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The Year of the Rope, 1
Not exactly sure what the name of the diptych is going to be yet, but this is the name of the original performance on which it’s based. The process requires that we number and individually paint each of 10800 squares drawn on a 30 x 40 canvas. It’s somewhat tedious work, but enjoyable at the same time. I’ve always enjoyed numbers…
Click here to see the digital sketch of the painting.
And this one will take a long time.
A diptych, this painting touches on a lot of aspects of our work, including both the history of performance and its live element, The Cover Artists, factory work + labor, and the relationship between digital and analog.
I hope to post various iterations as the paintings progress, but for now, here is the digital sketch of the LHS canvas. Both canvases measure 30 X 40 inches and are each comprised of 10,800 1/3 inch squares that will be individually painted.
A new series of paintings. These two include Rory McIlroy + Michelle Wie.
The first in a new series of paintings…
tiredwhore_001.jpg, 2011
30 x 40 inches
Acrylic on canvas
A collection of some of our paintings.
1st edition.
Enjoy.
We’ve been in Kansas City for nearly two months now. The Organic Art Factory itself is taking off in new directions. Most recently, we completed two commissioned paintings for the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, and have begun work on a series of paintings entitled, The Air with Variations.
Cherries in Spring, 2010
Teaching is going well at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Missouri – Kansas City.
We’ve also been writing a column as Lilika Ruby entitled Art & Sex for the online magazines, The Faster Times, and Ovi Magazine.
Stay tuned for details about an upcoming show…
There are so many reasons. Here is one, quoted from the blog Metro Times:
“Fluxus artists were irresistible art flirts and menaces. They refused tickets to snobs, patronized critics and dared the public to find a point to art. They pushed the boundaries of what is considered art and, as Fluxus artist Nam June Paik wrote, turned you and me into the same clowns as Goethe and Beethoven. In short — they leveled the playing field.”
Early poster from the ballet
“Three years ago Ben Huh visited a blog devoted to silly cat pictures – and saw vast potential…Sensing an Internet phenomenon, Mr. Huh solicited financing from investors and forked over $10,000 of his own savings to buy the Web site from the two Hawaiian bloggers who started it.”
Read the full article here.
Be sure and stop by Fishbowl to see our latest installation:
“The Guardians: A Prospective”
New & not-so-new work by Kansas City artist, Bill Hobson
So this is a new idea: re-performing objects. We started with Longo sort of arbitrarily – we love his work, but probably wouldn’t have chosen it as a beginning for our investigation of material culture through performing the objects of that culture.
We’ve worked for a long time around the idea of object/surroundings informing identity. For instance, the image above, taken during the project being:paulandkate, captures a system of uniform objects that we created and built as our domestic environment.
But how does using the body to interpret images of the body (or even further: what about sculpture, Earthworks, Conceptualism…) work differently that the re-performance of actual “Performance Art” – or what we are attempting with the Cover Artists?