In this film by Art 21, artist Rashid Johnson charts a decade-long aesthetic and professional development from his early portrait photographs to his later conceptually-based sculptures made from glass, wood,
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Jessie Mott, Everybody, 2009
Animals debate the sticky subject of body dysmorphia and the merits of reconstructive surgery in this short animation by Jessie Mott. Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke EVERYBODY 2009 4
Jessie Mott, Blood & Cinnamon, 2010
In Blood & Cinnamon Mott’s creatures discuss existential crises as they flip and rotate and disappear from view. Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke Blood and Cinnamon 2010 5 minutes
Jessie Mott, A Day for Cake and Accidents, 2012
A Day for Cake and Accidents features a cast of animal characters – each of a different, though often indeterminate, species – who struggle with impending astrological despair
Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play
Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1946. Gouache on paper. Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection. Photo courtesy of Jean Vong.
One of the major currents in Contemporary art in the 20th Century was the use of tropes and techniques of commercial art in the service of a non-commercial artistic