Afrogalaxy. 2007

Mequitta Ahuja.

Acknowledging that there is very little new under the internet sun, we do still avoid insta-reblog, particularly from heavy traffic sites like Wooster. Unless forced. And forced we are, by the captivating garden installations of Julio Costa. Feel the delight! Then visit his Flickr, which contains much much more, like painting with light, just plain painting, toy art, straight up graffiti, and social work. While you are visiting there, we will be hatching a plan to visit his gardens…

Flickr: julio costa graffitis Photostream.

Supernumerary, acrylic on canvas, 2010

No, it’s someone else’s now. But you can still get yours at Corey Helford until May 5. Or tell Mr. Petker you’d like more notice next time.

Joshua Petker.

Chinoiserie, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2007

I’ve read some interesting texts on representation lately. One of them was the thoughts of Mark Tansey, from at least eighteen years ago, in Arthur Danto’s Mark Tansey: Visions and Revisions. The other was by Alicia Paz, on her website, linked below. Paz says that her current practice is about exploring the tension between illusion and process. You probably get a sense of the illusion side of that battle from the image above. It’s not like any place you’ve been before, admit it. For a better sense of the process side, click it and you should have a slightly better view of the assembly that’s deliberately on display.

Alicia Paz.

This is a sister post to  Curiosity Killed Some Time, on Till Gerhard (also seen on our #1 Webcrush Booooooom!). It’s not a twin sister, as I’m not going to be doing any digging on this – you’re on your own this time. But it is a sister in terms of rhetorical inquiry. This one being “how is he incorporating so much video game aesthetic without crossing over to Heavy Metal?” Job to know, as they say, but if you have time to contemplate this, you may also have time to read this interesting essay on Games as Art. Then you can come back here to the comments and lay it all down. Then you will be making us look at you as a potential Webcrush.

Christopher Mir – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE INSPIRE COMMUNITY ART DESIGN MUSIC FILM PHOTO PROJECTS.

Dawn, 2005, oil on canvas

Imma dig deeper on this, but you might as well be looking at it while I do so. Just clicked around a bit after seeing this on sweet Booooooom! and didn’t find much, at least not instantly. Part of my problem will be that I am seeking not just biographical information, but commentary on ideas like “how is he incorporating so much death and doom imagery without invoking goth?” Will tweet any progress.

Till Gerhard – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE INSPIRE COMMUNITY ART DESIGN MUSIC FILM PHOTO PROJECTS.

Progress! And sure you don’t all tweet, didn’t mean to sound coercive, so here’s the 411: Saatchi has a selection of Gerhard’s works online, each with enjoyable and thought provoking commentary. The Loyal still has a 2008 show up with a statement. And if you travel back in web time to 2006, David Marcus will answer all of your questions in a most satisfying piece for The Brooklyn Rail.

Till Gerhard online at The Saatchi Gallery

Mansion on the Hill at LOYAL

David Marcus on Gerhard in The Brooklyn Rail

Cleaners . Oil on panel . 2009

I tweeted Justin’s show at Master Piper a while ago. Today I had to consider why I still hadn’t closed the tab containing the essay and some of the work. It didn’t take me long to solve that riddle: I’ve been looking at it every day. So, in deference to tidy browsers, I thought I’d store it away for myself here.

MASTER PIPER / Artist / Justin Mortimer.

Justin Mortimer Artist Official Website.

l-r: Reclining Dude, lithograph; Tricycle #1, torn steel and chain; Duelling Dickheads, acrylic transfer.

And now to get off the roundablog of art-of-the-moment, and share a little rearview of Peter Walker. Walker was born in London, England, but grew up and studied primarily in western Canada, before switching coasts to practice and teach in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Walker has worked in painting, lithography, photography, drawing and sculpture for over forty years. The work is in private and public collections, including that of the National Gallery of Canada. Walker’s work has often been controversial, as it goes to the places we are taught not to go in polite discourse, such as sexuality and religion. Read more courtesy The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, and the artist’s own site. Or just hang out, offended and abraded, with the images here. The tricycle works, by the way.

Pocket Storms 4, Aleksandra Rdest, 2009

Aleksandra Rdest has been blogged almost as much as Alex Prager lately. That shouldn’t stop me from prettying up my stream with her work, though, should it? Tip: do visit the artist statement, as it reads like this looks.

ALEKSANDRA RDEST.

Pakayla Biehn paints, photographs, installs, draws and designs things. The ones she features on her site are nice. I especially like the paintings of double exposures. Once again, I thank Booooooom! for bringing this up.

You Should Take Care.