Galleries & Artist

http://www.blainsouthern.com/films this gallery has some great artist on their books, like Bill Viola But is it still going as the exhibitions only mention 2013 ?

,Sterling Ruby's http://spruethmagers.com/artists/sterling_ruby@@viewq2 

Sterling Ruby 

work also reminds me of Alexandre da Cunha http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/artists/26-Alexandre-da-Cunha/works/ who also came into Chelsea and gave us a talk about his work. However I do like the cement mixer drums that he puts on plinths, They also remind me of 

Alexandra da Cunha

Joana-Vasconcelos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvpstWFQSs who was with the Haunch of Venison a gallery I loved to visit really sad that closed.

Joana-Vasconcelos

They all feels highly polished and a polite questioning of the detritus of modern life, while there is something interesting in that I lean more towards Annette Messager, "Dependant, Independant"

Annette Messager

or the early works of Cleos Oldendurg http://plazalondon.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/claes-oldenburgs-store-1961/ 

Cleos Oldenburg

 for me these works have a more visceral impact on the audience. The clean over polished aesthetics reflect a consumer, capitalist state. I'm more interested in the underbelly of society where sin and dedauchery take us back to the animal instincts, pre religion and pre prejudice, The moment before labels like 'Its a Girl' define who and what you should become to fit into a social structure.

I lean more towards Marvin Chetwynd http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/marvin-gaye-chetwynd-and-tala-madani/ 

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd

 Delaine La Bas

Delaine La Bas

or Paul Maccarthy who's work pulls you in and churns up your emotions. Although I do like the repetition and pattern of the work so will take something from that. Also been looking at Chapman brothers earlier work again. 

Species of Space/s and other pieces

This interesting show at Cookhouse Chelsea explores the relationship between artist who share similar ideas they created work either finished or in progress and collaborated in the curating of the show by breaking down the boundaries of where one artist work starts and finishes. You are left unsure which artist did what... By mixing up the work they question wether they are pushing there own work and actually getting enough of there own Identity and individuality in their practice...

Thanks to Lorna from the Chelsea Salon for taking us around Peckham and Chamberwell

 This interesting gallery http://arcadiamissa.com/index.php/exhibitions/ showing artist Jesse Darling, Luis Miguel Bendana, Phoebe Collings - James, Petra Cortright & Hazel Hill Macarthy http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/magazine-single/article/weekend-guide-to-the-london-art-scene/

 Henry Out side the John Latham Gallery and home http://flattimeho.org.uk/about/ Simon & Tom Bloor in Residency at FTHo Flat Time House

Gowlett Peaks is a Gallery above a pub curator Elinor Morgan gay us a brief talk about the space and the present exhibition  http://gowlettpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/gowlett-jefford.pdf mentioned as an influence is the novel Tom Macarthy 'Remainder'

Why do art schools push us towards Abstract Expressionism?

Kandinsky

To read this interesting article about the need for a change in Art establishments. As a student studying MA fine art I feel saddened that diversity is not promoted and a lean towards Art consumerism is flushing, with artist encouraged to create work that is favoured by the buyers who are leading the movement for Abstract Expressionist work as Jerry Saltz explains follow this link

De Kooning ooning 

http://www.vulture.com/2014/06/why-new-abstract-paintings-look-the-same.html?fb_action_ids=10203391938173614&fb_action_types=og.recommends

Richard Jackson "New Paintings" Hauser & Wirth

On 23 May - 26 July Los Angeles based artist shows a selection of new works including large scale mechanical installations.

Bobble Head

 Influenced by both Abstract Expressionism and action paintings these works are crude but well made works are bought to live only to destroy and break down the ideas of traditional painting, The paint becomes a liquid or a bodily fluid that reflect a debase and natural function like defecation and sexual permiscuity.

Copy Room (foreground) House of Pain-t (left background)

 Yet the work remains fun and familiar using imagery from lowbrow American culture. Using motifs from hunting and baseball.

Clown

He often use's the clown in his work and and he created this grotesque sculpture with breasts as eyes and and a penis that ejaculates paint as it spins around the work becomes a aftermath of unpredictable painting through the process of play and kinetic in the work. They take on a life of their own...

Pain-t

I also went to see the Phyllida Barlow Fifty Years of Drawings on entering the exhibition space you are overwhelmed by the amount of drawings presented they fill all the space making quite a statement. She left Chelsea in 1960's Her work looks at the object and the space around it...

Marina Ambramovic @ Serpentine

Went to see Marina Abramovic work at the Serpentine on Wed. It felt like a pilgrimage to see a living God. As I waited in a short Que a lady behind me started talking and was very confused and not sure this could really be called art. She said what can we expect and what will you do swear at her slap her... WHAT! She had seen it advertised on TV and just felt she should come and have a look...

As we waited a old fella was carried out by two bouncers and was shouting and being abusive. Saying that he just wanted to tell her that this was making a mockery of art and that it was wrong... He then started shouting at the us for being stupid and being taken in by this whole thing. I love art that has the power to make people react in either a confused state or one with complete passion and anger. I was already liking this. However it was a much more spiritual experience. There were a lot of people standing around with someone suddenly walking to another person and holding them by the hand and taking them for a walk around the gallery space... sitting them down or leaving them facing the wall or into the space whispering something and then moving on... Marina walked towards me, I could not help but smile I felt like I had won the lottery and this legend artist person had noticed me and took me by the hand. we started walking and I felt the envy of the other people as we walked past. She gestured for me to sit down and then lent onto me and whispered "so you finally came, close your eyes and breath slowly, taking in the people energy around you. This is my gift to you". I struggled to sit there for long and kept opening my eyes to see what others were up to would someone laugh or look across and give me that 'What the Fuck, sort of look". But nobody did and so I got up and went back to the place she had taken me from others were still in the same place and new faces had arrived. I had an overwhelming urge to go up to someone and take them by the hand...

I also went to see ED Atkins at the second newer serpentine building. The Video was amazing and I really want to go back and task in the text. But I was in a bit of a rush. I did sit on the brick ledge and was asked not to sit there, Which I thought a little strange...

 Went too the slade MA show and met lots of Chelsea people walking around, one or two things I really liked otherwise it felt very polite.

'Art on Your Bike' Trailer

Richard Ducker

There is undoubtedly something very strange going on in Joshua Raffell‘s work. It is not that there are no precedents, Paul McCarthy being one of the more obvious. What troubles here is the lexicon of materials and the atmosphere it creates. Although it is a world populated by sexual (masturbatory) urgency, unlike McCarthy this is not the set of daytime TV. Neither does it use the device of repetition or the epic strung out performance. Rather, through the use of ‘crude’ hand made puppets, it sets this performative excess within a very English domestic as if the Id has suddenly interrupted a polite cup of tea – two sugars, and please don’t hit me Mr Punch! Although this then results in the abject of the settings they are fabricated with the consideration of an old lady’s crochet. This attention to craft places the violation is from within – and yet the viewer is left laughing, albeit a little nervously…

By Richard Ducker, (fieldgate Gallery) 2010

Fig1

 This was the first Bike trailer that I made during my Artist in residence at studio1.1 I also showed this work at APT Gallery in 2010 with Q-art Fig1

Fig2

Fig3

 This was at Supernormal in Oxfordshire connected to Brazier Park in 2011. Fi2, Fig3
 Showing the work at studio1.1 and then at Hackney Wicked in 2012 Fi2, Fig4, Fig5

Fig4

Fig5

Fig6
During 2012 I took part in a group show with 'No Walls Gallery' Fig6, Fig7 

Fig7

To see my work in motion follow this link http://youtu.be/fvtSjXnNB4I

 Luxembourgian artist Deborah de Robertis actually transforms painting into performance, by revealing her own vulva in front of some surprised passersby. Just watch (and remember, it’s not safe for work):
http://www.artfido.com/blog/nsfw-performance-artist-reenacts-the-painting-the-origin-of-the-world/

Gustave Corbett 'The Origin of the World'

Jonathan Meese: In art you have to go too far

Tue 10th June

Milda a living work of Art, while working in the sunshine...

 Had a really good tutorial with Brian Chalkley today we watched some Paul Maccarthy and he suggested I look up Jonathan Messe work I went to a show of his in Eastcastle Street a few tears ago. Although I liked the work and his sculptures, I found it all  a bit to political. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoD6wpRooPU crazy but interesting...

 Three sculptures that I have been working on today. I would like to get them photographed better but they still need another day working on them ready for a group crit on Thurs