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Sep 2nd, 2007 by Reverend
death to the empire » Jim Groom on Jezebel!
My morning routine is far from exciting. I eat my cereal, I drink my tea (ah, England, how you’ve changed me), I see what’s new in the big wide world of teh interwebz. Checking out the news (the news for the ladies, that is), I read something unexpected and strangely familiar. I choke on my tea. Edupunks? Jim Groom? Why ... [Link]
Roblog » Painting In Paris
As many of you may know, thanks to financial support from the Rosalie Chauncey Scholarship, I was able to study painting in Paris this summer. As a service to prospective students applying for the Chauncey this year, I will be giving a presentation in Melchers 207 Thursday September 25th, at 5:00 PM. I will briefly present on my experiences in ... [Link]
Roblog » Unmonumental: Junk Sculpture in The 21st Century
The following material made up the basis for a presentation given to the Spore Collective in April 2008: Unmonumental: Junk Sculpture In The 21st Century Images: Overview: In December of 2007, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City opened the doors of its new location, in the Bowery district of lower Manhattan. The museum relocated to this ... [Link]
Roblog » Roblog: The Triumphant Return
Okay, Okay, I know its been a long time since I added any meaningful content to this blog, but with the semester now well underway and an enormous mound of projects started, I have finally returned to the internet after a long summer of international travel, painting, exhibition-visiting, but mostly engaged in the (unsuccessful) de-groundhogging my barn, all of which ... [Link]
Roblog » Remembering Herblock at the Portrait Gallery
Look! --- Nice Tapes, Okay, Boy?---Okay?-- Now that we’re hitting the homestretch of a three year Presidential campaign that has lasted longer than most major wars, its a fitting time to look back at the recent history of the American presidency through the eyes of the inimitable Washington post cartoonist Herbert Block, who caricatured every president between Franklin Roosevelt and ... [Link]
Roblog » Most of the time, I wish I lived in Jim Henson’s Fantastic World
If you go to D.C. between now and October 5th, do yourself the favor of suspending reality long enough to believe in puppets and go to the Smithsonian International Gallery’s exhibition Jim Henson’s Fantastic World. I can’t really give an objective critique of this exhibition because I hold the Muppets in the same special place in my heart reserved for ... [Link]
squawk » Molly Sheldon Adjectives
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Roblog » Artist Statement: Spore Collective At Main Art
The innate abilities of human beings to see certain objects as something else, the part of thought that turns the surface of the moon into a face, is a defining interest of most of my work. Therefore, in any medium I work in, I repurpose the human experience, with its jumbled elements of language, communication and past associations, in order ... [Link]
Roblog » Photos From CANNONCANNONCANNON
Now that CANNONCANNONCANNON (take a breath…) has closed, I just wanted to thank everyone who made it to our senior exhibition, whether you came to our opening, First Friday reception, or daily visiting hours. All the artists were thrilled about the enthusiasm we received from all visitors, art-goers, non-art-goers, Fredericksburgers and out -of-towners alike. If you missed it (and shoo-ee, ... [Link]
Roblog » CANNONCANNONCANNON
ANNOUNCING CANNONCANNONCANNON: A UMW Honors Candidacy Art Exhibition This year, those of us senior art majors applying for honors have taken the unusual step of taking our show off campus, in a space generously donated for the occasion by the inimitable Thomas J. Mitchell at the Galleria on Caroline Street. We’ve re-purposed the old-movie-theater-stage-turned -defunct-purse-shop into a quirky gallery space ... [Link]
squawk » “Art and sex, it’s all the same.” Pablo Picasso
When a mother and father make love, they lie next to each other, very close, kissing and hugging. The father’s penis gets very hard and he puts it into the mother’s vagina. The young caterpillar enters the flower bud and devours the folded flower parts, then exits by a round lateral hole and enters another bud which it precedes to ... [Link]
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Roblog » Spore Collective! Exhibition
First of all, as far as I’m concerned, the Spore Collective! has an exclamation point on the end. Second of all, here are some photos from the SPORE COLLECTIVE! exhibition currently on view at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Special thanks to Katherine Shaw-Sweeney of the Flippo Gallery. [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: A Pile Of Valuable Things
A Pile Of Valuable Things mixed media (books, cabinet light) 2008 In this work, the cord to an electric light is threaded through a stack that constitutes the artist’s collection of (relatively) expensive art textbooks, which are the artists most valuable possessions, both fiscally and sentimentally. The drilled hole inherently devalues the resale value of the books, and, to a ... [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: This Could Be The Whole Ball Game
This Could Be The Hole Ball Game baseball with pencil, suspended by fishing line 2008 A Little League baseball pierced with a red pencil and hung from Jeffersonian-revival architecture offers a menacing look at the heavy-handed nostalgia of Americanism: as the title implies, this sculpture could be a jury-rigged version of the colonial hole-ball game where children idly attempted to ... [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: Support Group I (My Arcadian Woods)
Support Group I (My Arcadian Woods) site specific installation, Melchers Hall (9 wooden studs leaned against arcade columns) 2008 Like “Storm Tossed Ship,” the title of this work alludes to an art historical standard: in this case, the Arcadian landscape. The tradition of Arcadian landscape incorporates the idea of nature as a pastoral extension of man’s dominance of the earth; ... [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: Drawing Pictures of NASCAR With My Friend Kyle
Drawing Pictures of NASCAR With My Friend Kyle crayons, plastic, feather, caution tape, paper clip 2008 from the SPORE COLLECTIVE! exhibition at Randolph-Macon (March 2008) [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: Piss Break
Piss Break (Robert Lynn Sucks Cock) site specific installation (wooden boards in men’s bathroom, Melchers Hall men’s bathroom) 2008 (Just as a point of reference, The title of this work incorporates both the intervention of the boards in the functionality of the bathroom stall, but also the found graffiti in the bathroom stall homophobically insulting the artist.) [Link]
Roblog » Country Boy In The City (or “Gee, look at all dem buildins!”)
Okay, here’s the scene: an obsessive art nerd (played by the plucky, intrepid Robert Lynn¹) goes to New York to check out the art “scene” for the first time, spending his final college spring break (painters gone wild!) visiting all the major galleries and museums. But wait! What if our hero turns out to be a flannel-wearing-redneck who has never ... [Link]
Roblog » The New and Improved New Museum
One of the absolute best parts of my recent gallery-hopping trip to New York was catching the inaugural exhibition at the new location of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (newmuseum.org), which, in an effort to deliberately avoid the gentrified, domesticated art scene in its native SoHo, relocated to a purpose-built six story structure in the Bowery, a gritty district ... [Link]
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