I first became aware of Sue Coes’ artwork in the 80’s. Her expressionistic paintings, illustrations and drawings seemed to be omnipresent in the world of downtown Manhattan. I’d seen posters and placards affixed to buildings on the walls of lower east side buildings, her illustrations on the covers of RAW and X magazine. Her highly political themes pointed to the issues of animal cruelty, factory farming, meat-packing, apartheid, sweat-shops, prisons and AIDS with a dark, expressionistic style, reminiscent of Grosz, Dix , Goya and Soutine. Continue reading SUE COE : The Melding of Art and Political Activism
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Flaco Jimenez ::El Mojado Sin Licencia (1975)
from Les Blank’s 1976 documentary, Chulas Fronteras about norteño conjunto music, played along both sides of the Mexico-Texas border.
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Carolee Schneemann :: Fuses (1967) film/video, 22 min.
Artist Carolee Schneeman began work on her film Fuses in 1964, eventually finishing it 1967. Her performance piece, Meat Joy had been performed in Paris and NYC at the Judson Church the same year, along with her constructions Native Beauties (1962–64), Music Box Music (1964), Pharaoh’s Daughter (1966) and Her Letter to Lou Andreas Salome (1965). Continue reading Carolee Schneemann :: Fuses (1967) film/video, 22 min.
Inspirator: Daido Moriyama
Kathy Acker :: I Was Walking Down The Street
from the album: Sugar, Alcohol & Meat, The Dial-A-Poem Poets, 1980
Lorser Feitelson, West Coast Hard-Edge Abstraction, Pt4
Lorser Feitelson, along with his wife Helen Lundeberg, were pioneers of what was to become known as Hard-Edge abstraction in the late 1940s into the 50’s. Lorser, along with his peers and fellow artists, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin were featured in the landmark exhibition, Four Abstract Classicists at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1959. Jules Langsner, critic, psychiatrist and organizer of the exhibition coined the term “hard-edge” in his essay for the exhibition’s catalogue:
“Abstract Classicist painting is hard-edged painting. Forms are finite, flat, rimmed by a hard clean edge. These forms are not intended to evoke in the spectator any recollections of specific shapes he may have encountered in some other connection. They are autonomous shapes, sufficient unto themselves as shapes.” Continue reading Lorser Feitelson, West Coast Hard-Edge Abstraction, Pt4
Jack Chick, American Christian Fundamentalist Crusader & Arguably A Folk Artist, Dead at 92
One of Chick Publications best selling tracts: “This Was Your Life”:
Jack Chick has died. The christian fundamentalist author, cartoonist and founder of Chick Publications passed away on October 23, 2016.
For many Americans, Jack Chick’s small, rectangular, illustrated booklets depicting the fiery struggles of good over evil in contemporary life are reminders of the fundamentalist evangelical christian tradition in the United States. “Chick Tracts”, as they are commonly referred to, are “tiny comic books printed on cheap paper that are ubiquitous in subway stations, rest stop bathrooms, inside the dresser drawers of hotel rooms, and littered around other public places nationwide. “(via rationalwiki.org) Chick Publications has been printing it’s their three by five inch comic booklets since the mid -60s from their southern california publishing company.
Continue reading Jack Chick, American Christian Fundamentalist Crusader & Arguably A Folk Artist, Dead at 92
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– Daido Moriyama