Week 14

Zak Smith is hands down one of my favorite artists. He graduated from Cooper Union with a BFA and then went on to get his Masters degree at Yale. A lot of Zak's influence comes from the Suicide Girls, from them he has created the series, Girls in the Naked Business and 100 Girls and 100 Octopuses. He has also illustrated each page of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow which was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Zak also performs in porn under the name Zak Sabbath.

Biennial

The Whitney Biennial has sucked out my soul

Week 13

More gallery opening adventures! I went to the Zombies Attack Again opening at the MF gallery with a couple of zombie friends. 
The gallery was pretty small and very crowded but I wanted to show off some of the work. None of the work was labeled so I have no idea who did it but it was many different styles and interpretations of "zombies". This is not the first time I have noticed a link between zombie culture and art culture. Zombies are pretty freaking awesome.

Week 12

Kurt Halsey is an amazing illustrator whose work focuses heavily on the sensitive emotions of relationships. I couldn't find that much information about him online but I really like his work.

Pollock

Jerry has gotten me addicted to this site
I highly recommend you check it out

www.jacksonpollock.org

Week 11

Evidently Thursday nights are huge for gallery openings. Since I missed the Chelsea gallery tour with Tobi Khan I decided to go opening hopping with my roommate and a friend. The streets of Chelsea really come alive at night and you can automatically tell which gallery's are having openings by the crowds of people by the doors. As previously stated openings aren't really the best times for really taking in the artwork and I actually wasn't a fan of many of the shows we went to but one REALLY stood out. 

Tseng Kwong Chi is amazing. His work is being shown at the Paul Kasmin Gallery. The series of self portraits were taken throughout the years 1979-1989. In all of his portraits he is posing in a Mao suit in front of American landmarks. The exhibit features over 90 large scale, black and white photographs. I was just so blown away by his work and the installation in the gallery was really well done.