Anne’s work reached new heights at the beginning of the year with a stunning, commissioned exhibition for the Mills College Art Museum.
With screens set amongst paper rock sculptures, Colvin’s newly commissioned three-channel video installation A Granite Note creates a haunting call and response refrain using abstracted visual and sonic fragments of boats, flowers and pipers that extend and shrink the chasm between time and image.
Installation views.
Saw some great works in this show at 871 Fine Arts in SF – here’s an excerpt from the curatorial statement:
It’s really difficult to successfully show printed works as opposed to strictly visual works of art in a gallery setting. You either have a choice of showing the cover or opening up to an inviting interior page, leaving the rest unseen. It’s the same whether you’re showing artists’ books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, correspondence or other published ephemera. They are best perused in a comfortable position, at ones leisure, thumb to page. That said, printed matter is an integral part of a comprehensive artistic experience and a highly interesting aspect to boot. So despite the drawbacks of display, the attempt to highlight these materials goes on, and from my viewpoint, it is most welcome…
Just back from our annual trip home to see family, friends and for Anne to do some networking in preparation for her CCA residency in Glasgow this Fall.
This photograph was taken shortly before my father traveled to Los Angeles as a young man with his uncle who had been posted there by the Foreign Office. Also in the frame are my grandparents, my uncle, and my grandfather’s beloved gun dog Tosh.
The Holidays are over — but hopefully not forgotten? Don’t throw out the advent calendar just yet: 24 Ways (to impress your friends), clever musings from this diverse team, enjoy.
Thinking about the holidays again – already! Originally posted on Anne’s blog, 12 February 2012:
We spent a wonderful three weeks back in Blighty over Christmas and New Year – from London to Okehampton to Edinburgh to Newton Stewart and Glasgow for the day – visiting our family and friends. Managed to fit in some shows at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, CCA, TATE Modern, Gagosian and Seventeen Gallery but my favorite experience was Martin Creed’s Work No.1059… here is the original post →
The web is full of inspirational resources, they’re everywhere in fact. From the elite and esoteric to the banal and superficial these sites have the power to inspire and infuriate.
What elements make for the best and/or inherently original and exclusive of these repositories? Are these cultural apertures significant or just self-referential?
Here are a few I enjoy and (sometimes) get inspired by, in no particular order (if I think of more I’ll add to the list):
But does it float
It’s Nice That
24 ways
Designspiration
K-Hole
Ministry of Type
The Sixteenth Division