January 14, 2009 – 10:41 pm
The following excerpts from the April 2008 issue of Telegraph Magazine highlight the object-making aspect of taxidermy, which is exactly what makes Morgan’s work compelling. By repositioning the prepared animal away from naturalism and science, these tableaux reveal them as purely material, as jarringly unnatural. Since there is no attempt to give them any kind [...]
January 14, 2009 – 10:41 pm
By Joseph Casciano | Posted in Sculpture |
Tagged art, bird, contemporary, death, excerpt, excerpts, fauna, fox, rabbit, Sculpture
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December 12, 2008 – 5:13 pm
From Mr. Blakely’s artist’s statement:
I live quietly in this midwestern city of ghosts and mutterers.
Charles Baxter
[...] In the most basic sense, this project is about the 400 and 500 blocks of Keech Avenue, an examination of my immediate surroundings…
… Overall, the work tells the story of a community that is holding on to a vanishing [...]
December 5, 2008 – 6:06 am
Hannah Whitaker, White Rabbit. Chromogenic development print.
From the exhibition catalog to Ms. Whitaker’s “Our Eyes Would Burn”, curated by Cecilia Jurado for the Y Gallery in 2007:
Combining scientific, mystical, and animal elements, these photographs convey a sense of naïve curiosity and experimentation. The title emphasizes a common thread in many of the pictures–the notion that [...]