X-mas show and tell...

christmas isn't so bad...




The Lure of the Local by Lucy Lippard




Eva Hesse by Lucy Lippard




My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros

sydney eat your heart out.

by the way...Elly I have something for you and Lauren I have something from the land of Ire for you...

...ohhh listening to 'Salvation' by The Cranberries God bless the 90's.

lovely.

Robin Rhode...very hot. I still do not know how to post a link.

http://www.perryrubenstein.com/artists/robin-rhode/#

A Toast...

"Will we go back to past blogs and delete lame posts so that our internet icons remain...cool?" Inane posts are part of our Nesbit progress. To delete these would be establishing a pretense.

So Raise your glasses high, I present a toast!

To those posts which are written in a state of confusion or clarity, inebriation or sobriety, embarrassment or ego, heartache or triumph. May we never edit, delete, or second-guess those words which are hammered out on keyboard, now and forevermore, Amen.

Happy Day!

happy birthday to Lauren.

Regarding my previous post on reading material, I wish we could create some sort of link list to the books we love.

TO: LAUREN MC.....hey!

Subliminal messages. Zombies. The world.

When I was kindergarten I started a covert society called “The Tick Tock Crazy Clock” Club (I’m not sure why I named it that it was probably because those were the only words I could spell correctly). I made flyers, Annabel was in it, and we kept it (outside of our secret handshake, code words, and meetings under lunch benches) very hush hush. Now…being a part of Nesbit, I never thought of it as some big ‘thing’ (or whatever) but apparently I had placed Nesbit in my mind next to the fairly vacant shanty that was once “The Tick Tock Crazy Clock” Club (“The Tick Tock Crazy Clock” Club AKA TxTxTxCxCxC soon dissipated after Leah Mark started her own club and somehow my purple teddy bear got taken out of my cubby). That being said, this past week I have had several folks mention the blog and how they view it often. This is almost as odd and flattering as your scary uncle hitting on you at Christmas. Then I started to wonder what if this knowledge…that others give a damn about Nesbit…could be harnessed to some sort of power. Subliminal messages. Zombies. The world. Then I got to thinking that this knowledge was not good power at all…but rather, very very bad power that is working very (need a new word for very) much against us. What I am saying, is that while Nesbit has always been available to the wider public I never considered the mediator (the internet) as something that would cause me to blog (verb) with certain expectations outside of Nesbit in mind. For example, my earlier ‘TxTxTxCxCxC’ comment was written completely to get a chuckle out of Jeff Rau, none of my fellow Nesbiters were expected to catch the reference. I had never done that before tonight. Perhaps you all (this is now to the Nesbiters) have thought of this and I again have proven myself to be a douche bag…I just never considered it in that way. I blame our generation. Every picture we take now goes from camera to myspace (there must be picture frame grave yards). We function in terms of computers. Tonight at a dinner party, someone mentioned amongst laughter, “I think I feel a blog coming on”. And here I sit. And that’s another thing! Will we censor ourselves now? That pervious fragmented sentence was originally… “And here I sit , alone in my underwear.” Will we go back to past blogs a delete lame posts so that our internet icons remain…cool?

Were they ever cool?

Something to ponder.

yes.

Painter Gerry Bergstein, professor at School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. This is one of his works titled "What Should I Paint"and detail image.
Yes. I could not agree with this work more. Also, I am still researching graduate schools, has anyone done any interesting research recently?

pictures

can everyone send me some images of their work to put in a show...spank you very much.

Jamie, you are not alone...I will be joining you shortly.

Nice thing about blurry photos is that they make really bad situations look like the circus!

Just wanted to say A) Hello B) Sydney has left me the last remain Nesbit in the educational system C) I just watched Mona Lisa Smile and love being female.

Thank goodness for Mary Heilmann, Hilary R. Clinton (though we may not agree with or even like her) and our mothers for raising us well.

PS: The last day in January is a Thursday. Shall we crit again then? I need some sort of a due date...

New favorite, thanks to Mary Heilmann...

For CAT I have been researching/carefully looking at a painting by Mary Heilmann titled Carmelita....and according to google there is a song with the same title that I believe it may be named after....
The song is by Warren Zevon (great name!) and he is pretty amazing. He never reached huge fame or success but was well respected and had some pretty witty, ironic lyrics...check him out here.
Love to you all-

Book Review

I am going to purchase some new reading material. Suggestions? I have not yet read "Who's Afraid of Post Modernism?" Sydney, this is your time to shine.

Weekend Goodness

So I had a really wonderfull time this weekend and am soooo glad that I was able to be with you all. Lauren, you were with us in spirit (hopefully you got our totally spastic voice mail this morning....). Sydney, congratulations again on your show: you are amazing. Amazing. I really don't have the words. Maybe in a few days I will be able to better express my wonder.

Alright, a few things. First: we received a really great compliment from Dan today. He was talking about how he reads our blog and loves to keep up with what we are making and looking at and talking about. He said that he uses us in his classes as a second model for post-grad art community and continuing production (the first model being the rented studio experience of Jon, Kurt, etc.) I liked how he was saying that we are the sort of "new" model because we have taken it to the internet. Our experience (unlike that of students past), lends itself to everyone, not just those who can afford a studio. A blog is free, and we don't all have to live in the same area. Anyway, he said some good things about Nesbit. Go us! And yay Dan.

Second: Dan was also asking when our next crit might take place. I am guessing that with Sydney just having finished her show and Elly now working toward a spring exhibit, we might look at having a crit in a couple months (not too soon, not too far). Maybe it can go hand-in-hand with our Nesbit t-shirt thing. Think about it. Yay!

Jealous

I don't even know what to say about this.