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I am obsessed with this Art Deco Extraordinaire, a Polish-born painter whose glamorous figurative compositions came to life in 1920s-30s Paris. Influenced by Cubism and Neoclassicism, her works—especially her portraits of women—blend beauty, strength, modernity, and a timeless cosmopolitan flair. After leaving Paris, she continued her career in New York, Hollywood, and Mexico. Now on view is her first American retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco until February 9th.
Jan 5, 2025
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Leon Spilliaert, Edouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse, Rachel Harrison, Cristine Brache, Lois Dodd, Edwin Dicksinson, Albert York, Dorothea Tanning, Miriam Cahn, Kevin Tobin, Shelly Uckotter, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons Paul McCarthy Mike Kelley, John Currin, Felix LaBisse, Leonor Finis, Karen Kilimnik, John Wesley, Trish Donnelly, Richard Bosman, Pierre Bonnard Harold Gilman Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (late work) Francis Picabia (late work), PIerre Klossowski, Bruce Nauman, Otto Muehl, Otto Mueller, Allen Jones, Ken Lum, Ed Ruscha, Aisling Hamrogue, Victor Brauner, Moses, Ralph and Isaac Soyer, Verne Dawson, Jay Isaac, Thomas Schutte, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, Judy Chicago (paintings), Georges Kars, Ferdinand Hodler, George Grosz (erotica especially), R.B. Kitaj (late work), Milton Avery, Henri Fantin-Latour, Andre Ethier, Frantisek Kupka, Josh Smith, William Eggleson, Lee Friedlander, Albert Marquet, Fernando Botero (El Chapo paintings), Alan Michael, Dora Carrington, Hans-Peter Feldmann, James Ensor, Judy Glantzman, Elmer Batters, Cunio Amiet, Mary Pratt, Annie Pootoogook
Mar 29, 2022
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Art is about more than identity, can allow us to transcend identity, but having been raised in the art world of the 90s, when painting was dying and women weren’t given the wall space they deserved, it’s a joy to watch femme painters rise to the top of the pile creatively and financially. I am lucky enough to cherish works by Jenna Gribbon, Jocelyn Hobbie, Kyle Staver, Ellen Birkinblit and my dear friend Issy Wood. I am currently obsessed with Larissa De Jesus Negron, Petra Cortright, Lucy Bull, Robin F. Williams, Somaya Critchlow, Gina Beavers and Cynthia Talmadge. It’s a lifetime dream to have a massive Lisa Yuskavage to wake up to (though I do have a print she gave me for my 26th birthday when I had a Soul Cycle party and everyone was mad except Lisa, who kicked all our millenial asses on the bike.)
Jan 3, 2023
This sculpture is in SLAM’s permanent collection and they recently put it on display after a long time in storage
She’s my favorite artist, and you can look at this piece for an hour and it keeps feeling fresh, like you never get to the bottom of understanding it.
I like her work (and this piece in particular) because it’s emotionally rich. To me it embodies paradoxes like being both playful and somber, lively and elegiac, busy but unified, individual but collective, primal but contemporary, geometric and organic, abstract yet figurative, dissonant and harmonious, pattern and noise, cheeky and serious, quiet and commanding.
Go spend some time with her.
Dec 17, 2024
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My grandma’s word for word response when I asked her if she had any advice for living a long life. She lived to be 99 years old. Rest in Paradise Donna.
Dec 8, 2024
Imagine trying to become a master painter in 1872 in New York and there's no high resolution images on google to study but there is a collection of European paintings at The Met so you go there to look at them and they actually let you set up an easel and make a copy for you to take back to your studio. This is how artists have been learning for centuries, by looking at art, painting stroke for stroke. This program is still running at The Met and you can apply! It’s so special, you enter through the education wing with your materials and tell the security guards that you’re in “The Copyist Program,” there’s a special room you store your work in progress. You have a 4’ x 4’ canvas tarp that you lay on the ground and for 4 hours once a week for 8 weeks that’s your special little island to work from. Then there’s the special thrill of carrying a wet painting through the museum halls. Very sacred, very special!
Sep 19, 2024
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So fucking epic.
Nov 14, 2024