Apr172008
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Whether you love your bike or you haven’t been on one since your old banana seat, we want your bike-themed photos, paintings, sculptures, fabric, paper or multi-media pieces for our Sat., April 26 fund-raising show at Grayspace Gallery and Holland HQ. You will only be…
From Brendan Mcknight at Cool Hunter: “To celebrate the 3rd annual PARK(ing) Day, San Francisco based art collective Rebar decided to take things a little further, with their pedal-powered park on wheels; the Parkcycle. This one-day global event encourages artists, activists and everyday citizens to…
I felt compelled to post this pic from the NYT. It’s kind of like a grandma version of a Sargeant Pepper’s coat, but I can’t help thinking of all the wonderful things I’d put in a coat-shaped secret lair.
Susan Robb = Mad Scientist.Activist.Instructor.Performance Guru.Friend.Genius.ArtGeek. This installment of Geek Art explores a hybrid of “flesh, nature, and technology†through the spectacular geek wonders of chocolate, Play-Doh, piss, hair, spit, dust bunnies, Monkey-Antoinette, and polar bear life rafts. Ladies and Gents, Goys and Birls, allow…
As we all hunker down amidst the chill of winter, there is one thing—one material/presence/mush/medium—that excites and invigorates us…SNOW! That white crisp-but-fluffy/shimmery-but-soft magic that descends upon trees and alters the lines of our landscape. Those of us who grew up in a snowy region share…
In the midst of holiday-hectic mania-mall gifts-galore frenzy, I find myself feeling uncharacteristically emptied and frazzled. Commercial mayhem seems at its apex. Shanghai-based artist Xu Zhen’s ShangART Supermarket–an installation at the recent international art fair Art:Basel | Miami Beach–resonates completely with my mood. In the…
Inevitably, the winter chill brings with it endless conversations regarding road conditions—a general preoccupation with the safety of transportation. Thus, while driving the streets of Reno today, I found myself contemplating my tires. (Yes, those rubber rings upon which my car was flying along the…
This week’s geek art is brought to you by dORKBOT — name given to informal gatherings (now worldwide) for “people doing strange things with electricity”. Above is an image from one of Portland’s dorkbot gatherings in which roughly 20 prosthetic mouths played harmonicas set on…