A couple of funny pictures from artists in Atlanta.
I first met Mark Handforth at the Rubell Gallery on Lincoln Road. Some visitor had playfully, or acting as a prankster, kicked his sculpture that was on the floor. Though the commotion annoying, Mark graciously explained to a few listeners what his art was about. Years later he rented a warehouse space on the corner [...]
By Steven Scorpio As if drowning, the history of Western art flashes across the canvasses of Jenny Saville: the pale musculatures of Michelangelo, the agonies of Goya, De Kooning’s bravado, the discomforting torsos of Lucian Freud. These masters are all male, of course, and Saville is steeped in feminist theory. It informs her work thoroughly [...]
Last Poem: “So this is how the last poem comes. Twilight is sucked behind the mountains.Every bit of blueis gone except the chunkinside my heart. A yellow fingernailmoon picks at the edges like a scab. I drag my heart down streets at night.I drag it for miles, this big mess caught under my feet like [...]
Bass Museum of Art: Laurent Grasso: Laurent Grasso, ‘Studies into the past.’Oil on panel, 12 3/4 x 10 inches.* October 29, 2011–February 12, 2012 “The Bass Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition of works by Paris-based artist Laurent Grasso. The exhibition, titled Portrait of a Young Man, builds [...]
by Louis F. Dow II Probably the “industry standard” printmaking paper is Arches Cover. It’s the paper we use the most and that I get the most call for. It’s a wonderful paper with an attractive deckle and a good finish. I also think it’s way overpriced – because it comes with the Arches watermark. [...]
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