For John, in transit.

Jon, DAH-LING!
Now I see, something so very AMERICAN about your art : Loud, young, hot-rod art sneezed upon whatever canvas or object that you find. To you, anything and everything screams to be made relevant. I love it. Yet at the same time, there is something so tender and romantic about how you treat your work. Roaring and hideous colors placed so lovingly upon the quietest and meekest of things, whether found or created. You, sir, are one of my favorite people to watch develop as an artist. I enjoy greatly how confounded and stunned by your work you are, as though someone else made it. Someone that doesn't make sense. Someone you are very much trying to meet and understand. There is no self doubt that I can sense and that is a tremendously powerful thing to own. There is humor and a sense of play and joy that is infectious.
Obviously being in VC has informed your work, however the freedom that not being in VC has allowed you, to my mind, a much richer oppurtunity to develop. Take that, Ray Nichols.
I envy how fluid your process is and will try to emulate that in my own work. Thanks for the lesson, my man.

Since your work is so "found"
here
http://www.squareamerica.com/

Here
http://www.1shot.com/home.html

for greg

i know its way after when this was suposed to be posted, but here goes anyway.

first of all, your artwork reminds me of the game jenga. the game was created by Leslie Scott, and it was originally called Takoradi bricks, after the city it was created it. She lived in Ghana growing up. She after graduating high school she started to work on the game and tried marketing it to companies.



that is the lady that created Jenga.

below is a poem from the Author Gary Snyder, it talks about hay being stacked, i thought it applied.

Hay for the Horses

He had driven half the night
From far down San Joaquin
Through Mariposa, up the
Dangerous Mountain roads,
And pulled in at eight a.m.
With his big truckload of hay
behind the barn.
With winch and ropes and hooks
We stacked the bales up clean
To splintery redwood rafters
High in the dark, flecks of alfalfa
Whirling through shingle-cracks of light,
Itch of haydust in the
sweaty shirt and shoes.
At lunchtime under Black oak
Out in the hot corr,
Out in the hot corral,
he old mare nosing lunchpails,
Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds
"I'm sixty-eight" he said,
"I first bucked hay when I was seventeen.
I thought, that day I started,
I sure would hate to do this all my life.
And dammit, that's just what
I've gone and done."

Gary Snyder

here are two links to news about the great wall of china
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3109109.stm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E4DB1F39F931A15757C0A960958260
the last one is about how the space shuttle found lost parts of the great wall of china by radar

This artist, Tim Biscup, made art pieces that were interchangeable that could be stacked, to create a totem-pole, its not exactly similar to your work, but it does contain stacked objects, plus this is one of the artists that i like their work.

http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/limited_ed/tbiskup.html



This artist stacks thread spools ontop of one another, this artist more relates to your work. The artist is Devorah Sperber, she stacked 500 spools of thread.
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/index.jsp?id=18261

Comin to a close

I figured that I would post the fu dog finality here, and my last sculpture piece is on the sculpture blog...does anyone know how to view other blogs without being an author of that blog?

Protection, Bound and Submerged, 2007
Polyurethane Foam, Steel, Plastic, Twine, Cinder Blocks, Ice
3.5' X 2.5' X 2.5'



Two blocks of light attempt to draw the viewer's attention. Drawing closer reveals that the lights are shining on two blocks of ice encasing two Fu Dogs that are trying to burst out of the water, but are being held down by twine and cinder blocks. The creatures traditionally guard the entrances to people's homes protecting them from evil spirits and bringing good fortune, however, over time people have reduced their meanings to mere novelty items. The Fu Dogs are ready to leap out of their tanks and perform their duties, but I attempt to keep them and their present intrigue in stasis and let the water do the changing.

Directions and and and

To all my friends in class...

Please please please

join me at my home for a night of art and revelry as we take the oppurtunity to celebrate the season, art, end of semester, and the departure of our sons, the dear and beloved Joe Netta and the illustrious Jeremy Tan. At Fawcett gallery we will be showing the work created from the sonic arts class taught by Prfs. Lance Winn and Ashley Pigford. A mere one block away, my painting show is on display, next door to that, rock and roll will be screaming live from a basement!!! Holy cow!

Directions to my studio are:

1039 w. 7th street.

Wilmington. 19805

Take the 95 north towards wilmington.

exit at the SR-4 / MARYLAND AVE. exit- EXIT 6- toward MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD

continue straight until you hit 8th street.

take a left.

pass over the 95, go 2 blocks to Harrison street.

Take a left.

go one block to seventh street.

Take a left.

go one block to Van Buren. Find Parking.

My studio is on this corner 7th and Van Buren.

If you have any problems, call 302 740 2531.

When prompted with the question, "were you in the shit?" your reply should be, "yeah I was in the shit" answer correctly and the operator will guide you.

BYOB

Designate a driver or prepare to abdicate your keys. I recommend carpooling.

Neat-o

I was thinking of Jeremy’s last piece in another aspect instead of the structure and the insects. I was thinking about the use of shadow and the importance of the shadow in the last piece. When I think of shadows Plato’s cave comes to mind, where the shadow becomes the actual object instead of the object itself. The shadows of the moths become completely different than the moths themselves to me, when I’m looking straight through the fabric. When you lay underneath the structure the moths and their shadows then become more connected. When I was thinking about the shadows the moths made on the fabric I thought about silhouettes and the little pictures artists make by cutting out a person’s silhouette, which is usually their profile. Then I found work from various artists between 1760-1870, which were kind of weird and different. http://www.peggymcclard.com/aaa%20Silhouettist%20Biographies.htm

Abby:)

Abby,

Here is my post for you thus far:
Your work for me is relatable because I think in a tangle (ADD)
and your work for me highlights that chaotic moment and the idea of mapping
out a thought pattern. I know you work with words( I also enjoy this) and I think
that the idea of speech is how you have illustrated it. We learn sounds, letters,
words, sentences, it is all strung together. I like what you are doing a lot and I
really wish I could have seen the performance piece with the 6 pockets and
Becketts quote (lol). Are you working on something right now? IF so I would like
to hear about it....

After looking at your work the ideas that I have for myself is to incorporate the overwhelming beautiful tangle in my upcoming piece. I think it fits because as I mentioned earlier it imitates my thinking pattern. I would make sculptures similar to one of the ones I produced a couple semesters ago.

Some artists you might look at are:
Adrianne Crane :http://brooklynartproject.typepad.com/my_weblog/sculpture/index.html (there are a few nice pieces on this page, hers is the red bowl piece.)
I know you said real artist but I thought you might like this:http://hnn.us/blogs/2/authors/1187.html
Finally you most likely know this one but: Buzz Spector (anywhere on the internet)

Thats about it for now ~Ash

yoohoo...Jo!

Ok so now that ive actually had a chance to see your work in person...and ALMOST finished it has a much much stronger impression on me. I think was just excited by the annoying piecing together an impossible puzzle aspect...I have a slight puzzle obsession :) But I think theres something interesting in the idea that because they sort of exploded you had to piece these things together unexpectedly much like archaeologists do...you didnt get to just recreate something...you had to go through the whole process yourself. I dont know why but that adds so much more to the project for me. I found this site that has all of these articles about archaeological finds...10th century honey pots....footprints in clay....lots of random things...but i just thought it was interesting because a lot of them go along with that whole idea of things that wouldn't be intentionally preserved for the future.
http://www.lockergnome.com/news/category/archaeology/

So now we just need to get pictures of each others work...

oh...and i dont know if it was just when i tried to look at it...but I couldnt see the last post you did...so im not sure if it was a picture or what...ill try again a little later.
~Bethany

sir joe

so... this is late but ya. last tuesday we got to see joe's performance piece and it was awesome!!! the way you combined the noise from her feet and the feet themselves was great. it was very intriguing, i kept wanting to know who was behind that curtain, and what was going to happen next... and as much as it hurt (my eyes were going crazy) the really loud sounds she made by jumping on the stage really were working cuz it brought me back to the present. (i tend to get lost in thought/ distracted). umm loved the black curtain added some mystery!

ok so i'm supposed to suggest some news articles... so this is kinda not art related but i think you'd enjoy... because i remember one day we were talking about rat-tails and how you are growing one... so i found this article about how to keep that tail nice and healthy: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/homestyle/11/27/healthy.hair/index.html

so a little curious... and possibly unnerving article about some crazy fungi: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/21/france.art.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

lastly if it were up to me everyone on the planet would be required to read harry potter... because life needs a little magic + it has this way of making anything seem possible... so i suggest you read j.k. rowling because she amazing and harry and the gang have gotten me through some though times!

sounds of saturn

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/