March 31, 2012
March 8, 2012
Off Book
"OFF BOOK explores cutting edge arts and the artists that make it. Breaking the mold of the definition of art, OFF BOOK explores the avant-garde, the experimental and the underground artforms that are supported by online communities. The bi-weekly, web exclusive series includes episodes on typography, steampunk, internet culture, video game art and more."
February 25, 2012
Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece
"A photographer can describe a better world only by better seeing the world as it is in front of him."
-Robert Adams
Edward Weston, Artichoke, Halved, 1930
Tamas Dezso, Night Watchman (Budapest), 2009
John Coplans, Hands Holding Feet (Self Portrait), 1985
"Today we are overwhelmed with photographic images, yet this is not a new phenomenon... Photography and the infinite number of pictures it has produced has literally changed the way we see... who can deny the visual hyper-saturation we endure in our current digital age with the proliferation of social networks, zines, blogs, and such video-sharing websites as YouTube? So how do we make distinctions among all these images in which we find ourselves? What qualities do we look for in pictures that distinguish one that piques our interest from another that does not?"
Michele M. Penhall
Curator, Prints and Photographs
UNM Art Museum
February 5, 2012
February 4, 2012
January 27, 2012
The Beauty of Maps
"I began painting maps to invent my own complicated narrative about the way I see and feel about the world. I wanted to list what I know about a place from memory, from impressions, from media, and from general information overload. They are paintings of distortions."
from the book MAPS, by Paula Scher
January 15, 2012
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