Artist I'm Looking At, PART ONE

lara, Schnitger, Sara Vanderbeek, Arturo Herra, Will Rogan, and Marco Maggi.

Warren Rosser

The chair of the KCAI painting department Warren Rosser has a show up at Review Studios Gallery in downtown Kansas City.

My Professor Julie Farstad recommended we dress up for the occasion. I was going to wear a ball sack strap-on but decided against it at the last minute.

I like the colors and forms going on in his new work.

I also found the reclusive artist David Harrison and snapped some pictures of him and my class from last semester.

Ecstatic Sunshine

These are some not so good videos from the good Esctatic Sunshine show at the Pistol in the West Bottoms. The focus is going in and out but it starts to work with the music.

Strap-on Ball Sacks

I’ve been making strap-on ball sacks that you can strap onto yourself for confidence. They have no phallus and our playful, inept and functional. I’m currently working on a few more specific strap-ons to be worn for paticular occasions.

CIty Museum

I thought I’d post about City Museum in St. Louis. It’s a big playground for adults and children made out of old cars, planes and just about everything else you can think of. It’s location in downtown St. Louis seems to be revitalizing the city, well somewhat. My favorite part was suddenly discovering a cave that led me to a giant slide. Makes me want to slide down one of Carsten Holler’s slides.

Also having spent a month of my summer with the artist Filip Noterdaeme in his Rethinking and Redoing the Museum I felt it was time to post about a positive Museum that embodies fun and exploration. Where the only criticism I can find is having enough energy to climb and crawl through everything.

Rough Sketches

These are some rough sketches of a larger project I have planned.

Very Small Objects

I got a chance to go to Topeka, Kansas and see Brian Collier's Very Small Objects show. Collier has created a classificatin system of Very Small objects and through the help of the library invites the community to join in on this community archiving project. I've got mixed feelings about the show, though I was rushed and did not have an oppurtunity to fully absorb the show.