May 31, 2024
Missed This :(
Miro Hoffman at Humidity Skate Shop, Installation and Board Release
I was sick the night Humidity hosted Miro Hoffman’s installation and board release. Miro’s paintings remind me of a magnet; things we see each day–corrugated tin, garbage trucks, ice chests–are pulled from the urban quotidianscape to the surfaces of paintings with all their familiar graphics.
Since missing the one-night installation, I’ve been thinking about the intersections of art and skate communities. I don’t skate, but it’s a beautiful thing I admire. Look, a lot of people who don’t paint lurk at museums. Is what I tell myself when I’m creeping at the skatepark. (I love the quiet of paintings like I love the sound of skateboards.) In fact, I discovered Miro’s painting at an art show at Under Nine in Chalmette.
One more thing: I have thoughts about ubiquitous phrasing and what it does to language and sentiments. Artists and galleries are in a habit of saying “We are pleased to announce…” “I’m so grateful to be included…” to the point where the phrases feel sterilized, stokeless. So I love Humidity’s announcement on Instagram about the installation and board release: “We are hyped as fuck to announce today is the day…”
On View
Raina Benoit, Strangely Familiar at the Front
I spoke with the artist in the space and our conversation covered all sorts of things but one comment Raina made that stuck with me was, “They’re drawings trying to be something other...”
This idea of artworks trying to find their way, like we do, I like thinking about that. I like to sit across from a painting I’m working on and ask “What do you need?” Or in this case, it would be “What do you want to be?”
Ina Kaur, Mis(s) Re(a)d: The Othered Self at the Front
I’m thinking about the shape of quiet. And the temperature of quiet
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Awkward Monet, Houses on the Old Bridge at Vernon at NOMA
I wrote a piece about this painting in New Orleans Review a couple of years ago. They had just taken it out of storage.
“You sly devil,” I said to the painting or maybe to Monet himself…The main reason the painting didn’t look to me like a Monet, other than the fact that I hadn’t seen it before, was the main subject and how it was painted. The big, sagging beige-ish brown-ish structure was un-Monet-ish.”
“Hey buddy.” I love visiting this painting and did this week.
On Google Maps Street View I found the spot.
Torkwase Dyson, Way Over There Inside Me (Ocean as a super throughway 1-4) at NOMA
I asked my friend, maybe podcast collaborator, artist-creative Seth Boonchai, to show me one of his favorite pieces at NOMA. We went to the second floor but after sitting in the cafe a while, I realized I was freezing in the museum and decided to come back another day with my Northface jacket.
I went back this week to look at the suite of four paintings. I realized I could see them better if I kept moving. It seemed like I was supposed to move and follow. When I did, it felt like open water, like weather.
Also, to know what art your friends like is to know them better.
And…
Score. I love empty museum galleries.
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Miro Hoffman at Humidity Skate Shop
Raina Benoit, Strangely Familiar and Ina Kaur, Mis(s) Re(a)d: The Othered Self at The Front CLOSES JUNE 2 (KAUR’S PERFORMANCE “The Red Line” June 2, 4 pm.
Claude Monet, Houses on the Old Bridge at Vernon and Torkwase Dyson, Way Over There Inside Me (Ocean as a super throughway #4) at NOMA
STILL ON VIEW (SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)
Jon Gott, Foreign Correspondent at Sibyl Gallery CLOSES JUNE 30
Jasmine Best, Screened In at Antenna Gallery. CLOSES JUNE 23
Angel Perdomo and Collectiva Manos adentro, afuera: outside-and-in at Antenna. CLOSES JUNE 23
Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane CLOSES JUNE 1
Tiffany Smith, Back Home at 1019 Gallery, ARTIST TALK JUNE 6 -7 pm. SHOW CLOSES JUNE 29
Parlour Gallery (and Camp Street Studios), Sara Madandar Through the Window, FINAL PERFORMANCE: JUNE 1, 6-9 PM
Recess, Jeff Rinehart and Cheryl Hayes, at Good Children Gallery CLOSES JUNE 2
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