“You know a lot about a person by the state of their hands.”
What do our hands say about us?
Rough and smooth,
Blistered,
Scratched and bruised.
What do we wear on our fingers?
Nail polish,
Rings and freckles,
Scars, tattoos.
What do we carry with our hands?
Groceries and laundry,
Notes, money, phones,
Age.
What do we make with our hands?
“It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
Popsicles with slightly different “jokes” on them by Matt Moore & Jason Kreher:
I’ve been working on cleaning out my studio and cataloging all my work from the past two semesters. I think its time that they start to see the light of day. This is a piece I did in early December.
Untitled (2012) 40” x 30”Graphite, Colored Pencil, Water Color, and Guache on Paper.
Another Shit Show
Add this to your gallery hopping schedule tonight, especially if you’re a dog lover!
At Mike Weiss Gallery, Brooklyn-based artist Will Kurtz is using the empty gallery as a site on which to stage an all-encompassing mise-en-scene—albeit in canine terms. Constructed out of old newspapers, glue, wire, and wood are more than 20 dogs of every breed, size, and color, strain and cavort off the leash of a single human handler, each rendered more expressively than the next!
For example, Lemar, the stout, English Bulldog bears a New York Times review of Patti Smith, weaving his own mini-narrative out of Arts & Culture snippets. Theo the brindle-pied pit bears the poignant fragments of a beloved athletic icon’s obituary, while Linda the dog handler sports vibrant political exposés.
Will Kurtz: Another Shit Show opens today at Mike Weiss Gallery.
Toy
The concept of a toy changes greatly with our age and demographics. Every day objects can initiate a play response in each one of us growing up or even into adult hood. My play object involves tin cans, one of the most basic of house hold items, and when fashioned correctly with string can turn into a communication device. The interesting part about the piece shows a notion that we all yearn to communicate in some way shape or form, therefore being limitless to a certain group or populous. Being so universal (the tin can) I dont believe place or time necessarily come into play specifically.
A Toy is super temporary in the context of children having playthings and reaching their pre-teen years, attempting to discard any remnants of play they carried with themselves in order to appear fully developed. Whereas the toy has expiration on the immediacy of use and attraction, it also remains timeless. On multiple occasions I’ve picked up an old toy that I used to have and it transported to that period.
Joe Fig creates tiny dioramas of famous artist’s studios:
