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06/25/2023

🕷Louise Bourgeois, "Spider (Cell)" (1997)

From Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois' longtime Assistant:

Louise made many variants of Spider, but there is only one unique "Spider/ Cell" and it's the first time where the web of the spider is represented as an enclosure. Of course we can't now, but you are meant to enter that piece and sit in the chair and be underneath the protection of the mother. The spiders were an ode to her mother who was a tapestry restorer, and that's why you see tapestries on the walls of the exterior of the cell.

And you see on the floor there's two tapestry panels, one is of a foot. As a young girl, Louise worked in the family business by drawing in the missing parts of the tapestries that had to be rewoven, and usually the bottoms of the tapestries were worn the most. So Louise became an expert of drawing feet.

All the cells deal with this idea of memory. Louise had this fear of getting rid of anything. Most things that were significant to her she held on to. And when she was quite old, I think she wondered what would happen to all these objects that had meaning to her, and I think she knew that if she incorporated these things within the work, they would survive much longer than her own physical presence.

06/22/2023

Keith Haring in his Studio, NYC (1982)

📷 Photo by Allan Tannenbaum

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06/22/2023

“When I was making Celebrity Trash I was reading The Globe and The Star and saw that what is done is that you consume all of these celebrities each week, then you turn them into trash. This trashing helps to dampen people’s anger over their situation or their own place in the hierarchy of importance. The word 'Texas' has a kind of cultural capital. It is shorthand for Kennedy’s assassination and for a certain time in the 1960s. Speaking on a financial level, it’s interesting how once a certain amount of capital has been invested in a rock group, for example, certain recordings can be dressed up or recontextualized opportunistically to take advantage of a new 'trend' or something new it can be attached to. It can be squeezed like a lemon, but it becomes almost an organic thing and it gets revived and squeezed again. I read in a trashy novel once something which implied that the deaths of certain rock stars might have meant more capital for record company and that there are speculations that a few deaths might have been arranged."
- Cady Noland, in conversation with Michèle Cone (Journal of Contemporary Art)

▪️Artwork: Cady Noland, Celebrity Trash Spill, 1989

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Description: Newspaper, three magazines, three cameras with associated equipment, two camera tripods, microphone, glittery skirt, five pairs of sunglasses, sleep mask, carpet, two mats, cigarette packet.

06/19/2023

Jennifer Packer, “Idle Hands” (2021)

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06/17/2023

🔥 Eric Fischl, "Barbecue" (1982)

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Eric Fischl is one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Inspired by his own middle-class upbringing on Long Island, Fischl’s provocative paintings expose the underbelly of American suburban life while piercing through its veil. Through startling scenes of grief, adolescent sexuality, and political malaise, is committed to expressing what often remains hidden and unspoken behind society’s mores.

During his meteoric rise in the 1980s, in an era when art eschewed figuration and the human body, Fischl embraced it… His paintings boldly explore the body in all of its movement, gesture, and form. By imbuing his large scale canvases with a psychological intensity, Fischl’s work invites us to examine our own relationship with taboos, internal conflict, and complacency.

Fischl's paintings, sculptures and drawings have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions around the world, and his work is represented in major museum collections including , , and in L.A. His memoir “Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas” was published by in 2013.

A longtime resident of , Long Island, Eric’s recent venture has been to renovate and transform a local church into an artist residency, exhibition space and creative center known fittingly as The Church.

04/25/2023

“I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back."
➖ Cecily Brown‼️

▪️Artwork: Cecily Brown, "A Chorus Line" (1997)

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04/11/2023

🩸Marc Quinn, "Self" ( 1991- ongoing)

Self is a self-portrait of the artist, but one that literally uses his body as material since the cast of Quinn's head, immersed in frozen silicone, is created from ten pints of his own blood. In this way, the materiality of the sculpture has both a symbolic and real function. The work was made at a time when Quinn was an alcoholic and a notion of dependency – of things needing to be plugged in or connected to something to survive – is apparent since the work needs electricity to retain its frozen appearance. A further iteration made every five years, this series of sculptures presents a cumulative index of passing time and an ongoing self-portrait of the artist's ageing and changing self.
➖from Artist's website

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04/08/2023

Francesca Woodman, "On Being an Angel, Rome, Italy" (1976) 📷

Throughout her career, the young American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) revisited the theme of angels. In On Being an Angel (1976) she is seen bending backward as light falls on her white body. The following year she made a new version – an image with a darker mood in which she shows her face. These angels are but a few examples of Francesca Woodman’s practice of staging her body and her face. In the few intense years before her far too premature passing, she managed to create a collection of fascinating photographs.
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04/04/2023

📷 Keith Haring photographed by Paul Blanca in his studio (1985)

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04/03/2023

Listen to our latest ARTLAWS Interview w/ trailblazing new media artist NANCY BAKER CAHILL‼️ Streaming now on & (link in bio)⚡

📷 Portrait by: Mark Escribano

Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. As a new media artist, creates immersive and interactive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects all rooted in the practice of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting the climate crisis and civics. Nancy’s work calls for a more equitable future for all, as realized early on in her career with her collaborative art series “Exit Wounds” in conjunction with the non profit led by Father Greg Boyle.

Cahill is Founder and Artistic Director of , a free AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression. Her geolocated AR installations have been exhibited globally and have earned her profiles in the , Magazine, and , and she was also included in list of 2021 'Deciders'.

Cahill's work has been exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, and her solo exhibition ‘Slipstream: Table of Contents’ was recently acquired by . In 2021, she was awarded the Bicentennial Medal of Honor and received the City of Los Angeles’ Master Artist Fellowship. She is a 2022 LACMA Art and Tech Grant recipient and this year, she’ll have her first solo mid-career retrospective at the .

03/27/2023

Listen to our latest INTV w/ groundbreaking new media artist NANCY BAKER CAHILL‼️ This ARTLAWS Podcast eps is streaming on & (link in bio)⚡

▪️Artwork: Nancy Baker Cahill, Mushroom Cloud, augmented reality artwork, 2021, Miami, FL.

Los Angeles based artist Nancy Baker Cahill works at the forefront of socially minded augmented-reality (AR) art. She considers her practice to be intrinsically public, often site-specific, collaborative, and accessible, and the Los Angeles Times recently likened her work to a 21st-century version of Land Art. And her groundbreaking free mobile app 4th Wall is a vehicle for viewers, participants, and collaborators to house, share, and view content. However, the underlying canvas, or substrate, remains each work’s specific geolocation in public space. -

03/25/2023

Listen to our latest INTV w/ groundbreaking new media artist NANCY BAKER CAHILL‼️ This ARTLAWS Podcast eps is streaming on & (link in bio)⚡

▪️Artwork: Nancy Baker Cahill, Margin of Error, animated AR drawing via 4th Wall app (2019) Biennial

Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. As a new media artist, creates immersive and interactive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects all rooted in the practice of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting the climate crisis and civics. Nancy’s work calls for a more equitable future for all, as realized early on in her career with her collaborative art series “Exit Wounds” in conjunction with the non profit led by Father Greg Boyle.

Cahill is Founder and Artistic Director of , a free AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression. Her geolocated AR installations have been exhibited globally and have earned her profiles in the , Magazine, and , and she was also included in list of 2021 'Deciders'.

Cahill's work has been exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, and her solo exhibition ‘Slipstream: Table of Contents’ was recently acquired by . In 2021, she was awarded the Bicentennial Medal of Honor and received the City of Los Angeles’ Master Artist Fellowship. She is a 2022 LACMA Art and Tech Grant recipient and this year, she’ll have her first solo mid-career retrospective at the .

03/24/2023

We are thrilled to announce our latest INTV w/ groundbreaking new media artist NANCY BAKER CAHILL‼️ Listen to this new ARTLAWS Podcast episode on & (link in bio)⚡

Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. As a new media artist, creates immersive and interactive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects all rooted in the practice of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting the climate crisis and civics. Nancy’s work calls for a more equitable future for all, as realized early on in her career with her collaborative art series “Exit Wounds” in conjunction with the non profit led by Father Greg Boyle.

Cahill is Founder and Artistic Director of , a free AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression. Her geolocated AR installations have been exhibited globally and have earned her profiles in the , Magazine, and , and she was also included in list of 2021 'Deciders'.

Cahill's work has been exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, and her solo exhibition ‘Slipstream: Table of Contents’ was recently acquired by . In 2021, she was awarded the Bicentennial Medal of Honor and received the City of Los Angeles’ Master Artist Fellowship. She is a 2022 LACMA Art and Tech Grant recipient and this year, she’ll have her first solo mid-career retrospective at the .

03/23/2023

💛 Lucio Fontana, “Concetto spaziale, Attesa (68 T 77)” (1968)

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03/14/2023

One of the best films of the year. It SHOULD have WON at last night’s Oscars #🖤

02/28/2023

"Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors." ➖Genesis P-Orridge

▪️Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, "Kali in Flames" (1986)

01/06/2023

“I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”— Mark Rothko

📷 Mark Rothko in his studio, 1951

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12/21/2022

Our latest INTV w/ legendary artist KIKI SMITH is OUT‼️ Listen to this new ARTLAWS Podcast episode on & (link in bio)⚡️

Kiki Smith is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style draws on mythology, folklore, fairytales and religious iconography, while also exploring the human form in all of its frailty and mystery.

We had the privilege of speaking with Kiki Smith on the eve of the unveiling of her rare and momentous public work – a monumental mosaic installation inside the new Madison train station in New York City, commissioned by the . This work includes five individual large scale mosaics depicting several Long Island landscape scenes including River Light, inspired by the way the sunlight hits the East River; The Water’s Way rendered in stunning shades of indigo; The Presence, which shows a deer among striking gold reeds; The Spring featuring fowl surrounded by forest during springtime growth; and The Sound which showcases Long Island’s waterway in a magnificent 28-foot wide mural.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the in London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Her numerous awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2000), the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award (2010), the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts (2013), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the (2016). Kiki is also an adjunct professor at and University.

We join the artist as she walks through the Lower East Side of Manhattan on a late afternoon.⚡

12/15/2022

Our latest INTV w/ legendary artist KIKI SMITH is OUT‼️ Listen to this new ARTLAWS Podcast episode on & (link in bio)⚡️

▪️Artwork: “Rapture” (2001)

Kiki Smith is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style draws on mythology, folklore, fairytales and religious iconography, while also exploring the human form in all of its frailty and mystery.

We had the privilege of speaking with Kiki Smith on the eve of the unveiling of her rare and momentous public work – a monumental mosaic installation inside the new Madison train station in New York City, commissioned by the . This work includes five individual large scale mosaics depicting several Long Island landscape scenes including River Light, inspired by the way the sunlight hits the East River; The Water’s Way rendered in stunning shades of indigo; The Presence, which shows a deer among striking gold reeds; The Spring featuring fowl surrounded by forest during springtime growth; and The Sound which showcases Long Island’s waterway in a magnificent 28-foot wide mural.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the in London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Her numerous awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2000), the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award (2010), the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts (2013), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the (2016). Kiki is also an adjunct professor at and University.

We join the artist as she walks through the Lower East Side of Manhattan on a late afternoon.⚡

12/12/2022

Our latest INTV w/ legendary artist KIKI SMITH is OUT‼️ Listen to this new ARTLAWS Podcast episode on & (link in bio)⚡️

▪️Artwork: “Come Away From Her” (2003)

Kiki Smith is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style draws on mythology, folklore, fairytales and religious iconography, while also exploring the human form in all of its frailty and mystery.

We had the privilege of speaking with Kiki Smith on the eve of the unveiling of her rare and momentous public work – a monumental mosaic installation inside the new Madison train station in New York City, commissioned by the . This work includes five individual large scale mosaics depicting several Long Island landscape scenes including River Light, inspired by the way the sunlight hits the East River; The Water’s Way rendered in stunning shades of indigo; The Presence, which shows a deer among striking gold reeds; The Spring featuring fowl surrounded by forest during springtime growth; and The Sound which showcases Long Island’s waterway in a magnificent 28-foot wide mural.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the in London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Her numerous awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2000), the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award (2010), the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts (2013), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the (2016). Kiki is also an adjunct professor at and University.

We join the artist as she walks through the Lower East Side of Manhattan on a late afternoon.⚡

12/10/2022

Excited to to announce our latest INTV w/ legendary artist KIKI SMITH‼️ Listen to this new ARTLAWS Podcast episode NOW on & (link in bio)⚡️

▪️Artwork: “Lilith” (1994)

Kiki Smith is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style draws on mythology, folklore, fairytales and religious iconography, while also exploring the human form in all of its frailty and mystery.

We had the privilege of speaking with Kiki Smith on the eve of the unveiling of her rare and momentous public work – a monumental mosaic installation inside the new Madison train station in New York City, commissioned by the . This work includes five individual large scale mosaics depicting several Long Island landscape scenes including River Light, inspired by the way the sunlight hits the East River; The Water’s Way rendered in stunning shades of indigo; The Presence, which shows a deer among striking gold reeds; The Spring featuring fowl surrounded by forest during springtime growth; and The Sound which showcases Long Island’s waterway in a magnificent 28-foot wide mural.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at five Venice Biennales and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the in London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Her numerous awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2000), the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award (2010), the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts (2013), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the (2016). Kiki is also an adjunct professor at and University.

We join the artist as she walks through the Lower East Side of Manhattan on a late afternoon.⚡

12/10/2022

12/09/2022

We are thrilled to announce our latest INTV w/ legendary artist KIKI SMITH‼️ Listen to this new ARTLAWS Podcast episode on & (link in bio)⚡️

Kiki Smith is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style draws on mythology, folklore, fairytales and religious iconography, while also exploring the human form in all of its frailty and mystery.

We had the privilege of speaking with Kiki on the eve of the unveiling of her rare and momentous public work – a monumental mosaic installation inside the new Madison train station in NYC, commissioned by the . This work includes five individual large scale mosaics depicting several Long Island landscape scenes including River Light, inspired by the way the sunlight hits the East River; The Water’s Way rendered in stunning shades of indigo; The Presence, which shows a deer among striking gold reeds; The Spring featuring fowl surrounded by forest during springtime growth; and The Sound which showcases LI’s waterway in a magnificent 28-foot wide mural.

Smith has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide including over 25 museum exhibitions. Her work has been featured at 5 Venice Biennales and in 2017 was awarded the title of Honorary Royal Academician by the in London. In 2006, Smith was recognized by Magazine as one of the “TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.” Her numerous awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2000), the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award (2010), the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts (2013), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the (2016). Kiki is also an adjunct professor at and .

We join the artist as she walks through the LES of Manhattan on a late afternoon.⚡

12/08/2022

Eva Hesse, "Accession II" (1968-1969) ⚡️

The balance of feeling and intellect that Hesse sought would arguably come to its most succinct manifestation in the “Accession” series (1967–68): industrial-looking metal boxes that she left open at the top to reveal densely fibrous interiors filled with vinyl or rubber tubing. The boxes’ exteriors are cool and geometric, but their contents are chaotic, unruly, and vaguely threatening. “I’ve never seen anything so sexual and fantastic in my whole life,” her friend, the artist Rosie Goldman, commented about one of the “Accession” pieces. Maurice Berger saw in the works “a stylistic collision between one of Donald Judd’s minimalist aluminum boxes and Meret Oppenheim‘s Surrealist fur-covered teacup of 1936.”
➖ (Writer: Tess Thackara )

12/02/2022

Rachel Whiteread "Untitled (Domestic)” (2002)

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Since the late 1980s, the British sculptor Rachel Whiteread has held firm to one of the clearest and most poetic techniques in contemporary art: taking an everyday item, an architectural volume, even an entire house, and casting the spaces they occupy rather than the objects themselves. In the traditional lost-wax casting process, a sculptor makes a form of plaster or clay, shapes a mold around it, then fills the mold with liquefied metal, once or multiple times. For Ms. Whiteread, objects and spaces are themselves the molds — and are often destroyed in the creation of her ghostly negatives. The air around a large Victorian tub becomes a coffin of vermilion rubber; the voids beneath chairs cohere into colored resin, which the artist arrays like large gummi candies. A bath, a cardboard box, the books of a lost library: These are the molds for Ms. Whiteread’s sculptures, mute and mummified.
➖ (Writer: Jason Farago)

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