Best Ever: Concrete, Tearducts, & Rib Bones

Impossible to re-live the intimate seconds you were once allowed you wanted more and you didn’t want more of the addiction you never gambled on never tasted knew you should’ve let your body crumble in lust and foreplay giving in giving in, no resisting of it, No turning back now.

Her eyes are open, where are Yours-

The Man at Work

Alexander Bagrat: No Objective but to Arouse

"There's no objective, there's no message, there's absolutely nothing."

Three. 114x145cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2008

As I passed by the Licht Feld Gallery's space at Scope Art Fair this year, I couldn't help myself to getting lost in the darkness (and light) Bagrat's paintings exude... I felt the chaos of gore and unrelenting obsession. I photographed the thickness of his works, the shadows in the textures which later I learned came from a tireless process of glueing and unglueing. Fitting for the artist's self proclaimed lack of objective- because doing and undoing is the natural process of living; life by no means demands an there be a "meaning," these are created by us as we look upon our past, our finished projects and to the future, wherein we choose to do, or undo. And it would be a scary thing for anyone to live a life without meaning, so for an artist to proclaim there be "no message" in his art, I find that very brave and honest.

We create to satisfy ourselves First, we do what turns us all On-

What comes out requires no explanation.

The King (detail). Oil on Canvas, 130x195cm 2008

The King (detail). Oil on Canvas, 130x195cm, 2008

Crazy Horse. Two Pieces b. Oil on Canvas, 130x195cm, 2008

Jeunne Fille (detail). Acrylic on Canvas, 114x155cm, 2008

Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 195x130cm, 2009

Princesse. Acrylic on Canvas, 114x195cm, 2007

SCOPE & PULSE NYC 2010

I waited until the last day, like the procrastinator I am, and stopped by both Pulse and Scope Art Fair in the same day. Last year I really enjoyed Scope, and this year was definitely no let down, Pulse however was a disappointment; lost somewhere between the dullness of the Armory show and the contemporary vibes of Scope.... 

ART FAIR HIGHLIGHTS : PULSE

Enrique Gomez de Molina’s hybrid creatures @ SPINELLO GALLERY

(Above) Small portion of Angelo Musco's Aranea, (Below) Detail of 'Aranea' @Carrie Secrist Gallery




Brian Drury's Feast with Dean Project (Gallery)
(Above, a section of Untitled (feast) and Below, detail of (feast))

ART FAIR HIGHLIGHTS : SCOPE




Shot during a Performance Piece (artist unknown at this time)




"The King" Alexander Bagrat; 26 year old Painter (above; entire painting not shown)(detail below)

Wandering down a hallway towards a separate space, I passed this quote by Diane Pernet, it was only on my way out that I read it and smiled in appreciation for her words:

It was down this hallway that three artists (designers) were featured, one of which was the work of Sandra Backlund, a woman whose work is unmistakable.

Necklaces by Graham Tabor & Miguel Villalobos

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(All photos taken by myself at both art fairs on March 6, 2010)

Individual write-ups on these artists will follow. (excluding Angelo Musco and Sandra Backlund,  whom you can find already noted in my blog)