kupofshit

More mural stuff via Ben ’s Flickr and PACS; some photos of the process from start to finish, and also some unflattering photos of my self and my butt, again and again.

4 Jun 2012

New Mural! Kill Your Crude Idols

Here’s the official text from PACS gallery on the new mural:

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^ Before & After

PACS Gallery has once again teaming up with Public Assembly to commission a mural by Denise Kupferschmidt. The work is part of her Kill Your Crude Idols series, and transforms 17’x5’ of previously boring, unfinished drywall on North 6th St into a beautiful, iconic work of art. View more photos of the install here.

(Source: pacsnyc)

4 Jun 2012

Paul F. Tompkins looks just like I thought he would look after I’ve been listening to his podcast for awhile (this is probably because I have seen him in movies and on TV before and just forgot that I already knew what he looked like).

4 Jun 2012

Go see: the Lucio Fontana show at Gag-gosian! I loved it.

4 Jun 2012

Almost done again!

3 Jun 2012

Wierd taste in mouth.

In a way it’s nice that I’m so behind in sorting through my pictures to put into this Kup O Shit.

Because instead of showing you what I did this week, and all the current events…

…I get to look at these months-old photos and remember things that have recently escaped my short-term memory banks (most things leave fairly rapidly).

A skyline.

A joking bag.

A laserdisc player!

A time in Boston recently walking on paths I used to walk on a lot as a college student.

Remembering how annoying I was, how anoying we all were.

Tower. There it is.

I’m perfect now of course.

These are men I work with sometimes.

This was spring and the first lunch outside of 2012.

This was the outfit approval I needed later that day.

A Chris Martin thing in a different bathroom.

A Jess Fuller thing with a Liz Hirsch thing.

This was a famous photo that went on a blog.

If you have a birthday coming up I will make you something like this, for these were b-day prezzesents.

Prizzents for these beautiful women.

Here is a man who you’ll be seeing around New York more soon, maybe, if you’re lucky?

Here is a family.

Here is our house.

2 Jun 2012

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

(from Swiss Institute) On the occasion of the exhibition Painting and Jugs, Daniel Marcus discussed abstraction as rooted in the tropes of modernism by examining the work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay.

With the return of abstract painting to the forefront of much contemporary practice, many key tropes of 20th-century modernism have come back into circulation—with the difference, however, that abstraction and figuration no longer stand opposed as they once did. What histories of abstraction are unlocked by contemporary abstract painting? Does the resurgence of the body in contemporary abstract painting conform to the rule of “semiocapitalism” as Isabelle Graw and others have recently argued, or to some other logic? To find answers for these questions, I look back to the origins of modernist abstraction in the work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, circa 1911-13, when the opposition of body and grid was still held together by a third term: the face.

Daniel Marcus is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at UC Berkeley. He has written on the motif of the face in the art of Jean Dubuffet, Cathy Wilkes, and Josh Smith.

1 Jun 2012