Thursday, October 29, 2009

Becky Kolsrud

http://treeproject.blogspot.com/2008/05/rebecca-kolsrud-and-her-family-in-la.html

Site

Jay Davis
Chia Fueki
Nancy Horowitz
Dan Kopp
Joshua Marsh
Oliver Michaels
Aron Namenwirth
Jane Namenwirth
Susanna Harwood Rubin
Eric Segal
April Smith
Momoyo Torimitsu
Greg Vore
J.G. Zimmerman

Grads:
Becky Kolsrud
Jack Featherly
Cameron Martin
Emelio Perez
Lisa Ruyter
Trisha Vessey

old work recycled

"Livingroom" lithograph 22.5x 36" BFK rives 1984

"Classroom" Lithograph BFK rives 36x22.5 1984
"Bathroom" Lithograph BFK rives 36x22.5 1984

These prints were proofs made for a suite "One Day" while in Gus Mazzocca's class at the printshop while an undergrad at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He was a great inspiration for me as a youngster. Gerald Doudera, and Tony/Anthony Pratt(could not find any of his work online, or reference to him, he was a Yale grad. and retired from teaching in 1997) also, were great teachers! Will include the rest of the prints if I remember later, my camera's battery died. I am recycling the paper for a new project.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Rico


"Rico Gatson" acrylic, sawdust, canvas, custom ikea panel 14x14x12.75" 2009

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Red Oak/ Blades of Grass

Red Oak (click on image to enlarge)
This is the second Red Oak planted on Block Island. I built this structure out out drift wood to protect it from the deer, but on visiting it last weekend, the grass had grown so quickly that the sunlight was cut off and it's growth was severely stunted. I would say it is about 2" high.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Red Oak/Sugar Maple

Red Oak
This tree was taken as an acorn from Ogunguit Maine and planted on Block Island RI.
I built a structure around it to protect it from the deer. It grew about 6".

Sugar Maple (click to enlarge)
Transplanted from my in-laws flower garden in Bloomfield CT. to a spot away from their foundation. It was about 4 feet tall and the deer kept it that height.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

Block Island

Aron Namenwirth "Google Map 2" acrylic on mdf and plywood 1x16x16" 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Nets, Webs, Circuits

Aron Namenwirth "Circuit 1" 16x12" marker on paper 2008

Parents

Cynthia Bloom Namenwirth 22x17" ink on paper 2009
"J. Zvi Namenwirth" 22x17" ink on paper 2009

Insurance Choices

jpeg study


The process to insure my daughter, first waiting for a call back directed to this url:

http://www.tribecapediatrics.com/articlepage.aspx?article_id=5102

was going to print out list below to bring to counseler in brooklyn heights- chose to ride bike as parking tight.


32B-J HEALTHFUND/EMPIRE BC& BS
AETNA
AFTRA
ALICARE, INC
ALLIED BENEFIT SYSTEMS, INC.
AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
AMERICAN HERITAGE LIFE INS. CO/ATTN: GRP.DEPT.
AMERICHOICE /UNITED HEALTH
AMERIHEALTH
ANTHEM HEALTH
ATLANTIS HEALTH PLAN
AVALON BENEFIT SERVICES
AXA PPP HEALTHCARE
BEECHSTREET
BENEFIT CONCEPTS INC.
BENEFIT SYSTEMS & SERVICES, INC
BENESIGHT
BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD
CBC MAGNACARE
CEMENT AND CONCRETE WORKERS
CHA-CORPHEALTH
CHICKERING
CHILD HEALTH PLUS NETWORK BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD
CIGNA
CORPORATE BENEFIT SERVICES OF AMERICA
COX HEALTH SYSTEMS INS CO
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
DIVERSIFIED ADMIN. CORP
EBMS
EMPIRE HEALTHCHOICE, INC
EQUITABLE
EURO-CENTER USA, INC
FISER HEALTH
GEGLAC MEDICAL CLAIMS
GEHA
GHP
GLOBAL BENEFITS, INC
GLOBAL MEDICAL MANAGEMENT
GMC SERVICES
GOLDEN RULE INSURANCE COMPANY
GOUDA INTERNATIONAL INS.
GREAT WEST
GROUP PENSION/PHCS
GROUP RESOURCES
GUARDIAN
GUARDIAN/PHCS
HARDVARD PILGRIM HEALTH INSURANCE
HEALTH NET
HEALTH PLANS INC.
HEALTH SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
HORIZON HEALTHCARE OF NEW YORK
HORIZON HEALTHCARE OF NJ
HUMANA
IBA/BEECHSTREET
IMCS
INNOVANTE BEN ADMIN
INSURANCE DESIGN ADMINISTRATORS
KAISER PERMANENTE INS CO./PHCS
KANAWHA HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, INC
KEY BENEFITS ADMINISTRATORS, INC
LOCAL 670 WELFARE FUND
LOCAL 798 WELFARE FUND
LOCAL 804 UPS/MAGNA
MAGNACARE
MAGNACARE/ ALICARE
MASS MUTUAL
MEDCO UNITED HEALTH CARE
MEDICUS INTERNATIONAL
MEDI-SHARE PHCS
MERCER ADMINISTRATION/ BEACH STREET
MERITAIN HEALTH
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
MULTIPLAN
MVP HEALTHCARE (PPO)
NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA
OPTIMUM CHOICE
OXFORD
P5 ELECTRONIC HEALTH SERVICES
PACIFIC LIFE & ANNUITY BENEFITS OFFICE
PACIFICARE
PATROON CREEK CORPORATE CENTER/CDPHP
PERFECT HEALTH
PERFORMAX
PERFORMAX/MULTIPLAN
PHCS
PHL GROUP MEDICAL CLAIM
PHOENIX GROUP SERVICES
PPP HEALTHCARE
PREFERREDONE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE
PRUDENTIAL
QUAL CARE
SANFORD HEALTH PLAN
SANUS
SECURE HORIZONS
SIERRA HEAKTH AND LIFE
SOUTH CENTRAL PREFERRED/ MULTIPLAN
STUDENT INSURANCE/MULTIPLAN
THE LOOMIS COMPANY
THE PRUDENTIAL
THE TRAVELERS
TR PAUL/ MULTIPLAN
UMR
UMR/FIZER
UNICARE
UNICARE/INTERGROUP
UNION LABOR LIFE
UNITED HEALTHCARE
UNITED MEDICAL RESOURCES, INC
USI ADMINISTRATORS
YALE HEALTH PLAN
(printer was out of ink and it started to rain right before my appointment needless to say to the
surprise of weather reports.) wrote list by hand on paper
In the end the list looked like above study. Sometimes too many choices are not helpful.

Butterfly Collection

ACTIAS LUNA SOUTH CAROLINA U.S.A.
ORNITHOPTERA PRIAMUS NEW GUINEA CATOCALA CARA CANADA
MORPHO MENELAS ACTIAS LUMA

PAPILIO DEMODOCUS WEST AFRICA
TROGONOPTERA BROOKIANA MALAYSIA

TROGONOPTERA BROOKIANA MALAYSIA
MORPHO DEIDAMIA GUYANA SOUTH AMERICA
MORPHO MENELAUS BRAZIL

Monday, October 5, 2009

Recycled Ideas





"Google Map 1" 3x24x36" acrylic on panel 2007-2008 Aron Namenwirth





This piece was not in my last show at vertexlist, as the Directors felt sculpture would be too confusing. As to Greg Allens Comment below: in response to Paddy including a link to my work, I welcome street traffic the more the merrier just as long as those who did the pioneering aren't written out of the history. With blogs, and internet this is less likely to happen. Correction: Sometimes people like Paul Davis don't get recognition deserved.

Security by Obscurity

Filed under: art - others — tom moody @ 9:49 am

...is the name of an exhibition by the students of artist Olia Lialina. Lialina's contribution to the show is in the center, being (ironically) needlessly covered up:

lialina - google map

Here is a full-sized version of the above photo (it should be viewed large to know what we are talking about in this post). On Lialina's website the photo's filename includes the words "crystallize and emboss," which are two of the better-known Photoshop effects filters. In an earlier post here we talked about Google's security filtering of satellite photos, which blogger Greg Allen suggested might make great landscape paintings. Lialina's piece was done several months before Allen's post; unlike Google, though, she hasn't just submitted one area of her sky-view to filtering but has "embossed" some areas and "crystallized" others so only a few parts of the photo appear not to have been tampered with. The embossing effect turns freeways into rivers of sparkly "bling," for example.

lialina - google map (detail)

In my earlier post on this topic I was trying to recreate the filter Google uses and inattentively chose "stained glass." It is in actuality "crystallize," which Lialina has reminded me of with her image. The earlier post has been updated. Below is the detail entirely crystallized, like a vista in the J.G. Ballard book:

lialina - google map - crystallized

My take on Lialina's photo (and Google's clumsy censorship) is we are living in a fake reality and might as well enjoy it for the aesthetics.
Google's program is a very strange one: on the one hand an almost 19th Century desire to map and catalog everything in the world but with pockets of 21st Century dishonesty and "spin" created for the sake of commercial and security state interests. Like all the artificial news that's proliferating, we just accept it and try to work around it.

Massive Links!
POST BY PADDY JOHNSON

Google image via: greg.org

Greg.org notes Google’s security pixilation looks like art. Associate Editor and AFC curator Karen Archey remarked in the office today that the work reminded her of Kota Ezawa, Jason Salavon. I took Alfred Jenson mixed with Luc Tuyman’s palette, though I’m sure there’s an artist that more closely matches Google’s pixilations. Though not as well known, Aron Namenwirth certainly provides a very good match.
Does anyone know how much money the 2008 art market pulled in? A few AFC readers have asked us this question recently, and while we wonder how accurate any number answering such a query might be, we defer to the experts on this matter. The hope is that the Art Market Monitor will be able to help us calculate the number, hopefully without placing it behind their paywall.
The L Magazine has a feature up today on one of my favorite TV shows, Freaks and Geeks. The video here.

Does anyone play a lot of Counter Strike online? It’s a video game in which players attempt to shoot their online oppenents, and it’s very hard (I suck). Those who have played the game may appreciate the above song. Via: actionchrist
Finally, I know we gave Lindsay Pollock a hard time a while back, but we’ve been enjoying her gossipy blog lately.

12:14 pm



At one point, I put “like Jules de Balincourt and Trevor Paglen playing in Ruth Root’s basement” in the post, but I took it out.

Still, there’s someone stuck in my head who makes Mehretu-size flying color polygons-on-white. Can’t think of his name or which Phillips de Pury sale he was flipped at. Not Eberhard Havekost…

greg.org // 28 Sep 2009, 2:07 pm
hah, just clicked through Aron’s link. I hear him right now going, “Move on, pal, I’m workin’ this side of the street.”

greg.org // 28 Sep 2009, 2:12 pm
remind me of Alex Brown http://www.featureinc.com/artist_pages/brown_artistpg.html

Lisa // 29 Sep 2009, 4:41 am
Dam I thought I was well known, just not a sellout.

Aron Namenwirth // 29 Sep 2009, 4:05 pm

from: Greg.org

Houses Of Orange

dutch_palace_gmap4.jpg


NL Architects
thinks it might make a good Herzog & deMeuron project, but I think Google Maps' security pixelization of the Dutch Royal House's Noordeinde Palace in Den Haag would make an absolutely fantastic series of landscape paintings.

dutch_palace_gmap3.jpg

dutch_palace_gmap2.jpg

dutch_palace_gmap1.jpg

Where else in the world are such things? The DRH's summer palace at Huis ten Bosch; an AZF chemical weapons factory in Toulouse...

There's a surely incomplete list of obscured satellite images on Wikipedia, and a map. Which includes Mastercard's corporate headquarters in Westchester, which actually looks like it was painted over. They call it "watercolored." Perfect.

Previously:
architecture for the aerial view, including WWII factory roof camouflage: the roof as nth facade
art for the aerial view: Calder on the roof

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