You can come and look if you want to

 Saw the Francesca Woodman exhibition at the Guggenheim last weekend, was left speechless. My favorites were the large nude diazotypes. So subtly profound and unnervingly beautiful. I enjoyed this synopsis and comparison to the Cindy Sherman retrospective.

Always looking straight

 David Hendren, In the shade, on view through April 14 at The Company

As the weeks fall

Samara Golden c/o Night Gallery

Soon it will all be over, buried with our past

Andy Warhol, Oxidation Painting, 1978, Urine and metallic pigment  in acrylic medium on canvas, 16 x 12

somewhere deep in the dark

     2012.

 Joe Reihsen, 2011 c/o THE COMPANY

And when it's dark outside, you light the fire yourself

Knee deep in thesis finishing, I find myself getting so lost in the details and anecdotes, sometime losing sight of the bigger picture. I was surprisingly affected by Steve Job's death last week, not so surprising when I reflect on the 10+ Apple products I possess (only 4 of which are still in working order, one of which I am no doubt attached to at any given moment). He not only changed the world, but changed every detail of my daily life. I came across the 7 principles of his success, compiled post-mortum from one of the countless tributes. I find myself referring to them not only in the context of this behemouth task that is a thesis, but also in my professional and personal life, which, as in any creative industry, are constantly intertwined. I hope this helps anyone else in a similar spot!


7 principles of success


 1. Do what you love (Passion is everything)
 2. Put a dent in the universe (Have a big, bold, concise vision)
 3. Say no to 1,000 things (Focus, reduce the clutter, simplify, streamline, BRAND!)
 4. Kickstart your brain by doing something new (think differently)
 5. Sell dreams, not products
 6. Create insanely great experiences (Innovate)
 7. Master the message (you are constantly being judged, how well do you   communicate?)

Jay Stuckey, Submarino 2011 Collage on Paper 15 x 19 c/o The Company

The calm heart will break

Works from Italian artist Sissi, at Greenberg van Doren

Move dust through the light

Going to go see the Lee Ufan retrospective at the Guggenheim tomorrow, must squeeze in all the art I can take in my last couple weeks in New York...

Open eyes and open hearts

Children of the Russian Rich, a phenomenal series of photographs by Anna Skladmann, for a forthcoming book entitled Little Adults. Via here

build a blue fire and leave this sign

Annie Lapin, The Vapor that I/You Make, 2011, Oil on Canvas, 57 x 44

A Material of Child, 2011,  Oil on canvas, 30 x 24

 The All Over Inside,  2011, Oil on linen,  71 x 54

 The Frozen Aftervision of virtue, 2011, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 64 x 66

The Leaf/Body/Between Element Embodied (From the series: Distilled and Abstracted Elements of Idealized Landscape) 2011 Oil on Canvas over panel, 45 in 

Annie Lapin's newest body of paintings was one of my favorite shows when recently in LA, it was truly stunning. You don't see a lot of new paintings that change the way you view the medium, but these certainly do. {As do these} Up through July 9 at Honor Fraser.

unique in each way you can see

 I have long admired Sara VanDerBeek's work, but had the opportunity to hear her speak last week at school, and her works took on an entirely new resonance. I love how the structures are constructed just to be photographed, then are dismantled and recycled into new works, and in that respect function in the same way as memories. They occur, and all that is left in perpetuity is their image in our mind, which is equally ephemeral, then we create new memories out of the existing ones. Beautiful.

no dawn, no day, always in this twilight..

  I must say the transition from 3 weeks in the eternally sunny (even when it rains) California to a dark, heavy and cold NY has not been the easiest. Though I find great joy in bundling up and walking through the snow (still a novelty to me) the environment definitely weighs on you. Not in an entirely bad way, just different. So I felt it was fitting to see the beautifully, at time eerie, always atmospheric works of Steichen, Steiglitz and Strand at The Met yesterday. I hadn't been up there since I was in high school, and it was a lovely way to spend a slushy afternoon. I loved both the Steichen et al show and Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, which contained some powerful works from Valie Export, Allen Ruppersberg, Rineke Dijkstra, Doug Aitken, On Kawara and Matthew Buckingham. But it was definitely the dark, old photographs that held my mind walking home last night..

 Georgia O'Keefe had the most beautiful clavicle and hands..

And the autochromes...