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In Our Masthead: Aron Namenwirth

by Art Fag City on October 29, 2007

Aron Namenwirth, untitled 33 (Bin Laden) 2006-07 acrylic on panel 60 x 48 x 2 inches

Artist Biography

Aron Namenwirth is a painter, media artist, curator, and co-director of artMovingProjects which he founded in 1995. Aron was born in Ipswich Mass. He received his M.F.A. in Painting in 1987 from Yale. He works and lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Aron’s work is involved in Contemporary American Politics, War and Consumerist Culture. He recently showed at Momentaart, vertexList. and Galapagos. Namenwirth’s Animations have been screened at Diva in Miami. He has written and curated for Zing Magazine. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Time Out, Italian Vogue, and Broadcast on PBS and CNN.

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In Our Masthead: Shane Harrison

by Art Fag City on October 15, 2007

Shane Harrison, Valentine, 2007, Mixed Media, 7.5 x 9.5 inches

Biography

Shane Harrison is an illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. She received
her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. In her work,
Shane combines both vintage and her own photographs with hand drawn
elements. Some of her influences include the work of Push Pin Studio,
and many of Harlin Quist’s artists. Her work has been featured in many
publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall
Street Journal and The Village Voice.

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In Our Masthead: Saul Chernick

by Art Fag City on September 18, 2007

Predator's Waltz
Saul Chernick, “The Predator’s Waltz,” 2006, Ink on Paper, 16 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches framed

Saul Chernick’s drawings reinterpret and reconfigure classical images of the miraculous as they appear in Judeo/Christian mythology. Using a mark language that carries the same sense of weight and authority that religious iconography tends to possess, his drawings are set in Protosapia, an Eden like-environment that serves as both laboratory and breeding ground for an alternate or “would-be” human species. It is a place where ideas about creation, sexual politics, and iconography coalesce to create new possibilities embodied by its inhabitants, the Protosapiens. Saul, received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 and his MFA from Rutgers University in 2001. His work is currently on view at Max Protetch Gallery.

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In Our Masthead: LoVid

by Art Fag City on September 4, 2007

Lovid, “Help Carry a Tune” performance at PS1 Warm Up, 2007
with analog audio synthesizer and hundreds of feet of cables, held aloft by the audience

LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) overwhelms the senses in their new media performances, videos, objects, and installations. Touring the US and Europe extensively, Lovid has performed, exhibited, and lectured at The Neuberger Museum, The Butler Institute of American Art , PS1, Evolution Festival (UK), The Kitchen, RISD, Massachusetts College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Chicago Art Institute, University of Wisconsin, Futuresonic Festival (UK), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Ocularis, The Happy Lion, and Institute of Contemporary Art London among many others. LoVid has been part of the artist in residence program at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, iEAR, Alfred University, and Stevens Institute of Technology, has received grants and awards from Experimental TV Center, NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Greenwall Foundation, and are a free103Point9 transmission artist. They are currently working on a commission for a new web-based project from turbulence.org to be released in the Fall of 2007.

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In Our Masthead: Tara Gianinni

by Art Fag City on August 16, 2007

Tara Gianinni, Midnight Recollection, 2007, Taxidermied Beetles, spraypaint, latex, glitter, oil and acrylic paint on panel, 12 x 8.5 x 2.5 inches I featured Tara Gianinni’s art last year in the Emerging Artist Series, and have chosen to do so again in our masthead because I like her work so much. She tells me her […]

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In Our Masthead: Rob Carter

by Art Fag City on July 30, 2007

Rob Carter, Coventry City F.C., 2006, postcard, 4 x 6 inches A few of you may remember this week’s featured artist Rob Carter from last year’s emerging artist summer series, but for those who missed the post, I wrote several paragraphs on his art here. Since that time Carter made a number of new works, […]

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In Our Masthead: Guthrie Lonergan

by Art Fag City on July 16, 2007

Guthrie Lonergan, myspace.com/bricksss (Myspace profile), 2006.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Guthrie Lonergan’s work approaches home computing as pop culture. He questions his own excitement for the freedom of DIY culture — specifically the democratic spirit of the Internet — highlighting the web’s most mundane personal content to create work that feels both refreshingly humble and depressingly dismal. He focuses on the preset defaults of consumer-level technology (iPhoto slideshows, YouTube videos, etc.), and how these establish a foundation of banality for home-made culture. Relying on these presets, he approaches the Internet from the most basic user’s perspective. His role is half artist, half Internet surfer. His most current work can be seen on his new web log, where he is looking at Rock n’ Roll in the age of MP3s and the similarities between home-made content and commercial stock footage. Most of his work is exhibited on his website, TheAgeOfMammals.com. He is also a founding member of the Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club.

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In Our Masthead: Photographer Eric Hairabedian

by Art Fag City on July 3, 2007

Eric Hairabedian, Manushag, 2006 As you may have noticed there’s an old dude mixing some hot tunes in our masthead right now. Given the recent discussion here on the value of Ryan McGinley’s invincible youth photographs, I have to say we’re happy to be showcasing a piece that focuses on someone over the age of […]

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Tuesday Links: Wanna Cyber?

by Paddy Johnson and Rea McNamara on August 25, 2015

Wait, so William Gibson wasn’t the first to invent the term “cyberspace”? Nope. According to the recent What’s Happening? exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark, the honour goes to artist Susanne Ussing and architect Carsten Hoff, who collaborated in the late 1960s under the assumed name Atelier Cyberspace. Their work, included in a show focusing on late experimental art from 1965-1975, is fascinating, because their definition of the term is far less dystopian than Gibson’s take, and reveals a curious historical revisioning of the term’s etymology: stemming from early cybernetics, it was more infused with optimism, and concerned with the spatial and sensual. Like Buckminster Fuller meets Whole Foods Catalogue, but still connected to that pressing 1990s AOL chatroom question: “wanna cyber?” [Kunstkritikk]
Richard Rhodes, long-time editor of Canadian Art, is stepping down. Rhodes had been with the publication for over twenty years, and the winter issue will be his last. A search of his successor commences immediately. The announcement signals major masthead shifts within one of Canada’s leading arts magazines: David Balzer, author of the well-received Curationism, returns to the magazine in a new leadership role as Deputy Editor, overseeing all web and digital initiatives. Meanwhile, his Associate Editor replacement, Nicolas Brown, is now Manager of Programming and Education. [The Globe and Mail]
Matthew Collings calls Carsten Höller’s conversion of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Tower into a gigantic slide an example of spectacular conceptual art trolling: “Besides being stunned by literalism, it’s possible to be struck by Höller’s sadism, his contemporary for the audience with his relational-aesthetic interactive activities, as if he’s a populist for the sake of seeing how far he can debase the populace.” [The Art Newspaper]
Let’s all agree: air shows are horrible. In light of the totally unnecessary tragedy of last weekend’s Shoreham air crash — as well as the horrific fact regarding how common (and unavoidable) air show accidents are — it’s baffling why these spectacles glamorizing the military-industrial complex continue today. [Vice]
This month’s slapstick-worthy art fumble: a 12-year old Taiwanese boy trips in a Taipei museum, and punches a hole in a 350-year-old Paolo Porpora still life, valued at $1.5 million. (Don’t worry — it was insured, and he won’t be charged.) [The Guardian]
I don’t even know where to begin: A scantily-clad young woman who looks just like a porno-anime character thanks to the help of plastic surgery has designed a pair of platform shoes that will help her hack into secure computer systems. Each shoe has a drawer that can be removed without having to remove the shoe itself. Inside is a wireless router, a USB keystroke recorder, a basic lock pick set, and a retractable ethernet cable. Impressive. [Imgur]
AF, bro-down, cock block: the word list of Buzzfeed’s Style Guide is a strangely accurately compiling of commonly used internet culture terminology. [Buzzfeed]
Banksy’s Dismaland attracts tons of press in its first weekend open. The mock themeland includes rude staffers who treat visitors to a gruff pat down, funeral theme park games, and art by about 60 artists. True to form, there’s no shortage of dumb art on view—Banksy’s sculpture of a woman being attacked by seagulls seems designed to appeal to 12 year olds—but who knows. Work by Jenny Holzer, David Shrigley and Damien Hirst is on view. Maybe it will be good? [The New York Times]

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Power Women = Power Art

by The AFC Staff on April 9, 2015

What does it mean to be a Power Woman? In this auction benefit for Art F City it means you’re bad ass: You make great art and have been doing since forever. You’re an influential powerhouse within the art community. You are deserving of recognition for the work you do. In short, you are nothing less than amazing.

In honor of AFC’s upcoming Power Women 10th Anniversary Benefit, we’re sharing ten artworks for auction by ten power women. You’ve got four days to bid. Better get to that.

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