FIREWORKS!
We began with a treat from one of our friends sharing her photos of a light show on the surface of the Frank Gehry Disney Concert Hall. We looked at the exterior of Gehry’s surreal silver building a few days ago and, luckily, one of our own took these wonderful pics. Beautiful site-specific color splashes on the curvy surfaces of the iconic building.
We switched up the art today by leaving Surrealism (for now) and looking at a plethora of fireworks!
Top of the Day is Bruce Seeds quilted mastery! Bruce breaks the traditional form of quilting with his brilliant, hexagonal fabric mosaics. This piece entitled, NLZ, looks like an explosion of flowers, holiday & religious iconography, color – a visual feast perfect to ring in the New Year! (NOTE: It's more 8ft by 8ft than 9x9 as I said!) His work & website got everyone excited with several people showing off their family quilts. What a lovely, lovely way to honor our Beloveds at this reflective time.
We also looked at Guerra de la Paz, Spring Sprang Sprung from 2009. This conceptual piece is a large tree composed of found used garments, steel hanging brackets and sound (bars.) Guerra de la Paz is the composite name of the creative team efforts of Cuban born artists, Alain Guerra & Neraldo de la Paz. Currently based in Miami, Florida, the duo have been working collaboratively since 1996 and use found objects (clothing, shoes, string, fabric) to create large-scale sculptures. We wondered how sturdy it is because a few of our gang want to climb & play on the limbs or kick(!) the tree roots! Hahah!
Ben Schonzeit’s artwork is so lavish and he works, expertly, in so many forms. We got to visit his painting: Fireworks from 2015. Some people saw fireworks through the flowers as if they were laying on the ground; others saw the flowers as the fireworks, or as if the blooms were falling from the sky after the explosion. One of our lot even brought her own (sun)flowers to our showing!
An untitled piece from painter & conceptual artist Jack Goldstein (1981) wonderfully confounded our brains. This acrylic on canvas astounded us! It looks so much like a photograph. If you get the chance, check out some of his other work – his technique is powerful. His ability to “create” light on the canvas, particularly, as someone today said on the dark black background, is delicately exquisite & equally eruptive. This painting looks like a light show or fireworks captured by a lens.
Here are Ruth's pictures of Frank Gehry Disney Concert Hall
Today's chat log:
09:30:38 From Kristen Buhlmann to Everyone : haha I concur. I am the woman of 1000 faces. :)
09:30:58 From Kristen Buhlmann to Everyone : I only look decent in 20% of pictures so have a veto rule with all my FB friends
09:39:08 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : Can you put the artists name in the chat?
09:39:30 From Art Detective to Everyone : Bruce Seeds
09:39:54 From Art Detective to Everyone : bruceseeds.com
09:46:42 From Vera Campbell to Everyone : Who is this?
09:47:10 From Art Detective to Everyone : Bruce Seeds
09:48:12 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : there is a photo of him with the quilt: https://bruceseeds.com/nlz2
09:49:51 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : If you go to his website and click on photo gallery there are photos of him with his various quilts so you can see the size
09:50:42 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : Tell him we love his art!
10:01:59 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : I’ve seen them do that in many movies, toss the sneakers over the powerline
10:03:47 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : also territory claiming for gangs :)
10:03:57 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : Ruth did you watch The Wire? ;)
10:05:04 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : for the grey hug, I see a sloth hugging the tree :)
10:05:11 From Vera Campbell to Everyone : A yoga poise
10:05:35 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : the yoga mudra finger pose Vera? :)
10:06:24 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : Snopes says there is no definitive answer for why it’s done. Members of the military used to do it when they would be leaving a particular post
10:06:59 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : I saw it in Detroit. Didn't stop to ask why ;)
10:07:59 From Kay to Everyone : Growing up in Chicago it was done after catching another kid and taking the shoes off to toss over lines.
10:11:44 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : Prometheus
10:11:58 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : yes!Proteus
10:13:27 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : Fireworks put off a lot of ash
10:13:47 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : If you’re watching a firework show up close, you see clouds of ash smoke
10:16:15 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : I’m looking at a picture of various firework displays, and many are named for different types of flowers because of the shapes they take when they’re exploding
10:24:11 From Katje Lehrman to Everyone : If you use slow motion photography to capture the trail, the fireworks get shot into space and not all are shot directly upwards
10:30:10 From Kiki in Canada to Everyone : Beside a moon window :)
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