Monday, December 12, 2011

The Artist as Institution



I wrote a short review for Printeresting, on institutional critique and Natasha Pestich's poster show (at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts) documenting the fictional career of Jan Xylander: 

The Artist as Institution: Natasha Pestich is Jan Xylander’s Personal PR Machine.


Proud to be involved with the Printeresting guys—they recently were awarded an arts writing Creative Capital grant from the Warhol Foundation!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Easing In




There are these things about which you should probably know.


1.) Ash, London, is what we find inside wood, inside buildings, inside each of us, is the thing revealed by heat, is (as you noted) the secret heart of gray.


2.) ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::  [Red Lightbulbs #5


3.) "Your Personal Panopticon: An Interview with Christopher Meerdo" [The California Printeresting Printmaker]


4.) Oxford once, Cambridge twice. Venice for the Biennale. Paris next week (mainly for this). Then Ohio. Then, further secret adventures with compatriots await.


5.) It has been collage. Newspaper. Yet. Lately, my thoughts tend toward wallpaper.