sfmoma:

SUBMISSION:

“Drag Artwork Here” oil on canvas, 4’x4’, 2011. 

Next Friday at Hillyer Art Space. Be There.

artandopinion:

Sunny Morning–Eight Legs

1997

Lucian Freud

welovecindysherman:

Chuck Close - Cindy

Chuck Close has created several portraits of Cindy Sherman—both photgraphs and paintings.

laughingsquid:

Thrown to the Wind, A 36 Foot Tall Tornado of Trash

Check out our screening of The Vigil two weeks from today! We will be screening the film on Wednesday, June 6 at 7:30pm. Admission is a $10 donation. Hope to see you there! Here’s some info about the film and the event:

The PictureHouse presents a new documentary from local filmmaker Arya Surowidjojo, about an aging Pakistani classical dancer, trained in an ancient Hindu art form, who journeys home from the United States for the performance of her lifetime. Facing prejudice, ridicule, and the threat of death by the Taliban, she risks all to preserve her nation’s pre-Islamic cultural heritage for future generations.

The event will combine a screening of the documentary, followed by a dance lesson facilitated by the main subject of the film, Tehreema Mitha, and a Q&A with the film’s director. Click here for more information or to purchase tickets online.

hyperallergic:

A new mural by street artist Gaia is titled “The Dusk of H Street” (2012) and was commissioned by Smith Commons.

Located on 1245 H Street, NE, Washington DC, the interior of the chest is, according to the artist, an Albert Bierstadt landscape painting of Yosemite referencing American manifest destiny and western expansion. While it’s not clear which painting it exactly is, it does resemble his “Valley of Yosemite” (1864).

Gaia suggests that, “The virgin terrain is contrasted with an old vacant building on H street which is a historically divested neighborhood is currently undergoing a massive transition.”

fer1972:

Quase-cinema by Lucas Simões

staceythinx:

As a former surfer, Paul Bobko had plenty of time to observe waves of all shapes and forms. It was during this time that he found his inspiration for his series Water Landscapes-Suspended Energy. 

About the project:

In his magnum opus, Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon introduces us to the German concept of Brenschluss in the telemetry of the flight of the V2 rocket. The rocket is propelled by its engines and travels along its parabolic arc. At a certain point the engines turn off, this flameout is called brenschluss. At brenschluss the rocket’s ascendancy is checked by gravity, and before it begins to fall to its target on earth, it hesitates for just a moment. After this moment gravity and momentum alone, not a rocket engine, define the inexorable trajectory of descent to its inevitable, calamitous end.

So to do Paul Bobko’s Water Landscapes-Suspended Energy photographs allow us to see that very moment of hesitation when the force of nature that is the ocean wave, ceases to be propelled by the surging forces of the ocean floor. The ocean suddenly lets go and sets it free, it hesitates at this moment of release, then crashes on the shore, liberated, but spent. Bobko shows us this very moment of hesitation, before the explosion. The outline of the explosion is clear and coming, but it hasn’t happened yet, it is, as yet, prelude…the power is still coiled in the curl, frozen for this second. Light comes glowing through that watery tunnel, foam is leaping from its crest, escaping and ecstatic. The menace is limned in the terrifying flexing of its form. It is most exhilarating to see the noun become the verb.