just a quick post

Hey all, just a quick post to let you know I'm still blogging. Between Finals and Holidays I haven't had the chance to make November's blog post yet, so instead I'll be doing an extra long post for December.

xoxo
-E

A Neither Blue nor Red October

All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color.

- Piet Mondrian

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

-Andy Warhol

What I'm Doing

Lots! You’ll see. Literally, just scroll down. I’ve started on a few  abstracts. Also working on two of the Signs. 

What I've been Reading 

Clariel – Garth Nix

Bold Aims for Art in a Staid Capital (Melissa Chiu Takes Over at the Hirshhorn Museum) by Graham Bowley

Art Preview: “The Singing and the Silence” at the American Art Museum by Tanya Pai

Pop Out!: Queer Warhol- Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, José Esteban Muñoz

Modes of Disclosure: Construction of a Gay identity and the Rise of Pop Art- Kenneth E. Silver

What I've been Listening to 

Hang Me Up To Dry – Cold War Kids

Rolling with the Punches – The Blue Stones

Rock n’ Roll Suicide – David Bowie

Bad Habit – The Kooks

Love Interruption – Jack White

The Lethal Temptress – The Mendoza Line

Bitch – Plastiscines

Careful You – TV on Radio

Mission Control – Dandy Warhols

Blood – My Chemical Romance

God Help the Girl – God Help the Girl

Maneater – Nelly Furtado

Map of the World – Monsters of Folk

A Little Irony – Tom Milsom

Cry Like a Ghost – Passion Pit

Beauty Queen – Foxes

Tea for Two – Blossum Dearie

Sweet Transvestite – Rocky Horror Picture Show

What I've been thinking About

Jan Oppenheim, Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)

courtesy of Wikimedia

Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Picasso 

courtesy of Wikimedia

I Saw a Figure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth

courtesy of Wikimedia

Portrait of a German Officer, Marseden Hartley

courtesy of Wikimedia

Invisible Sculpture, Andy Warhol

courtesy of Artnet

The Artist is Present, Marina Abramović

courtesy of Wikimedia

Shadow, Andy Warhol

courtesy of Artnet

Andy Warhol on the couch at the Factory

courtesy of The Guardian 

Target with Plaster Casts, Jasper Johns

courtesy of Artnet

What I've been seeing 

Spontaneous Laundry shoot because Ellen likes the smell of clean laundry 

unfinished. 

Possible new subject for one of the signs?

My neighbor's door this month

Shadows!

Monthly Image/s Ellen has taken of me

My attempts at taking a picture of an ice cream cone in a strange location. They were not successful

Picture of me with the one eyed yarn creatures my suite made for halloween 

Monthly Selfie/s

My attempts at vaudeville. Also unsuccessful 

Selfie using a light

-xoxo

E.

P.S. Happy Halloween!

And Now I Live in the Suite of the Red Hand

"I am not what I am/ I am what I do with my hands"
Louise Bourgeois

"I was in the darkness/So darkness I became"
Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machines

What I'm Doing

Lot's of things, not that you can tell. I now have 25! projects on my to do list.  I'll release a list later with notes... maybe.  Dany has come back from studying abroad in China. I just finished a shoot with her and Ellen. This is for The Adoration (andyouamagi), but I'm still not satisfied with how the image is coming out.

I've started considering ideas for my final show next year and the thought terrifies me :P

What I've Been Reading

One is Not Born A Woman - Monique Wittig
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture -  Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward
The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 - Michel Foucault
Notes of a Painter - Henri Matisse
Lee Krasner as LK - Anne M. Wagner
Promising Monsters: Pregnant Bodies, Artistic Subjectivity, and Maternal Imagination - Rosemary Betterton

What I've Been Listening To 

Ugly Heart - G.R.L.
Redhead Walking - R.E.M.
Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do - Robyn
Are You Satisfied? - Marina and the Diamonds
Take a Walk - Passion Pit
Analog or Digital - Wildlife Control
Ice Reign - Princess Chelsea
I Heard it through the Grapevine - Kaiser Chiefs
Blue Eyes - Destroyer
Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man
Figure It Out - Royal Blood
Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill
It's My Party - Lesley Gore
Conquest - The White Stripes
The Killing Type - Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra
Byrds of Prey - Bertie Blackman
Call Off Your Ghost - Dessa
Never Be Famous - Hussalonia
Red Light - Siouxsie and the Banshees
In the Navy - The Village People
Matilda - Alt - J

What I'm Thinking About 

 Terribly Wrong - Tracy Emin (courtesy of Tate)

The Crossing - Romaine Brooks (courtesy of Art Advocate)

Untitled - Francesca Woodmen (courtesy of Tate)

The Fleet's In - Paul Cadmus (courtesy of Wikipedia)

El Morrocco, New York - Garry Winograd (Courtesy of the Met)

Wind from the Sea - Andrew Wyeth (courtesy of the National Gallery)

What I've Been Seeing 

The famous St. Mary's shoe tree 

Deer Outside the window of my new place

A Moon like a Coin in the Sky 

A hundred shades of Green 

She's So Prickly!

Look at the Signs!

Vertical and Diagonals that make a composition 

College Cooking 101. Yum?

A beauty and trope 

A car racing against a divided sky 

Night and a new lot

The night sky outside my new place, taken with a cellphone. But I like it!

Selfie in Metal reflection 

-See you next time Viewers! xoxo
E. 

Absolutely Nothing

"All the world's a stage/And all the men and women merely players/They have their exits and their entrances/And one man in his time plays many parts/His acts being seven ages."
Jacqus in As You Like It by Shakespeare

What I’m Doing

Nothing. I should be doing something, I will be be doing something next month. But my professors are doing lots of things this month. This one is bravely trying to save a noble institution. This one just got married and is fundraising for many awesome things. You should defiantly support their endeavors if you have spare money or time.

Preparing for the renovations of our Darkroom back on Campus. There’s going to be paint, mad experiments, and a hammock. Also art, as always.

My glasses are broken right now, so I  wear my prescription sunglasses everywhere. It’s dreadfully awkward, people stare a lot when you’re wearing black-out sunglasses in a dark restaurant. Babies are fascinated by me when I wear them. The replacement glasses have been “about to arrive any day now” for the past two weeks.

I just got some lovely metal stencils that I am looking forward to using once I get back into the studio, which should happen mid August. I got some new boxes (and the stuff shipped in them, which is unimportant) that'll hopefully be the "canvas" for some full sized pieces. I've also started sketching a new postcard that will be my first use of color photography and text art combined. It will have a sunset.

What I'm Reading

The Handmaiden's Tale- Margaret Atwood
American Gods- Neil Gaimen
The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago (and viewing I suppose)
The Scourge of “Relatability” - Rebecca Mead for The New Yorker
Next Up at LA MOCA? Nada -  Rozalia Jovanovic for Artnet News
Wall of Wiggling 3D-Printed Penises Is Actually Good - Benjamin Sutton for Artnet News

What I'm Listening to

The Walker- Fitz and the Tantrums
Something is Not Right With Me- Cold War Kids
I wanna Get Better- Bleachers
You're A Wolf- Sea Wolf
When They Fight, They Fight- The Generationals
World On A String- Neil Young
Habits (Stay High)- Tove Lo
Take Me To Church- Hozier
It's A New Find- Shoen Knife
I Hope You Die- Bloodhound Gang
Female Robbery- The Neighborhood

What I've been Seeing

View outside my window one night

Chalk Smilie 

Minimalist Renovations that make a Big Difference

Monty at Night

Reflections upon Reflections

 A Drunken moth

On the road, again. 

More plants for me to avoid killing, this time in Terrariums instead of Pots! 

 Roxy helped

Selfie with Fridge and Orange Wall




See you next post, Viewers,

- E.