sunday walks

i love these paintings by leanne shapton.

found via nytimes.com

"i need to feel like i matter"

i saw these last week in union square.

everyone i have ever slept with...

Keeping going with the art theme of the past couple posts...this piece is by British artist, Tracey Emin- whose work is centered around unflinchingly sharing the details of her sexual and sensual life. 

 Probably her most well-known work is Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995,  a tent appliquéd with 102 names of the people she had slept with up to the time of its creation in 1995. Some people have criticized her for her objective stance on her own life, but I like the following quote from her about this piece:

"Some I'd had a shag with in bed or against a wall, some I had just slept with, like my grandma. I used to lay in her bed and hold her hand. We used to listen to the radio together and nod off to sleep. You don't do that with someone you don't love and don't care about."

-Tracey Emin

See?  It's nice.

jack pierson: desire, lust, romance

 

 

so... jack pierson- he's an artist & a photographer that i happen to get into from time to time. there is definitely more to pierson than what you see here, but these are a few of the pieces i was looking at when designing our first collection for Every Little Counts...that whole desire, lust, romance thing. we're coming upon our 2 year anniversary so i'm getting a little sentimental.

"Pierson’s work has long embodied sensations of nostalgia and melancholia, memory and loss."

-Cheim & Read

ophelia

 john everett millais.

john william waterhouse

arthur hughes

alexandre cabanel 

do all girls go through an ophelia phase? i personally had the millais version hanging in my bedroom as a teenager. but my favorite ophelia association is from the little seen, "Fire with Fire" starring Virginia Madsen & Craig Scheffer, my favorite 80's romance of all time. seriously. she's a catholic schoolgirl & he's an inmate at a neighboring juvenile detention facility. they meet in the woods when she is taking self portraits referencing ophelia drowning in the river.

here's a weird video edit from youtube-

gigi gaston: the black flower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 adam & i finally trekked over to chelsea this past weekend to see "Josh Gosfield: Gigi Gaston, the Black Flower." seeing this show has been on my to-do list since i heard about it the beginning of last month.

"Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston. Gigi’s music and the spectacle of her tragic life riveted the public through the 60s and 70s. The exhibition documents her life and loves with archival photographs, posters, record covers, magazine and newspaper articles, a music video shot by Jean- Luc Godard, documentary footage, and assorted ephemera. We see her Gypsy family’s escape from Bulgaria, her affair with her stepbrother, her first guitar, her rise up (and fall down) the charts,  the car crashes, funerals, love triangles and the murder trial. All this played out in a garish media spotlight before the insatiable eyes of her public."

 walking through the gallery, you become fully immersed in this ephemera and you begin to wonder why you have never heard of her, and then it all becomes clear- it's all fiction! but that video really did look like a Godard piece. this entire life that you just became consumed by was a creation. it was all an elaborate scheme directed by Josh Gosfield with the help of actors, stylists,  make up artists, and photoshop. genius.

you have 2 more days to see this exhibit before it closes.

steven kasher gallery

521 w. 23rd st.

new york, ny

Hadley Holliday: Paintings

Forever and Never, 2009

For all of you in LA, you should definitely come out to my friend, Hadley Holliday's opening reception tonight at SolwayJones gallery in Chinatown. She is one of my good friends, but she also happens to be one of my favorite painters- EVER.

Hadley Holliday: Sept. 12- Oct. 10th, 2009
Opening Reception: Sept. 11 6-8pm

SolwayJones
990 North Hill St., Ste. 180
La, Ca 90012
323.223.0224

(For more on Hadley, see our original post here, and here on my friend Jennifer's blog- Ermie, and here at one of my new favorite blogs, Scout Holiday)