Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown- This is a MUST See!!!
James felt good!!!
GLOBAL FEELINGS-WEFEELFINE.ORG
I have to admit it is a bit bizarre to think that we are being monitored by someone somewhere every second of the day for some kind of research or exhibition.
Wefeelfine.org is an art project authored by all of us who actively use the web. This creative work has accumulated a database of global feelings daily. You click onto the tiny balls in the sphere and you see snippets & fragments of comments and words. A small peep into someone else’s life. I am not sure how it makes me feel.
Right now thru January 18th,friends of mine are having an art exhibit at Bespoke Gallery in Chelsea. If you are here in NYC that would be amazing if you go and check them out.http://chelseaartgalleries.com/Bespoke+Gallery/Do+you+want+a+piece+of+me_3F.html
Here’s an exerpt from Gallery : Do you want a piece of me? “Zipora Fried and Rachel Howe present individual works that call
for emotional involvement in the process of artistic inquiry. The viewer’s initial impressions and opinions of objects and subjects, materiality and artistic technique are challenged and directed towards a more in-depth psychological and thus, more human, if not humane, association. The gestural simplicity of Fried and Howe’s works belies the significance and relevance of each form or object chosen by the artists. Fried’s works center around a selection of conventional objects which are altered physically, often subtly, and convey an entirely different conceptual meaning and import.
Two Thonet beechwood chairs face each other as if in conversation, but are converted into elegant but simple operatives of danger; at the end of each arm emerges a precariously sharp and threatening knife blade. Five ski masks, aligned on a shelf are fashioned out of wool with subtle embroidery that blocks out the possibility of sight or speech. Fried’s graphite drawing on paper hangs the height of the gallery down to the floor and becomes sculptural, a solid column of graphite with a seemingly endless undulation of smooth texture. Fried transforms wordless, familiar forms into new identities, thus bridging the gap between outward perception and inner-meaning.
Howe’s drawings focus on fictional teenage girls, who are frequently concealed by patterns,
textures, slogans, musical references and symbols of gothic subculture. Howe examines the hidden fears, anxieties and search for identity that may be obscured by a more superficial and fortified presentation of image. The strong emotional undercurrent of these drawings points to the potential for insecurity and incompleteness behind any coherent mask of identity. Howe uses a No. 2 pencil to render her subjects in frequently incomplete form — the absence of academic perfection in the drawings supporting the alienation that phrases such as “Things have really been hell for me lately” proclaim. Howe’s choice of teenage subjects in their struggle for personal veracity and self-protection tackles broader issues of social delusion, truth, inclusion or exclusion, and the friction between external and internal identity.
Whether examining the personal or public, domestic or political, the embrace of the textural and elemental variety in the artists’ pieces challenges the viewer’s reliance on assumption and familiarity and provokes a more profound investigation of their work.”
Zipora and I have been close for years, our daughters attend the same school in the UK and we have known each other since they were small children. We were among a few mothers in NYC who got fed up with the school system here. I could tell you endless stories of our forays in sharing babysitters, gigs, installations and still being single mom’s in a city that doesn’t support anything creative anymore. Zipora supported me when I was called to the Principal’s office at my daughters school because ZuZu was caught playing tag with a blind girl on the playground. I couldn’t for the life of me see why this was an issue with the school? At least she was trying to include rather than exclude. She was 6!!!! And the other little girl was having a blast!!! Sad fact is later that year, that other little girl was relegated to that table that is in most American cafeteria’s; you know the table of exclusion? Where the blind kids, the deaf and special learners are sequested from contact with the other kids?? That’s another issue entirely so… Anyway check out Zipora’s fabulous work, her self titled work which she creates beautiful textural graphite drawings encompassing space and thus my experience when I see it is that it reflects metaphors of sound.http://www.slowlab.net/zipora%20fried.html I can hear the words and the music.
