Just a photo of one house in my neighborhood. Makes me think I ought to do something other than give out candy… No photos of the grandkids in their costumes yet – the night for spooks is two away.
WordPress
WordPress shut down my adding photos to my blogs, saying that I had used 3.0 GB of my 3.0 GB upload limit (a limit that I didn’t know I had). Well, considering that my photos tend to be about 13 KB, that I have an average of 5 (or possibly many more) photos per blog, and that I’ve been blogging an average of twice a month for the past seven years, they should have shut me down me four years ago. So I had to chuck out $99 per year for the Premium Blog, which I did, and now have 3.0 GB out of 13.0 GB upload limit (23%).
Renegade installations
I’ve always liked flash mobs1, including Random Acts Of Classical Music. These are the visual equivalent – Catskill Yarn Bombers on trees, guerrilla knitting on statues (this one in Portland), Chilean yarn bombers, Lanapuerto, which translates as Wool Port (boat show here).
But now there are flash flowers, Lewis Miller with his pop-up flower installations in New York City (photos of which I saw in the NY Times), and Geoffroy Mottart, a florist in Belgium, who puts flowered beards and wigs on statues because he wants people to pay attention to statues.
TMA continued
Just one of the outfits I photographed from feature exhibition Desert Dweller, the original ad and the outfit, designed by Cele Peterson, who for more than 75 years served as Tucson’s arbiter of fashion and grace, died2… in 2010 at 101.
This photo, right, from the TMA website of the John Chamberlain crushed car sculpture that the museum owns. Compare that to his humongous sculpture I saw in Berlin: berlin-day-three
Also from the museum collection, this Bill Schenck, Wyoming #44. I used to own one of his large oils, Psycho Killer (shown on right), but the ex- got it in the divorce, and one of his subsequent wives didn’t like it, so it was sold. I rather like his kitsch cowboy paintings; wish I still had that one. Got to know his art when I as working at IBM – they had a huge triptych of a rodeo scene in their dining room. So we went to Phoenix for one of his showings, met him, and bought the painting.
I also like Donna Howell-Sickles And the Dog Jumped Over the Moon. Her art was inspired by a postcard of a cowgirl c. 1935 seated on a horse captioned “Greetings from a Real Cowgirl from the
Ole Southwest”, according to her website.
Canyon Wren is by Kate Breakey. I wrote about her2 when we saw her work at the Stillness show at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, at the Pima College West Campus. (Sorry – this photo is blurred.)
CAS (TMA’s Contemporary Art Society) bought this large photo, Untitled (Dispatch), Summer by Gregory Crewdson. From Wikipedia:
Crewdson’s photographs usually take place in small-town America, but are dramatic and cinematic. They feature often disturbing, surreal events. His photographs are elaborately staged and lit using crews familiar with motion picture production and lighting large scenes using motion picture film equipment and techniques.
From our trip to Berlin, TMA purchased two of Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno‘s spider compositions, Semi-Social Mapping of Perdita 0.638 by a Pair of Cyrtophora citricola – Four Heads. Click on them to see the detail.
Sorry – I never got around to finishing my Berlin blogs. Can find no photos of the lab so think that we were not allowed to take any. We saw his studio the last day. We were told that the spiders are not enclosed, so anyone with arachnophobia should not go in; one woman stayed out. Here are my notes:
Arachnolab – spiders at work. Senegalese spider in open lab for a couple of weeks… Combining different species for hybrid webs. Some webs overnight, some a month. Biologists know which ones can coexist.
Webs natural or sprayed black (ink has linseed oil, so tacky). After spiders are moved to another frame, paper is put under the web and lifted up. Food crickets and flies. Spiders from all over the globe, Croatia, South Africa, South America. Open frames have spiders working.
I had written about Barbara Rogers in is-it-over. This, Her Garden: Objects and Sights Remembered # 127, is just a snippet of her commission for the dining room of Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas, the largest cruise ship on the ocean (16 decks).
CAS had visited Ellen Wagener‘s home studio in 20124. This tree she did in black and white pastels, D.H. Lawrence Tree, Kiowa, NM, was donated to the museum by the Greenbergs.
I have many more photos of the exhibits, but it’s late and I’m tired, so this shall have to do.
1https://notesfromthewest.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/the-vegetarian-coyote/
2cele-peterson
3https://notesfromthewest.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/equal-pay-day/
4https://notesfromthewest.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/phoenix-art/