In previous weeks, we’ve featured: Laretta Houston, Adam Rowell, Santiago Felipe, Mike White.
We’ve also highlighted Paul Weber, Joshua Albanese, Richard Warren & Andres Hernandez.
This week, we draw attention to Phoenix based Christopher Barr.
Visit Christopher Barr at his official site.
Works by the following artists are included: Hans Hoffman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Clyford Still, Barnett Newman & Adolph Gottlieb.
Three million sheets of the 44 cent stamps will be printed.
Do you want one?
We’re told that: “The Modern Myth” features works on paper from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that engage elements of ancient mythological narratives, incorporating them into new visual repertoires.
Featured artists include: “Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Paul Cézanne, Enrique Chagoya, Salvador Dalí, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, Juan Downey, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Adolph Gottlieb, Arshile Gorky, Wifredo Lam, Matta, Ana Mendieta, Wangechi Mutu, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Jackson Pollock, Odilon Redon, Mark Rothko, Jim Shaw and Andy Warhol.”
Learn more about the exhibit here.
Exhibitions
Tomaselli’s work takes the viewer into a space where alternate realities and parallel universes collide. The California artist is well-established for creating mesmerizing backdrops and images using a mélange of medicinal herbs, cut-outs from books and magazines, hallucinogenic plants etc – and the finished product is always something outer-worldly. Tomaselli art has been used in album covers by artists like Laura Cantrell and The Magnetic Fields. His work was also shown in an art book put out by the band Wilco.
The Missoni brand is famous for using a kaleidoscopic array of Technicolor fabrics and patterns to create inimitable pieces that cross the divide from fashion into the realm of wearable art. The house also has a home furnishings line that incorporates the same type of psychotropic energy. You won’t find any dull or bleak monochromatic palettes at a Missoni runway show. I mean, really, isn’t reality dark enough already?
The Phenomenal Handclap Band is a NYC collective consisting of about 8 members, and suffice it to say, they make music that fits the grandiosity of their moniker. Their sound is a mind-altering collage of vintage soul, disco riffs, textured instrumentation and sweeping falsetto vocals. It’s music that instantly evokes a Utopist mind-state and a heightened level of consciousness. Crawling into a Phenomenal Handclap Band song for an afternoon nap, if that was possible, would probably be the most tranquil and enlightening experience ever. Read vocalist Joan Tick's back room narrative on Yoko Ono here. And check out the band's new video for "Baby" directed by Stephen Agnew.
