May 27th, 2010 | by theDent | published in Contributors
To think of what defines the artworld, one has to engage in a discursive argument that would continue for quite some time. A urinal hung on a wall, a painting completed in all white, a diamond encrusted platinum skull, people sitting on a floor eating pad thai, these moments is art continue to push boundaries [...]
January 30th, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Contributors
Bryson Gill’s painting, Cosmo (Backdrop) does that thing that great paintings do, it calls you forth, pushes you back and then calls you in again. It flirts with you across space. Cosmo (Backdrop) is on view at Triple Base in San Francisco, as part of Gill’s solo exhibition, The Friends and Neighbors Effect and like [...]
January 11th, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Contributors
While a bubbling zeitgeist, published theory, secret CIA promotion, institutional propping, market hype and bar booth collectives may be the most commonly understood forces by which art trends and made and made to move, one of my favorite and too often overlooked components of progress is the availability of new materials, and of how their [...]