Last month's Arlington Arts Center exhibits, part 2
Here is one last one by Marja Ponkka-Carpenter, the most abstract you could say, and contrasting in its textural associations. It's called "Field of Breasts."
The largest exhibit was one that took up the whole upstairs. It was a series of oil painting animations by Scott Hutchison. He painted "cartoons" via small oil-paintings creating frame-by-frame animations. I took a pic of the largest one, a projection onto a screen over the stairs there, but guess what?... flash photo + projected screen = blank screen photo! I didn't think that through too well.... anyway, the other projections were shown on little 4-inch plasma screens next to the source-paintings that made up the animations. The pic below shows all the paintings that made up an animation of Hutchison saying, "I don't know," which had the accompanying audio of him saying the phrase on the little TV, looped ad infinitum.
There were also animations of his mouth clacking the teeth (which kinda gave me the creepy-chills; also, it was audible from downstairs), one of his mouth making a kiss (big smooch smack sound), a 360-panorama of his head, and others I've forgotten, probably 8 in all.
This next set is most of the wall-hanging by Allegra Marquart, "The Red Shoes," which shows a story in pictures. It is another of the "don't try to be what you're not" creepy-morality-fables; in this one, a poor girl with some haggered boots wishes she had money to get nice red shoes.
She gets the cash, and the shoes...
but the shoes go crazy and start jerking her around on their own accord...
so she asks a woodsman to cut them off (represented by Marquart, oddly, by a floating axe), and he does (note the big, cartoony, ham-hock disembodied feet, still in the red shoes)(it's kinda hard not to notice them), and she is content (a little too content, maybe) to carry on her life as a footless beggar.
Another much longer wall-hanging set she did was "The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage." This is a fable against taking bad advice. You see the beginning summarized in the first hanging, in text:
The sparrow, mouse, and sausage live happily in this shack, until a cardinal tells the sparrow he's doing too much of the work, so they reassign chores.
The story ends with (I believe) the sausage (or maybe the mouse) not being able to carry all the firewood and setting the cabin on fire, while the sparrow is shown being stalked by a wolf while gathering wood. (I didn't have enough film to get the whole work, since I had to get everything in the Arts Center on this one camera)
In a handout flyer at the exhibit, Marquart wrote, "What compelled me to illustrate [the story] was the little side note [by the Brothers Grimm] about the sausage jumping into the soup to flavor it." Shades of Harry Caray asking, "If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself?": if you were a sausage, would you season your soup with yourself?
The Arts Center website lists the new exhibits now showing; I like the color in the Stroik paintings.
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Looking forward to Friday with rollerdisco and NoControl! Also, NC, we should go to Shula's or somethin' on Sunday... and, Portland folks, I'll be there on the 7th!!
Here is one last one by Marja Ponkka-Carpenter, the most abstract you could say, and contrasting in its textural associations. It's called "Field of Breasts."
The largest exhibit was one that took up the whole upstairs. It was a series of oil painting animations by Scott Hutchison. He painted "cartoons" via small oil-paintings creating frame-by-frame animations. I took a pic of the largest one, a projection onto a screen over the stairs there, but guess what?... flash photo + projected screen = blank screen photo! I didn't think that through too well.... anyway, the other projections were shown on little 4-inch plasma screens next to the source-paintings that made up the animations. The pic below shows all the paintings that made up an animation of Hutchison saying, "I don't know," which had the accompanying audio of him saying the phrase on the little TV, looped ad infinitum.
There were also animations of his mouth clacking the teeth (which kinda gave me the creepy-chills; also, it was audible from downstairs), one of his mouth making a kiss (big smooch smack sound), a 360-panorama of his head, and others I've forgotten, probably 8 in all.
This next set is most of the wall-hanging by Allegra Marquart, "The Red Shoes," which shows a story in pictures. It is another of the "don't try to be what you're not" creepy-morality-fables; in this one, a poor girl with some haggered boots wishes she had money to get nice red shoes.
She gets the cash, and the shoes...
but the shoes go crazy and start jerking her around on their own accord...
so she asks a woodsman to cut them off (represented by Marquart, oddly, by a floating axe), and he does (note the big, cartoony, ham-hock disembodied feet, still in the red shoes)(it's kinda hard not to notice them), and she is content (a little too content, maybe) to carry on her life as a footless beggar.
Another much longer wall-hanging set she did was "The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage." This is a fable against taking bad advice. You see the beginning summarized in the first hanging, in text:
The sparrow, mouse, and sausage live happily in this shack, until a cardinal tells the sparrow he's doing too much of the work, so they reassign chores.
The story ends with (I believe) the sausage (or maybe the mouse) not being able to carry all the firewood and setting the cabin on fire, while the sparrow is shown being stalked by a wolf while gathering wood. (I didn't have enough film to get the whole work, since I had to get everything in the Arts Center on this one camera)
In a handout flyer at the exhibit, Marquart wrote, "What compelled me to illustrate [the story] was the little side note [by the Brothers Grimm] about the sausage jumping into the soup to flavor it." Shades of Harry Caray asking, "If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself?": if you were a sausage, would you season your soup with yourself?
The Arts Center website lists the new exhibits now showing; I like the color in the Stroik paintings.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Looking forward to Friday with rollerdisco and NoControl! Also, NC, we should go to Shula's or somethin' on Sunday... and, Portland folks, I'll be there on the 7th!!
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but then i stopped having insurance, so now i will NEVER KNOW.