SAIC designed objects exhibit

highlights- august 2010

donna and howard stone’s private collection was displayed in the modern wing

Janine Antoni.. gaaah i looove this so much! this exact one wasn’t there but there was one really similar

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni

after seeing these she is in my top three favorite artists

Felix gonzalez torres

i mildly freaked out when i saw this was there……….however, im a little confused how this is part of someones private collection in their home…? what happens if they eat all the candy? does the artists just drop by to deliver more?

also briefly checked out the Bresson exhibit which was HUGE.. i’ll have to go back

week 6

airport- electroboutique

 

hanging garden- mikala dwyer

hanging garden- mona hatoum

michael kienzer

simon kentgens

 

 

Week 4

Andy Goldsworthy

James Turell

Mark Dion

Tom  Friedman

MEDIA IMAGE

The great pacific garbage patch.

NEW ARTIST

Ursula Von Rydingsvard

week 3

Benett. Meant to represent snow.

Carla Nuis

Ela Bauer

mette jensen

nishibayashi

IMAGES FROM MEDIA

largest anglo-saxon gold hoard found

NEW ARTIST

julie blyfield

week 2

Ivan and Heather Morison, Journee des barricades

anya galliccio

sarah hood

sarah hood (necklace)

Nina Katichadourian

IMAGES FROM MEDIA

a new species of mushrooms found that glows in the dark

record size pumpkin

danxia landforms in china

New Artist

Michele Oka Doner

week 1

Roxy Paine

Henry Moore

Alphonse Mucha

Ernst Haeckle’s book “Art Forms in Nature”

Dale Chihuly

IMAGES FROM MEDIA

a negative from the 1800’s. Trees from the redwood forest.

light pollution in chicago The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population. -RALPH WALDO EMERSON, from his journal “Nature”

Youtube Clip

NEW ARTIST

Yoshiro Suda

This week I went to the modern wing to briefly look around. I noticed there was a new gallery so i went in. I really really liked the photographs by Zoe Strauss. The subject matter is of everyday people or things but for most people these things are not so normal. My favorite was a photograph of a room with just a bed in it. The bed had many different patterns, colors, and fabrics and the comforter was a sleeping bag. What i thought was funny about this image was the bed was made perfectly but everything was so mismatched, and the drapes on the window were also a completely different pattern. There were also different portraits of people taken on the street. I liked these photos because it exposed a world that most people do not see.