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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week. |
 Alysia Kaplan |
 Glass House |
Alysia Kaplan, a finalist in the myartspace New York, New York 07 competition, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also received her MFA in Printmedia. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Anchor Graphics in Chicago, the Art Institute of Boston, MA, and the Pyramid Arts Center in Rochester, NY. |
 Else M Rasmussen |
 200 Paintings |
Else M. Rasmussen was born in Denmark and currently lives and works in Aarhus. In 1998 she moved to Nottingham to study; Foundation studies in Art and Design at Clarendon College, during her studies, she got accepted at The Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark. After working as an artist and art-teacher for 1 1/2 year she decided to go back to England to study at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. |
 Christopher Davies @ Sartorial Contemporary Art |
 Christopher Davies |
Christopher Davies is represented by Sartorial Contemporary Art of London, which is currently holding a solo exhibit of his work. He studied painting at The Royal College of Art and has shown internationally at Tokyo Wondersite, as well as the Zoo Art Fair and The Whitechapel Gallery in London. |
 Barry Kiperman |
 Tabletop Schematics Series |
Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellow Barry Kiperman's work has twice been featured in New American Paintings. He has a 30 year exhibiton history that includes shows at the New York Armory Show, The Painting Center in New York, and DeCordova Museum. |
 Scott Rees |
 The Horse's Mouth |
"I'll tell you how I started. I worked in an office oh very respectable and clerklike I was.Then one day I saw a painting by Bacon, a reproduction, it gave me the shock of my life, it skinned my eyes. I became a different man, like a conversion. . ." |
 Deborah Lader |
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Deborah Maris Lader is the Founder/Director of the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative since 1989, and member of the touring folk band, Sons of the Never Wrong. She is a current (and former Board) member of the Mid America Print Council, the Chicago Artists Coalition and the American Print Alliance. Her artwork has been featured in numerous publications, and most recently has been exhibited at Artropolis 2007, Tall Grass Arts Association, the Chicago Cultural Center, the NOVA Art Fair, and the Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial. |
 Christian van Minnen |
 Abstract-Figurative Series |
"The image tends to fluctuate between the poles of abstraction and figuration, the truth of the paint and illusion of the image, the personal and archetypal. Essentially, the work begins with an abstract soul, composed of lead and carbon and mineral spirits, and eventually is layered with various forms of oils and iron oxides, not dissimilar from our blood, which brings the form into time, place, and at times, a social context. The technique is paired with, and symbiotic to, the concept." |
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Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights. |
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Artist Implants Ear In Arm A performance artist has had a human ear impanted in his arm. "The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation." Daily Mail (UK) 10/11/07 Artists Gotta Eat, Too When you hear of an artist or musician receiving a $50,000 grant, you probably imagine him using the money to create more art or music, or to launch some exciting new venture previously beyond the realm of affordability. The truth is more pedestrian - most artists use at least part of the money from grants to pay for basic essentials of life - doctors' appointments, a new pair of glasses, even house payments. The New York Times 10/10/07 Tate Crack Claims First Victims "A crack in the floor which forms Tate Modern's latest installation has claimed its first casualties. Three visitors lost their footing and fell into the gap made by Doris Salcedo's art work." The Times (UK) 10/10/07 Art Prices As Distraction Ralph Rugoff, director of London's Hayward museum says the soaring art market is a distraction. "All the attention of it -- how much money is paid for a Peter Doig or a Damien Hirst -- distracts us from thinking about what the work is about. It's amazing that these contemporary artworks are selling for as much money as they do, but I don't think it necessarily helps anybody appreciate what's interesting about contemporary art." Bloomberg 10/09/07 Police Nab Monet Vandalizers French police have made five arrests over an attack on a painting by Claude Monet in Paris, France's AFP news agency says, quoting judicial sources. BBC 10/09/07 What's Needed: An "Un-Turner" Prize Some of Britain's best contemporary artists have never even been shortlisted for the Turner Prize. "There is every possibility that an un-Turner prize, for which the only qualification for candidates would be that they had never been shortlisted, would be more interesting and more fun, and heaven knows it could easily be worth more money, than the Turner prize itself. There have been philistine anti-Turner prizes in the past; what we need is something at least as sophisticated and as discriminating as the Turner prize itself." The Guardian (UK) 10/09/07 Cleaners Mistake Art For Graffiti (It's Gone) A slogan created by an artist who famously burned £1 million has been scrubbed off the wall of a Sussex art gallery by cleaners who mistook it for graffiti. BBC 10/08/07 Are Museums Relevant Anymore? "In the age of the networked computer, museums are being fundamentally challenged in the same ways that other bastions of education and entertainment -- from libraries to the music industry -- are being rocked to their cores. The arguments swirl. Are museums in the bone-and-pigment business, reliquaries of the past? Are they in the theater business, telling stories through sensational lighting, presentations like stage sets and costumed interpretive actors?" Washington Post 10/07/07 |
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