RECENT PREOCCUPATIONS:
JOSEPH BEUYS
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
DESIGN E2
STRIPES
POTATO PRINTING
HEAD-DRESSES
EVEREST
RUNNY NOSE

(ABOVE) ELIZABETH NEEL, THE LOSERS, 2007, OIL ON CANVAS.
When I was three years old, a fox raided the chicken coop on my parent’s farm. The site of the massacre was strewn with evidence of its swift violence. One particular bird had only been partially consumed – almost perfectly bisected in such a way that it’s entire reproductive system was revealed. I could see a series of stages beginning with a yolk and ending with a perfect, shelled egg within that body – fixed at the moment of death in pristine order. This visual experience represented a turning point in my relationship to the world. I now see it as my first clear instantiation that life, and nature underneath it, is a baroque, mysterious thing that hangs precariously on a framework of elegant reason.
-Elizabeth Neel

I HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR ABSTRACTION. SUBSTRACTION, FEATURING WORK BY ELZABTH NEEL AND OTHERS, ON NOW AT DEITCH PROJECTS.

THIS IS NICE; SPOON STILL LIFE FROM MAXINE SUTTON. MORE HERE...

NICE DECK, NICE CAUSE. IF ONLY I COULD SKATE...CHRIS JOHANSON & JO JACKSON. MORE OF CHRIS' WORK HERE...

(Above) Isabella and Quilt, one of my favourites from the Fred Herzog exhibit on now at the Equinox Gallery. More HERE.

From the exhibition Revelation! The Quilts of Marie "Big Mama" Roseman at the Intuit Gallery: (top) Untitled (Quilt: red with text and imagery), n.d., mixed media 93 x 53 in.; (bottom) Untitled (Quilt with multicoloured yarn), n.d., mixed media, 70 x 89 in. See more "OUTSIDER ART" (that term is soo problematic!) HERE.

wish i didn't already have plans or had heard about this sooner: Outsider Art Symposium, TODAY! more info here.