Mark Steven Greenfield "blackatcha"

Can you read what the print says? 

Answers below.

Nightmare, 2001, iris print, 38 x 24"

Untitled, date, medium and measurements unknown

Untitled, 2000, serigraph, 23 x 16"

Images Courtesy of Mark Steven Greenfiled

Image 1: What choo lookin at mutha fukkah
Image 2: Whats your fuckin problem biich
Image 3: Some indignities persist

Abstract Artists do WHAT?

Thank you for staying with me while I took some time away from the blog. 

I am looking forward to my continued attempt to share really brilliant art.

Happy Holidays!

Subodh Gupta & His Unique Utensil Sculptures

Gandhi's Three Monkeys

Gandhi's Three Monkeys (detail), 2007 - 2008, bronze, old utensils, steel

Gandhi's Three-monkeys (detail), 2007 - 2008, bronze, old utensils, steel

Gandhi's Three-monkeys (detail), 2007 - 2008, bronze, old utensils, steel

Very Hungry God, mixed media

Untitled, mixed media

Images courtesy of Saatchi Gallery, Hauser & Worth and Arario Gallery

Tip Toland, New Sculptures

Tip Toland, Jester - Yep, 2012, Stoneware, Paint, Charcoal, Pastel, 31 x 31 x 20"

Tip Toland, Jester - Mum, 2012, Stoneware, Paint, Charcoal, Pastel, 29 x 32 x 20"

Tip Toland, Jester - Surely, 2012, Stoneware, Paint, Charcoal, Pastel, 27 x 31 x 18"

 
To view more works by Tip Toland click here

Fernando Botero

Ballerina, 2011, bronze ed. of 6, 17-1/8 x 22 x 15-3/4"

Small Reclining Woman on Her Side with Drapery, 2009, bronze ed. of 2, 9-7/8 x 22-1/2, 9-5/8"

Woman on a Horse, 2008, bronze, ed. of 6, 46-1/8 x 31-7/8 x 18-1/2" 

Current exhibition in New York City

Hugh Hayden and his Barbies

Hut, 2012, mixed media, measurements unknown

Small Doll Flag, 2012, mixed media, measurements unknown

To see more Hugh Hayden works click here

Images courtesy of Hugh Hayden

Maurizio Cattelan

L.O.V.E, 2010, white carrara marble, roman tavertine, 36 x 15 1/2 x 15 1/2' 

Felix, 2001, oil on polyvinyl, resin, fiber-glass, 40 x 6 x 20'

Front view of Felix

Now, 2004, wax, clothes, natural hairs, wood, 3 x 7 1/2 x 2 1/2'

Images courtesy of Gallerie Perrotin

Ron Mueck

Title Unknown, mixed media, measurements unknown

Two Women, mixed media, measurements unknown

 

Wild Man, mixed media, measurements unknown

In Bed, mixed media, unknown measurements

Mask Two, mixed media unknown measurements

Images courtesy of boredpanda.com

Jimi Gleason

Interzone, silver deposit, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 56"

Wall of Light (Isabella), silver deposit, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 70"

Crown, silver deposit, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36"

To see more work by Jimi Gleason visit the Peter Blake Gallery. 

Dirk Dzimirsky - Photorealism

Black Sun, 2011, graphite on paper, 25 x 20"

Trinity, 2009, charcoal drawing on canvas, 40 x 40"

Draw Face VII (Nicole II), 2008, pencil on paper highlighted in white, 50 x 55"

Draw Face VI, 2009, pencil on paper. 42 x 54"

Please treat yourself to some more beauties on Dirk Dzimirsky website or blog.

Terence Koh

yesterdae i washed my hands foo 8 minutes. 13 may 12

Image Courtesy of Terence  Koh

Image Courtesy of Terence  Koh

Image Courtesy of Terence  Koh

James Casebere - Constructed Photography

Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #8, 2010 
framed digital chromogenic print mounted to Dibond, 74 1/8 x 90 3/4 x 3"

Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #9 , 2011
framed digital chromogenic print mounted to Dibond, 74 1/16 x 91 15/16 x 3"

Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #10, 2011
framed digital chromogenic print mounted to Dibond 74 x 86 x 3"

Green Staircase #4, 2002-2003 
digital chromogenic print mounted to Plexiglas, 89 1/2 x 71 1/2"

Images courtesey of Sean Kelly Gallery
To read more about James Casebere Click Here

Linda Fleming, "Helios", 2011, powder-coated steel, 100 × 110 × 56"

Here is a fun story I found on Linda Fleming's site while I was researching the artist. 

It's a story everyone who loves Rauschenberg wishes they had!

Jumping Rope with Rauschenberg

It was the late spring of 1967, maybe May, when I walked into a quiet room in the home of a Philadelphia art collector to step back from the raucous party.  There was a lot of scotch, and at 21 I hadn’t heard about knowing your own limit.  The large lavishly furnished parlor was inhabited by an older man (perhaps 45) who seemed to have a similar inability to know when he’d had too much.  We laughed and talked about hiding from the forced ritual of the party where wild and confrontational artists insulted and amused their patrons (just as they have for hundreds of years) but how the owners of the mansions always seemed to maintain control.  I told the stranger how I had always wanted to jump rope with the tassels of the drapes in an opulent room.  We both laughed and rushed to undo the braided cord wrapped around shimmering green silk.  We tried to get a full swing with the rope in the room but it was too filled with furniture to accommodate our street game.  By now we were determined and found a long wide hallway to be a perfect place to allow the full arc of the swinging cord.  Laughing and reeling we lurched through eight or ten double jumps when the rope caught on a picture wire that ran the length of the hallway pulling the hook out at one end.  One by one the framed prints crashed to the floor breaking the glass and denting the frames.  The Matron of the house came running in furious and screaming about the destruction of her entire suite of Rauschenberg prints.  Her tirade was cut short when she recognized my fellow rope jumper.  Her face softened and she apologized to him for being so upset but she gave me; a young, drunk, mini skirted, long red haired, aspiring but unknown artist the dirtiest look as she walked back to join her party.

Linda Fleming
May 13, 2008

To read more on Linda Fleming click here.

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson works with many different animals, but I've decided to focus this post on a few of his chimp paintings. Each painting has a short story attached that was written by Donald. Also, make sure you're reading what is written on the frames!

A Rite of Passage

A Rite of Passage by Donal Roller Wilson

"Semi-impenetrable...an un-gated fence with missing pickets..and with jack and his little half-sister meg's eyes about to pop...querulous from a dearth of the holy ghost...absent from the presence of the father and the son...airborne spheres swollen from primordial gasses...bubbles from this thrice-failed celebration...

With their half-sister naughty Betty continuing without redemption, yet puerile with glee...obfuscating...armoring against the pain of becoming something she was not in order to fit in, yet not even knowing...

It had become a predictably repetitive disruption of her maturational cycle...

It was all very complex. One would have had to at least half been there..."

Naughty Betty

"Naughty Betty...Half a catholic, but half jewish princess, to boot...(now on the rag)...exhausted, emotionally drained, and crazed from endless annual attempts at the ratification of her coming of age- having suffered multiple and miserably faulted confirmations and bat mitzvahs...(each going totally haywire - prior to even beginning)...

Found herself a fat rich baptist wasp who momentarily off the wagon - had mistakenly stumbled into temple where Betty snagged, and simply married the son of a bitch...

Even though all these things had transpired only within her mind...so to speak...

It was all very complex...one would have to half been there..."

"Helen was no dummy....she smelled a rat...and she knew the rat she smelled was a "conceptual" odor; as distinguished from a "real" odor...as one obviously having been produced by her half-brother Jimmy...

The fact of the temperature hovering just a hair above freezing having made it possible for Jimmy to produce a couple of streams of visible but unconvincing and odorless emissions had become a faulted ruse...and helen suspected a far lower source !

It was all very complex...one would have had to half been there..."

1938

"1938...At the precise moment beginning the year...Jimmy, having wandered to the center of Brenda's nur farm..mistakenly seeing his half-sisters, Betty, Meg, and little Judy...

Seeing them engaged in what was absolutely appeared to be a lebanese affair - a questionable three-way, a liaison...(though Jimmy was not sure that's what it was - and even if it was what he thought it was, he was not certain he had the name of it down pat)...(though he was certain that whatever it was began with an L)...(and regardless, he was going to spread it around)...

But all that aside (and with Meg not even being away of Jimmy's awareness)...all Meg thought it to be was an opportunity to give her half-sister, little Judy's ear a good yank...

And with Betty thinking it to be only an opportunity to try and sneak a quick smoke...(not knowing the lucky strike she thought she had, was candy)...

And with little Judy not thinking anything at all outside of getting away as fast as possible)...

And, so the year began..."