René Maltête

Some Photos of That Day

I was going to try to explain this, but I feel that it's better if you take it like a movie or a novel and try to figure it out yourself. I won't even mention the creators name because that would be easily enough to google now (and it's not Hugh Crawford).

http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

Some dates though:

8/28/86

4/8/87

Ellen Harvey

My Venus is better than yours
Still frames are taken on a security camera in a museum of someone copying "Venus and Amor" , with one shot taken every minute. Not captured in the security video is where the original painting is switched out with the copied painting. The installation of this work shows the fake painting framed in the original paintings frame along with a framed copy of the museum's "rules for copyists," as well as the 12 minute video of stills. Post cards of the copied painting were available in the museum gift shop, as were post cards depicting the original painting in the artist's home.


Painting of a Painting
Painting of graffiti hung at sight of original street graffiti


Paintings of wood on wood panels



Inviable Self Portraits
oil paintings based on Polaroids taken with flash in mirror, set in old frames

And then there's this one. You have to explore it yourself.
New York Beautifiation Project
Forty 5 x 7 inch oval landscapes painted in oils without permission on graffiti sites throughout New York City from 1999 –2001. Free map and postcards of the project distributed in 2001.

Duane Michals

This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen, she did love me. Look see for yourself!



I build a pyramid



It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this now, in some way the lines of our lives have intersected... For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.

It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

--Duane Michals

Charles Cohen

Overcoming darkness with artificial light, we frame a state of mind: the routine of day in, day out is okay. At the first sign of the sun's descent, street lights ignite to insure a seamless close of the day and to preserve a sense of security and control...




Set

Take, for example, the instant in which you, looking out the side window of a car, passing a billboard sign on the highway, are only able to see its profile: a meaningless, vertical stitch in a stream of information. I adore this instant...




That

Buff does not have to be based on pornography, but because its intended function is simple and explicit -- to entertain the voyeur -- it is thus easily manipulated. Ironically, it is because pornography suggests participation that we can observe the phenomenon of stimulation in a more heighten fashion. This is the process of abstraction.



Buff

Adrian Firth

We all knew it was coming. A Penny artist


the happy couple


lizzie




My work can be thought of as a backlash against consumerism, fashion and what I am taught, as I often have great affection for things that I am told have no value and very little connection to things, which are apparently significant.

--Abelardo Morrell

Scott Blake

I'm really not sure, at all, how I feel about this artist.
A lot of his work kind of reads as (dare I say) one liners, and half-assed. Some of it is pretty cool as well. Blake's work seems to center around consumerism, 9/11, and disestablishment of art itself.
I'll leave you to navigate his site cause there's a whole lot going on there, and it's fucking with my computer. He also has a youtube channel here.
And with that I'll leave you with a barcode Jesus.





check out his other works too, not just the barcode ones, which get old pretty quickly.