Land of Tomorrow :: Louisville Photo Biennial

Retirement Ceremony + 
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns
A few lovely drawings by the late Stephen Irwin flank the entrance to the show.


Tell You What is on view at Land of Tomorrow through October 30th. We heard that the September 23rd opening was a great evening, we're sorry we missed it...Mickey will fly to Luhvul Friday to attend the LOT Louisville Photo Biennial reception.

Land of Tomorrow is an amazing space with great staff, volunteers and interns. Not to mention strong. They helped install the floor of 3000+ books. 

The exhibition is a Leo Weekly's Daily Staff Pick and the Courier-Journal has more information on the Louisville Photo Biennial events. Take a walk on the spines of books at LOT this Friday, October 7th, reception beginning at 6pm.
  

This post brought to you by Heather from a sunny & warm MN.

Art Platform :: Los Angeles

Untitled No. 5 (Recession) 2011

Art Platform – Los Angeles 
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS - Booth 818

Friday, September 30, 2011
3PM – 5PM Opening Preview
5PM – 9PM Vernissage Party benefiting the Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art.

Saturday, Oct 1 • 11AM – 6PM
Sunday, Oct 2 • 11AM – 6PM

Monday, Oct 3 • 11AM – 4PM

a la Mickey Smith

Occasionally I receive photos from friends ( + strangers) "a la Mickey Smith". I love them. Oh yes, and "a la peanut butter sandwiches!", along with Heather Everhart at the helm, the blog is back.

Chad Richardson

David Enblom

Louis Menand

Earth Day

Collocation NATURE is being produced in Germany this month. We're still on schedule for installation in the first week of June! 

there's something i've been meaning to tell you...

I've been meaning to tell you that the show of the same title is up at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas, Texas. The show closes tomorrow. There is a great slideshow of all the text based art up on the Marty Walker blog.

München, Germany

Apologies for falling from the face of the earth, into facebook. (It's evil.) Until a few weeks ago I didn't realize this blog had a single reader... So I'm back and will make an effort to post once a week. 

I'm definitely in production vs. exhibition mode, a welcome change. New projects coming up, along with some new work on the Volume project. Recently I took a last minute flight to Munich and spent five thrilling days in the Franz Mayer studio. (A photo album is up on  facebook.) The public art project I'm working on is a Collocation called NATURE. Sixteen 40 x 60 inch glass panels to be mounted in the new Biomedical Sciences Building at the University of Florida this June. (As if you needed another reason to head to Gainesville this summer?)

This is my first major public art commission, and although I have been on the other side of the desk for this process, I must admit the learning curve is oh so high. I'm relishing in the challenge and will be sure to keep the blog update with a few progress reports... Promise. 

Part of my  team in Munich - Michael and Klaus working reviewing samples fresh from the kiln at Franz Mayer.

Close up of the type sandblasted into the glass. Not sure if you can tell, but there were three different painting styles to choose from... 

Vyborg Library

If you're traveling through Russia, be sure to stop at the Vyborg Library...

MORE BOOKS for Everyone

MORE BOOKS went up on 20x200.com yesterday. An interview went up on the 20x200 blog today. I love working with Jen Bekman and her crew and highly recommend this experience to any artist. This sort of instant gratification is hard to come by working alone in the studio... 

"We are upstate with mom + bob now. Just made mom run to town so I could log in here at McDonalds to get a piece of art... I GOT THE LAST ONE! [$20]"

"Gorgeous, funny and I bought. In fact, I was driving from Witchita to St. Louis on my way to NY and bought on my iPhone on the side of the road. See you Nov 14."

"OMG. I SO didn't mean to buy it, but it was just so fucking turquoise. I couldn't resist. Damn you!"

More thanks to everyone who snatched up a print! Hope to see you all at Invisible-Exports on November 14th!

Installation: Saint Petersburg

A note from Saint Petersburg... Yesterday the exhibition was installed at the Pushkin Dom. The juxtoposition of the contemporary and classical is appropriately poetic.

Details, Details

Before it comes off the stands... The August 2008 issue of DETAILS printed a few Volume images to illustrate a lovely piece by Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon. Clearly I need to add Oakley Hall's Warlock to my reading list. No reason to be sadder than necessary.

Volume on iGoogle

Thanks to The Webmomster, a Volume theme can now be downloaded from iGoogle. To use it on your search page, follow the instructions here. I'll write a bit more about the timely irony of this marriage and the Atlantic's "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?" July cover article another time. Until then, Nicolas Carr's article is worth a read.

PDNedu's One 2 Watch

 

PDNedu released their spring Fine Art Issue ages ago, but with the move we haven't had a chance to share the link. Better late than never... Thanks to Jessica Gordon and Jen Bekman for their kind, kind words. Click here to read the article.