Lucy R. Lippard

"A uniform density, an overall texture, often sensuously tactile and often repetitive to the point of obsession; the preponderance of circular forms and central focus... layers or strata; an indefinable looseness or flexibility of handling; a new fondness for the pinks and pastels and the ephemeral cloud-colors that used to be taboo."

SMFA Annual Student Photo Exhibition

My photograph, Stomach Skin 1 (I can't really keep track of all these numbers though), has been excepted into the SMFA Annual Student Photo Exhibition along with two other photographs I have taken. The opening reception for the show will be Wednesday, March 14, at 5:30, and the work will be up until Friday, April 6.

The Joy of Representational Painting - Draft 2

Mona Hatoum - Corps Étranger

"It is a complex work. It is both fascinating to follow the journey of the camera and quite disturbing. On one hand you have the body of a woman projected onto the floor. You can walk all over it. It’s debased, deconstructed, objectified. On the other hand it’s the fearsome body of the woman as constructed by society.

You enter a cylinder and you stand on the perimeter of the circular video image projected onto the floor. You feel like you are at the edge of an abyss that threatens to engulf you. It activates all sorts of fears and insecurities about the devouring womb, the vagina dentata, the castration complex."

More Jenny Saville

"It's because the nervousness of revealing is inherent that I'm interested in it - not in showing the world my genitalia. It is about being brave enough with myself to offer up that anxiety. I like my neuroses - they are my living sketchbook. I don't want to work them out."

The Joy of Representational Painting

Draft 1