TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS

I've saved loads of images over the past few months but never had the willpower to come back and blog regularly. If I had my druthers, I'd update this thing all the time but with school it's hard to do. In any case, here are some cool things.

MAX KLINGER
Some months ago the Legion of Honor had a small exhibit of Klinger's work. I was especially drawn to his "Paraphrase on the Findings of a Glove" series. Not only am I a sucker for good etching, but his work is so fundamentally weird and cryptic, I can't help but be compelled.

JULIE MORSTAD
LOVE Morstad's work. It's very reminiscent of Edward Gorey, but there's an added dimension of preciousness married to the sinister in Morstad's universe. She also pays amazing attention to detail - I'm just crazy about the missing sock in the piece below.


MICHAEL KRUEGER
Oldie but a goodie (check out his interview on Fecal Face). Perfect application of a simple medium (color pencil) and terrific use of color in Krueger's ahistorical and all-historical questioning of the American landscape. I love the way he depicts the sky as radians of varying color.
TAYLOR MCKIMENS
Here is the COOLEST installation by Taylor McKimens, really rad play between flatness and 3-dimensionality.

SURFIN' - PT. 2

My eyes have recently been opened to the wonderful world of embroidery.

JANE MOUNT
Totally cute and cuddly. I mean, look at that precision, makes me wish I was even mildly competent with a needle and thread.

SASHA FOSTER
These are part of a Zodiac series and, once again, totally adorable. Love the tangled thread detail on the second boy's red sweater. I also think it's pretty cool that asides from the Zodiac "mittens", the embroidery looks more like line drawing then thread on canvas.

RICHARD SAJA
Saja wryly embroiders over the pastoral scenes on French Toile de Juoy to create unusual, often anachronistic, narratives. Really funny and wonderful use of color here.

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On another note, recently I have been ALL ABOUT this music video:

Track is called "Gee Wiz" by Kindness, sooooo booty-shakin'. Unfortunately, the song is less than 2 minutes long and the info on this band and where to get more of their tunes is pretty scarce.

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Finally, I present to you my photos from the Kathryn Spence exhibit at 49 Geary. Could do with a little more light, but turned out pretty decently!

SURFIN' - PT. 1

Here is some cool art I've come across surfin' the net these past few days.

LIU BOLIN
Bolin explores humanity's fundamental alienation from the animal instinct that equips other organisms with the ability to survive.


ROBERT HUNTER
Sweet UK-based illustrator with a really nice, whimsical eye.

I especially recommend checking out what he's scanned from his sketchbook, so lovely.

STACEY ROZICH
Rad stuff coming from this SF/Seattle illustrator, striking images of a strange folktale past.

JOHN KENN
I'm really digging this guy's most recent drawings-- monochromatic little renderings finely wrought on Post-It notes. They're very Edward Gorey-esque, not quite as unsettling but still a bit dark and certainly just as peculiar.