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

yigal ozeri

i am definitely not an art critic. the art world can be a very intimidating place and i don't usually elaborate on why i like or dislike a piece of work. so, what i will say about the yigal ozeri show, "desire for anima" was that it was another one of my favorites from our afternoon in chelsea. adam was not into it at all, but my friend rebecca and i both loved the work. it's hard to believe these are paintings because they are so detailed and photographic.

for more reading, and a perhaps more detailed review, read this @ ArtCat.

mike weiss gallery
52o w. 24th st.

Terry Winters

While at The Met the other week, I stumbled upon the work of New York-based painter and printmaker, Terry Winters. I was not familiar with his work but I was instantly taken by these wood engravings with embossments on handmade paper. I absolutely love the abstract, graphic nature of these prints.

More about Winters can be found at The Met and MoMA