.International Mail Art Submission
My finished mail art submission (pseudo-lobby card, a tongue & cheek promotion of http://wp.me/pj2vp-31d), includes a custom USPS stamp.
International Mail Art Show:
In Honor and Memory of
Judith A. Hoffberg
Armory Center for the Arts
Caldwell Gallery
Pasadena, CA
June 27– August 22, 2010
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(The following was written some months after this post appeared)
Before the opening of the Twitter/Art+Social Media exhibition at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, BC, Canada, I was contacted by one of the directors to say that one of my pieces (Iran’s Ahmadinejad Prepares for Avatar Premier, 2010), had been sold and that the gallery owner, Ms Farris was upset, as her eyes had been on the artwork. I was asked if I would be interested in making an edition of the artwork. I agreed, then never heard anything back from the gallery. Feeling a little flimflammed and manipulated over the request, I set out to produce a little piece of 8½ inspired cinema in the form of a series of gif animations to post before the exhibit completed its run. The poster above promotes the filmic homage and borrows from the poster artwork of the Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet directed film, 8: The Mormon Proposition. In April, I also produced this little promotional item that borrows from Disney’s Toy Story 3. In the end, it so turned out, there was no original buyer for the artwork. Ms Farris also asked if I might consider payment in the form of a ‘payment plan’. Months went by with my not hearing from the gallery. It just so happened that I found myself visiting Vancouver via San Francisco. I visited the space and there before me on a counter in the very quiet gallery’s back room lay the most exquisite little paint brush next to an unfired ceramic cat food bowl. Noticing my gaze and not missing a beat, the gallery director informed me that the bowl (awaiting Ms Farris’ artistic touch) was for a local pet charity auction. After my enquiry I was told that Ms Farris was no longer interested in purchasing the artwork and would I consider leaving my Ahmadinejad artwork for the upcoming gallery anniversary exhibition. I said it would be fine, provided the gallery brokered the shipping back to San Francisco. I needn’t print the response, except to say that I was so embarrassed for the business that all I could do was collect my artworks and get out of there fast.
Jean-Christian Bourcart, Stardust
Jean-Christian Bourcart, Stardust Series, New York, 2005 – 2006
Jean-Christian Bourcart photographs the tiny image that appears when the film passes through the small window that separates a cinema’s projection cabin from the audience’s space.
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Hilarious Bit of Trivia
Christian Bale’s performance in 2000’s ‘American Psycho’ is said to be so frighteningly believable he must have had some real-life inspiration. Turns out Bale studied Tom Cruise’s mannerisms to bring the clean-cut murder addict to life.
The role of Martian-like Patrick Bateman involved looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. Christian Bale’s inspiration came from watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, ‘he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes.’ Bale was really taken with Cruise’s bizarre energy.
Priceless.
Read more from the movie’s director, Mary Harron, in an interview with BlackBook>
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