Wade Guyton - http://www.petzel.com/index_guyton2007.html
David and I saw this show and I think we liked it. Guyton is maybe important, I can't tell really, yet. I know I'm keen on his work as I'm keen on Christopher Wool. We both decided that the black plywood floor really made it happen in the show.
Urs Fischer - http://www.gavinbrown.biz/artists/view/urs-fischer
A couple of us saw this show. It is a must! I think it runs til January 19th, 2008. If/when you go to the site you need to click "images". I'll post some of my personal photos here tonight or tomorrow, too, of myself, James Case, and Maggie Dickenson interacting with the space.
Merlin James - http://sikkemajenkinsco.com/exhibition_merlinjames2.html
Whether or not we talked about this show I'm not certain. It's good. Maybe you have to be a painter-nerd to totally get into it. Merlin taught at Cooper my last year there and I tried to set up a studio visit with him and he was 2 hours late and came by the next day apologizing but I said I didn't need the visit anymore. That was probably stupid. These paintings make me kind of sad, like there's no hope in the world but maybe just a little hope.
Two shows at the met worth seeing before they close - Rembrandt and Friends, Tapestries
The Rembrandt show = amazing, a must see.
Tapestries of the Baroque is really really really compelling. They're just so weird. Who would think to make these? What a pain in the ass, right? Well they're all pretty amazing and beautiful and old and important. What impressed me most was their scale. Sometimes I think I understand scale and what it means and why it's used and for what reasons ... then I see something like this show and I'm just like "shit. Those are big and powerful."
There was also a lot of discussion about music last night and, well, I don't know anything about music beyond my own personal taste which, so I've been told, is awful.
Happy blogging,
Matt
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Awesome round-up of roundtable - thanks, Matt!
I didn't about the tapestry show at the Met, so thanks for the heads-up, now I'm really excited to go see it. Did you talk about it last night? I don't think you did.
I checked out the images online of the Wade Guyton show and damn! Those floors look incredible - you can't really see the paintings, but I'll check them out later in the week (gonna go see shows on Thursday if anyone wants to join, also hoping to squeeze in some holiday shopping..) How did you say the paintings were made though - with his ink-jet printer?? So the black is black ink - does he run it through like a million times?
Oh and thanks for bringing your friend, Diane - she was great (and now maybe I have somewhere specific to go xmas shopping)
Merrily,
Steph
Apparently he (Guyton) folds the canvas in half because half is the width of the printer. Then he runs it through the printer, tugging here and there to get "accidental marks". Then he flips it over and does the right side, or whichever side, doing the same thing. Then they're stretched. The floor in the gallery is the same as the one he has in his studio.
I did not mention the Rembrandt or Tapestry show at the talk Monday night. But I was listing shows we did talk about and then I talked about Merlin James which we didn't talk about, and so I just stopped caring whether or not anyone talked about anything and started writing about the cool shows that I've seen.
Also - EVERYONE should see URS FISCHER at GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE.
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