Letha Wilson
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Joseph Barbaccia is an artist whose practice covers a variety of disciplines: sculpture, printmaking and encaustic, among others. Barbaccia's sequinned polystyrene sculptures are extremely captivating through the bold use of abstract form, variegated colour and pure old-fashioned sparkle. Euphoria's feathery sequins are particularly effective in implying movement and joy. The calming colours of Qualm distract from the claw-like nature of the piece, and Savor is what it is: a piece of popcorn.
Joseph Barbaccia | http://paradisestudio.com
this story arrived
and said
come, come
you can tell everyone
you know the way
to the strong money, sex, drugs, fashion and food
that transfigure Lazarus and the rich man-dude
inherit salvation, a chariot, a team of horses
you shall not hurt the holy mountain
but please listen to the words, give them a screw
and remember:
don't always believe or do what they say to
Photo by Greymouser
Inspired by a cut-up of a church bulletin.
Michael Mandiberg has just finished assembling a handsome installation of his work at Eyebeam.
Mandiberg's one dozen separate pieces consist primarily of old, found books cut with a laser, handsomely shown individually or assembled in groups of two or more and placed on the artist's own constructions.
Mandiberg goes where no laser cutter has ever gone before. Some of the work physically and dramatically distinguishes important newly-established contemporary technologies from their aging or defunct antecedents (many of which could once have been described as cutting edge themselves), The result is a visual dialogue charged with the passage of time and composed in the empty spaces we see "written" in and on various kinds of reference books.
One piece, a work in progress (surprisingly, lasers take their time), is titled "We have never had a year of peace". When finished it will comprise the three volumes of the "Encyclopedia of the Third World", lying on their spines next to each other, open at a random page in the middle where the artist has deeply burned the name and year of every war fought by this peace-loving republic since 1890.
Another body of work consists of a wall display of cast-off volumes describing how to make money. Mandiberg has "whittled" with a laser into their hard front covers to describe the logos of, according to the artist, "all of the failed banks of the Great Recession" (...)
via James Wagner
Poet. Lover of academy and porch.
