“What interests me abt the leftist documentaries 🇫🇷 + 🇯🇵 produced in the 1960s was their emphasis on using the medium to critique truth-telling devices. They used documentary in a subjective mode + even used it to elicit a self-conscious, self-aware doubt in the medium itself — a radical project.”
Open studios @massmoca.bsky.social tonight. The painting bug bit hard while I was here 🕷️
Jeez - just realized I wrote this twenty years ago, and I'm about to lead a work session for art students around it in a couple of minutes. I believe it pretty much holds up. If you are planning on writing a statement, I hope it helps you!
naylandblake.net/on-writing-a...
Anyone else starting 2025 oscillating wildly between unflinching nonfiction and pure escapist fiction?
Studio view this snowy morning @massmoca.bsky.social, endless WIPs to chip away at for open studios next week.
Agreeeeed!
Slowdive @massmoca.bsky.social last night
Saw a great French tapestry exhibition at The Clark institute. Photos really can’t do the work justice. I was struck by the subtle shifts in yarns to become very painterly and true to the original works.
#lauraortman performing in #jeffreygibson “POWER FULL BECAUSE WERE DIFFERENT” @massmoca.bsky.social
Surrealists’ art was not just about dreams — it became a powerful political tool, exposing the oppression at the heart of modern political systems.
Studio rainbows are my favorite—summoning awe indoors where frankly, we need it 🌈✨
Just finished ‘God Of The Woods’ by Liz Moore, it came highly recommend and lived up in a big way. It was too exciting to put down and left me telling everyone around me what I thought would happen next (I was wrong every time).
#books #newfiction #fiction #godofthewoods
Flyer with text over an installation image including paintings and a sculpture, which reads: Curator-led walkthrough of "Even in Arcadia There I Am," Curated by Andrew Gardner, Saturday, January 25th, 2pm HESSE FLATOW, 77 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013. Please RSVP at info@hesseflatow.com
Installation view of Sara Stern's "Mirror Ball," 2022–2024, Stop motion, video, color/sound, 7:47 min. This view shows a projection of a stop motion animation of a character with a lens for a head dancing in the dunes of Provincetown, MA. A reflection of the video is also projected on the floor in front of the projection screen.
Please join us 2pm Sat, Jan 25th for a curator-led tour of HESSE FLATOW's current show, "Even In Arcadia There I Am," with curator Andrew Gardner and artists Alina Bliumis, Sasha Fishman, Linnéa Gad, Elizabeth Hazan, Erica Mao, Jacqueline Qiu, Sara Stern, Adrienne Elise Tarver & Alexandria Tarver.
Wow I love this one kimi!
"As both a coping mechanism and a practical service, I’ve collected old media devices and ideas—things that, today more than ever, deserve a second chance."
Through sheer serendipity I brought ‘Raving’ by @mckenziewark.bsky.social to read while in residence. Safe to say you can find me in the club everyday here at massMOCA.
I’ve always loved the way he approaches the canvas but I think this is my first full post about it —>
THE PULL: OyG Projects Flat File 2025 curated by Eric Hibit is open Fri, Sat, and Sun from 1-6pm. Up through March 16th!
See and purchase works here:
www.oygprojects.com/flat-file-2025
@markthomasgibson OVERTURE opens tonight in Collegville @bermanmuseum.
If you’re in Philly, please stop by CFEVA feb 6- march 14! I am honored to be included in this small group show by visiting curator, Taylor Bythewood-Porter. I have a few paintings (some with asphalt, yes) and a video sculpture on view & hope you’ll stop by. 👋
It’s a good one for sure!
I’m a week in to my residency at @massmoca.bsky.social, here’s a view from the studio this morning ☕️
The video projected through the mirrors is mundane—a highway puddle rippling on a windy day. A feminist subversion of the automobile as material, through its dismantling, potentiality is proposed.
Detail images, I salvaged hundreds of automotive mirrors for this piece (and continue to collect them). In my installations I create profoundly sublime moments out of the trash and misfortune of everyday life in the city, offering a transformative potential through the reimagining of refuse.
Thought I’d introduce myself here by sharing some work.
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable
