I am in a show that opens this weekend inaugurating the new location of Mahan gallery in Columbus, OH. The opening reception is this Saturday, December 1, from 6-10 pm.
"Because of its indefinite range of meaning, white has long been cautiously handled in the realm of fine art. White Light/White Heat is meant to test white's contemporary conceptual limits. Artists turn what is commonly known as the absence of color into the primary subject matter, pushing it to the forefront in an intriguing reversal of roles. The focus is to exhibit a deliberate and successful use of white within a work of art, whether for aesthetic, conceptual, or cultural meanings."
Last night Vito Acconci lectured at the Cooper Union.
He talked for 2 hours covering his career from his early performance work to his architecture firm. When he was done an architecture student literally attacked his work for 15 minutes. Not surprisingly, Acconci became very angry in return. In the heat of all of this he addressed the audience and said:
"I like Richard Serra sculptures too but I wish they had a goddamn hot dog stand inside".
Needless to say, I don't think he is ever going to return to Cooper..
I found this while searching through my hard drive. Its a scan of a 35mm negative taken in Sweden last March.
Lately I have been thinking that for my senior show I will make a book of almost every image I have made while I was at Cooper -- or at least from 2005, where most of my high-res scans start. It will probably be hundreds of pages and take just as many hours to make, but hopefully it will be worth it. It being the tangible object..
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