Back from NYC! (Day 2 summary)

Technically I returned from NYC Sunday night, so let's see if I can remember it all...
This is a run-down of all the stuff we did the 2nd day we were there.

FRIDAY
We started off at the Museum of Modern Art, where we saw some Rauschenbergs that relate to our class work
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a Lichtenstein, that I had to do the tourist thing with,
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and the famous Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (I just had to mention it because it's the first time I've seen it live)
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but my favorite exhibition there was definitely Looking at Music.


On our walk to the next place, we found these great Hello Kitty Sculptures. I'm not smiling because a crying kitty is serious.


Next, we went to the Whitney Museum of American Art where we were lucky to take in a big exhibition of Paul McCarthy work
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and talk with one of the artists, Corin Hewitt, featured in a special exhibition, Seed Stage. He has built a lab/studio in a gallery on the main floor, and he'll be working there 4 days/week for 3 months.

After that, we went to a bunch of openings in Chelsea, and the most notable was Donald Moffett's Easy Clean. This image shows one of his paintings he creates with a pastry-chef's frosting tip and oil paint. It was tough not to touch these!



After all this art-ing and walking, it was another night where I fell into bed exhausted.

Back from NYC! (Day 1 summary)

Technically I returned from NYC Sunday night, so let's see if I can remember it all...
The trip was a part of my Graduate Seminar class, and this is a run-down of all the stuff we did for the first day we were there. (I'll post each day separately, otherwise this would get crazy long!)

THURSDAY
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, where we saw the Jeff Koons exhibit
and the Giorgio Morandi exhibit.


Then, we went to the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where we saw Elizabeth Peyton's retrospective: Live Forever
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and the 2008 Altoids Awards.

It was fun to see the Elizabeth Peyton's work live because she is in the "Drawing Now" textbook I used in an undergrad drawing class.


Thursday was kind of a short day because everyone arrived in the city that day, so after partaking in an amazing deli sandwich, I turned in for the night, exhausted.

Opening at a Cigar Factory this Friday

The Florida Consortium of Art Schools (FLoCAS) is a collaboration between the dedicated graduate students and educators from major universities through out the state of Florida. As a result of this collaboration, the 2008 FloCAS Traveling Exhibition will open to the public at Tampa's Bustillo y Diaz Cigar Factory on October 7th. The exhibition runs through October 24th, and there will be an opening reception on Friday, October 10th, 6 PM - 11 PM.

The 2008 FloCAS Traveling Exhibition was juried by North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art Director Bonnie Clearwater. There are a total of 30 graduate students from USF, FSU and UF exhibiting their artwork in the show. Before arriving in Tampa the exhibition has been displayed in both Tallahassee's 621 Gallery and WarpHaus in Gainesville.

Please visit http://www.flocas.org for more information about FLoCAS and upcoming events.

When:
Exhibition Runs: October 7-24, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday October 10th, 6-11 PM

Where:
Bustillo y Diaz Cigar Factory
2111 N Albany Ave.
Tampa FL 33607

Gallery Hours:
M-F 9 AM - 5 PM by appointment only.
Please contact Cecile Raynaud.
813.598.4498
craynaud@aol.com

New work is coming along...

I've been working on some new pieces that will functions as props in an upcoming performance. They are still pretty abstract here, but I thought I'd throw up some photos just to show some progress. They are time travel devices that will eventually constitute a whole system/console for this character who is fanatically consumed by controlling and moving through time.

I was on TV! (briefly)

Check it out! I was on TV briefly because I participated in Pedro Reyes' installation/performance piece at the USF Contemporary Art Museum.



It's a quick shot of me smashing a faux-guitar, and it happens about a minute and 20 seconds into the clip. If any of you know Phil McCollam, you'll see him in the piece as well!