paws and paws

danger and beauty, new mexico-style

playdate with naima

dismantling the TFW

Instructional Photographs

Assignments and tasks have been a part of the arts at least since Yoko Ono’s celebrated book Grapefruit, with its deadpan instructions on dada-inspired actions. Much of performance art in its heyday involved artists giving themselves labors, such as Ann Hamilton’s enormous piles of clothing to be sorted, or Tom Marioni drinking enough Anchor Steam beer to fill his bladder, and then relieving himself into a bucket while standing on a ladder. LissaIvy brings this tradition into the 21st century in Instructional Photographs, her MFA thesis project. Friends and acquaintances are asked to assign her to make a photograph of a poetic emotional or psychological state that they describe, becoming collaborative instigators of her work. A large-scale photograph is indeed the result, along with related visual materials. The exhibition is a conglomeration of these assignments received on postcards, her resulting photoworks, ephemera, notes and marginalia, that in fact document the artist’s circle of peers in a place and time, forming a kind of time capsule. Photography is finding digital means to liberate itself from the tyranny of the rectangle, through conceptual approaches as well as new formal possibilities. LissaIvy contextualizes her lens-based work as one possibility for visual expression among many other forms of self-documentation.

– Renny Pritikin

raiding mommy's purse

starting early.

"i'm not afraid to be sidetracked."

joseph grigely quote 05.09.08

the glimpsed unland of light

all i want to do this week is read paul auster poems. they are all about earth [celan], eyes [bataille], and light [photography].

MFA exhibition in Davis-don't miss it

2008 UCD MFA Exhibition May 30 through June 20, 2008

Opening on Friday May 30, 5-7 pm at the Memorial Union Gallery and 6-8 pm at the Nelson Gallery

*afterparty at grad studios 8pm

*note: galleries closed on weekends*

Irman Arcibal Caroline Cloak Chau Thuy Huynh Mary Alison Lucas Nickolas Mohanna LissaIvy Tiegel

for directions and such: http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu/ Room 124 of the Art Building One Shields Ave. University of California, Davis 530-752-8500

dirty martinis with a funeral director. hotel bar. atlanta

mark your calendars

more info next month. directions here: http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu/

re.vealed

dismantling the stageset for a secret

Stageset For a Secret

secret performance went on behind this corner stageset at my review last year. what began as a way to take a break from looking at a previous corner piece that wasn't working, turned dramatically theatrical, so i went with it. minimalism really isn't my style.

the orange that stayed in my bag

an orange stayed in a plastic bag inside my backpack, where a moist bit of brownie caused a paperclip to rust itself onto the orange, producing a mould that matched the wall color of my studio at the time. this was last year. posting now, because i packed it up yesterday.

"the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily.. .."

"the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing."

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"she's very strong--she's an artist."