group show/ community projet I'm in ~opening this friday~

Hi all,

I have two paintings in a community project space/group show in East New York in Brooklyn and wanted to invite yall to its opening this Friday from 6-9. Arts East New York, the center where the works will be shown, is focused around three components: community beautification, arts education, and special events (basically social justice through art, I think). Here's its mission statement: http://artseastny.org/?page_id=91

From what I've heard there'll be pastries and wine and cute things like that at the opening. 

Aaand here's the flyer/description for the show which I'll be in, Off the Street, which asks what happens to street art when taken out of its original context. http://artseastny.org/?page_id=134

I'm planning on leaving campus at around 5:30 on Friday and would super love for people to come with!

my number: 510 418 0925

(my thing on the front of this!!)

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"Representational Shit" Critique

Hello, fellow artists! I have come (again) in search of critique! :)

This is my second sculpture project, "Representational Shit." Although my sculpture crit this week was cut short and not very detailed, I did come away with a few good suggestions: 1) I plan on omitting the angora rabbit from the installation; the litter box is strong as an independent object (agree/disagree?) and 2) The photographs do not capture the hostile reaction my rabbit had towards the box, so I need to get more angry photos, or omit them entirely (?). I would like to exhibit this piece in the upcoming undergrad show, so I am really looking for feedback about whether photos (provided I better document the hostile reaction) strengthen or weaken the piece? (I was conducting an experiment of sorts to see if my rabbit would use the replica litter box. He ignored it until he needed to use the bathroom, then attacked the replica, and tried to eat it.)

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Genevieve

Ghost of the deer

The PixCell-Deer#24 by Kohei Nawa is a taxidermied deer sculpted with glass PixCell beads...
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60051566?img=1

The deer is said to resemble a religious painting known as Kasuga Deer Mandala, 'which features a deer - the messenger animal of Shinto deities - posed similarly with its head turned to its side, and with a round sacred mirror on its back.

Perhaps this is the sacred mirror..

Lawlziwallz goofybootz

Outside Orna's Room of Renaissance Requirement: Little grumpy troll dude guarding the secret of perspective and making sure you don't steal nothing with that backpack of yours

In Mary's other Room of Requirement of American things: an angry bust of a guy who is angry because he's stuck in a dusty shelf full of calm people who can't hear him/don't care:

another in Mary's collection: this woman is stuck staring at someone's shoulder/the corner of a wall until the next intern decides what she'll look at next

Justin's sarcophagus love story: whachu doin down there??!?!

 Back to Mary's crazy room: a creepy old man in a satin baby bonnet and shiny bodice

and outside in the Upper East Side:

you can even buy shade to throw here if you can't produce it naturally haha

(shade)

Cupid, pay attention? It's your sculpture

Is this the face of love? Cupid looks like he is in absolute pain or just completely zoning out.
I feel like there is some story that I don't know behind Cupid and Psyche...

Civitali's Gabriel lost his wings.  It makes him closer to us (if not for the unusual slanted/suspended posture and unfortunate

gravitational forces). Empty wings' slots in his back, yet, not a fallen angel.

I'm sticking to Renaissance Firenze and find (sorry, but again)Bennozzo Gozzoli's work from 1460 "Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Dead child, saint Peter and Simon Magus; the conversion of Saint Paul; Totila before saint Benedict" tempera on wood.  This four panel piece (on top) was commissioned by the florentine patrician and powerful Alessandri family to update an altarpiece made 150 years before.

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I particularly like the second from right: Saint Paul is falling from his horse at the apparition of Christ.  The "apparition" itself is particularly interesting.  A golden "blob"hanging at the top while most of its circular shape is out of frame.  A golden transparent ray is hitting the fallen saint's left eye.  Zooming in I detect a carefully depicted celestial scene with christ and cherubs surrounding the throne.

Just one more. Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469)"saint Lawrence Enthroned with saints and Donors" tempera on wood, gold ground.  The painting was commissioned by the same Florentine patrician, Alessandri, in the 1440s.

  

What is particularly interesting to me here are is the damaged surfaces, the attempts to restore the piece throughout the ages.  The saint is depicted enthroned.  His feet are resting on the grill on which he was martyred. Just under his feet as part of the floor, there is a damaged area that might be still unrestored.  An original "rug" perhaps. It is a painting within a painting. (and I'm wildly associating a Klee painting)

On the left side, with a red background, (a hint of the "real" red robe of a saint or a donor) I could swear, there's a figure standing (torso), leaning, looking outward at us.