Year 2: Month 9: Volume 2
a monster in the shape of a monster
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Tiana Clark reads BBHMM
Matthew Craven “is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work centers around found imagery combined with hand-drawn geometric patterns.”
Originally from Canada, Melanie Daniel is currently working in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
Carolyn Case's paintings “rely on a beguiling density, gained from years of working and reworking a surface.”
Syntax of rendition:
verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action
verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verb disgraced goes on doing
now diagram the sentence—from “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve” by Adrienne Rich, via Poetry
“Amsterdam-based artist Jasper de Beijer’s conceptual series of photographs each engages with a specific historical period or event.”
Ricardo Gonzalez “utilizes a limited palette, simplified mark-making, and sense of humor to explore the language of expressionistic painting and drawing.”
neonpajamas Reading Marathon (full event)
Awilda Sterling “is an experimental, independent, and multidisciplinary artist. Her practice and studies incorporate bodywork techniques and a mix of contemporary and experimental kinesthetics.”
METHOD No periods separating sentence-structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musician drawing breath between outblown phrases)--"measured pauses which are the essentials of our speech"--"divisions of the sounds we hear"-"time and how to note it down." (William Carlos Williams)
— from “ESSENTIALS OF SPONTANEOUS PROSE” by Jack Kerouac
“Amsterdam-based Marjolijn de Wit’s ceramic photographic collage, installation, and painting explores ideas of future archeology, the interpretation of history, and our relationship with nature and the built environment.”
Luke Patrick O'Halloran is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Tim Berne sextet @ Lowlands 9-21-23
Rodrigo Valenzuela “works across photography, video, and installation, merging his interest in art history, architecture, the concept of work, and the realities of laborers.”
People eat animals. I sometimes do. I eat sardines that are packed side by side. I forget about their swimming when I do this.
But they are pulled from the ocean and put into a tin.
— from “Compassion” by Niina Pollari, via Granta
Originally from Michigan, Todd Kelly lives and works in New York.
Gabriela Vainsencher is an Argentine-born Israeli artist who lives in Crown Heights.
Trish Tillman “juxtaposes diverse materials to evoke domestic ritual, fetish, and a modern tendency towards private totemic monuments.”
Guðmundur Thoroddsen is from Reykjavik, Iceland, where he currently lives and works.
This fascination for the transgression generated by female crime and its capacity to upset the social, familial and patriarchal order, replenishes the concept of the naturalised female as being inferior and differentiated by the positivist sciences of the 19th century, whose visual language they re-employ. These photo-montages also expose the paradox of questioning bourgeois society in media form (the Surrealist reviews) destined exclusively for a privileged minority of cultivated intellectuals. These visual gestures are thus presented as demonstrations of radical political postures, while in reality they bear witness to an underlying conservatism.
— from “Women criminals captured by Surrealism”by Célia Honoré via Focales
“Born in central Pennsylvania, Rebecca Morgan works in painting, drawing, and ceramics that subvert stereotypes of Appalachia.”
Deep Dive with Tomb Mold about the new album “The Enduring Spirit”
Katarina Riesing was born in Knoxville, TN and lives and works in Alfred, NY.
Kristen Sanders (b. 1989, California) lives and works in St. Paul, MN.
These are the essential meanings and allusions that stay, that remain, after symbolism has been eroded. Primary fragments, sketches, rubble, ruins, from which one will inevitably piece together another new new. It’s all kinetic. It seems that the only available vision was likelihood its antics. Right, walk to the beach means walk to the edge. It’s a miracle that Coolidge can isolate words among words. You know, and every now and then you get these lines that just say something completely honest. But also erupting as spontaneous wisdom: power needs no reason for anything. Another great line. ‘To the very crystal, the book, the getaway.’ ‘Skimped, as goo is lifted, ghosts need a trim.’ The man with no money turned comic. Perfect. ‘Drink, then shattered stun, fix the light.’ ‘Drift.’ The truth is real but is it interesting?
— from “A LAND THERE IS NO TITLE TO” by Carlos Lara, via Caesura
Julie Schenkelberg grew up in the post-industrial landscape of Cleveland, Ohio.
