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Entries Tagged as 'Art'

Salvatore Scrivo: Mythology of the Strange

May 2010 · 3 Comments

“Life can be a complicated journey, and sometimes can have a paradoxical component to it. Art, having an emotional and intellectual dimension, will have an impact on the viewer.”

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Grand Consumption: The Art of James Paulsen

January 2010 · No Comments

“The themes I explore in my paintings, commodities and currency, serve as social connectors, embodying universal qualities. I create totemic images that reveal the fetishizing nature of capitalist economies. My work battles the hegemony of the commodity, and the economic order that has made this state of affairs possible.”

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Into the Labyrinth: Tim Kent

February 2009 · 49 Comments

“We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky. To draw ever more complex patterns on the blank sheet.” -Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

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Béatrice Coron: The Secret Life of Cities

August 2008 · 74 Comments

“Black on white, stories are written, and in my case, cut. I invent cities, worlds and situations. They are memories, associations of words, ideas, observations and thoughts that unfold in improbable juxtapositions. Each observer makes his or her own story in this accumulation of real or imaginary lives to remember the past and foresee the future.”

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