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A New Life for Nooks of Decay with @acommonname

To see more of Paige Smith’s crystalline-inspired works, follow @acommonname on Instagram.

Graphic designer-turned-multimedia artist Paige Smith (@acommonname) has lost count of her “urban geodes” that occupy the nooks and crannies of decay in places as far-flung as Bali, Madrid and Istanbul.

It all began three years ago in downtown Los Angeles, where Paige was living. “I started noticing the cracks and holes and decaying surfaces of our buildings, and that no one seemed to be paying attention to them,” she says. “The idea clicked to utilize these spaces and create something beautiful.”

Paige started by using a paper-cutting and folding technique called kirigami to create three-dimensional installations that look like geodesic formations. While she still prefers this method for her large-scale installations, her process has evolved to incorporate crystals of silicon-molded resin. The resulting works draw attention by juxtaposing inorganic formations that appear natural against the backdrop of a deteriorating man-made landscape.

Like the walls and buildings they inhabit, Paige’s works also decay over time. “I appreciate the mystery of their demise,” she says. “It’s a natural occurrence.”

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Huge Congrats to our friend and very first Hahaxparadigm Artist in Residence, acommonblog who is blowing up Instagram’s blog right now with her Urban Geodes Project!

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We are some cis and trans women and non-binary poets in the Bay Area who are concerned about ongoing issues of misogyny and gender/sexual violence in our communities.

We are writing now with some...

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Important read especially for those in the Bay Area

#misogyny #sexual assault #callouts

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maggie nelson on queerness, motherhood, empathy, freedom

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All Things Grids: In addition to the work of Charles Gaines, this blog will highlight the work of artists who incorporate the grid. United by the theme of a “grid aesthetic”, the works featured represent a cross section of movements, generations and materials, and demonstrate the varied use of the grid in modern and contemporary art.

Ellen Gallagher, They Could Still Serve, 2001

"Gallagher has simultaneously adopted the grid and reversed its rigorous use by a former generation of Minimalist and Conceptualist artists: her patches of blue lined paper form a grid pattern, but it is liquefied, disassembled, blurred, and dematerialized with watercolor. Among the papers’ blue lines are small marks, a repeated stereotyped sign of race drawn from minstrelsy: wide eyes peering out at the viewer. These signs are paradoxically at once free floating and mapped in her grid structures. They Could Still Serve takes its title from an etching in Francisco de Goya’s series The Disasters of War (1810–20), a caustic meditation on the brutality and futility of human warfare.”

source: http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80578

#ceramics #all things calming and good #bisque #glaze

Debra Weiss

#textiles #debra weiss #floral wonder

Teresa Baker at The Luggage Store

Opening reception Friday, July 11 6–8pm

#dreamboat #teresa baker #so many forms #piedeterre #luggagestore #tournesol #headlands center for the arts

Angie Terry (more here) and on instagram @hosslyterry

#metalsmith #comb #style for days #spork #spoon #handmade #handmade utensils

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Ann Hamilton, at hand, 2001

at Sean Kelly Gallery

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We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality…an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’ domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see the future beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of the moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds … Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.

In memory of José Esteban Muñoz, from his book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (via nyupress)