As I dipsydoodled deliriously through James White’s work, I had a moment of lucidity devoted to Chuck Anderson, contemplation of which only floated me higher into my giddy delight. Alas, web pages are not infinite, and I reached the bottom, only to find the aforementioned eye medicine man atop a fairly short shoutout list. So I wasn’t *that* high.
In One Sleep
The menu promises everything from dresswear to photography and cartoons, but most are dead-ends, leading to that old heartbreaker “coming soon”. If the bio is any indication – a cv updated to 2006 – the site may even be semi-abandoned. In which case I will regard it as a little internet museum, and love it no less.
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.
Oh, who am I kidding? There may be many more. Or a spinoff site: Even More Miniatures. I can’t resist them. Nor diorama. I like to think these cars are transporting the meats of my earlier post. The link is to Lost At E Minor, but click deeper to see the apparatus revealed.
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.
Recently at a busy opening, filled with illustrations, installations, and videos, I sat still, under headphones, for 29 minutes, while friends and strangers circled about intermittently, curiously, impatiently. Normally I would have returned at a quieter time to view the whole piece. But I could not interrupt the program, I tell you. I was mesmerized by Barry Doupé’s magical media potion, At The Heart Of A Sparrow. I contacted Mr. Doupé about sharing the mesmer here, and he kindly pointed me to a stream of the complete work at Lumen Eclipse, linked below.
http://www.lumeneclipse.org/26/doupe.mov
UPDATE: Barry just sent along this link to an interview he gave in 2008 talking about his process and other sagacities (I hope I made that up). Thanks Barry!
Even More Legendary 
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