Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney, the Jicks, Drumgasm) and Sam Coomes (Heatmiser) will release their new Quasi double LP Mole City on October 1st via Kill Rock Stars in the U.S. and Domino in Europe. The video for “You Can Stay But You Got to Go”, features Weiss and Coomes wearing masks as they perform the track.
TweetThe clip is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Fiona’s ex-boyfriend and the mind behind Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, The Master, etc. She told V magazine last year that they’d begun making the video together, but that Anderson was interrupted by other work before it was completed.
Fiona co-produced the video with Anderson; Brendan Walsh edited. It also features Fiona’s sister, Maude Maggart, who sings on the track.
TweetInspired by pop culture’s most badass icon, Mr. Walter White from TV’s Breaking Bad, MintyFresh teamed up with Made by Monsters to give a biohazard rework to Ron English‘s classic Mousemask Murphy. Sporting a yellow biohazard suit and designed to reflect White’s status as a meth lab expert, the limited edition vinyl figure stands at 10 inches tall and just 100 pieces have been created.
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Exploring correspondences and disparities of image and culture as well as the hierarchy of man in these artworks, Baldessari emphasizes the distinct separateness of each photographic image and the composition of a work from incongruous and disparate fragments in space. “So much of our thinking is shaped by certain givens”, explains Baldessari.
“It is no accident that camera viewfinders are rectangles and that certain proportions shape our image of the world. I strongly believe that there is such a thing as hierarchy of vision that dominates the way that we picture reality. That is why for years my work has fought against what I term ‘the tyranny of the square.’ … ‘The use of frames as architecture is but an extension of the way I build my images up from psychologically charged material.’ (Baldessari in an article in Another Magazine by Mark Sanders, Autumn/Winter 2003).
Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2013
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
10019
New York
USA
Jensen employs a range of ready-made materials in lieu of canvas including wool, silk, linen, and burlap. His works often eschew painting altogether, relying instead on sewing, bleaching, or staining. When used, paint has been applied subtly, sparingly, and at times from behind the canvas. In more recent works, however, both undersaturated acrylic paint and soft pastel are applied liberally. Exotic materials including money, saffron, and diamond dust have also been known to adorn Jensen’s surfaces.
Flaws in materials are embraced and even foregrounded in Jensen’s paintings, drawing attention to seemingly incidental marks and signs of distress. A lack of expectation lends itself to an economy of means, in which leftover materials are often incorporated into new work as a gesture of self-reflexivity. While the canvas continually serves as a locus of deconstruction, in Jensen’s new works the physical temperament of paint is further investigated. Utilizing a wide array of media and formal references, Jensen’s paintings engage with an aesthetic of removal and withdrawal, while consistently bearing the traces of their making.
Exhibition runs through to August 3rd, 2013
Regen Projects
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90038
USA
Daniels begins his artistic process by constructing aluminum foil maquettes of the figurative or abstract form that he plans to explore. The artist photographs reflections of light and color on the model, and then uses the resulting picture to inform his paintings, meticulously reproducing sections of the captured image in oil paint.
The arch is a structure with practical applications as well as myriad allegorical and romantic associations. Embodying grace and lightness, it symbolizes triumph, transition, and spiritual ascension. Daniels began exploring the arch as a subject in 2011, at first on the small scale characteristic of his earlier paintings. As his interest in the form developed, he began creating larger works in which he employs the arch as a repetitive motif, both within individual paintings and throughout his new body of work. These paintings, which pay homage to the structure, hover between realism and abstraction and illustrate Daniels’s rich style of painting.
Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2013
Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street
New York
10011
NY
USA
