Michael’s portrait of Barack Obama done with nails (above).
His portrait of Obama done with paper, creating a portrait that is as much about shadow
as it is about the paper pieces that create the shadow.
Visit Michael’s website.
Visit an Obama Blog that documents his installation in a Washington DC Gallery
that coincided with the presidential inauguration.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Creative Genius Michael Murphy
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Root Ginger
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Is this not a beautiful portrait?! Some geneticists say that redheads could be extinct within one hundred years. With no survival advantage to gingerism, it has been suggested that the gene may die out. Is that really the kind of evolutionary progress we want to see? Photographer Jenny Wicks has documented the increasingly elusive breed in a series [...]
GREAT Art Videos
Friday, February 27, 2009
Vernissage.TV is a great, great sight at which one can waste hours watching incredibly interesting videos. There are interview videos (such as the one of Jeff Wall) and fabulous documentation of installation and performance pieces. I am a huge fan of “Nuit des Image” amongst many others. This link opens up and starts playing a [...]
US Stimulus Bill & Art
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The economic stimulus bill contains $50 million in financing for the National Endowment for the Arts. While minuscule by comparison with some other allocations in the bill, it is a hefty sum for the endowment, whose annual budget is $145 million. Sixty percent of the new money will go to individual arts projects competing for [...]
Helping School Art Programs
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Four years ago, staff at a Chicago area creative agency were packing up to move to a new location and realized they had too much junk. Rather than pitching it all, Brainforest partner Dian Sourelis carted the extra markers, stock photo books and reams of paper to a neighborhood school. When the art teacher’s jaw dropped, Sourelis [...]
Mark Langan—Designer With Cardboard
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Read about this talented designer artist with a green consciousness on his website and check out his gallery.
I Love Eleanor Antin
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I first encountered Eleanor Antin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The museum was hosting an exhibition of her art in the part of the museum that regularly features temporary exhibitions. Two components of her installation amazed and seduced me: one was a conversation with her mother. The words of her conversation [...]