Saturday, August 15, 2009

Please pay attention please: Bruce Nauman's words : writings and interviews

By Bruce Nauman, Janet Kraynak

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Nina Levy’s hyper-realist works touch the theme of family, as displayed by her recent exhibition at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn. Family Resemblance included Toss, a sculptural installation created for the space that included a five-foot baby head, modeled after the artist’s son, being tossed between two headless parents. Husband and Son is a lifelike sculpture that includes everything but the dad’s head, suggesting the importance of the child in the new dynamic. Some photographs were also part of the exhibition – and here it is important to note that Levy does not digitally manipulate her photos to achieve the desired effect, but works with plaster pieces she creates for the narrative.

Artist: Nina Levy
+ ninalevy.com

more house research

http://www.cacsa.org.au/program/2001/2001.html

this link has some good stuff on house artworks.

Paper houses.

aleks danko- day in day out

"in the early 1950s, there was a song called "little boxes" about people living in houses that all looked the same:

little boxes make of ticky-tacky,
little boxes, little boxes,
little boxes, all the same.

'day in, day out' is a phrase we use when we are bored or tired. in aleks danko's art work, every house is the same and each day is like any other. the sun is always shining. the artist used a cake tin in the shape of a house to make the "little boxes". he placed them in tight neat rows. it makes us feel that if we lived in such a place, we would have to march down the streets; we could never run or skip in a carefree way.
if you lived in a house that looked like every other house, how would you know which one was 'home'? "

From Flickr

Clothed in brick, and enlarged to life size, there's something wrong. The proportions echo the personal space, of creativity and secrets, given to the sculpture student; the galvanized-iron garage behind the family home at Edwardstown. In Danko's art carnivalesque transgressions inhabit the elegant sobriety of plain, readymade forms and materials. At Home is a shed that masquerades as a house.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

childrens drawings (child abuse)

http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/physical_abuse.asp

from here http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/physical_abuse.asp

Figure 1.

Drawing by a 4-year-old physically-abused boy:
The large image is his father and he is the mouthless face in the upper left hand corner.

books on chld abuse

Books about child abuse- found at this blog http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=313

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Alli Good - artist researched

Alli Good was conditioned to be modest and lady-like.
She paints drunk girls, lascivious nude women and a family who makes absinthe in the basement.

http://www.audienceasheville.com/Home/artist-of-family-secrets
"What strikes me about Good's work is how intensely personal it feels. She paints corpulent, sometimes lascivious nude women who can be grotesque or funny or both and is clearly exploring feminist body image issues. "
Her discomforting imagery may arise from her own childhood experience of not fitting in or from a scenario she creates from her imagination. In either case, she challenges taboos. Not that Good takes herself too seriously.

http://www.alligoodart.blogspot.com/

artwork researched - Vitrine Feature

FAMILY SECRETS
an installation by Vitrine Feature Artist - Emily Rumney
30 january - 20 April 2009

In this work Emily Rumney explores the idea of the ‘wholesome’ façade within the formalised set up of the family portrait. The viewer becomes a voyeur into an intimate, interior space. Rumney depicts sweet little family interactions, which, on closer inspection becomes disconcertingly out of kilter. Stoic and constrained, the subjects are boxed in and rendered in delicate sepia-toned intaglio prints; all-the-while politely hinting at the unsettling idea of what goes on behind the scenes of these colonial family images. Long-held family secrets once thought to be buried or eventually given up are exposed.