1/25/10
SHOW: Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 @ David Zwirner
I saw this inspiring and seductive show on Saturday. I can't stop thinking about it for many reasons but mainly because I felt like I had seen some of these works before... in a daydream? The artistic ideas & visions of artists like Robert Irwin, James Turell, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, Peter Alexander & Helen Pashgian seem relevant to my own art-making process but they lived and worked in the bright sun and generous spaciousness of Southern California. My work is made amidst the compressed world of New York where space and light are rarely uninhibited. In my work I am channeling fantasies of their reality.
The next book I plan to start reading is Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weshler.
There is a great review in the New Yorker about the show, out now. It will be up until Feb 6th.
1/7/10
12/7/09
10/26/09
SHOW: NEFER/NFR @ Capricious Gallery
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Location: Capricious Gallery
103 Broadway, 917-438-7015
Time: 6pm-9pm
Artists: Molly Surno, Kenya Robinson, Sarah Frances Kuhn, Dave Shull, Olivia Wyatt and Shaun Kessler, Suzette Guy, and Leif Ritchey
Curated by: Molly Surno
Luiza Sa from CSS will be DJ'ing and Abby Walton will be doing free nail art at opening.
The deep and spiritual relationship that we have with adornment will be explored in this dynamic group show of Brooklyn-based artists. Each piece is a meditation on the history of human decoration which will take form via photography, sound, sculpture, and installation. Ancient Egyptians were the first to remove body hair and wear wigs and since then, the obsession with self-decoration has evolved into a sometimes passionate, masochistic, celebratory, sensual, grueling, and lengthy ritual. In some cultural niches, fashion and/or trends take on such powerful meaning that they signify a belonging, tribal cohesion and cultural identification.
For better or worse, the connection between attraction and goodness is as old as civilization. Visible is all divisions of society from children's tales to advertisements human behavior equates flawlessness with glory and respect. Beauty comes from Latin bellus meaning pretty, which is akin to the Latin word bonus meaning good-more. Embedded in Egyptian vocabulary is the word Nefer (nfr ) which means both 'good' and 'beautiful.' Together these artists investigate bodily desires through the power, sorrow, loneliness, celebration and sensuality of ornamentation, glitter and garnish.
10/5/09
10/4/09
10/3/09
9/23/09
SHOW: Forever Summer @ Denise Bibro Fine Art/ Platform June 26 - July 3, 2009
Wave Dave 2009, Arylic on Xeroxed Digital Photo
more info here:
http://platform.denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/1714
9/8/09
SHOW: X-Initiative 'No Souls for Sale' Art Fair June 2009
Installation by artist David Shull, with contributions by me and Lana Lacolla (Left Coast).
Read the review here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/arts/design/25soul.html
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