Kiefer & the Halls

A selection of pieces from the Hall Foundation's collection of Anselm Kiefer's work now have their own gallery at MASS MoCA and you should go see it. 
Trust me... just go.*

*But don't go in the winter because the building is not weather conditioned. It's open seasonally from April to December. In the meantime, you can watch this lovely documentary on Kiefer (now streaming on Netflix).

memory, space, new england winters & a bit of fun

There's nothing one needs more than a bit of fun in the depths of a long New England winter hibernation. Craving a creative outlet & the hands-on making of something, I signed up to participate in Fun-A-Day Boston. The program: do something fun and creative every day for the month of January. It can be an activity or an art project, but the fun should be documented in some way! 

I learned about the project at last year's gallery opening and was inspired by the variety of activities participants had devised for themselves: an eavesdropped conversation transcribed every day, research and stories and paintings of foxes, and food experiments. My project for this year: small, abstract paper models of a space that I had been in that day, not too precise or precious, just quickly done and based on memory. 

Now spring is (finally) here and it's time for the pop-up show. Time to check out all of the fun that was had way back in January! If you're in the Boston area, don't miss the reception this Saturday from 6 - 9 pm at Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain.

beauty is embarrassing

I had no idea how much Wayne White had influenced and informed my early sense of art & design & the world. With Pee Wee's playhouse puppets and music video art directing and general scrappiness in the reappropriation of things, he certainly has explored a way of looking at the everyday that shaped my malleable brain. And I just realized all of this by watching 'Beauty is Embarrassing', a recent Independent Lens feature on his work. It's engaging and charming and inspiring.



And if you're curious and want more, here is a little follow-along with Wayne while he goes thrifting for the printed reproductions that he uses in his paintings...



Which lead me to the SoLost series by Oxford American, which is worth taking a look at, if only for this snippet of photographer William Eggleston playing the piano...



It's so beautiful it hurts my feelings.