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September 20, 2009

Jeremiah Teipen & Benjamin S. Jones at Satori Gallery, New York

Earlier this week I had the chance to visit some of the galleries in Manhattan's East Village/Lower East Side.  

My favorite by far was Gallery Satori.  They have a main space and a project space (i.e. a side mini-gallery).  The main space is currently filled with large mixed-media sculptures by Benjamin S. Jones.  I was instantly drawn to these pieces, which look like exploding, radiating architectural models.  One piece has graphic foam arrows flying out of it, and another is like a sea urchin of high-rise and smaller buildings.

In their project space is a series of "found-media" videos by Jeremiah Teipen.  The videos are extravagant collages of bits and pieces of video and animation from the web.  Teppen's biography refers to his pieces of "pure visual gluttony," a description that I thought was vividly perfect.  He takes the most gluttonous parts of the web (e.g. MySpace comment "bling" graphics) and scrolls them across his video pieces.  It is a bit hard to describe.  The videos remind me of Jeff Koons' work.  You really should see them while they're up at Satori if you are in the area.

I like how Gallery Satori shows artwork that teeters on the edge of being too uncomfortably experimental.  In contrast, for the most part the other Lower East Side galleries were either more risk-averse or over the deep end of experimental.  I was also very impressed with the artwork's presentation, in a way that I don't know how to explain.  It just felt right.

 

 

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August 29, 2009

Art: John Bock

John Bock is one of my favorite contemporary artists.  He is both a sculptor and a performance artist.  He goes to museums and does the most bizarre performances involving his absurdist sculptures. 

His giant sculpture at SF MOMA contains a popcorn popper where the popcorn falls into an open pair of jeans, a vacuum, lots of dangling socks filled with something, and weird painted pieces that look like they have legs.  (pictured in photo)

I found these videos of his work, which capture his performance style but don't really show the complexity of his sculptural work. 

There's a bit of his work on ArtNet:
http://www.artnet.com/artist/701889/john-bock.html

And on Flickr (do a search there for more):

Not much is online, so keep an eye out when you're in the offline art world.

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August 23, 2009

Interview with Jeff Koons in Financial Times

I loved the full-page interview that Peter Aspden did with Jeff Koons in the Financial Times this weekend. 

A quote from Koons about why Louis XIV might have wanted a giant puppy made of flowers:  “Because the most profound question in art is, do you want to be the server or do you want to be served? When you come home to a puppy at night, do you look at it and say, ‘Go and get my paper’, or do you roll it over and say, ‘How are you doing, boy?’ ” 

That's pretty confusing, but take a minute to untwist it in your head.

The full interview is up online too, but it's the kind that you'll want to print out and read while eating your pancakes this morning. 

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