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Mark Bradford, Mithra (2008), Caffin Avenue at N. Miro Street, Lower 9th Ward

Mark Bradford, Mithra (2008), Caffin Avenue at N. Miro Street, Lower 9th Ward

Leandro Ehrlich, Too Late For Help (2008), Installation view, Lower 9th Ward

Art Fag City posted some nice pics from the recent New Orleans Prospect 1  Biennial. Digging Mark Bradford’s reclaimed board structures…. Link

Obama’s Visit To Baghdad

Torre Velasca

Hotel Nacional

Some nice work by Daniel Rich having his first solo show over at Perry Rubenstein… Top painting is really great and the middle one here gets total photo-realist props. Looking through his work it reminded me a bit too much of Brian Alfred, gotta say (not so much the ones I picked here).  Link (via hustler of culture)

This would make such a great print (ideally in a really large size)…. Link (via Youpy)

larytta - souvenir de chinebt Korner Union (via Wiley Wiggins)

That top image is one of the nicest things I’ve seen in a really long time…

“Explosions, hot-air military observation balloons, Russian and Japanese war flags, enemy gunboats, even sinking warships and landmines became transformed into emblems of beauty, modernity, and cutting-edge creativity. And all—in this case—for a popular audience and a practical purpose. The “blank” spaces on most graphics—often aesthetically attractive in themselves—were where messages were written. In some cases, the personal message was handwritten right over the image.”

Link (via isbsh)

Killer new print by Dan Funderburgh for sale here. Might have to just get myself one of these. The Eine print is purty good too.

Umbrella

Link (via design for mankind)

I posted some more of this guy’s work awhile ago.

Very nice visualization of power consumption at a coal plant in Finland by the folks at Nuage Vert (”Green Cloud”). 

In February 2008, they had 4000 residents and 5 “large scale” companies participate in an unplug event. As the power went down, they made their cloud get bigger (which is a bit odd, shouldnt it get smaller?). In any case, this is a nice concept and won the 2008 Ars Electronica Golden Nica.

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Hearth

untitled

cathedral

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Heave, 2008

Vex, 2008

These go quite nicely with the Stephen Bishop image below I think. There is perhaps something in the British zeitgeist w/ all this dead animal art though to both ms. mccgwire and mr. bishop’s credit I think they are doing much nicer things in this framework than mr. hirst (and of course all their pieces seem to be about quite different things).  pretty spectacular work this is…

Link (via today’s artist)

Nesting Doll (Small Deer), Taxidermied deer, concrete, paint

Link (via Matthew)

If I had time I’d go through them all but I’ll lazily just repost Matthew’s pick. Link (via Matthew)

Vantage Point

Absolutely killer shot. Might  go nicely with the stuff by Trinh below. Link (via hysysk)

found here

Allora & Calzadilla, still from “Under Discussion,” from “Beyond Green” - found here

A nice idea for contextualizing “green” issues…

I also like the table boat below which is yet another example of the never ending furniture fetish in the art world. Surely some curator at a museum somewhere needs to aggregate all this stuff in one place. I’m still a bit at a loss to understand why furniture has become such a muse in arts and design in the past year or two. Does anyone have any good theories?

I’ll throw in a few more recent examples of furniture fetish (albeit not from Allora & Calzadilla).

by Allora & Calzadilla

by Doris Salcido at Alexander & Bonin

Martin Creed via design boom (ground zero for this sort of thing)
 

ai weiwei /found at Dezeen

amandine alessandra  - ideographic alphabet - found at Less and More

From Drawers series by Valero Doval

A series of collages made from film stills… So nicely done. Link (via Moon River)

Link (via cosas visuales)

 Storm at Sea by Radcliffe Bailey

Auréolas by Marcos Reis Peixoto

Looks promising…

White Paintingby Stephanie Smiedt

found here.

The ever reliable ANP Quarterly had a really great series from Gary Trinh in the last issue entitled “Giant Bonsais”.  I was quite taken by it.

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Update: Jeff way down in the comments submits the following which he snapped a few years ago… Nice!

Asphalt

Kansas

Can’t make up my mind whether I like  this or not… A bit reminiscent of Hilary Pecis I think. Link (via Lumper)

Graffiti Stag

barca-scot

When I saw that David Graham Arizona piece below, for no good reason at all it reminded me of the graffiti stag above… I guess both play with 2D surfaces in ways I like. In any case, many of you are probably already familiar with her work but in the event you arent, Suzy Q and her Owls live here.

Digging the series of various “bojagi’s” by Sookang Kim.  Like David Graham, this was found at gallery 339 in Philadelphia who have a really nice selection of artists. Never heard of ‘em before but I think they are great. Almost like a yossi milo in cheesesteak land. Link

Also like these snaps below by Marley White. I apologize in advance for bequeathing the internet yet another cat picture.

Untitled (boat)

Untitled (cat)

Goodyear Arizona

Twin Arrows

Katrina: Golden Meadow

Gulfport Missisippi

Studio City, California

Mr. Graham has a really good eye. Really impressive body of work.  Link (via Ms. Fallon)

Ayse Erkmen @ Hamburger Bahnhof (knicked from trendbeheer) 
another view here 

Endeavor (installation of 35 boats) by Lino Tagliapietra (via eyelevel)

bart vs black bart on jeweled skull

At the book fair I picked up a great, great book chronicling the  dazzle dogs show from a few years back. I don’t have a “favorite artist” per se, but among contemporary artists I think I like Clare Rojas as much as anyone else I can think of… While flipping through the book I was pleased to find the above image that many of you might have seen before by Andrew Jeffrey Wright (who was in the same show along with Erin Rosenthal). I can’t convey quite why it works for me… but it just does. It’s a great image. Link

This immediately reminded me of some sort of chance meeting between Jen Stark + this design by UPSO (not that the provenance of the piece has a scrap to do with either of course). Link (via Heather is Watching)