Category: art

James Franco recently joined the General Hospital cast. He plays an artist named Franco. But wait! According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, penned by James Franco himself, all of his General Hospital appearances were actually a big piece of performance art. He waxes on and on about the “grandmother of performance art,” Marina Abramović, in the article but doesn’t much explain his own art.

Then there is this video:

He also recently completed a film collaboration with the artist Carter, entitled Erasing James Franco, somehow related to the famous Rauschenberg Erased de Kooning Drawing.

It’s exciting to see the words “performance art” being bandied about by the general public, but I’m not sure what to make of all of this. My bet, there is more of this yet to come. Maybe all of it is a thesis project for the MFA degree he is currently working on? If it’s all some kind of publicity stunt, then it’s weirdly highbrow. Any other ideas? lmk.

These sculptures are so amazing to me. I love large scale installations, especially ones that are minimal as well as pieces that deal with the human body and it’s relationship to the space it is in. His sculptures embody all of this. His pieces are very diverse but there is a central theme tying them together. I think he is master artist. I’m not sure that I’ve seen his work in person before, but I sure will be on the look out for it from now on.
Continue reading Antony Gormley

Read a little more on the great motherboard site.

This is the kind of augmented reality I like! Not that virtual stuff. I also love the fact that it’s New York. In my mind it’s also a performance. I guess technically this is photography, but I can’t help but view a lot of art in terms of it’s performative aspects. Either way I find the end result visually interesting and thought provoking.
Continue reading Fred Lebain

I first saw some of his work at an exhibit of contemporary Chinese art, about a month ago, at one my favorite places to see contemporary art in Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center. (It may not seem like it but they usually have some pretty amazing art there and it’s all free!)

I’ve said it before, but I love to have something performative in all my art no matter what the form. I find these photographs fascinating. Especially the ones where there is interaction with others and I love the foreground/background interaction that relationship creates.

I enjoy these purely from a formal perspective but his intent is quite a bit deeper. Read his statement and check out more images here: Galeries Bertin-Toublanc.

(I recently saw a post about him on the donut project, so also via them)

I saw some of his inspiring work at the new Modern Wing¹ of the Art institute of Chicago this past weekend. I was quite taken by it. I think it’s Amazing.

Robert Ryman is “recognized for his remarkable ability to demonstrate innumerable variations within what have become the two defining characteristics of his work: white paint and a square frame².”

I just love the extreme minimalism of the work. Despite the seeming sparsity of materials, there is a lot of nuance and a lot to study and meditate on in his pieces.

Well, I was going to post about this website that has some really great “fine art” photos of parkour, but their website is so terrible (it’s in flash + has a bad interface + all of their photos have copyright written all over them so you can’t even enjoy them) that I’m not even going to dignify it with an actual post. no image no link no nothing. (via boingboing)

I love a little magic in my art. Some of his pieces delve a little too much into science and maybe mysticism, but a lot of them are perfectly minimal, magical and beautiful.

super superb minimalism. photographic, no less. amazing. eavasko.com