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Repository 215: When the Private Must be Public | Interrogating the Home in Art
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. -Lorrie Moore, Like Life. Vintage, 1990 If home is sweet home, then why is the domestic sound terrifying? Horror stories are rooted around a home, or collection of homes we call a town. Countless artists have avoided direct representation of the home unless it’s a subversive attempt to expose the dark, inner sanctum of the familiar. Naturally artists remove sweetness from the domestic. Sweetness is heavy,…
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Repository 173: Ann Hamilton Review | the common SENSE
A Review of The Henry Art Gallery Installation In true Ann Hamilton form the exhibit at University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery in Seattle is a constellation of words and pictures coupled with formal and intimate exchanges that attract and repel depending on what you bring to the work. It is a careful, multi-layered presentation of the physical place, her specific vision and your participation. Collectively the seemingly soft touch of each artistic choice and chosen object packs a cumulative wallop…
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Repository 171: Women History Month | Round Up on Women Artists
Celebrating women’s history month I figured I would be posting more images of women artists, doing more write ups of women artists, and at the very least looking at more artwork by women. In true banana slug fashion though, the month of March is rolling to an end, and I have been able to post only once, and will now simply provide an overview of some of the female art and artists I did ponder this month. I was…
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Repository 110: Back from Basel | Highlights and Collecting Strategies
I just did the math: between Art Basel Miami Beach, private collections, and satellite fairs I have viewed close to 1,576 pieces of art in the past 48 hours. I think I can consider myself an endurance aesthete, because even as I wandered the last fair with sand in my shoes I could have continued for another 48 hours. Out of all the work, I would say 99% was not so great. As Sir Norman Rosenthal said before his talk…
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Repository 78: Freedom is the Power to Translate
Since it’s the last week that my show is up in Portland, I thought I would post a piece or two to this forum. One of the more popoular was a chart that I made over the course of several years. It’s colorful and full of information, and open to interpretation. An installation image may be found here and here. The title of the piece is: “In a True Democracy the Many are Obligated to the Few”. A democracy implies a…
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Repository 35: Ann Hamilton Brings A Field of Swings to the Armory
Ann Hamilton amazes yet again with her poetic and site specific installation the event of a thread at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. She has suspended 40 swings on 50 foot long steel chains. All of the swings are made to be used – the swings will be attached to a giant piece of cloth, so when activated there will be a collective choreography of bodies, swings and movement. A virtual flock of an installation. When you see a swing,…
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