Cradle Blog

finally...

2010-02-18T08:26:00.000-08:00

coming back

2009-04-21T17:53:00.001-07:00

Cradle Salons

true blue

2008-11-07T09:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.obamaartreport.com/
a great collection of all the art that
Obama has inspired!

has Obama inspired you at all?
Has that tingling (or god forbid nausea?)
in your stomach resulted in any
artistic expression?

brand spankin new

2008-10-31T15:00:00.000-07:00

bloggyblog

http://poltergeistdebris.blogspot.com/

but i want: halloween show and celebration updates. anyone and everyone.

like bees. the worker types.

2008-08-26T08:54:00.000-07:00

cradle artists are BUSY

old news but

2008-07-24T09:00:00.000-07:00

how to rewrite Super Mario Bros. - clouds only.......by Cory Arcangel

reminds me of AGoK's "Building an Archive". I wonder if someone should have this on hand in case anyone wants to exhibit an Archangel piece in Knoxville.

Objectionable

2008-07-07T09:05:00.000-07:00

the UT Downtown Gallery has a great exhibit up right now

Objectionable Action
3-D Prints by 13 Artists
it's up until july 18th!

one of the 13 artists is one of my all time favorties--
mark hosford. the other 12 awesome artists are:

Bryan Baker
Layra Berman
Heather Corley
Joseph D'Uva
Matt Hopson-Walker
Anita Jung
Lee Marchalonis
Daniel Maw
Jessica Meyer
Katherine Nanfro
Sarah Shebaro
Crystal Wagner

sadly i don't have an image for this post. i had to venture down on my
lunch break on saturday to see the show.

Walking around New York Part 2

2008-07-05T07:34:00.000-07:00

In Sculpture magazine, there is an advertisement for AZB, an art atelier that casts bronze, makes molds, etc., etc. Their promo picture is one of Tom Sachs' 18' tall Hello Kitty sculptures. The atelier is based out of Tempe, AZ.
While on a walking tour of "curtain wall" buildings along Park Ave., I saw five of these sculptures in the courtyard of the Lever House. I don't know much about Mr. Sachs, but if I had to describe his work in one word it would be "fun".

In front of the Lever House were more large, public sculptures. This time by Japanese ceramic artist Jun Kuneko, who had his own exhibit at the KMA last fall. Kuneko makes large heads, roughly 5' to 6' tall, which are one piece fired in a large kiln. The firing takes several days. Kuneko's pieces are also kind of "fun"!

Walking around New York

2008-07-05T07:28:00.000-07:00

Well, Chris Burden, L.A. artist known for performance pieces like being crucified on a Volkswagon bug, being shot, and lying in a trashbag beside a busy freeway has a sculpture up at Rockefeller Center. It's called "What my father gave me" and is comprised entirely of erector sets. I don't know what he's up to really, but here's a photo anyway.

video

2008-07-05T03:33:00.000-07:00

as if ubuweb wasn't enough, now there's also artforum video. The search video function allows you to access all of youtube whuich means you get to force the artforum banner to coexist with things like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPvmIxu-LSA or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8BKKxVOKiw - which is pretty comforting. Take that, Ryan Trecartin!

also thuis uis what hapens when y]oui spuill som,ethuing on y]ouir jkey]board

past

2008-07-01T19:51:00.000-07:00

some of my favorite cradle meetups were the
times we would meet at sarah's old apartment
and take hundreds of pictures while random
people dropped in all evening long. sometimes
poetry readings would occur on the porch
simultaneously.

NEW YORK

2008-06-29T17:33:00.000-07:00

All I want to say is that Olafur Eliasson's waterfalls are up and running. Here is a photo I took from the subway, today. They'll be up all summer, so if you're in NYC you can keep a look-out for them.

BOSTON

2008-06-29T17:14:00.000-07:00

Antonio Garcia Lopez at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

I went there, yesterday and went through the El Grecco exhibit in about 3 minutes. The downstairs exhibit featuring Mr. Lopez, however, was much more captivating. Not only a master of line, color, and materials, you look at the paintings, drawings, and sculpture of Mr. Lopez and know that he is looking very hard at every detail of his world. He is feeling the essence of every object, surface, and persceptive. At first I thought the exhibit was of Richard Estes' work, because of the realism, but actually Mr. Lopez doesn't go as far as Mr. Estes' to make things hyper real. In fact, while drawing a pumpkin patch from behind a screen door, he puts more weight into the pencil at the crossmarks of the screen. The pumpkins are knotty and huge, but the tiny "t" marks of the screen door give the drawing a pixelated effect. In addition, his painting "La cena" shifts in areas the way a digital image looks with glitches. Mr. Lopez's work not only masters color, tone, and line quality, but his subject choice and presentation will draw any viewer as close to each piece as the museum will allow them to be.

another post

2008-06-24T09:58:00.000-07:00

As new members show up we'll be better represented and hopefully have an informative, frequently updated blog for the readership. Expect global and local art news, group as well as personal projects, politics and drama. Something for everyone!

new blog for the Cradle

2008-06-24T06:30:00.000-07:00

Well i just have two things to say. If you have a lot of time to kill here's a good site to do it at:

http://newsgrist.typepad.com/

AND, if you haven't checked out the new site for the Knoxville Art Journal here 'tis:

http://www.quarterlyartjournal.com/

stuff 06/24

2008-06-24T03:10:00.000-07:00

1. spirit surfers link to several videos of transformer fires
i wouldn't mind coming across several of these miracles

2. artnet.com picture postcards worth looking at (instincts) 2008

Tony Feher, New Shore Reactor in Motion

Bill Albertini, Red Corridor

Mark Handforth

Tobias Zielony, Sessel

Calvin Burton, Close Encounter

3. Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
These Brazilian twin bros illustrate the brilliant Casanova series for Image Comics and also Dark Horse Comics' Umbrella Academy (written by the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way.......uhhhhhh), which I just caught onto today and by the time I read pg 5 of the first issue I was shopping online for the trade. Just look at the pretty pictures.

4. this week, wednesday that is, final crisis 2 comes out. and my second of Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (Omnibi) should arrive in the mail by then.

Written by Grant Morrison; Art and Covers by J.G. Jones

Meet Japan's number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team and their languid leader, Most Excellent Superbat! Join legendary wrestler Sonny Sumo and super escape artist Mister Miracle as they team to face the offspring of the Anti-Life Equation! See Earth's superheroes mourn one of their oldest allies! Witness costumed criminals sinking to new depths of cowardice and depravity as Libra takes things too far! Uncover the doomsday secrets of the poisoned city of Blüdhaven! Learn the shocking identity of the prime suspect in the murder of a god! And read on if you dare as Batman becomes the first of Earth's champions to face the Fallen of Apokolips. All this and a spectacular return from the dead...

Grant Morrison and J.G. Jones' multiverse-spanning epic continues with bombshell after bombshell in FINAL CRISIS #2 — "Ticket to Blüdhaven"!