This is tedious information, but I guess I need to
explain a little. Two weeks ago I flew to Chicago, got in a van
loaded with art work from the Wendy Cooper gallery, and drove to
Miami. Wendy had a space in the Scope fair, which is one of the
satellite art fairs that coincides with Art Basil, Miami. So I
delivered the art for that, including some of my own, and helped out a
bit with the set up. When that was over I drove back to Chicago
with all the stuff to helped set up, and be a part of, a group
landscape-based show at the Wendy Cooper gallery, called 'The Promised
Land'...
This was at Swarovski's Crystal Palace, where they
had a show of chandeliers designed by different artists. She was
the Dj, not a chandelier.
This one was by Amelia
Bauer and Tobias Wong (thanks
for
the invite dudes). It's a fish tank full of piranhas and
crystals.
Then at the Deitch show... this was part of Dash's
installation, a lighter burn on the ceiling.
Ben Cho's t-shirt. Terence Koh's
sculpture... his grave made out of
marzipan.
This was my favorite piece. A perfect,
lifelike sculpture of Jeffrey Deitch himself, standing there amid the
madness.
Johnny and the Laser Beams (band name maybe?).
Album cover maybe?
The only, undeniable truth...
Then back in Chicago, I went to the movies.
Cinema painting.
After seeing all that art in Miami, everything
started to look like a sculpture, like this iceberg at the taco
place.
Or this. Imagine if someone had made this?
etc...
These guys were in the Wendy Cooper show too.
These are two of a three man
art collective called the OODA Group (go to their website to read about/see
what
they made. It was really cool). "OODA" describes
a behavioral loop, and stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.
I went up the Sears Tower the day after the snow
storm.
This is Sabine
Linse
from Berlin. She was in the show too, with a video piece of three
people buried up their necks in a little grassy clearing, singing a
round. It was really beautiful, the kind of thing you could
weirdly watch for hours and hours.
