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Favorite Living Artist

swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
edited February 2014
I don't know very much about art. My friends, I guess?

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  • MatthewMatthew
    http://alexmahan-artist.biz/
  • MatthewMatthew
    Favorite Future Artist
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I know he is considered lame but I have such a powerful reaction to Andy Goldsworthy. The closest thing to something twee and earnest that I actually like.

    I also like James Turrell

    Meredith Monk

    Richard Kelly

    that guy who takes super intense realistic photos of army action figures to control his own mental demons

    Stella shorts
  • MatthewMatthew
    Tara Donovan http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited February 2014
    Yoko Ono


  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    It might be good to contain this to visual art cause that's what we were talking about in the other thread.

    Robert Adams

    Robert Bechtle

    Ben Jones

    Jake Longstreth

    Paul Pfeiffer

    Yayoi Kusama
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    I can't remember a lot of their names off the top of my head!

    Darren Waterston is one of my favorite living painters. But there are so very many good ones!
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    Eva Speer (friend)
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I recently saw a sculpture exhibit that blew my mind
    UBS I was thinking about your recent epiphany in the sculpture garden with Rich--I had a similar thing happen at this gallery! I usually don't care about sculpture but this artist was really nailing it in a beautiful and incredibly thought-provoking way. Her name is Julianne Swartz. Her stuff was so poignant and sad and made me feel things about humanity and connection. Like one piece was this huge pipe that ran all through the entire building, and there were certain places where there was a hole and you could put your ear to the hole and hear, incredibly faintly, the sound of the Bee Gees' "How Deep is your Love" playing. I LITERALLY CRIED

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I had strong feelings about art and artists in my early 20s, but it doesn't hit me that deep any more. I usually get moved by seeing someone else dealing with their struggles. Like in documentaries or IRL if someone is sharing some hardships.
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    I can relate to that.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    then again I sometimes feel suspicious of our resistance to "beauty." Does art HAVE to be about struggle and darkness in some way in order to be great art? I don't even know how I feel about that question because these things are so intensely culturally encoded.

    What would art that is just beautiful with no struggle be like--how could it be different from Kinkade?

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    We need to wait for the robot artists to find out.
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    I love beautiful art!!! I think I'm in a post-dark-art stage for sure.
  • SchlabeSchlabe
    Art can be beautiful or dark or whatever, all art "needs to do" to be successful (IMHO) is force you to deal with it on it's own level. That's how I judge art anyway, but I'm a commie public artist who feels weird about galleries and museums (despite having had work in both cuz I'm a sell out ;)
  • kdawgkdawg
    i cry at museums a lot! I will probably cry tomorrow if i go see "The Dinner Party" at the brooklyn museum, just like i did when i saw Judy's "Female Rejection Drawings".

  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    I teared up at LACMA's Turrell exhibit yesterday!
  • kdawgkdawg
    I did not cry at the Judy Chicago exhibit but I did cry at this http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-02-26/art/lorraine-hansberry-letters-brooklyn-museum/
  • ThickeningAgentThickeningAgent
    second the James Turrell motion.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I really like him
  • ThickeningAgentThickeningAgent
    me too. i think his 'skyspace' pieces (of which I have seen four) are about as great as it gets.
  • 12341234
    I appreciate someone with a ridiculously grand vision.

    He is like the super-villian of the art world, building some massive secret machine in the desert. WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN IT'S DONE?
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    What about that person who had that whole weird city where they bossed people around, Synecdoche style?
  • 12341234
    You mean Bloomberg in NYC?
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    WHOA!
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    Remember the little girl actress in jurassic park? Now she's a painter!
  • Dr_William_HaywardDr_William_Hayward
    YT - I saw a cut piece recreation with a wedding dress in Portland. The gallery was so packed that most people were unaware it was happening.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    recreating that performance seems weird; like once we all know what the point of it is I wonder if there is still power to be found in it
    e.g. Ono herself recreated it quite recently and the vibe was so different; more like reverential/worshipful, people cutting a piece and whispering "thank you" to her; much more loving and jolly. The original is so fucking dark and terrifying

    maybe the way the piece can change over time is interesting?

    It's so astonishing to me also that even at that first performance, surely the audience "got" the "message" or whatever, AND YET that one dude STILL enacts--unironically, with no self-awareness--the exact patriarchal, possessive, sexual violence that the piece is about. It's fucking astounding. When I watch it my heart pounds and I get light headed

    What is the difference, qualitatively, I wonder, between Cut Piece and that one where you could physically hurt Maria Abramovic, and the hurt inflicted on her escalated over the hours until the one dude pointed the loaded gun at her and was restrained by audience members?

    MEN AND WOMEN

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    One time on a plane I was reading THE ART OF CRUELTY, about a lot of these performances, and at the end of the trip the guy next to me was like "I hope that's not about cruelty being an art!" and I was like "yes it is actually.....FUCK YOU"

  • Dr_William_HaywardDr_William_Hayward
    The recreation of Cut Piece was in a small Portland underground gallery maybe 25x25. Unannounced. The artist circulated through the packed crowd carrying a red velvet pillow with shears. There was enough going on and totally packed shoulder to shoulder so each person there only knew their environment 3 feet in any direction. The art was in the eye contact body language interaction of offering the shears, accepting the shears, cutting and returning the shears. The performance was on Valentine's Day or associated.

    Good to see Abramovic getting credit for her work too.

    I think Ono is underappreciated as an artist. But a friend was to be commissioned by her son, but the project was canceled because mom wouldn't give him the money.
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