Marianne Boesky is one of my fav galleries. It represents everyone from Murakami to Sarah Sze.

With that said, so see Sarah Sze's latest installation there.

i swear, i wish i could live in her brain for one day.

Bonnie Collura's "Rebel Angels" are a strange marriage of baroque theatricality, 19th-century academic kitsch and the esthetics of contemporary animation. In these large, undulating sculptures, a cast of characters seems to be in the process of battling it out before one's eyes. Bulbous noses, gaping mouths, Micky Mouse-style cartoon hands, clown ruffs and puppet arms appear to push and pull against each other in their effort to materialize out of the otherwise amorphous mass of white and painted plaster, fiberglass and steel from which the works are fashioned. Sometimes the pieces recall a taffy pull, as if invisible forces were stretching the materials in different directions. One is also reminded of the morphing from one creature to another that has become a staple special effect in big-budget horror and sci-fi films.

For static sculptures, "Rebel Angels" exhibit a remarkable sense of movement and energy. This exists in tension with an underlying echo of classical sculpture casts. But despite the plaster medium and figural references, Collura's works undermine all classical dictums about harmony, balance and proportion. Instead, their art-historical antecedents include the writhing figures of Rodin's Gates of Hell and the churning robes that envelop Bernini's Saint Teresa. Literary ones include the stock characters of the commedia dell'arte, fairy tales and even, as the show's title suggests, the accounts of Lucifer's battle against God in Milton's Paradise Lost. In all such stories, the notion of disguise or transformation is paramount.

The Wizard of Oz provides the primary reference for Scarecrow, which presents a version of the familiar face imprisoned behind metal spikes and resting on a bed of yellow paper shredded to resemble straw. But, as in all these works, good and evil seem interchangeable. The head of the Wicked Witch of the West is popping out of the plaster behind the scarecrow, suggesting that a split personality inhabits this mass.

(Art in America, March 2004, Eleanor Heartney)

i was lucky enough to study under bonnie for a semester at VCU. Ive never had a teacher sacrifice so much for her students. shes amazing and taught me so much technically and pushed me conceptually. I believe she is teaching now at RISD and Yale, so if youre lucky enough to attend either of those schools, you should make an attempt to take one of her classes.

see some of her work here.

james jean and kenichi hoshine remind me that i should just give up

ive been following the career of jenny kendler for awhile. shes built up an amazing portfolio on her site....weird digital/ps hybrid work. beautiful and fantastic!

now that we've branded eachother, i guess we're stuck together.

justin let me do my first tattoo on him, hes the best, and in return, he tattooed the same thing in the same spot, on me. they are silver fish, sort of. mine is pink, and when justins is finished, his will be grey-wash.

ill post better photos of my tattoo work soon....hopefully.

lindsay lawson is way inspiring.

i was lucky enough to check out a copy of james jeans, out-of-print, book, this weekend....thanks to justin.

looking at his work makes me think i should just give up....or stop sleeping, and start drawing 28 hours a day. either way he's one of my new fav's.

so im super excited about a ration on puppetry related blogs i just discovered.

okay. so i havent posted much of anything as of late. ive been moving and working a ton. hopefully ill have my internet hooked up at the new house soon, and ill scan some newer crap in and post it. until then, enjoy the links!

i wish i was as cool as barf callahan

jamey sutton has a new web page up.