Thought Experiments

Working out installation ideas:

 Inspired by papyrus, to highlight the fragile content of my work:

 A "wunderkamer" of sorts:

Floating "table" scroll:

Song of Songs Artwork

Marc Chagall:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/marc-chagall/song-of-songs-ii-1957-9#supersized-artistPaintings-203030

Jacob el Hanani:

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/210002476

Jaume Plensa:

http://oneartworld.com/artists/J/Jaume+Plensa.html?atab=works&image=470

Ayelet Anush:

http://www.starnow.com.au/tamuzellazam/photos/3419185

Harriet Finck:

http://harrietfinck.com/

Contemporary Scrolls

El Anutsi, Fading Scroll, 2007

Image from: http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2008-12-30__11-25-52.html

Huang Yong Ping, Long Scroll, 2001

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=86815

Fang Lijun, 2003

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/fang_lijun_untitled.htm

Rirkrit Tirivanija, Untitled 2008-2011 (the map of the land of feeling)

http://events.insing.com/feature/what-to-check-out-at-art-stage-singapore-2012/id-b3233f00

Nancy Spero, Sky Goddess/Egyptian Acrobat, 1987-88

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/23/obituary-nancy-spero

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A5564&page_number=2&template_id=1&sort_order=1

http://www.pbs.org/art21/images/nancy-spero/cri-du-coeur-2005

Harriet Finck, Mishlei Scroll, 2011

http://www.harrietfinck.com/3d/content/harrietfinckWEB_large.html

Hong Chun Zhang, Twin spirits, 2002

http://hongchunzhang.com/index.php?screen=series&series=01_Long%20Hair

Winter Break

I saw lots of awesome artwork over break!  Maybe it will inspire my work for senior show. Click on the links for more info:

Rosemarie Trockel at the New Museum
A true wunderkammer (wonder room)...

An animated film by Wladislaw Starewicz shown at the Trockel exhibit:

Ann Hamilton: the event of a thread

At the Park Avenue Armory

That's me with my daughter, Ita.

Scrolls!

MOMA

Alina Szapocznikow: sculpture undone

Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets

Image from: http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/the-quay-brothers-at-moma

Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925

Duncan Grant, Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound, 1914:

Was originally intended to be a moving scroll...

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/inventingabstraction/?work=95

Man Ray, Rayograph, 1922

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/inventingabstraction/?work=147

Photograms are contact printed-- like cyanotypes.

Also: Louise Bourgois, The Fragile, 2007

A blue pregnant woman.

The Asia Society

Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao

thread, hair, sarin, projections...

Chelsea Galleries

Ed Ruscha at Gagosian

Peter Sacks at Paul Rodgers/9W

Text, fabric, paint...

And another artist I discovered (on the web):

Mira Lehr

paper in plexi...

a cyanotype