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Colin Rusch

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Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Dec 12, 2002 5:35 PM

What is your favorite piece of art that you've seen or experienced in the last 6 months? If you don't have a single favorite, write about one that effected you or keeps coming back to your thoughts. Say a little something about why this piece of art succeeded for you.

Colin Rusch

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Dec 12, 2002 5:40 PM

I saw Julyen Hamilton perform last weekend. He is a British dance improvisor based in Spain. His physical and conceptual clarity stuck with me. Even thought the actual performance did not blow me away (improvisation isn't always on!), his technical prowess was exceptional. If you have a chance, check him out. http://www.julyenhamilton.com/

Alicia Patrick

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Dec 13, 2002 2:42 PM

I went to an opening last weekend for Teresa Handy - an artist from St. Paul. She paints the most beautiful landscapes. They are so vast and you can truly lose yourself in them. Her technique is also amazing. I wonder if she uses a brush at all with her oils because you can't even see brush strokes. The result is hypnotic and introspective.

Kai Hagen

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Dec 16, 2002 12:31 PM

Hmmm...

Now that I think about it, I haven't seen many exhibits and whatnot in recent months. Busy, busy.

But I did go the Philips Art Gallery in DC a couple of weeks ago to see a special exhibit of Pierre Bonnard's works. It included a sizable number of paintings.

Beautiful.

We were with our young sons, so it was enjoyable and interesting to observe with them, and discuss their impressions and likes and dislikes.

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I did spend some time the other day looking around the website of Jim Brandenburg, who is one of my favorite photographers.

http://www.jimbrandenburg.co

Colin Rusch

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Dec 18, 2002 5:18 PM

Hey Kai,

I just checked on PB's work. Not too shabby. He is new to me. Thanks for the introduction.

Colin

Kai Hagen

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Dec 19, 2002 1:15 AM

My pleasure. Glad you found his work "not too shabby!"

Colleen Mullins

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Registered: Jul 24, 2001

Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 13, 2003 7:57 PM

Karl Raschke's new show at the Christensen Center at Augsburg College is outstanding. And the space is one of the sweetest for installation artists I've seen in some time. It's off the beaten path, but worth the search.

Thomas Allen

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Registered: Oct 24, 2002

Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 13, 2003 8:23 PM

A tiny Frederick Sommer silver print of a torn poster at the Milwaukee Art Institute. I stood before it for what seemed like forever. I have always been (and will continue to be) inspired by his work.

Colin Rusch

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 14, 2003 12:10 AM

Colleen - Do you know how long the show at Augsburg is up?

Thomas - This really intriguing. How was the poster torn? What made it so compelling?

Colin

Colleen Mullins

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 16, 2003 12:15 PM

Colin- The Raschke show is up through February 12. His work has a way of elevating the banal to the sublime. The work transcends that thin line between the snapshot and fine art. I love smart photographers.

I've got another show that flipped my lid though...the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago had a marvelous exhibition that ran from July to September. It featured the works of Justine Kurland, Hellen van Meene and Anthony Goicolea--who also had work at MCAD recently--All of these folks are young and fresh, and dealing with ideas of gender, identity and youth culture. I think that museum in general does a great service for photography.

Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001

Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 18, 2003 5:30 AM

Two Things:

One - Ethel and Iva Bittova at the Walker back in November. I was having this inner crisis about choosing art as a worthy path - y'know, "is it worth it? can I bring something to people? does art still have the power to transcend?" etc. (No small questions, to be sure.)

Then I saw these performers - and if I ever doubt again, I will think back to that night.

Two - I saw Cremaster 3 at the Walker last week... and while I wasn't thrilled at the time (the scene at the top of the Chrysler Bldg. moving the large iron blocks was like the OCD channel...), I am always impressed and humbled when a work savagely takes my brain hostage for several days after its consumption.

But it grew on me. I dreamt of it *all *night after the Wednesday viewing, periodically waking up my boyfriend with "Oh my god - I get it!" and of course I can't remember a thing. (I'm sure he thinks I'm crazy.) It just all makes sense now, in some way that is completely resistant to language.

Roger Przybys

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Registered: Sep 22, 2001

Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 18, 2003 4:55 PM

I was in Sioux Falls SD and happened upon a show by Jim Brandenburg at the Washington Pavilion. Definitely one of our most talented living photographers.

Colin Rusch

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Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jan 21, 2003 10:54 PM

Hey Roger,

Thanks for the heads up. Do you know where I can find any of Jim B.'s work online?

Colin

Colleen Mullins

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Registered: Jul 24, 2001

Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Feb 11, 2003 9:48 AM

Gosh, I hope I shouldn't be waiting six months to tell about my next favorite art in the last six months!

I just went to the Getty in L.A. and saw the new Bill Viola show "The Passions". It was as close to a religious experience as I've ever come. If you are going to be in Southern California between now and April 27....plan a day at the Getty. For that matter, even if you hate art, but like a nice view, you should go to the Getty!

The web site for Getty is www.getty.edu where you can find out a bit about the artists and his work. The pieces are videos in very slow motion depicting emotions based on Viola's own studies of the depiction of emotion in mostly devotional paintings from around the 17th Century. Transcendent is the piece, "Observance"...in which a group of people file forward toward the viewer, apparently looking in horror or grief at something that is off screen, at the viewer's feet. The very sweetness of small human touch and the slow transition to horror or grief in the faces of the actors, nearly moved me to tears.

The Getty commissioned a new piece from Viola, called "Emergence", which will also be on view in London at the National Gallery mid-October through the new year. This was not my favorite piece, but if it's the only one you can see, do it.

Hey, WALKER ART CENTER...get this show!

Sam Spiczka

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From: Sartell, MN
Registered: Jul 20, 2001

Re: Favorite art in the last 6 months?
Posted: Jul 13, 2003 11:00 PM

While I was at the Art Institute today, I stopped in the recent acquisitions gallery (which is the first thing I generally do) and saw an incredible painting. By a local artist Chris Mars, it was entitled Funeral Procession for the Minimal Man. Incredibly beautiful technique/surface treatment contrasting nicely with a grotesque/distorted treatment of the scene's inhabitants. This is my kind of a painting. Assertive, commanding, with a confident swagger and not a little bit dangerous. I encourage others to check it out.

Sam

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