January 2007 ~ Sexy Girls

eidolia

11:30 PM anjal

I've got some really strong students this semester at Cypress College..Here are some works by Redeniel Tamano and Justin Lee that they will hopefully sell to me. I'm anticipating that 2007 will be a year of numerous acquisitions here at the small but widely acclaimed De Beaufort Collection. FYI...I'm really into Laissez-Faire aesthetics. If you have to ask..you'll never kn...

Pareidolia: Screaming at the Void

10:25 PM anjal

Kicking around the galleries lately I've been seeing alot of faces. Paintings have been staring back at me..following me as I walk around the room. It's spooky. Aside from an eerie humaness, what seems to be operative in all of these pieces is a visual trope in which the parts and the whole of the picture are in a Phyrric contest for dominance that finds no resolution. This reminds me of the frisson between the philosophical concepts of Nominalism and Realism. The doctrine of Nominalism holds that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names. This would be contrasted to Philosophical...

joel morrison, steven gontarski, thomas helbig..

11:19 PM anjal

...are three sculptors I'm very interested in lately. Thomas Helbig's current show at China Art Objects reminded me of the other two artists. The show felt thin..I'm not a fan of his 2-d work..but his sculpture is great. I thought I was the only type of person who appreciated this variety of grotesque fantasy so it's a pleasure to see it in places other than my own imagination. I think the paintings I made last year are a type of analog to the formal concepts all three of these artists are playing with. It has to do with post-figural mutation. It's like the scene in "Aliens" when Sigourney Weaver discovers all the mutated alien fetuses. Or maybe...

Dennis Hollingsworth

7:33 PM anjal

Dennis HollingsworthWeb 2.0 is an exciting place. A number of artists are taking the reins and creating their own dialogues..I suspect that this trend will continue as the spotlight becomes more and more diffuse. It's funny how young artists are so impressionable..well at least I can speak for myself. It comes as a fantastic revelation when one realizes that ideas flow through many channels..not just sanctioned bureaucratic administrative entities. There is no such thing as "authority" in art. "Prestige" is a chimera that exists only in the imagination of consumers. It occupies the microscopic space between greed and fear. In reality there are...

U.G. Krishnamurti- The Anti-Guru

2:21 PM anjal

There are 2 "Krishnamurti's"..U.G and Jiddu. U.G. is the flipside of Jiddu, and pretty much reminds me of Schopenhauer. He's extremely critical of Jiddu's belief that consciousness can be mutated and that human beings are capable of altering society into a better system. The thing to do is accept the limitations of humaness..like the limitations of mortality. I wonder if this is a more accurate, if seemingly darker, understanding of the human animal. If you do not see death as a collapse or tragic loss..then you can take the good with the bad. Society must be violent in order to continue. Conflict is a "necessary" evil. The problem is that dogmatists will apply and misrepresent this seemingly realist approach in order to justify all sorts of self serving systems such as Objectivism or even...

Eris

7:46 PM anjal

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la vie est un jeu

10:49 PM anjal

"I can only conclude that I am indeed like a visitor from non-Euclidean dimensions whose outlines are perplexing to the Euclidean inhabitants of various dogmatic Flatlands. Or else, Lichtenstein was right when he said a book "is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out." Of course, we are living in curved space (as noted by Einstein); that should warn us that Euclidean metaphors are always misleading. Science has also discovered that the Universe can count above two, which should make us leery of either/or choices. There are eight--count 'em, eight--theories or models in quantum mechanics, all of which use the same equations...

protrude, flow

11:35 PM anjal

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Extreme Instability

10:53 PM anjal

Awe inspiring and sublime photos of super-cell storms across the midwest by a guy named "Mike". Remind me of John Martin paintings..but without the cowering biblical figures and crumbling cities..Extreme Instabil...

Alan Watts- Time-part 1

10:52 PM anjal

Aurel Schmidt

12:05 AM anjal

This might be the strongest show I've seen in Chinatown for quite a while. Arcimboldo meets Peres Projects...so a little bit Heavy Metal..but still seems better than most of the ultra-laborious drawing art that's flooded the scene lately. Aurel Schmidt at tinyvicesPeres Projects press rele...

J. Krishnamurti

5:59 PM anjal

"Obviously what causes war is the desire for power, position, prestige, money; also the disease called nationalism, the worship of a flag; and the disease of organized religion, the worship of a dogma. All these are the causes of war; if you as an individual belong to any of the organized religions, if you are greedy for power, if you are envious, you are bound to produce a society which will result in destruction. So again it depends upon you and not on the leaders – not on so-called statesmen and all the rest of them. It depends upon you and me but we do not seem to realize that. If once we really felt the responsibility of our own actions,...

Surprising Progress

5:01 PM anjal

..but still very rough and a long way from done.But the colors are looking good.I'm not sure what those ghost orbs are...

Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007

1:37 AM anjal

He died on my birthday.'nuther video on Professor Jacques Robert Anton Wil...

Balance

5:29 PM anjal

In the fear that this blog may have become overwhelmingly dark and opressive as of late...I decided that I needed to balance things out. I think I'm fascinated with mortality and death because it reminds me of the lightness of being. The two concepts are metaphysically contingent on each other. The Apocalypse becomes a cartoon if one isn't careful. cuten...