over the ground seven stories below. A lush roof garden of vines, flowers and vegetables, frequented by birds and bees, is a small gathering place with panoramic views of the campus and beyond. Upon entering the house it becomes apparent that the floor and the house itself are at different angles, causing a sense of dislocation – some would say vertigo. One must adjust both physically and mentally in order to accommodate a whole new view of the world. The surroundings are familiar but the feeling is not. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37823]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 18, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    37823
    stuart collection
    do ho suh

    Jackie Ferrara: Terrace - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Jackie Ferrara: Terrace - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Jackie Ferrara designed a series of three distinct spaces at UCSD's Cellular and Molecular Medicine Facility. Each area is paved with a similar linear pattern of green, red, and black slate and surrounded by compacted gravel. Each has a unique character, but the terraces flow into one another becoming one continuous space. She has placed Australian willows and benches in lines that echo the grid of the slate and the lines of the low walls. The cloistered intimacy of the terraces, with their suggestion of early or monumental architecture, provides a space of contemplation for the scientists who work in the center, and articulates and emphasizes the architectural motifs of the building itself. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37813]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 14, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    jackie ferrara
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    Art & Oddities

    Art & Oddities

    Episode 37: Tales of unusual artwork, from Florida's famous whimsy museum, to an odd metallic object seen on Interstate 95, to tweaking the nose of the fine arts establishment  through entries in a local art competition that were made half in jest.  In this podcast series, Tom Nielson tells stories, shares memories, and concocts whimsical, humorous tales inspired by his life adventures, channeling the style of Jean Shepherd of WOR-Radio. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.     

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    A Look Behind in Rewind
    enMarch 12, 2022
    podcast
    art
    comedy
    humor
    cleveland

    Mark Bradford: What Hath God Wrought - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Mark Bradford: What Hath God Wrought - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    A 199-foot tall metal flag-pole-like sculpture is mounted with a flashing light which playfully spells out “What Hath God Wrought” in Morse Code. The titular phrase is notably the first message Samuel Morse tested and transmitted across 41 miles in 1844. The sculpture reflects both the origins of the university as well as the origins of present-day communications: Morse Code is at the root of our contemporary era of information exchange, where communication travels instantaneously. Morse’s good-humored, secular message is interpreted thoughtfully by Mark Bradford and aligned with the artist’s expansive work depicting communities and reflecting on our shared cultural history. With this epic artwork, Bradford explores the physical means behind past and present-day communication that underlines his greater practice. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37825]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 11, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    37825
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    Bruce Nauman: Vices and Virtues - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Bruce Nauman: Vices and Virtues - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Bruce Nauman's "Vices and Virtues" for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego consists of seven pairs of words superimposed in blinking neon, which run like a frieze around the top of the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory. Seven vices alternate with seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. The virtues flash sequentially clockwise around the building at one rate; and the vices circulate counterclockwise at a slightly faster rate. At brief intervals, all seven virtues and all seven vices flash together. The progression of the two repeating cycles playing off each other allows all possible combinations of the words to be displayed. This complicated performance, generated by the mechanical sequencing of a simple moral dichotomy, dramatizes the instability of any ethical judgment. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37810]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 07, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    stuart collection
    artist profiles
    site-specific

    Social Butterflies and Dreamwork with Textile Artist Derick Melander

    Social Butterflies and Dreamwork with Textile Artist Derick Melander

    This week's episode is a conversation with artist Derick Melander. He's a sculptor who works with secondhand clothing to create clothing sculptures that explore the intersection between global consumerism and the intimate relationship we have with what we wear. My dear friend Sacha Jones has known Derick for years through being core members of their Record Club, which started in the late nineties as a place to share music with friends and friends-of-friends.

    We begin by setting up how we met at a record club on Sacha's roof in the East Village, and the conversation goes on to cover his work, creative habits, navigating change, and much more. We talk about  music nostalgia, clothing, textiles, sharing clothing, consumerism, leaving traces, art school, dream work, friendship, family, relationships, connection, socializing and the power of the neighborhood.

     

    Show notes:

    - Find Derick on the Web | Instagram

    - Heidi Baker's brand Ozma and her episode on the podcast

    - The Fresh Air episode with Kirsten Dunst I mention

    - My posts about Sister Corita Kent and her Rules for Students and Teachers

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    If you liked this episode, try out:

    Episode 351: Riding Waves: Surfing, Design, and Change with Heidi Baker, Founder of Ozma of California

    LET IT OUT
    en-usMarch 04, 2022
    art
    community
    clothing
    modern art
    consumerism

    Terry Allen: Trees - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Terry Allen: Trees - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Terry Allen's diverse talents and experiences are highlighted in his first outdoor project, "Trees," for the Stuart Collection. He remarks upon the continual loss of natural environment at UC San Diego by salvaging three eucalyptus trees from a grove razed to make way for new campus buildings. Two of these trees stand like ghosts within a eucalyptus grove between the Geisel Library and the Faculty Club. Although they ostensibly represent displacement or loss, these trees offer a kind of compensation: one emits a series of recorded songs and the other a lively sequence of poems and stories created specifically for this project. At the entrance to the Geisel library the third tree of Allen's installation remains silent - perhaps another form of the tree of knowledge, perhaps a reminder that trees must be cut down to print books, perhaps a dance form, or perhaps noting that one can acquire knowledge both through observation of nature and through research. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37807]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 04, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    terry allen
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    Ian Hamilton Finlay: UNDA - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Ian Hamilton Finlay: UNDA - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Finlay created a one-word poem installed at one edge of the north playing field at UC San Diego. "UNDA" consists of five stone blocks into which are carved, in various sequences, the letters U, N, D, A, and an S-like mark which is the editor's notation for "transpose these letters." The letters on each block in the sequence carry out the transpositions indicated by this curved mark so that regardless of the order of the letters, each block ultimately spells out UNDA. In the course of the multi-part sculpture, the wave sign rolls through UNDA, the Latin word for wave, while the tops of the stones are aligned with the distant horizon of ocean. A literary cycle is identified with the cycle of the natural wave, an association that the artist relates to the velocity and flow of language. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37809]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usMarch 01, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    ian hamilton finlay
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    Barbara Kruger: Another - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Barbara Kruger: Another - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    "Another" is in the vast atrium of the UC San Diego Price Center East. The large interior wall bears a massive double image of clocks which is punctuated by terrazzo-like areas that contain phrases. Two LED displays show live current news, adding another level of interest, as well as meaning, and suggesting how our lives are, to some degree, culturally inflected, constructed and contained. This combination of graphic image and moving text creates a space which functions on both a pictorial and a time-based level. The visual motif of the wall is extended to the floor by the use of terrazzo rectangles placed throughout the area, containing quotes from prominent figures in both the arts and sciences. The expansiveness of the wall and floor anchor the area with powerful images and, with the texts, create a space of visual pleasure, and relevancy. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37822]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usFebruary 25, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    stuart collection
    37822
    barbara kruger

    Alexis Smith: Snake Path - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Alexis Smith: Snake Path - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Snake Path consists of a winding 560-foot-long, 10-foot-wide footpath in the form of a serpent, whose individual scales are hexagonal pieces of colored slate, and whose head is inlaid in the approach to UC San Diego's Geisel Library. The tail wraps around an existing concrete pathway as a snake would wrap itself around a tree limb. Along the way, the serpent's slightly crowned body circles around a small "garden of Eden" with several fruit trees including an apple, a fig and a pomegranate. These pointed allusions to the biblical conflict between innocence and knowledge mark an apt symbolic path to the University's main repository of books. The concept of finding sanctuary within oneself - outside the idealistic and protected confines of the university - speaks directly to the student on the verge of entering the real world. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37815]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usFebruary 25, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    alexis smith
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    William Wegman: La Jolla Vista View - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    William Wegman: La Jolla Vista View - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    For the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, William Wegman created his first major outdoor permanent sculpture: he installed a scenic - or nonscenic - overlook at one edge of the campus, near the location of the university's theater and dance complex. The site commands a view not of the Pacific Ocean, but of La Jolla's suburban sprawl. Wegman's overlook makes a simple cartoon-like connection between Southern California's still-picturesque natural scenery and its booming economic growth/development which places an ever-increasing strain on the region's environment. Wegman's La Jolla Vista View uses the language of fantasy and humor to convey a serious message. By defamiliarizing the ordinary world of suburban life - through its transformation into an exotic or scenic overlook - Wegman encourages the university community to view its surroundings with fresh and newly critical eyes. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37811]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usFebruary 21, 2022
    sculpture
    william wegman
    public art and installations
    37811
    stuart collection

    Tim Hawkinson: Bear - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Tim Hawkinson: Bear - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    A bear constructed of boulders. Eight granite stones, together they make a bear 23.5 feet high with a total weight of 180 tons. Bear pushes the bounds of credibility. Questions arise. Where did they find these rocks? How did they get them here? Are they real? How are they held together? On one hand, the sculpture is massive, permanent, thoroughly engineered. At the same time, it has a form (a toy bear) that one knows to be soft and cozy - a form that one associates with childhood, play, and security. The bear can be seen framed through the trees lining the paths that lead to the courtyard. As you get closer, you see the mass, the monumentality and the stone surfaces. It becomes immense, especially in the context of the scale of a toy. The rounded, ancient, and weathered natural granite contrasts with the high-tech, anodized, and highly manufactured surfaces of the surrounding buildings. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37821]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usFebruary 17, 2022
    sculpture
    tim hawkinson
    public art and installations
    stuart collection
    artist profiles

    Robert Irwin: Two Running Violet V Forms - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Robert Irwin: Two Running Violet V Forms - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    For the Stuart Collection, "Two Running Violet V Forms," Robert Irwin was drawn to the eucalyptus groves so characteristic of the UC San Diego campus. Irwin installed two fencelike structures in V-forms amidst the trees. The "fences" are blue-violet, plastic-coated, small gauge chain-link fencing supported by stainless steel poles that average twenty-five feet in height. At no point is the fence an obstacle; rather it acts as a screen reflecting the changes in light throughout the day and the year, the moment and the season. Its gentle introduction of industrialized geometry recalls the unnatural grid that organized the grove, and suggests a sensual intrusion into the forest. For people who walk the grove's various paths, the sculpture provides an ever-changing perceptual experience. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37805]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usFebruary 11, 2022
    sculpture
    public art and installations
    stuart collection
    artist profiles
    site-specific

    Same Old Paradise by Alexis Smith - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego

    Same Old Paradise by Alexis Smith - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego
    Same Old Paradise, a mural painted by Alexis Smith, was commissioned by Brooklyn Museum in 1987 as a temporary installation and then remained rolled-up for thirty years. Alexis worked with Lucia Vinograd to develop the five-point perspective of the orange grove and the colors in the scales of the snake that turned into a paved road. Alexis loved to drive, and when you drive and look out the window you are experiencing something akin to her work—an ongoing visual collage. You see one thing after another. Alexis Smith also had become fascinated with the idea that instead of having paradise be a place, paradise might be a state of mind. Series: "Stuart Collection at UC San Diego" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37863]
    Arts and Music (Video)
    en-usFebruary 09, 2022
    public art
    sculpture
    installation
    public art and installations
    alexis smith
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