performative digital scan turned into an
aquatint etching, engraving and drypoint, 2006
polyptych of four
top images each: 59 x 49.3 cm
bottom image: 73.8 x 49.3 cm
edition 5
Several of the hand-made prints, which were produced as details and iterations from my performative digital image series “Compressionism,” will be exhibited as part of a group show at David [...]
We love Sean Slemon, a South African, award-winning artist, currently living in NYC.
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My favorite South African displaced in New York, and an inspired/inspirational sculptor and artist, Sean Slemon, is having his Masters Solo Show at the Pratt Studios in Brooklyn, 30 April - 4 May. If you’re around, do yourself a favor and attend (and tell him I said hi - he’s very nice). More on Sean [...]
The Opera world, like any other stage-based area of creativity is constantly battling to reach contemporary audiences in addition to hardcore opera fanatics. It’s caught between whether it should remain true to itself and its original music and scripts, or if it should have the opportunity to adapt and change with the times.
It seems [...]
I’m exhausted. I know, I’ve been on holiday for the last couple of weeks (but that was visiting family, so it’s not really "restful"), and I mostly just took the last two months "off" to move to Dublin. But a new baby, moving continents, catalogue production, many shows, starting a PhD, quitting my three jobs [...]
Photo: Tom Hanson/Canadian Press, via Associated Press, New York TimesThis image was just too hilarious not to post: President Bush and other leaders today at the Asian economic summit meeting in Vietnam, where U.S. officials talked of a new set of incentives for North Korea to give up its nuclear program.There have also been serious [...]
This weekend, Ed Young and Christian Nerf were in town - to cause trouble. So we took a break from that and went to the Brooklyn Museum, where Ron Mueck currently has a mid-career solo on show.
If you don’t know his work, he pretty much makes small, or large scale super-realistic sculptures of humans. Average [...]
If you want to be humbled, motivated and inspired then go to the Guggenheim, and use the building as it was designed by taking the elevator to the top floor, and walking down the ramps.
If you walk up like everyone else, you’ll be too tired to fully appreciate the work by the time you reach [...]
In 2 days, www.droppingknowledge.org will launch a global dialogue platform at the table of free voices, Berlin. On September 9th, 2006, 112 of the world’s great minds will come together around the world’s largest table in Berlin’s historic Babelplatz Square.
Recorded by 112 digital cameras, they will simultaneously answer 100 questions chosen out of thousands donated [...]
