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Meredith Dittmar @ FIFTY24MX Gallery Preview
December 8th, 2011
Portland’s Meredith Dittmar is opening a new solo show, Now You See It, Now You Don’t, at FIFTY24MX Gallery opening this December 10th. If you are in Mexico City….
Meredith Dittmar (Massachusets, 1974) is an artist living and playing in Portland OR. Born near Boston Mass, she grew up in a world of pet pigs, horses, hay-forts and spy games. Follow this with an education in computer science, a career in interactive design, a compulsive need to create, and a drive to Seek and you get the major elements of her person and work.
Dittmar’s human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness. Her characters are frequently involved in quiet expressive moments, or lounge facing their audience so they can share their inner space. Dittmar believes it is this space we recognize in ourselves, and through convening in that space, the interconnectedness of all things is revealed. She sees the act of spontaneous artistic creation as part of a larger practice of being present, and a way to better understand herself and reality.
Tags: art, boston-mass, FIFTY24SF Gallery, flash-video, larger-practice, meredith, mexico, mexico city, person
Herbert Baglione in Mexico City
November 28th, 2011
I have a lot of difficulty on painting in the streets for no reason. I end up creating thousands of barriers that prevent me from doing something just for the pleasure. But, since my last trip to Europe I have noticed the power that the streets have, and I’ve forgotten. The communication with the people in the neighborhoods is a very valuable thing.
After one month there, I’ve stayed a few days in São Paulo, breathed my daily carbon monoxide and traveled to Mexico so that I could give death a kiss.
You know that feeling when sometimes you need to be in another place to see where you came from and what made you happy? It was that kind of feeling I had in Oaxaca. I can try to describe it saying that I died and there they gave me a new opportunity to reborn.
At the party of the Dia de Los Muertos I felt all the passages of the soul. In the color and simplicity of the people’s houses I saw similarities with the Brazil I like.
I’m far from being mystical, but I feel that in many places I’m not there by chance.
Strangely, the stone streets, the wind and the lights reminded me of the places that I consider the best to paint in São Paulo. Parque São Lucas, Vila Ema, Vila Prudente, Ipiranga and Mooca (neighborhoods in São Paulo) are the places that I miss and every time I go there, my heart beats differently.
I remembered some paintings I did with Boleta and Vitché, our wanderings and endless conversations.
It’s different when you are invited to paint with another artist that you don’t have the intimacy, and your work flows so naturally that scares. So it was with Lakra.
The first thing I admire about someone, regardless of their art, is their simplicity in life in general. I identified immediately with him and this was a safe step for our work. In fact, in this kind of experience, the least important thing is the result. The process is priceless. The people who passed by, the conversations during painting, a child dressed as Spiderman seeing everything with curiosity, filming and photographing friends. All those things show that it meant something else other than what was recorded on the wall. —Herbert Baglione
From The Citrus Report
Tags: color, conversations, herbert, Herbert Baglione, mexico, neighborhoods, people, statement, streets
Dr. Lakra and Herbert Baglione get down in Oaxaca
November 9th, 2011
We are extremely excited about the collaboration of two of our favorite contemporary artists, Mexico’s Dr. Lakra and Brazil’s Herbert Baglione The two, just in time of the Day of the Dead festivities in Oaxaca, Mexico, painted this beautiful mural on the streets of Etla. This is just Day 1, and we can’t wait to show you the full mural in the coming days…
From The Citrus Report
Tags: beautiful-mural, Brazil, headlines, herbert, Herbert Baglione, mexico, mexico-herbert, mexico-upper, oaxaca, oaxaca-oaxaca, playground
Herbert Baglione x Dr. Lakra in Oaxaca, Mexico
November 8th, 2011
Upper Playground Mexico City was able to coordinate our good friend and longtime collaborator, Herbert Baglione, to paint with one of the great contemporary Mexican artists, Dr. Lakra (who has collaborated with UP in the past, and has a major museum exhibition in Mexico City in December 2011), in San Agustin Etla for the Dia de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) celebration this past week. This is Day 1 of the 3-Day project, and as you can see, both artists were able to combine their unique styles in a seamless, dramatic piece.
Tags: day of the dead, Dr Lakra, Herbert Baglione, mexico, Mural, oaxaca
Rene Almanza “Stranger” Opening Night Photos
September 30th, 2011
Tags: almanza, almanza-stranger, mexico, opening, opening-night, photos, Rene Almanza, watercolors
Liqen in Chiapas
September 13th, 2011
Spain just has it right now with talent. We endorse a little Liqen, who finished this mural in the Chiapas region of Mexico recently. Like Walton Ford and Escif rolled into one.
via unurth.
From The Citrus Report
Tags: 2011-502, chiapas, chiapas-mexico, citrus report, flash, flash-video, liqen, liqen-chiapas, mexico, resizer
Liqen in Mexico
September 12th, 2011
Just somebody for everybody to pay attention to… Liqen does really great work in the new tradition of a lot of European muralists doing great mural work around the world. Liqen here did this piece in Mexico.
via unurth
Tags: liqen, mexico, mural art, street art
The Surfing Orange Report
September 3rd, 2011
If you surf at all, I’m sure you noticed the biggest south swell all summer has been lighting up the entire California coast. We personally went down to Baja to get away from the crowded mayhem of the Golden State and returned just in time to catch some waves at Black’s in San Diego (we even got to use our semi-gun, in the summer!). If you do surf and you somehow missed this swell, go get the tail end of it, now.
-The Surfing Orange Report 1:35 PM September 3rd.
From The Citrus Report
Tags: biggest, biggest-south, black, california, crowded-mayhem, mexico, Summer, surfing, surfing orange report, surfing-orange, waves-at-black
Anthropocene Extinction: A Site Specific Installation by Swoon at the ICA/Boston
August 30th, 2011
CA Adjunct Curator Pedro Alonzo sat down with the artist recently to hear more about her work and process:
PA: With regard to your creative process, you mentioned how your work is about traveling and observing the world. Could you talk a bit about that?
SWOON: Well, I like to travel a lot primarily just to get a global perspective, and also to get a sense of how people are surviving and making do all over the world. When I travel I try to seek out various peoples’ movements; I’m interested in how people are self-organizing. I try to weave these stories into my working process…I find them so inspiring. I feel like so many of these stories point toward something bigger about the way we can all survive in the world.
PA: A lot of the images seem to either portray people who have been left behind by globalization, or in other cases, your friends who are opting out of a world reliant on globalization. Are you trying to represent their stories in your work?
SWOON: I think in an intuitive way. Sometimes I’m actively seeking those kinds of images, like the time that I drew women who were self-unionizing in Mexico, or the kids who were living on the other side of the wall in Palestine. I’m definitely seeking out some of that, and also feel like so much of the community that I have built myself over the years has been about people who are trying to find other ways of living.
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