So we left off with the sculpture as an extention artists / various sculpture artists...

Tim Hawkinson from San Francisco Bay is yet another one of these artists. One of his most famous pieces entitled uberorgan, is a stadium sized bag pipe type instrument. Tim was quoted to say hes always been fascinated by noise and music and its influence. He also made a bird out of his own fingernail clippings and a large scale tree made of card board which i always like that analogy of the idea of trees made of paper, cardboard. etc... 

Ann Hamilton from Lima, Ohio specializes in sculpture, but also used mediums from installations, photographs, videos, etc... A piece she is well known for was her tooth pick suit, in which a suit was carely woven with toothpicks in a porcupine like style,  many of her pieces are thought to be sensual and often deal with fabrics and film. Much of her work doesnt influence the body in the way we are talking about, one piece she did do that does however was her mouthpiece camera taking a picture everytime she opened her mouth giving you a strange view of the world as if you have been eaten by a whale and are looking out to escape! 

Nick Cave, probably my favorite of this list, is a fabrics/textiles artist who also specializes in dance. His frist piece was a suit made of twigs which he initally thought he couldnt wear, once he wore it he discovered it had noisy capabilities earning it the name sound suit. This started a revelation for nick and he kept going with it making several more suits. These influence or represents the human form very blatantly but in ways never seen before, the mixture of creative photography and motion (dance) just photographs so well and looks so bad ass. i really like the idea of the natural coming into context with the unnatural, like a suit and twigs, its an ironic opposite and i really like the idea of them harmonizing together. a short film that will completely fill you in on "sound suits"  is below, check it.



He has many sound suits by now and they are just getting better, more wild with color and more perfected. Below are some other versions of his sound suits. 

    

PEACE!

5 body implication Artists.

Matthew Barney : American artist, works mostly in sculpture and short film as his medium, between 1994 and 2002 he created a series of short films called the cremaster cycle, considered one of the best avant-garde films of all time. Barney is from BOISE IDAHO, rep. rep! He caught national attention for his idea of drawing constraints and drawing in weird places like jumping on a tramp, drawing up on stilts, silly stuff like that, pretty sick idea but not a lot of quality art to show, the finished product isnt much and that disappoints me because for ME its about the journey but more importantly the destination, i really enjoy the finished, physical product of your tedious labor.. this dude is friggin nuts man.

“I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.” as said by Louise Bourgeois, this quote really stood out to me, i think i could be surrounded by ten of my closest friends and still find a way to feel lonely so the way i interpret that is meaningful to me. Louise was a french-american artist specializing in spider scupltures earning her the nick name spider woman, she also started making sculputres of betrayal, fucked up house holds, anxiety, loneliness,  forced intimacy, etc..  ha yes many know the feelings. Many of these feelings were said to come from a traumatizing situation as a child where she found out her English teacher was also his fathers mistress... tiga tigga woods yall! Sorry but all of our parents do messed up shit, get used to it.  And the spider above is one of my most favorite things EVER!

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Oh man o man sorry my dear blog, i have been freakin homeless for the past minute and during mid terms week, what a bitch. sorry i have neglected you but thats how its gotta be. Anyways, inspiration wise... i ran into an old friends down town last Saturday and he was wearing a hat he had colored all over, really bad ass. i wanna do something similar so i might go hunt down a white hat. I also think i will be starting a new painting that's really psychedelic and vivid in lue of a crazy night at the red room. atleast things are slowly coming back together after some several unfortunate events.

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Yesterday we went to the lookout room to check out the brown paper bag test exhibit by Francoise Duresse and this was much more interesting that the curator previously. Her stories were really interesting and shocking, and her work was of very unique style. I liked how she talked about ripping the canvas and then covering it with a thick clear gloss as if to heal the wounds like her wounds have healed.  im really interested in her screen print method and how she did that it was a really cool print. the short film she showed called you are so smart was pretty weird i didn't really get it besides she was telling me i was so smart. hmm if u say so! hah she might have been talking to her self.. Over  ggsshh

So was it just me or was the curator talking about judais art talking like a curator? that was the dryest, hardest to follow lecture ever. i felt like that was a commercial. The content wasnt bad it was just that guy, man o man, please never again. I need to get some work done on these pads ive kind of been blowing this last part off im kind of worried that the pads wont stay bent but i took em off so i guess we will see. The gallery was just OK though, i was disapointed, i didnt like her little gadgets and stuff, i thought the glass candle in wood inlay was really really cool how ever i thought it would have been nice to see them light up tho!

Konbit Shelter: Super Adobe Dome Construction in Braddock PA from Sucka Pants on Vimeo.

Wewt...it worked! okay so video time, ive been reading juxtapoz mag. after my recent inspiration by alex pardee, this magazine is bad ass. Right now ill be talkin about the konbit shelter project to help rebuild haiti. Headed up by street artist swoon, they are creating some siick houses for haitians to live in. the design and form of the little huts are cute but full of character, using local and reusable materials, primarily mud and plaster, this 'city scape' of huts they are working to create is totally environmentally friends and environmentally aware of the looming threats of future forces of nature.  DIRTY.

Victor Reyes killin it, type work and painting on this arch cover  6 color serigraph.. how do u even screen print like that and how come we dont do any of that shit? this ice cream unicorn orgy he calls uncommon objects..this cats gunna be the next artist tho so you'll see him soon. PEACE!