Adam Bartos

travel pictures

here

our book (your book)

Just wanted to share some pages from the enormous collaborative book The Art Foundation commissioned for our first exhibition, Fountainhead. It's a beautifully made object, made by the hands of our man, Andrew Douglas Underwood (above, third from left). You can download the book for free here, as well as read about all the artists involved in bringing this harebrained scheme to life. Big news to follow about this project. Stay tuned.

 (all photos by Teresa Rafidi)

Phyllida Barlow

here.

Thank you, RP.

Fountainhead

For its inaugural curated exhibition, Fountainhead, The Art Foundation has solicited the alteration of various photographic iterations of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade, Fountain, by a number of local and international artists. The altered images have been compiled in an outsized book that will be exhibited during the weekend of the Dallas Art Fair, April 14-15, alongside a small exhibition of art objects that explore themes of authorship, receptivity, deception and manipulation.

Referencing the prankster quality of Duchamp’s decimation of the existing art structures of his time, Fountainhead parrots the language of the traditional exhibition structure while reveling in the paradoxes and latitudes allowed in our current poly-post-ism of art. Flexing ideas of attribution, the works presented inFountainhead alternately specify and misconstrue authorship, as a means of bothering the leveled readings of the objects and actions presented in the exhibition.

It's been quiet around here, partly due to this little show I've helped put together with an art collective here in Dallas. Many thanks to my blogger friends that contributed work -- Stephanie Madewell (3rd image above) and Laetitia Benat.

Read about the show here and here.

Adam Whatley

stratas and sediments
here and here

Wolfagang Ganter

He does better with a series of photographs derived from found, degraded slides—images that he has further distressed, bringing them to a point of acid-trip chemical beauty. They have the look of film burning in a projector, or pictures oxidized into vibrantly unnatural hues. One, titled Stars, 2008, is a fairly intact beach-scape accented with snowflake like bursts of pale blue and purple. Such photographs have graphic appeal, but the closer you look, the more organically beautiful they seem. (here and here)

Brieana Ruais

Faux trophies/mugs. For has-beens, the hopelessly proud and pretty much everyone else.

here, via pale novel