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 [...]
Eggleston, William. 2 and 1/4. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999.
Excerpts from “William Eggleston, Mystagogue” by Bruce Wagner, in the introduction to 2 and 1/4:
… We can speak of the nature and theory of photography, its philosophy, its formality and offhandedness, the random solemnity and theorem of arbitrary borders and cropped fields; we can [...]