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Isengart / Filip Noterdaeme

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:36:43 -0500

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Filip Noterdaeme

In 1907, Alice Babette Toklas met Gertrude Stein in Paris. They fell in love and Alice became Gertrude's indispensible companion, secretary, housekeeper, editor, gardener, and cook (for all we know, a darn good one). Three years later, Gertrude wrote her first literary portrait, Ada, in which she described in her unmistakable style how she felt about Alice: "Trembling was all living, living was all loving, some one was then the other one." Years later, in 1932, Gertrude made the symbiotic character of their relationship even more apparent when she wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The book established them as one of the most revered same-sex couples in popular culture.

When I met Daniel Isengart, fourteen years ago, I had largely given up on pursuing a career as an artist. In the eight years since my controversial dismissal from an MFA program at Hunter College, I had written a thesis in comparative literature and become a freelance gallery lecturer and museum educator, working at the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Daniel and I met at Bar d'O, a now defunct downtown cabaret lounge. He was performing that night and sang a song called "The Best is Yet To Come." And so it came. He moved in with me and became my beloved muse and indispensible partner in aesthetic crime. We took life by the horns and resolved to pursue our artistic dreams together. What we got in return was a delirious journey of permanent creation, where matters of great concern would always be treated lightly and those of small concern seriously, all of which came quite naturally to me. Blame it on my upbringing.

One Big Love / Leslie Wayne

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:36:43 -0500

The series One Big Love was set in motion in 2007 but solidified the following year as a response to a New Yorker article ("The Eureka Hunt" by Jonah Lehrer, July 28, 2008), about the nature of insight. In a staged experiment to recreate the conditions in which one could most easily have those eureka moments, I charged myself to paint on panels no larger than 10" x 13" (a return to intimacy); to escape the tyranny of the rectangle by painting only on shaped panels; and to listen to music while working (hence the title, One Big Love, a song by Patty Griffin).

In an effort to take self-consciousness out of the studio experience, I drew on the baroque complexity and endless variations that the material could inherently provide, and produced a variety of forms that would bring to mind everything from cellular structures, sea coral and crashing waves, to skin, drapery and Victorian fashion.

Instinctively, my process has continued to address the dialectic between material memory and morphogenesis, allowing the paint to follow its inevitable path of least resistance. Oil paint has its own laws of behavior, and working with it as opposed to in spite of it has produced on lucky days, some surprising results and a kind of wowie zowie feeling in the studio. The shaped panels are conceived of intuitively, but aim for tenderness. A tilt to the left seems to pull the paint upward, while a bulge at the bottom can suggest a thrust from the top. All actions result in reactions.

On the Trail of the Rented Pet / Ron Singer

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:36:43 -0400

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The Rented Pet

RON SINGER

Just so we know what we're talking about, here is the blurb I use for this story:

The Rented Pet is a bittersweet 14,000-word story about two dogs and the humans in their constellation. Set in a specific neighborhood in 1970's Brooklyn, New York, the story chronicles social change: specifically, gentrification. In so doing, it serves as an elegy for a passing world.

Principal Characters:

Rex, The Rented Pet. An old German Shepherd trained as a blind dog.

Julia: His female companion.

Mildred Schaap: bookkeeper.

Jerry Kaplan: carpenter.

Joe Bassano: supervisor of a moving van yard.

Charles Miller: a blind poet who operates a newspaper kiosk.

Dr. Matt Brunn: a veterinarian.

Contents:

Part One: Renting the Pet.

Part Two: The pet is menaced. A romance begins.

Part Three: The romance blossoms. A companion is acquired for Rex, who is also seriously injured.

Part Four: At a party to celebrate Rex's recovery, his past is revealed.

Epilogue: Both dogs die. The Funeral.

Elegy (written and recited by Charles Miller, after the manner of "Ode to Stephen Dowling Botts, Dec'd," by Mark Twain):

Eros / Don Porcaro

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:36:43 -0400

Name registree: Don Porcaro

Title of event/s, work/s registered: “Eros,” permanent sculpture installation: Forma Viva Sculpture Symposium, 50th Anniversary

Date of start: September 13, 2011

State of completion (with dates if applicable): October 15, 2011

Materials: Croatian Marble

Measurements: 117” x 54” x 48”

Location/s (with dates if applicaple): Forma Viva Sculpture Park, Portoroz, Slovenia

Vendors/and or sponsors: various

URL: www.bbk.ac.uk/sculptureparks/by-location/europe/slovenia

Still documentation:

“Eros” installation view, Forma Viva Sculpture Park, Portoroz, Slovenia. October 15, 2011.

Statement:

In 2011 I was invited to be the U.S. Representative at the 50th anniversary of the Forma Viva Sculpture Symposium in Slovenia. I was one of three sculptors there, the other two were Graziano Pompili from and Italy and Jose Villa from Cuba. We spent five weeks working outdoors to create our individual sculptures, which would then be permanently installed in the Forma Viva Sculpture Park. This Park is situated on a bluff overlooking the bay of Portoroz, a small Slovenian village on the Adriatic, sandwiched between Croatia’s Istrian Peninsula 5 miles to the South and the Italian border to the North.