Finally managed to get my main site updated with new work from last semester. Despite the huge interruption that was moving, I still make a lot of stuff. I guess that can happen when you don’t stretch any canvases. I may still do more touching up of some images to make up for my less than stellar photography skills, but at least you can get an idea of what I was up to for the last half of 2008. Check it and let me know what you think.
Last Friday I made a trip down to Pittsburgh with my friend Julian to catch the incredibly mediocre Carnegie International: Life On Mars? show before it closed. We were both pretty underwhelmed overall and agreed that the Barry McGee installation, Wilhelm Sasnal’s paintings and Mike Kelly’s Kandor series were among the strongest work. I’ll throw Rudolf Stingel’s large paintings and the Thomas Hirshhorn’s installation as being noteworthy as well. Biggest disappointment: an entire room of Vija Celmins paintings. I normally like her work when encountered individually but an entire room seemed to deflate their power and failed to hold my interest.
