sprawler » art http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog general specialist Thu, 13 May 2010 01:18:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 THE HIGHLINE ABOVE AND BELOW http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/29/the-highline-above-and-below/ http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/29/the-highline-above-and-below/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:13:03 +0000 admin http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/?p=902
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An improv performance performed below the amphitheater on the Highline near 16th street.  As a class, we performed a series of constructs as a way to engage the space and the viewer from both above and the “spectators” below.

]]> http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/29/the-highline-above-and-below/feed/ 0 modern sculpture vs. spandex http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/18/modern-sculpture-vs-the-spandex/ http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/18/modern-sculpture-vs-the-spandex/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:04:49 +0000 admin http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/?p=880 Mike and I filmed a series of experiments of us playing with spandex as part of our effort to integrate projection with Vito Acconci’s corian sculpture up at the Bronx Museum.  Our motivation was derived from an effort to extend Vito’s analogy of the sculpture as body, pulling, poking, tearing, etc., and the idea of conveying emotion through the use of gesture and shadow.  So we took it upon ourselves to really manipulate the idea of skin, texture, and surface.  See the full blog post here.

]]> http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/18/modern-sculpture-vs-the-spandex/feed/ 0 ɥsıʇǝɟ | fetish object http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/03/fetish-object-reincarnated/ http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/10/03/fetish-object-reincarnated/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:03:02 +0000 admin http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/?p=805 started a canvas years ago, and finally decided last weekend to rework it completely.

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gold spray paint, house paint.  30″ x 40″

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bike riding + Creative Time + Sunday afternoon =Site Specific field trip.  write-up to come soon.

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]]> http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2008/11/10/cursor-paranoia/feed/ 0 gilbert and george come to brooklyn http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2008/11/10/gilbert-and-george-come-to-brooklyn/ http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2008/11/10/gilbert-and-george-come-to-brooklyn/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:15:33 +0000 admin http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/?p=575 fall always tends to bring out the insane in me.  it makes me want to drink 5 cups of winter-spiced/spiked coffee, listen to music with harpsichords and glockenspiels, and buy a puppy and dress it in tartan so i can walk it down 5th avenue.  luckily for you and me, i forewent the puppy idea and stuck to drinking 5 cups of espresso a day, probably accounting for the fact that i couldn’t sleep last night.  at the very least, it got me up and at ‘em at the break of dawn, taking a stroll down to the brooklyn museum on a lovely fall morning to see the gilbert and george exhibit.

talk about a british invasion.

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gilbert and george met at central st. martins over 40 years ago and have been together ever since making extraordinary things.  most of their art deals with scenes/images/issues that are not more than a few mile-radius from their home in east london.

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when they first started out, they were using traditional photography media but from early on, used the grid-format as the structural framework.  they often use themselves as subjects, calling themselves “living sculptures” and are usually seen in their suits-and-ties, or work outfits as they call them.

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they now have progressed to digital media, and actually have one of the most powerful graphic work stations in the UK in order to process their huge works of art. whoo! technology…

and this video by danish artist jesper just.

]]> http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2008/11/10/gilbert-and-george-come-to-brooklyn/feed/ 0 men in cities http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2008/11/08/men-in-cities/ http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2008/11/08/men-in-cities/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:12:10 +0000 admin http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/?p=569 been thinking lately about Robert Longo’s 1980 series of lithographs, Men in the Cities. something about the stripped down nature of the drawings along with the odd contradiction of their sharply dressed but grossly contorted figures.

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