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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Mar 20, 2007 14:00:43 GMT -5
Really nice work! Wow!
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 21, 2007 3:24:42 GMT -5
thanks you guys. as a testing ground, you helped give me the guts to send off an email to the director of The Pickle Company, a non-profit gallery where i want to try and show them (and an installation i've been working on). i guess i'm kind of forced to anyway. i went in there with my friend alissa the other day and met this director, and my friend (much to my annoyance) started talking for me until finally the director turned to me and said "alright then, i'll be expecting an email and some images from you within the week." aghhhh. they're far from finished. but it feels good to see they're getting a good response here so i feel like i have a chance with her. i don't know why i feel so vulnerable getting my stuff out there. i am proud of it...it means something to me... but it's scary to try and put it out there. but i'm going to do it. and my stinking goddamn 3-years-in-the-making photo installation, too.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 21, 2007 3:31:00 GMT -5
sisy, that fourth one, is that for sale at all? after i do a show, hell yeah.  you'd probably want to see the whole thing to see if you really liked the composition, though. those are just details that show maybe a fourth of the areas of each "canvas" (masonite). i was just too lazy to photograph them whole because i didn't have the light. |
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 21, 2007 3:39:19 GMT -5
i think they're sort of a set... can't imagine one of the pieces without the others really. incredible. i love the weird phagocytic element to the subjects. like squamous cells in a microscope lens or something. even if you already have a name, i am totally dubbing the collection "simple squamous". if you live in my closet and make me art while i'm gone at work, i'll find you a shrubbery!had to look up "phagocytic." i'm glad you see them that way, though. i wanted them to come across in that sort of way so that you wouldn't be sure if they were all supposed to be a bunch of cells in one human body personified in such a way that you would see how one human body experiences a personal kind of apocolypse, or if you saw them as somewhat dehumanized representations of masses of people experiencing a larger external kind of apocolypse, and that maybe you'd consider those internal/external views to be the exact same thing. if that makes any sense whatsover. i've also been toying with the idea of making a bunch of little dolls to match and have them piled all over the floor (even getting stepped on). i'd paint some on the floor too. i'm obsessed with masses of these things... large quantities. multitudes. but yeah, they're definitely a set. |
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Post by samplestiltskin on Mar 21, 2007 10:27:15 GMT -5
the dolls people may not really get. they would probably be big enough that folks would want to step around them or whatever, most of them missing the point. plus to get enough of them to make the statement about the masses.. that would be a hell of a lot of dolls. i dunno. i like the idea of carpet coated in maybe balloons tricked out somehow to look like those creatures. balloons would be squishy, look similar, and people would more than likely understand that the carpet is meant to be trampled over. it would get all dirty. awesome.
love it!
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Post by Mary on Mar 21, 2007 11:36:30 GMT -5
by the way, sisy, are you familiar with the work of magdalena abakanowicz? your work reminds me a wee bit of hers - not in any deep or profound way, but only in the sense that both of you are working with an idea of depersonalized masses. here is a picture of one of her works i took in des moines last year:  for whatever reason, your paintings immediately made me think of this! but yours are definitely more.... biological, or cellular, or something to that effect. Cheers, M |
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Post by Rit on Mar 21, 2007 18:02:44 GMT -5
wtf? i never saw your paintings before, Sis. they're remarkable.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 22, 2007 17:33:16 GMT -5
by the way, sisy, are you familiar with the work of magdalena abakanowicz? your work reminds me a wee bit of hers - not in any deep or profound way, but only in the sense that both of you are working with an idea of depersonalized masses. here is a picture of one of her works i took in des moines last year: for whatever reason, your paintings immediately made me think of this! but yours are definitely more.... biological, or cellular, or something to that effect. Cheers, Mi've seen some of her stuff in a museum or two before, but i wouldn't say i'm "familiar" with it. i should investigate more, though. thanks rit. yeah, been painting stuff. my bfa emphasized photography, and i got a few grants to do some mixed media photo installations, but this is the first time i've gotten into painting at this scale. or coloring in between lines. whatever. |
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 22, 2007 17:35:33 GMT -5
lol. good advice, samps. although i'll have you know that i did create over 200 little clay golems at one point, and that hardly seemed like much, so i don't think it would be too difficult to create masses of said dolls. i like the balloons idea, definitely. funny you should mention it, i've been playing with those weiner balloons a lot lately. they definitely look like little wierd headed cell people sometimes.
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Post by kats on Mar 22, 2007 18:53:28 GMT -5
as i have always said, they are amazing. particularly like no.2.
mixed media installation? similarly thematic, or different artistic tangent? very interested. mixed media is a bitch to pull off well without mixed focus.
as for your paintings, despite the imagery being quite different (particularly in the first one with the gun) there is coherency, and it just all works together. awesome stuff.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 23, 2007 15:22:18 GMT -5
the installation is primarily photography, some wood, and a big mirror, but it's kind of difficult to explain without first making a diagram. i made an installation a few years ago that was VERY mixed media, though. i built a sort of garden of eden with an uprooted tree of life. it involved photography, paint, paper machet, special electrical wiring, sound, bags and bags of leaves from the forest, large photograms on sheets (a 19th century printing process), acrylic transfers, et cetera....but it came out really well and focused, i would say. at least i pulled off some awards for it. then again, maybe it was just that nobody at my university was doing anything that wild.
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Post by rockkid on Mar 23, 2007 23:45:30 GMT -5
Either way I see $$$$ in your future.
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Post by wayved on Mar 24, 2007 0:47:58 GMT -5
You have totally blown my mind sis with your paintings. The world needs to see those. Would you be happy if they graced a record cover?
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Post by Rit on Mar 25, 2007 5:57:12 GMT -5
why? you want those paintings on one of your own releases? coz i might have to fight you to the death for that privilege. my band might need it more  |
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 26, 2007 14:08:30 GMT -5
lol. i'd definitely be into doing album covers, unless the albums sucked. rit, i didn't realize you had a band? what kind of music have you been pumping out?
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you'd probably want to see the whole thing to see if you really liked the composition, though. those are just details that show maybe a fourth of the areas of each "canvas" (masonite). i was just too lazy to photograph them whole because i didn't have the light.
