Dead and Beautiful

Izah Gallagher
Dead and Beautiful, 2009
Photography
© Izah K. Gallagher

A documentary. I choose theses images for color and texture and mood.

Courbe dominante. Vassily Kandinsky
© S.R. Guggenheim Foundation. New York

Though Kandinsky is perhaps, best known for his abstractions which expressed his inner nature (which I do enjoy), I am most drawn to his use of color (especially i his early work).

Kandinsky
September 18 2009 - January 13 2010
Guggenheim Museum
New York, New York

A major retrospective of the work of one of the 20th century's key figures, Vassili Kandinsky, was assembled jointly by Centre Pompidou, the Städtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus in Munich and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York, which hold the largest collections of the artist's works.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/kandinsky

America and the Tintype

Unidentified Photographer
[Unidentified Young Man with Bandaged Head], ca. 1880

In addition to portraiture and other photographic genres, I am also interested in historical photographic practices, including the tintype. I love this example of a uniquely American medium.

America and the Tintype
The Permanent Collection at ICP
http://www.icp.org

Daniel Gordon. Red Headed Woman. 2008.
Chromogenic color print, 37 5/16 x 29 7/8" (94.8 x 75.9 cm).
© 2009 Daniel Gordon

I am intersted in cutting and collage of photographs, as well as portaiture. I thought that this composition was unusally well done. It put me in mind of a classmate.


New Photography 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
September 30, 2009–January 11, 2010

www.moma.org

Izah Gallagher
When I Grow Up, 2009
Photography
© Izah K. Gallagher

A documentary.

Cuba: Beauty and Decay

Central Park View / Vista del Parque Central
Vivian Stephenson

Ever since visiting Havana, I'vebeen interestedin Cuba and its history. I was interested in Havana native's (Vivian Stephenson) series of photographs of the cities of Havana, Trinidad, and Sancti-Spíritus.

Cuba: Beauty and Decay
A Photographic Journey

Photographs by Vivian Stephenson
Texts by Carlota Caulfield

Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94613

http://www.mills.edu/museum

Every Version Belongs to the Myth

Moon Golem, Amalia Pica 2009, detail of an intervention on NASA's official image of the monument on the moon

I am interested in myth and history and story, therefore, I was interested in this exhibition which deals with interpretations of myth and asks these questions: "Is there such a thing as an authentic myth? Does the truth of a myth lie in its roots and origins, or in the context of its retelling?"


Every version belongs to the myth
October 23 - December 5, 2009

Opening Thursday 22nd October, 6pm

Project Arts Centre, Dublin
39 East Essex Street
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Ireland

http://www.projectartscentre.ie

The Other and I. The Portrait in Contemporary

Untitled, 2008
Archival pigment print
36 x 24 in
Photo credit: Shivani Gupta
Costume credit: Tabasheer Zutshi
Courtesy Nikhil Chopra / Chatterjee & Lal

Ideas of identify and portraiture of both self and other interest me; therefore, I was drawn to look as this exhibit.

The Other and I. The Portrait in Contemporary
Indian Photography
Time's Revenge. The Collection IX
Gure Artea
Opening: October 23

ARTIUM, Basque Museum-Centre of
Contemporary Art
Francia 24, 01002 Vitoria

http://www.artium.org

Camp Davis

Izah Gallagher
Camp Davis, 2009
Photography
© Izah K. Gallagher

I choose these images as they document the identity of Camp Davis -- the place, the time and the community.

Ed Ruscha

ED RUSCHA. New York. 2003. (Phaidon Press Ltd.)
Artist Monograph
© Ed Ruscha 2009
Photo: Paul Ruscha

I love Edward Rusha's books and his takes on the contemporary cultural landscape. Inspired by his books, I'm currently working on a flip-book of 24 Lucky Star Indians (from Tootsie Pop wrappings).



Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
14 October 2009 - 10 January 2010

Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London, SE1 8XX
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ruscha

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton

Eliabeth Peyton, 2001
Oil on board
25,4 x 20,3 cm

I'm interested in portraiture. I love color, as well as expressive and gestural work. And, most especially, I love tiny pieces of art. Please to wrap me up one of these little jewels and send it to me for my birthday, yes?

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
18 October 2009 - 21 March 2010

Bonnefantenmuseum
Avenue Ceramique 250
NL-6221 KX Maastricht
PO Box 1735
NL-6201 BS Maastricht
T:+31 (0)43 3290190 (Tu- Fri)
F: +31 (0)43 3290199
E: info@bonnefanten.nl

http://www.bonnefanten.nl

Michael Najjar

Michael Najjar. nasdaq_80-09, 2008-2009.
Hybrid photography. Lightjet-print, custom aluminum frame.
52 x 79.5" / 132 x 202 cm, Edition of 6

Berlin-based Michael Najjar artist combines two seemingly disparate ideas, the romantic sublime and the global financial system, to create virtual landscapes and thereby comments on how our world is increasingly shaped by signifiers, rather than physical or other elements.

“The current economic crisis has dramatically highlighted one thing in particular – that we now often deal not with real goods and commodities but with chains of signifiers” says Michael Najjar.

Interesting, no?

bitforms gallery nyc
529 West 20th Street
New York NY 10011
Tel. 212.366.6939
http://www.bitforms.com

Roger Hiorns: SEIZURE

Phototograph by Nick Cobbing
Roger Hiorns: SEIZURE

In this installation, Roger Hiorns considers three dispertate things which interest me: physical and chemical properties, art/space/place, and the color blue. Here, Hirons pumped chemicals into the art/space/place and the left them grow into a crystal jewel box. Fantastic. If you’re in London, “Seizure” is open to the public until November 3, at Artangel gallery. Please to check it out.

22 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER, 2009

http://www.artangel.org.uk

Oliver Dorfer
the pulpproject / floody, 2009
Acrylic on acrylic
200 x 200 cm

Dorfer's exhibition caught my eye as he's been successful in creating his own individual visual language of unique symbols and forms and signs. I could only hope to do so in the future.

"A sign is the basic unit of language (a given language at a given time). Every language is a complete system of signs. Parole (the speech of an individual) is an external manifestation of language." F. Saussure



Oliver Dorfer – the palemoon-,
pulp-, and other projects
October, 6 - November, 11, 2009

Opening: Tuesday, 6 October 2009,
7.30 p.m.

A catalogue is being published to accompany the exhibition.

hilger contemporary
1010 Vienna, Austria
Dorotheergasse 5
T: +43-1-512 53 15
F: +43-1-512 53 15
E: ernst.hilger@hilger.at
http://www.hilger.at