Archives for the ‘humor’ Category

JK Keller

JK Keller Works from Tantamount, and Insecurity Envelopes, and A Fictitious Argument Emerges Between Coriolis & Beaufort Work from his massive and thouroughly engaging website. Keller’s work is a collection of pieces  interventions into reality that serve to recontextualize objects, images, and media. Also see his blog. Tantamount: “Photographs of mountains are computationally altered to flatten […]

Mayumi Lake

  Mayumi Lake Work from Poo-Chi. Poo-Chi is a deceptive and hilarious body of work that seemed like the perfect Sunday post. Enjoy. “The images in this book are not what they at first appear to be. Look again, and closely. Mayumi Lake’s series of color photographs focuses on the wakinoshita, presenting this often neglected […]

Arthur Hash

  Arthur Hash Work from no particularly named body of work, but a sampling of Hash’s oeuvre all conceptually related to ideas of material, design, and adornment. Much of his work involves humor, process (including DIY pieces), and the recontextualization of materials through their presentation as jewelry. Hash also maintains a blog with regular updates […]

Hyungkoo Lee

Hyungkoo Lee Work from Animatus. ____________________ WHAT’S UP DOC?:LEE HYUNGKOO AND THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES Howard Rutkowski  The Punch Line A black room frames the installation, which is dramatically spot-lit. A presentation of two skeletons, not unlike what one might see in a museum of natural history; a predator chasing its prey. Then the dawning – it’s […]

Helmut Smits

Helmut Smits Work from: Dead Pixel in Google Earth, Parking for White Cars Only, FLAMMA and Skirting Board Sunset. I urge you to check out his entire public works section, all of the pieces are smart and compelling. “I believe that every situation, thought or object carries a good work of art in itself. I […]

Koheis Yoshiyuki

Koheis Yoshiyuki Work from The Park (1971-1979). The work is not new at all, but it really is great and I wanted to put it up today. If you haven’t seen these yet, you have been missing out. Great write-up from Philip Gefter at the New York Times. “WHY are the Japanese couples in Kohei […]

Industry of the Ordinary

Industry of the Ordinary Work from the projects  Industry of the Ordinary is the collaborative performance art/sculpture team of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson. Their manifesto is: “Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performance Industry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their […]

Isabelle Krieg

Isabelle Krieg Work curently showing at Substitut-Berlin if you are in Berlin, go to this show. There is a great range of work, and some fantastic artists’ books on sale.

Sebastian Errazuriz

Sebastian Errazuriz Works from The Cow, The Tree, and the (Duchamp inspired) Limited Editions. Statements are provided on the website. Sculpture / Installation Art.

Packard Jennings

Packard Jennings amuses me. He has collaborated with Steve Lambert and his work was also included in the Shopdropping exhibition from the previous post.  Here’s some pages from a “Welcome to Geneva” pamphlet produced to put in random public locations in Geneva, Switzerland: Packard manufactured a Mussolini Action Figure, which he shopdropped at Wal-Mart, and then […]