Early in the week we had posts by our guest photo contributors Lee Gainer and Joshua Field. We invited them to send in what caught their eyes while at the fairs. For Lee's posts click here and here. To view Joshua's posts, click here and here. Thanks to both of them for sharing! They'll each receive a free two-year subscription for their contributions.
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Weekly Recap (Week of March 12)
Written by Andrew Katz Katz
Early in the week we had posts by our guest photo contributors Lee Gainer and Joshua Field. We invited them to send in what caught their eyes while at the fairs. For Lee's posts click here and here. To view Joshua's posts, click here and here. Thanks to both of them for sharing! They'll each receive a free two-year subscription for their contributions.
--- NAP Staffers, Drew and Alexa, were also busy cruising the fairs. We posted photos of their trip here. And don't forget the Whitney Biennial!
--- Satirical. Sexual? Sensical and non…Gavin Bunner’s (NAP #65 & #97) paintings are flat out funny, farcical, and intelligent. Growing out of his earlier experimentation with watercolors and humorous juxtapositions, Bunner began creating larger compositions in which he inundates the viewer and field with likely and unlikely pairings from pop-culture and the larger media oversoul: Google. - View the entire post by Ellen C. Caldwell here.
--- Finally, closing out the week, a great interview by Chicago contributor, Josh Reames. Adam Scott has been making large, super-saturated paintings of deconstructed cartoon-y figures and scenes with a sort of implied narrative. The paintings are made by pouring paint in a controlled way to construct an recognizable image, but with a degree of slippage allowing for a wavy, tripped-out looseness to the it. The new work is much different; no cartoons, a new collage aesthetic, and a nod to a left-brained formalism not formerly prevalent in his paintings...Click here for the full interview.
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