Kelley O'Leary will continue to post inspiration on Fanny Dynamic but has moved her own artwork to kelleyoleary.blogspot.com

Thanks!

-keo

Spring 2011

Winter 2010

Henrique Oliveira

-keo

Gees Bend Quilts

The Gees Bend quilts are a collection of patchwork quilts made from fabric scraps recovered from textile and jean factories in Alabama. The collection has made its way throughout the country's finest art museums...

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Emily Smith

Fathersisterself, Projection on plaster casts
Projection on plaster casts

His Cabinet, Projection on plaster casts
Yellow Chair, Pinhole Photograph
Breaking the Ray, Projection on plaster casts

Emily Smith is an award winning artist who creates sculpture and installation pieces. Influenced by childhood memories, nostalgic spaces are suggested through symbolic objects which represent a particularly subjective interaction with the memory of a significant person or place. Subtle overlaying of projections onto sculpture builds up a visual palimpsest and restructures the narrative of each object.

The artist's work is concerned with loss, memory and trace of an absence.Her current body of work stands as an investigation into Derrida's theory of trace, erasure and the instability of visual signifiers as symbols of memory.

-keo

In Memory of Michele

We wanted to recognize this amazing person today. We all have our own separate memories of her, but they all have something in common; she was one of the most intelligent and driven people we have ever encountered. Our love and condolences go out to her family and friends...

Leslie Dill

Katharine Harmon, You are here: Personal Geographies

So check out this book....I'm reading excerpts for some body mapping I am doing this quarter. BUT there is a chapter entitled "The Mental Geography of Appalachian Trail Hikers" by Roger Sheffer.

LINDSAY STOCKBRIDGE!

http://books.google.com/books?id=Hohb0VFSl-QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=katharine+harmon+You+are+here&source=bl&ots=XmX2-5wFUK&sig=tYDIjUd3w8GopMZOgh33io1ZwgE&hl=en&ei=vH2bTbOqM8i-0QH1raTpAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Gustav Klimt

Reminded me of the last post!

Yelena Yemchuk Photography

Check her out: http://www.brydgesmackinney.com/photography/yemchuk/index.html

-Lindsay

Miranda Van Dijk

http://www.puuranders.nl/album/album-12

Check out more!!

Beautiful, beautiful.

Inspired by the connection between nature and humankind, Miranda has fashioned brooches and necklaces from cotton fabric printed with old photographs. Above are some of the designs she has been working with, and I’m captivated by all of them, but especially love the necklaces. Miranda sells her work in markets around Holland

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kelley o'leary

plaster gauze, synthetic fur

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JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

Arna sent me this...watch it!!!

Drawing in Thread

http://www.mountida.edu/sp.cfm?pageid=3201

I'm really into this............! I found this exhibit while searching for embroidery inspiration.

I'm currently embroidering some white linens myself...the project is about my old country way house, and i'm embroidering pieces of the house- corners, doorways, stairwells, etc

keo

I saw this artist's work in person at the Art Basel art show in Miami

Hung Lui's exhibition at the Bernice Steinbaum gallery
is called "Richter scale" and its INCREDIBLE. Some of the MFA and BFA students went to Art Basel Art Show in Miami December 4-7 2010. We got to meet Bernice Steinbaum herself. She's an older woman dedicated to the art collecting business for many many years. Shes a Jewish woman from New York and greeted us with mallard duck slippers on her feet. She's passionate and so in tune with the Fine Art world and showed us around the gallery with such love for all the pieces she's collected. Hung Lui is the showcasing artist in the downstairs of the gallery and WOW they are so moving. They are massive and if I could estimate, I would guess some are triptych or diptychs 20 feet long.

'Asparas- White' (2009
Bernice told us that when she's overwhelmed with her life, she looks at this painting of an old woman who has lost everything. Her daughter's been raped, her grandchildren have been killed, her land's been taken. And Bernice knows life isn't all that bad. This piece is moving to say the least. It's probably 7'x7'

But other images suggest the raw wounds of natural disaster, with an elderly woman crying aloud and a toddler pressing a surgical mask to her face: two images with similar titles Asparas (White and Black). Liu effortlessly balances life and death, yin and yang, hope and despair with her works without resorting to melodrama or overindulgence in hysterical gore.

"Richter Scale" succeeds in its storytelling, with a fresh and pertinent narrative, while maintaining a sincere dedication to viewing beautiful objects. Since when did modern art become beautiful to look at again? Many would think that the jarring, aggressive nature of contemporary art (a la Damien Hirst or Anselm Kiefer, for example) would be the "right" way to regard the darkness of the human condition. Liu reminds us that being aware doesn't mean having our minds (or our stomachs) continuously attacked.

I love the use of light in this one and the side painting to the left. The circle is a symbol she uses often

This is an artist I really like right now

Dana Schutz inspires me with her ability to create large scale paintings from very surprising and inventive narratives. She got her Masters at Columbia, studied at skowhegan and got her BFA at Cleveland Institute of the Arts. Her studio is in New York. I enjoy her titles also. I hope you guys appreciate these




Gravity Fanatic

"When I'm in periods like this, a lot of times I'll respond directly to what I just made," she said. "I wanted to stay away from figures and really saturated colors. So I started making abstract paintings, mostly because I have no idea how to make an abstract painting, and I was interested in that."

"I think that's just part of how it is with making art," she said. "Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before and everything is just ... lame."

Her work is interesting and she's also a very prolific artist. There are 43 images in the catalog and these are only the very best work - there are a lot more we could have included. Ideas sort of ooze out of her.
Schutz uses painting as a means to invent things which just can't exist in any other genre. In Chris's Rubber Soul, she uses two-dimensional medium to create a sculpture: half archaic technology, half totemic fetish. Bound by no other logic than its own representation, Schutz offers a form for no other reason that its own contemplation, of beauty, humour, plausibility and possible function.

Singed Picnic

Reformers
Dana Schutz's work has been described as ‘teetering on the edge of tradition and innovation'. 'My paintings are loosely based on metanarratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still lifes become personified, portraits become events and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive. Recently I have been making paintings of sculptural goddesses, transitory still lifes, people who make things, people who are made and people who have the ability to eat themselves. Although the paintings themselves are not specifically narrative, I often invent imaginative systems and situations to generate information. These situations usually delineate a site where making is a necessity, audiences potentially don't exist, objects transcend their function and reality is malleable .'

Gathering

Breeders

Twin Parts

Night sculpting

Dana in her studio