Viveza Art Experience, in seattle presents "Arterial: Organic Intersections of the New Cityscape." This exhibit runs through February 21 to March 18, 2007 With different collection types works by three artist; award-winning artist Christopher Santer, mixed-media artist Brian Scott Campbell and prolific painter Jeff Koegel. All three artists attendened at the opening reception held 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23.
Each artist has their own, unique way of engaging the viewer When taken together, these works emphasize a shift in ideas about urban living and the environment.
Jeff Koegel Uses a patchwork method, Koegel covers portions of his canvases as he paints so that he can't compare what he's creating with what he's created. This "blindness" produces unintended results.
"The paintings might look carefully planned out, but actually I begin with only a partial drawing, which the painting is built on, altered and developed instinctively," he said. The results are contradictory landscapes --smokestacks or volcanoes emit noxious, billowing clouds that trace the outline of a futuristic spaceship, a fantastic cityscape, an ancient temple or vascular forms that could be tree trunks, ventricles, or a cross section of metropolitan plumbing.
Brian Scott Campbell also focuses on unfolding cityscapes and alteration of living spaces. He made use of manmade and natural environments in several mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture and animation. Glaciers melt, and drip, towers, highways and fences are built, and brush strokes are outlined in graphite.
Drawing much of his inspiration from the drawings and schematics of the great engineer, painter and naturalist, Leonardo da Vinci, Campbell presents the viewer with a world that is, at once, organic and industrial.
Deanna Lee Edwards
www.absolutearts.com
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http://www.langorigami.com/art/gallery/gallery.php4?section=mammals



Robert Lang is a computational origamist. He uses math equations to figure out how to fold a piece of paper to make insanely complicated looking objects. In the interview he talks about how there are a lot of practical purposes for this type of origami; things like stents, that need to fold small enough to travel through an artery, and car airbags. But Lang mostly creates patterns for art. His website has many many pictures of animals and flowers that he's made out of a single uncut piece of paper. I think it's just amazing. I could look at one of his pieces or even one of his patterns and never be able to figure out how he did it. It's so beyond my ability to understand but I love that it's based on math and science and so actually not this abstract inimitable process. He uses analytical intelligence but also these fine hand movements. It's a nice combination of brain power and motor skills.

-- Chloe Crawford

If any one is planning on going to the Lone Star state in August of 2008 be sure to look up. Montreal installation artist Cesar Saez is planning to send a 1,000 foot helium blimp into low Earth orbit above Texas. Not just any blimp but a BANANA blimp. This astrofruit is supposed to represent the absurdity of American, specifically Texan, politics. Saez's banana won't quite be geostationary (despite its official title) but will instead orbit in near space close to the stratosphere at a cool 100,000 to 160,000 feet above the Earths surface. The estimated cost of this extravagant project is $1 million but so far the artist has only managed to collect about an eight of this. So send money for the banana. So how will this piece of floating fruit stay stationary? Thanks to the amazing feats of engineering the 7 millian cubic feet of helium will be kept in place through a series of wind activated gyroscopes. As these gyroscopes move, they'll sling the banana in a bomer rang like motion over the land of Bush and cowboys. Folks on the ground will be able to spot the phallic shape with the naked eye and is estimated to appear about 10-20% the size of the moon. after about a month of flight, radiation from the sun will desinagrate the banana's outer shell causing the helium to leak out and the object to plumment to the ground. friction from the descent will incinerate the rest of the material so no harm will be done upon landing. Cool, huh?
for more information check out http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/

--Claire Buchanan

I was looking through artworks from Vienna on Artforum and came across a guy named Rudi Stanzel. During his two month residency at the Ningbo Museum of Art he developed an unusual combination of materials for his abstract black white and gray images. He took strips of very thin handmade rice paper that were painted with white acrylic and then dipped in Indian inc and applied them to canvas. The affect were vertical and horizontal lines generated by this process that in a way create a very heavy looking image yet in another sense can appear to be lighter than air. There's intense suspension in a way, maybe portraying how he felt in this random town two hundred miles south of Shanghai.

Autumn Oser

Revolutionsary Astetic
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.html
this isnt the link to the slide show you have to find it on the page
the title is revolutionary astetic i just think all the archetechture is really awesome and i like how all the buildings are painted

Amanda Shoulson

welcome to the museum of my stuff
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/arts/design/18kino.html?_r=1&ref=design&oref=slogin

i think this artical is interesting becasue it's about rich people who love art i think its cool because people who have large disposable incomes usally do pretty sweet things with there money and i like the fact that this guy opened his own little gallery to display the work he liked it makes me think of all the littel coool galleries in philly there all so diffrent and obviousely reflect the taste of the owner

Amanda Shoulson

I was looking through the New York Times Art Section and came across an article talking about Fisk University's yearlong legal dispute over two prominent paintings in its collection. They said that it will be allowed under a settlement to sell the works if no donor can be found to keep them at the university. “Radiator Building — Night, New York” by Georgia O’Keeffe, and “Painting No. 3” by Marsden Hartley.
The agreement, which Fisk and the Tennessee attorney general made public Thursday, will most likely end litigation over selling the paintings, which were among 101 works from the personal collection of the famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz that Mr. Stieglitz’s widow, Ms. O’Keeffe, gave Fisk in 1949. The settlement requires Fisk to seek donations that would allow it to keep one or both paintings, each of which has been appraised at $8.5 million. Together, the paintings make up about half the value of the entire Stieglitz Collection at Fisk.
The stir over Fisk’s collection evoked another recent dispute over a university’s art collection, when Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia sought to sell Thomas Eakins’s painting “The Gross Clinic.” The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts eventually bought the painting for $68 million.

I think that this article was good because it talks about two very interesting and expensive painting and I believe they should sell.

-Sabrina Coulter
2/19/07

The Philadelphia Inquirer displayed an article titled "Knights in Shining Armor". I thought that this was an interesting article for a number of reasons. My main reason is that I am a fashion design student interested in a career in Costume Design. The article reffered to a exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum, with various displays of armor weapons, painting depictions, and prints and textiles from the 1500's and 1600's. That is the Renaissance and Baroque periods of history. I would really love to see this show because it would help my costume memory database. The article described the show as being fascinating, and this came from an individual that was not very enthusiastic in the beginning. The article writer Edward J. Sozanski became interested due to the fact that many pieces were on loan from other museums. What interested me in his article was a painting of Joan of Arc in armor. A female warrior. That and the fact that I had just watched Mulan 1 & 2 with my son and had to explain why Mulan was the only female and why the wanted to kill her. For those who haven't seen Mulan it is Disney's story of a female who took her fathers place and dressed as a male warrior in China. The show was organized by Ida Sinkevic and managed to portray, opposite to popular belief of basic medieval life and warfare but that knighthood was more of a culture for aristocrats in the 16th and 17th century; she did this through her use of borrowed artistry, the paintings. She also wrote a book to accompany the show. The inspiration for the show was that the Allentown Museum had sucess with a prevoius armor show in 1964.

OPENING THIS WEEKEND

Good morning all - hope you enjoyed your snow day.

Opening Friday is another set of Fleisher Challenge exhibitions:

All the shows look good but I am particularly interessted in what Nami Yamamoto will show.

The Fleisher Art Memorial is between 6th and 7th on Christian in South Philly.

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Take care,
Rob

BLOG BACK ONLINE!!!!!!

After a week of frustration our blog is back. I had to create a gmail account for the class. I will explain further in class. Otherwise, begin posting as usual. I still need a total of four posts and three comments from each of you by the end of the semester - lets try and get back on track.

Robert