Amy Sillman SFAI Lecture November 5th, 2007 Amy Sillman uses her own invented visual language to create abstract paintings that skirt on the edges of graceful calligraphic expression and noisy, gestural awkwardness. She appropriates some of the formal styles of abstract expressionism and neo-expressionism while leaving the ideological baggage behind. As she said “I’m making…

A multi gallery show opened up in New York this week showcasing the works of artist bloggers from across the country. Agni Gallery, Digging Pitt Gallery, Digging Pitt Too, and Panza Gallery are all participating. The show runs until January 12th rotating through the four participating galleries. Good luck fellow bloggers! The following list of…

Yesterday I tried on the dress I might want to wear to my wedding and realized how far from fitting me it is. There are now 277 days until my wedding and I am starting to worry about this whole weight loss thing. Last night I had a nightmare that it was 1 hour before…

Monday, case November 5 Amy Sillman Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow 7:30 pm in the SFAI Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street, illness San Francisco, CA Free and Open to the public From the SFAI website: Foregrounding color and the layering of color in her paintings, Amy Sillman achieves a striking balance of opposites: spontaneity against struggle,…

Um, can we get one of these?

You are here. So am I. Corn maze in dixon ca. Closes tomorrow. Its off highway 80 on currey rd.

I’m out seeing some nature and art. I get in free to both the tea gardens and the de young so I’m doing a double hitter. Louise nevelson is at the De Young right now. I’m still trying to figure out what I think of her work. I think it might be better in smaller…

More bees. It seems the more I get into this bee stuff, the more bee stuff comes my way. Saturday we are going to the sonoma county museum for a bee keeping demo. Kqed had a special on ccd the other night as well as 60 minutes. And then there’s that bee movie coming out.…

This is an unedited version of a paper on the following article: Rosalind Krauss, â??The Originality of the Avant-Garde,â? 1981 Originality and repetition are seen constantly in modernist work. How can two seemingly disparate words coexist in an artistâ??s work and what does this say about avant-garde art? Rosalind Krauss examines ideas of originality and…

Alanna Spence Contemporary Issues Seminar CCA Oct 2007 Rosalind Krauss, online “The Originality of the Avant-Garde, capsule ” 1981 Originality in art is fictional. Avant-garde never existed, not in modernist art and certainly not in postmodernist art. It’s ok though, we didn’t need these things anyway. Originality and repetition are seen constantly in modernist work.…

I’m at the Victoria theatre on 16th and south van ness for a poetry night. I’ve never been in this theatre before and it has a long san francisco history. It’s one of the few old theatres left in town and is beautiful. I’m seeing Jayne Cortez and the firespitters. I know nothing at all…

Another year of open studios has come and gone. I got no more than 40 visitors over 2 days. That’s pretty slow traffic for a building that used to draw in a pretty good crowd. Only three artists in the building participated this year. Last year I spent a whole lot more money, time and…

I’m open for business. I wonder if anyone is coming. I’m here today and tomorrow between 11 and 6. If you come tonight at 6, there is an event at public glass in the same building from 6 to 9. $25 gets you a hand blown glass and all the beer you can drink. I’m…

Tom, for sale Tom Tom! Butterscotch pony is at costco for $200, pilule can we bring him home? Can we? Can we? I promise to love you forever if you get me a pony for christmas.

Just plugging away on these paintings. I seem to be less adventurous with color for this round. Don’t know if that’s a bad thing or a good thing… it just is.