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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Roni Horns work hmm. Worth looking at more. She uses sparse language, some combinations of text and image, but mostly image. I particularly like the series of 100 photos she takes of Margret which she calls "You are the Weather." There is something compellilng abou the title and the insistent repetition of the same face, with ever so slightly changes of expression.

Monday, July 23, 2007


A couple of weeks ago we organized a malaria clinic for refugees from Burundi.
























It was held at Catholic Charities on N. Salina Street. The Clinic was unusual because treatment was ordered by the CDC. The urgent nature of the situation led University Hospital to organize a mobile clinic which got everyone out of their usual routine. We saw 50 patients in a couple of hours by cutting through most of the usual bureaucratic red tape. Dr. Cronkright, our boss for the summer was amazed at how much for efficiently we were able to take care of this situation than in a normal clinic setting where even the organization of space prevents one translator from attending to more than one person at a time. In this setting we saw entire families at the same time, the translator could be called from table to table when he was needed--which was constantly as we only had two people who could go between Kirundi and English. Most of these Burundians, unlike Rwandans, do not speak French either, which made it very difficult to find translators.

We had lots of French speakers, but of the 50 refugees only 6 spoke any French.

This little girl is from Somalia, I think. She was at the Catholic Charities building participating in another program. The features of people form Northern Africa are slightly different. They remind me of my friend Woinam who was born in Ethiopia. According to the people working for refugee services in the City many more refugees from Africa will be arriving in the fall and winter. I think I'd rather arrive in the summer. From Africa to snow is too much to expect.








The quilt I'm working on for my sister--with left over bits from quilts I've made, take off in part from the older Nancy Crow stuff. And other art musings... collages from medical text, James Audubon, Gustov Klimt and some of my own imagination. I kept Isabel up late painting light switch covers in the new attick studio space. She was so happy, I couldn't put her to bed. I said it wasn't good of me to be teaching her my bad habit of staying up until the middle of the night painting. She said, " you know I would have anyway." So much for being a good influence.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007







Alice Neel. The Pregnant Woman468 x 310 - 96k - gifwww.uam.ucsb.edu
Alice Neel. The Family (John Gruen, ...274 x 310 - 65k - gifwww.uam.ucsb.edu
Alice Neel Self-Portrait420 x 560 - 152k - jpgwww.npr.org
Alice Neel's daring portraits of ...400 x 548 - 63k - jpgwww.tfaoi.com




Alice Neel will be accompanied by a ...397 x 701 - 72k - jpgwww.tfaoi.com
Alice Neel, "John Perreault," 1972.612 x 360 - 48k - jpgjohnperreault.com



I first learned about Alice Neel when Isabel and I were at the Philadelphia Museum of fine art a couple of Thanksgivings ago. I bought a couple of post cards of her paintings: Harley on a Rocking Horse (1943) and two of her male nudes, Joe Gould(1933) which has no fewer than four penises, and John Perrault (1972) with only one. They are interesting nudes because they do not glorify the male figure, but they are beautifully painted.

I read some of her biography in Alice Neel by Ann Temkin. I was strangely relieved to learn that she had troubles worse than I do. She married a Cuban and had a daughter Isabetta, who ended up being raised in Cuba mostly by their aunts. She divorced then had two more sons nearly ten years later. It made me thankfull that I am not separated from my children. I thinkt hat would make me mad. She did try to kill herself and was hospitalized for depression at the Philadelphia General Hospital. She made a paintingof herself there in 1931. In the end she was quite successfull, so she recovered herself enough to go on into old age. There is even a photograph of her by Mapplethorpe in 1984, the same year she was on the Johnny Carson Show. How things turn out from such rough beginnings cannot be predicted.

Picked up a book of poems by Michael Chitwood From Whence. Liked Luke's Mom, Skinning, The Seaons Come and the Seasons Keep Coming.
http://www.artnet.com/awc/Click on graphic to view a larger image.
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nancy-spero.html

http://www.varoregistry.com/spero/

Spero and her husband Leon Golub did an interesting exhibition together called War and Memory. The catalog printed in 1994 has some of my favorite work by these artists. It seems particulary apropo in light of the war in Iraq and the torture at Abu Grabe prison. Spreo's use of an old typewriter to incorporate text into her prints is interesting as is her use of images from the Etruscans. I'm trying to decide if I want to incorporate text from my writing into my collages.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Gee Bend Quilts. Wow!

Gee's Bend Quilts
400 x 492 - 30k - jpg
www.elizabethleach.com
Gee's Bend Prints
400 x 459 - 47k - jpg
www.elizabethleach.com
Gee's Bend Quilts
365 x 501 - 24k - jpg
theothermother.typepad.com
gee's bend
560 x 413 - 36k - jpg
greenespace.blogspot.com






Quilts of Gee's Bend
280 x 383 - 55k - jpg
www.madison.k12.wi.us

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend
188 x 242 - 18k - jpg
dcartnews.blogspot.com

New Gee's Bend Book
500 x 500 - 45k - jpg
www.deepfriedkudzu.com

The Quilts of Gee's Bend
407 x 340 - 60k - jpg
www.threeonefive.com
Gee's Bend: The Women and Their ...
411 x 475 - 32k - jpg
planetpatchwork.com
... Quilts of Gee's Bend Exhibition ...
257 x 450 - 78k - jpg
www.arts.state.al.us


... 60 quilts from Gee's Bend, ...
500 x 375 - 235k - jpg
www.craftzine.com
... of Gee's Bend Exhibition at San ...
432 x 538 - 47k - jpg
www.purlbee.com
... "Medallion Quilt," Gee's Bend, ...
250 x 297 - 27k - jpg
www.mfa.org
... at the quilts of Gee's Bend, ...
600 x 450 - 190k - jpg
www.ladysmaidjewels.com
http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/_images/chagoya/chagoya_brevedad_ser.jpgEnrique Chagoya is another great artists. He's more directly political. His codex is also very interesting

These photos by Sally Mann are mostly from her Immediate Family series, which apparently was controvercial because she was photographig her own kids and some thought it was on the line with pornography in some instances.
... they see a Sally Mann photo.
650 x 535 - 227k
web.uni-frankfurt.de
Jun 8 2007 3:47A Ciao ciao,
399 x 330 - 43k - jpg
profile.myspace.com
Sally Mann (born 1951) American
900 x 723 - 57k - jpeg
www.arthistory.sbc.edu
Sally Mann
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www.undo.net
Sally Mann, The Perfect Tomato
354 x 280 - 17k - jpg
www.mtholyoke.edu
Sally Mann. Yard Eggs
500 x 418 - 31k - jpg
www.mtholyoke.edu
Sally Mann creates beautiful ...
350 x 277 - 21k - jpg
jerryandmartha.com
Sally Mann (American, b. 1951)
400 x 330 - 37k - jpg
www.corcoran.org
Naptime, 1989 by Sally Mann
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blogs.indiewire.com
Terry Winters is amazing. I had forgotten about him, then I was trying to remember his hame. My printmaking professor Adele Henderson, originally t old me about him. I really like his use of shapes and colors.
Terry Winters Point 1985
oil on linen, 102-1/8 by 69 inches
Courtesy Matthew Marks



Terry Winters
Tokyo Notes, 2004
Lithograph
22 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches
No. 4 From a Portfolio of Eleven Lithographs
Ed: 30
Sold as a portfolio only

Saturday, July 07, 2007