Only the New (art)

[Henk]

Title: 'Flight of the flesh back into the body'

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Artist: Mauricio Limon
https://mauriciolimon.com/

Piece: Garde-robe 7 (2021)



Art is such a racket; I love it. Hopefully, this piece will be mine, if the price is right.

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Artist: sentrock
https://sentrock.com/

Piece:



Bold, expressive, lively, vibrant.

His pieces are huge, colorful, uplifting, and community-focused.

In sum, aspirational. :-)

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Artist: Teresa Margolles
Piece: Mil Veces un Instante (2024)

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Artist: Kiyan Williams
https://www.kiyanwilliams.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kiyanwilliams



Piece: Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master's House (2024)



Across the museum's sixth-floor terrace, Kiyan Williams's outdoor sculptures also use material as a metaphor for fragility. Visible from the street as visitors approach the museum, the leaning, brown structure of Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master's House (2024) is a replica of the north façade of the White House made in steel and dirt. Natural materials like soil are common in the artist's practice, who had their first museum solo show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2022, and they often use these materials to consider how earth and land hold memories and act as witnesses to history.

The cracked, tilted form of the eroding White House reflects the fractured political systems of the U.S. Furthering this message, the building is topped with an upside-down American flag. Juxtaposing the fragile material of the earthen sculpture is an aluminum statue of Marsha P. Johnson that stands nearby and holds a sign that reads "power to the people." Observing the degradation of the White House with an expression that is calm and resolute, the image of Johnson appears as determined in delivering her message as the trans activist was in her lifetime.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-breakout-artists-2024-whitney-biennial

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Matthew Rucker, a hyperminimalistic painter, self-taught and colorblind:
https://www.instagram.com/matthewruckerart/

Painting: Close to You

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Lynn Dau, an artist after my own heart - finding beauty - or art - in the mundane, everydayness couched in the concrete, material conditions of reality.

https://lynndau.weebly.com/

Piece: Suspended Animation



If the material can be stretched, them so can materialism.

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Artist: Arvid Boecker
https://www.instagram.com/arvidboecker/

One of the last remnants of the color field school of abstract expressionism.



It is interesting that while I don't find the works of Barnett Newman old; I find Arvid's work anachronistic. It feels out of place, to me, and it feels like it is "a copy of a copy of a copy" (Chuck Palahniuk).

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Artist: David Ostrowski
https://spruethmagers.com/artists/david-ostrowski/

Piece: Yes or let's say no



#artisascam

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Haven't been this excited for a project in some time, but Bob Thall is working on a new book of photography called: Some American Cities:



https://www.thecompmagazine.com/bob-thall/
https://bobthall.com/

[Brian]

Haven't been this excited for a project in some time, but Bob Thall is working on a new book of photography called: Some American Cities:



https://www.thecompmagazine.com/bob-thall/
https://bobthall.com/

Wow - the American urban landscape as abstract art and setting for loneliness. I am in awe (most practically) of how early he must have gotten up in the morning, or how long he must have waited, to photograph the streets without cars driving through every shot.

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Wow - the American urban landscape as abstract art and setting for loneliness. I am in awe (most practically) of how early he must have gotten up in the morning, or how long he must have waited, to photograph the streets without cars driving through every shot.

I think you'd you might be amazed at how much of the midwest, at least in the "lower-class" suburbs is abandoned. For example, I grew up in a town called Lombard, which, on the surface, seems like a middle-class place until you go there, so much of it is gone, and much is in a state of deterioration, and the encroachment on the middle-class enclaves is an assault, but a beautiful one - now, that's creative destruction in motion.

[Brian]

I think you'd you might be amazed at how much of the midwest, at least in the "lower-class" suburbs is abandoned. For example, I grew up in a town called Lombard, which, on the surface, seems like a middle-class place until you go there, so much of it is gone, and much is in a state of deterioration, and the encroachment on the middle-class enclaves is an assault, but a beautiful one - now, that's creative destruction in motion.

I grew up in Detroit and spent a lot of time in Fort Wayne - my amazement was mostly at the downtown main streets of my own city (Dallas) and the highwayscape in Des Moines. But that's just talking about the presence or absence of cars in the shots. In general, he does an amazing job expressing that theme. The East St. Louis and Dayton pics are haunting. It's like we've already left our ruins for the alien archaeologists to dig up.

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I grew up in Detroit and spent a lot of time in Fort Wayne - my amazement was mostly at the downtown main streets of my own city (Dallas) and the highwayscape in Des Moines. But that's just talking about the presence or absence of cars in the shots. In general, he does an amazing job expressing that theme. The East St. Louis and Dayton pics are haunting. It's like we've already left our ruins for the alien archaeologists to dig up.

Yeah, I will admit that the lack of cars is eerie, especially when you recall the hustle and bustle that used to be there. Like the whole track of my "home" is in that state of abandonment starting in Lombard and culminating in Maywood and Oak Park, which are just stunningly dystopian - especially for people who have never been in a low-income area before - like Maywood is a desert in every form other than the literal meaning - it is striking, but, I'm a poseur, a tourist, a dilettante dalliance.

The notion is called "ruin value," which is a great idea with a poor progenitor, but all skyscrapers, in my opinion, were built with their ruin in mind. In fact, I think most architecture is save the cookie cutter, which is actually the basis of one of Thall's books: The New American Village, which is how I found him actually.

[Brian]

At Christmas I gave my brother this book of photographs from the New Deal era Great American Buildings Survey, capturing architecture that has since been destroyed and letting you know what has happened to them since (which usually is parking lots):

https://www.cityfilespress.com/books/lost-in-america/

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At Christmas I gave my brother this book of photographs from the New Deal era Great American Buildings Survey, capturing architecture that has since been destroyed and letting you know what has happened to them since (which usually is parking lots):

https://www.cityfilespress.com/books/lost-in-america/

That sounds like an awesome book, so I'm definitely going to pick that up.

At one point in my life, I thought I was going to work in public administration, and the focus of my final project was parking lots, which, from my perspective, are a lot more interesting than they should be, especially in the suburbs, and even more especially in Chicago specifically, who did something insane by privatizing it (lol).