Widescreened

Widescreened, digital print 300dpi B&W, 150x60cm

Widescreened

Widescreened, digital print 300dpi B&W, 150x60cm

Video Art Vomit

Sibling Topics (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.

Stuff on the way to me

Moonmilk : Ryan McGinley

this is beautiful, want to get my hand on the new B&W portraits from Dashwood Books.

There's Something Down There : Kier Cooke Sandvik

Forest Road : Sophie von Hellerman

38th Street Press

these both came and are wonderful if like me you like looking through peoples notebooks

at all the lil drawings and personal notes.

Flesh World 5 : Kier Cooke Sandvik

this came and is totally beautiful.

Mis-Fit

I'm going to be doing another sound based performance this week (Thursday after 6 for the opening) as part of a group show called MisFit, this will be a less structured piece more of an improvised performance with electronics, if your in Dublin come check it out.

heres the info Opening 29th of April @ 6pm Running until the 2nd of May

‘MisFit’ an exhibition of works by international artists to take place from the 29th of April to the 2nd of May at The Dublin Art Mill, Mill Street, Dublin 8.

This exhibition brings together for the first time over 20 of Europe’s freshest contemporary artists whose work, although diverse in style and medium, has been carefully knitted together under the umbrella term ‘Mis-Fit’. Curated by Polish artist Patryk Starzykowski and Niamh Murphy (Straylight/ Darklight Film Festival), visitors to the exhibition which runs over the May Bank Holiday weekend can expect to see performances, paintings, videos and installations, in a celebration of all that is ‘subversive’, ‘corrupted’ and ‘in-between’.

The International element to the show is a reflection of current trends within the Irish art world; encouraged by the increasing availability of exhibition and studio space Ireland is beginning to become a viable destination for European Artists to set up base: a potential positive outcome of the otherwise gloomy recession.

Speaking about the exhibition the curators describe how; ‘we have searched for artists whose work when displayed collectively would challenge the very notion of a themed exhibition. In the art gallery as in society as a whole there are certain rules we must conform to, certain boundaries, the idea is that art could be used as a tool to deconstruct these notions or at the very least open up some kind of dialogue’

Featured artists include: John Kenny, Anna Nitchaeff, Samson Guyomard, Laura Burke, Alexandra Bodea, Joan Healy, Paraic Leahy, Leo Boyd, Heather Gray, Pearl Heneghan, and Jenny Keane and many others. ( i guess im part of others) ps check out Joan Healy's work click the pink go on!

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Digital Print, RGB 300 dpi, Digital Version

Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken

Artist and writer based in Oslo He made his literary debut in 2001 with The Cocka Hola Company, the first part of his Scandinavian Misanthropy Trilogy. Macht und Rebel was released two years later, following most recently by Unfun, in Spring 2008, which completed his trilogy. All three novels are published under the pseudonym Abo Rasul.

Unfun is being released soon in english i hope the others follow.

His art deals with abstraction and interventions.

hes one of my favourite artist ever

More info from Standard in Oslo

Aurel Schmidt

Aurel Schmidt is one of my favourite artists, she is irritatingly good at drawing horrible things but making them look so pretty. Schmidt builds Arcimboldo-esque accumulations from street trash, the darker elements in nature, and researched historical imagery. Drawn with an elegant and sensitive line, she slurries together her brew of beasts and spreads them over the page to form faces, bodies, landscapes, or abstract artworks. A Grecian bust is transformed into a terrible tangle of twisting snakes. A face forms out of discarded fast food and maggots. A crooked cigarette butt smile appears over wormy lips as a woman’s burned out eyeholes stare blankly forward. robbed from deitch.

Her book Maneater is here and grab Burnouts form here.

Maneater is winging its way to me as you read, it could already be here.

I havent had a proper chance to write about Schmidt's work yet so I'll let her drawings do the talking.

New Work Proposal for wall Piece/New Prints

New Work Proposal for wall Piece,

Spray Paint

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Digital Print made with Photoshop CS3 brush tool

Dimensions Variable

Get Down with SCP

Scissors Cuts Paper | The Yellow Issue No1/2010
scissors cuts paper are proud to introduce the first issue of their quarterly zine. The publication is available in an edition of 100 and is hand folded, sewn and numbered by the artists. The Yellow Issue exhibition runs from 23rd March in Space Invaders, 8 Nth Main Street, Cork, culminating with a launch event on 1st April from 7-9:30pm.

Anne Hendrick (Wexford), Maire O’Mahony (Cork), Lucy Sheridan (Dublin) and Fiona Chambers (Belfast) began working collaboratively in 2004. Each artist has a very distinctive and individual practice employing a variety of different media. This zine provides an exploration into how their individual works function when placed side by side in a new format.

Contributing text by me. For more info visit: scissorscutspaperblog.

if your in cork pop along on the 1st as SCP openings/closings are always the best fun, most likely beer and lovely buns

DIrt Style Lenz Flare

LENZ FLARE

for Cory

Digital print, default lens flare variants, 300 DPI, RGB, dimensions variable. 2010

Dirt Style Fiberz

FIBERZ

for Cory

Digital print, default Fiber variants, 300 DPI, RGB, dimensions variable. 2010

Dirt Style Cloudz

CLOUDZ

for cory

Digital print, default Clouds and other Clouds, 300 DPI, RGB, dimensions variable. 2010

New Evelyn War coming from the Near Future!!!

Cylindrical Habitat Modules is gonna put out something new and wonderful, most likely a CS (so new and wonderful its still in the ether of the world) by my Evelyn War moniker. They also have some super great tapes and wax by others including Mark McGuire, Steve Kenney, Fragments, Sovetskaya Gone, Darksmith, Matthew Mullane. i will keep you posted as to when it happens, i have some free time to record in the next while so hopefully it will work out ok. Meanwhile i think it might sound like a combination of the images below.