Check out this exhibition of Paul Laffoley one of my favorite outsider spiritual artist. If you like Alex Grey you will probably be into him. My friend discovered his work because a hoarder next to her died and they raided the apartment. Luckily I got a great poster of one of Laffoley’s paintings out of the haul its up in my house always.(pictured underneath). This guy will shortly become very popular just you watch.
and here are some more awesome images of his
This edition is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It’s not a convention per se but a large exhibition taking place at the Musée de l’Elysée. With a few young guns like myself participating. The exhibition also includes all the classic images in the photobooth from the famous Surrealist pieces to Warhol’s and everything else outside the box. It is an exhibition of and inspired by the machine so expect paintings, and sculpture as well as photographs. The works i am including are some images from my collection of chemical strips. I am very much looking forward to this get together though a few of my favorite photobooth photographers will unfortunately not able to attend or take part. So i give recognition to Steve “Mixup” Howard and Herman Costa, both amazing and important creators in the field as well as very dear friends. That said, I am excited to see some old compatriots from the photobooth community. Our friends Brian Meacham from Photobooth.net, Anthony and Andrea providing a booth from Chicago’s 312 Photobooth, Nakki Goranin American Photobooth, and of course our dear old friends from the British isle Carol Evans and Siobhan Harris of Photomovette. There will be a catalogue from the show so look out for it. With not much more to add, I’ll see you in the Alps this Feburary.
It has been over three months since Occupy Wall Street has formed and OWS’s Arts and Labor has birthed from it. I am still a proud member and have attended almost every meeting. There has been much to talk about and formulate. I think the group just needed a full education on what has come before us. We had a successful teach-in on the WPA and Art Worker’s Coalition and it looks like there a couple more coming in January 2012. Also planned is the partnership of W.A.G.E. and Artist’s Space having scheduled talks about the art’s economy and together with the public on how to develop an ethical certification of not for profit spaces. Looks like this next year will be pretty busy for these two artist groups helping expose and rectify economic inequalities and exploitative working conditions within our little bubble the art world.
can honestly say when it comes to design I don’t know very much, but what I do know usually parallels my taste in art and/or style. Though I have seen Beeke’s “Nude Alphabet” before in an old 70′s art magazine I never cared to remember his name allowing me to properly forget about the project. Luckily at the NY Book Fair this year I rediscovered it and learned there was a book made for the series. The local 6 decades books, a bookstore that deals in rare art books, was the venue that was selling it. Thus I was reunited with the designer and font even if I couldn’t afford the $600 publication.
Of Course others did it before and after, the last image is by the fashion photographer Horst P. Horst though the Beeke alphabet is my favorite.
So I have been going to some meetings in a group affiliated with OWS. Its a small group called Arts and Labor and pertains to just that, labor issues with artists. There are many problems related to the fields surrounding art and mirrors a lot of what is going on with the wall street protest so I feel topics in this group are very important presently to discuss and make others aware of. There is another group called W.A.G.E. that is involved that have made there work to help with some of the problems within this large unjust bubble. I am going to add some links now. Knowledge = not getting fucked over.
W.A.G.E.
Recent NY Times Article on Resale in California
There is a small show about the Whole Earth Catalog and related Materials in the Research Center in the NY Moma. This part of the museum is free entry and no one is ever there I suggest you check it out!
Just think if they used real artists they wouldn’t have such mediocre campaigns. This is why photobooth art gets a such bad rap. And the campaigns that use Bruce Weber are more appropriate. Oh Chanel…
P.S. I picked the best picture the rest are terrible
An instantaneous mirror of memory, every photograph leaves a motionless trace of what has been, a fixed imprint of something no longer what it was before, a silent simulacrum of someone who has disappeared forever from our field of vision. And, as a simple act of remembering, the photograph seems to testify only to the disappearance and death of people and of the feelings that bind us to them, of things and of the places where they belong.
