Monday, February 22, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
My "stern air of sadomasochistic ritual"
ok so I edited down this review just to the part about my work. Woah, pretty ballsey there, Greg!
I'm pretty sure this little sound-byte nugget is gonna keep me snickering for decades!
Purposeful randomness
three-person show "Experiments, Memories & Devices" at Bristol Community College's Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery
(777 Elsbree Street, Fall River, Massachusetts, through February 25).
 INTRIGUING Georg’s Monitoring the Dunes Apparatuses. |
Also on view here is art by Christy Georg and Richard Metzgar. Georg makes curious devices like a scissors-like clamp, spoon-scraper things, or a large metal funnel connected at bottom to a hose attached to a pair of what look to be earphones. Her Triple Doser (2005) is a bowl with three small attached spoons. It sits atop a stand connected to a kneeler. The idea seems to be that three people could kneel down and drink fluid poured from the bowl into the connected spoons, as if receiving a sacrament. But beware: the bowl and spoons are made of toxic lead.
Monitoring the Dunes Apparatuses (2003) includes a pair of crutches that stand on what seem to be speakers, and connect to a pair of headphones. Photos show Georg wearing the gear at the great dunes of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico and holding herself aloft on the crutches like an acrobat. She describes it as an "endurance performance" in which the artist is connected to the earth only by these stethoscopic crutch ears for as long as she can hold herself aloft. Georg impresses with her craftsmanship and her ability to invent creepy, mysterious objects that seem like artifacts from another era. Her stern air of sadomasochistic ritual can feel like pretentious affectation at times, but the goal — isolation of senses (taste, hearing) to generate a more powerful and elemental connection with the world — intrigues.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
mysterious Mary Celeste
mentioned in Bartletts books, this mystery of the Brigantine Mary Celeste. Found sailing erratically with no hands aboard in Dec 1872. It took a very long time for the mystery to be unfounded. Ooooh, makes for good reading!
Monday, February 15, 2010
more Capt. Bob
Ouch. I've had a gnarly crick in my neck for a couple days.
That said, I read another book by Capt. Bob Bartlett.
It made me all giddy when he mentions later in his life taking the Morrissey up into the Arctic. He used to own that Schooner, now called the Ernestina. The first schooner I sailed in back in 2001.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
"Best Sculpture" people's choice award
Tonight was the 2009 New England Art Awards in Cambridge. Hosted by Greg Cook.
http://www.gregcookland.com/journal/
I won the People's Choice award for "Best Sculpture" for my exhibition "Nautical Body" @ the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College last September.
The director of the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery in Fall River MA where I'm in a large three person show, "Experiments, Memories, and Devices" told me that Greg came to see the show and will probably write about it in the Boston Phoenix next week. That's pretty cool I think- he took the trek down!
Today: walk 1 mi. Run 4 mi.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Prizes! Prizes!
Super Sweepsy (Sailor's Whisk)OOH! I won a prize! It's money!
I won first prize, announced at the opening last nite of "Timmy Flynn's Hardware Store" in lovely Golden Colorado. It was a really cool show, and Golden is the cutest town evah. You totally want to see saloon doors on the taverns. But you don't. My theory: they replace 'em with winterized doors this time o year. Yep.
Today: ab, FB, and bun pilates, walk 1 incl, run 1.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
guitar. beer. progress
So the other night I stayed up late recording some fun old songs. The recordings are lousy, but who cares? It's just incentive to 'master' some songs, meaning... to remember them the whole way through. It's harder than you'd think. Anyways it was good to feel my fingertips really burn again since playing with the boys at VCCA.
http://www.reverbnation.com/onetakewonders
Also, I discovered this beer called 1554 by New Belgium. Dude. This has got to be one of the most delicious beers I have ever tasted. I am not kidding. In fact, I saved one and I am going to go get that beer and drink it right now.
Slow and steady progress on the big drawing.
Making more little sailor's whisk sweepsies to bring to my opening tomorrow.
Yesterday: walk 1.5, run 3.5
Today: ab pilates, walk 1 mi, run 5 straight, walk 1 = 85 minTuesday, February 2, 2010
Newfoundland!
Sweet! I was awarded the Brigus residency! It's 3 weeks from the end of June to mid-July. It comes with a healthy stipend as well. Should be immediately on the heels of my New Brunswick residency! AND the freaking coolest thing is that it's the town in Newfoundland where Capt. Bob Bartlett is from. I'm almost done reading his book about the Karluk shipwreck in the arctic. That man is a freaking badass.
So I'll get to see his house, I think its a museum. Maybe I'll think up some nutty site-specific tribute. That would really be the thing to do. So I became interested in Bob, which led to a serious Newfoundland infatuation, because Bob used to own the schooner Ernestina (then called the Effie Morrissey). He used it for personal arctic trips, taking millionares on wild hunting trips, that sort of thing. Anyways, back in 2001 when I was a grad student at MassArt I went on a sailing trip on the Ernestina. It was for 3-D students, and I'm sure I was the oldest one. I think it was five days. It was the end of the sailing season, October I think. To be sure, the weather was bad. It blew snot and we never even left Buzzards Bay. Almost everybody was badly seasick, really cold, and real buzzkill bummers. One girl was so sick they motored her to shore. Somebody clogged a toilet and the crew tried blasting water through it and basically there was a poopsplosion on deck, which I missed.
I loved every minute of it. Funny thing too, I signed up too late (afraid of the price tag...) so I was on the waiting list in case somebody cancelled. But it was a teacher who cancelled and somehow I never paid a dime for the trip. Lucky me.
As we all know, years later, in 2006 I learned to sail and worked on several schooners, including some volunteer work on Ernestina (of New Bedford), and she's in terrible trouble these days. The fore half of the ship was recently completely rebuilt. Beauty! However the aft half is pretty much rotten. She leaks like a seive. Its a crisis.
So send buttloads of money to her through here: http://www.sailernestina.org/
Today: holy cow I went rollerblading! Walk 1 mi incl, run 4 (half at 6 mph!) cooldown = 60min
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