I’m looking at an inordinate amount of photography lately…I can’t get enough of it…
David Potes

jan sochor

and dallas’ own marissa wallace (she did our dallas derby devils refs photoshoot, she is so great)

These photos are absolutely breathtaking. Domesticated opens @ Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles Saturday, the 16th. If you are going to be in the area I would highly suggest checking it out. It almost makes me wish I lived in LA…almost.

1. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

2. Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away

3. Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don’t Have Your Back

Villains play Andy’s Bar in Denton on Saturday Night…show up around 9:30ish…we’ll have drinks…

A friend of mine posted this on my myspace page once and told me it reminded her of my art. I still like it every bit as much today as 3 years ago. Thanks Jess.

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been
- Dennis Oppenheim

here are some of the albums that kept me going through 2007 (better late than never). It was such a good year for music.

Alt Country/Acoustic

1. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

2. Bright Eyes - Cassadega

3. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog

4. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

5. Jose Gonzalez – In Our Nature

Rock

1. The National - Boxer

2. BRMC - Baby 81

3. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

4. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Living with the Living

5. Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil

6. Villains - Please meet…

Electronic

1. Dntel - Dumb Luck

2. John Vanderslice - Emerald City

3. People Press Play - People Press Play

4. The Go Find - Stars on the Wall

5. Digitalism - Idealism

Indie

1. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

2. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

3. Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven’s Gate

4. Page France - …and the Family Telephone

5. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight

Post-Rock/Experimental

1. Explosions in the Sky

2. Battles - Mirrored

3. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?

4. The Apples in Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder

5. Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends

This work is really amazing. Sze makes these strange objects out of familiar and not so familiar debris. They seem awkwardly familiar. They are just vague enough to be interesting and whimsical enough to be fun. For me they beg exploring if you follow the link to her site check out the exhibition called “Powers of Ten” it’s like some kind of surreal archaeological dig. Her sculptures remind me of my childhood and making “set-ups” with my action figures in the basement. Some of the most inspiring work I’ve come across recently, Sarah Sze makes me want to make my art better.

Heart of Darkness
Vernon Fisher
Sep 7 - Oct 7, 2007

Opening Reception
For the Artist
Friday, Sep 7
6:00 - 8:00 pmDUNN AND BROWN CONTEMPORARY 5020 Tracy Street Dallas TX 75205

Vernon Fisher has another show up at the Dunn and Brown Contemporary, and always it’s really good. I Studied under this guy at UNT and to this day it still blows me away how fresh and relevant his work is. The way he takes these disparate elements and marries them together using composition and juxtaposition still really speaks to me. Of course I may be biased seeing as though I build images in a very similar way but this guy is really at the top of his game and never ceases to amaze me if you’re in Dallas it’s worth a look-see.

Ron Mueck: Sculptures

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

June 24 - October 21, 2007

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
http://www.themodern.org/
817-738-9215
3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, TX 76110 map

For those children of the 80’s out there Ron Mueck was part of Jim Henson’s creature shop back when they made Labyrinth. He has a fine art career now doing large scale installation sculptures like the one above (In Bed, 2005. Mixed media, 63 3/4 x 255 7/8 x 155 1/2 in. (161.9 x 649.9 x 395 cm). He has 13 of his works on display at the Ft. Worth modern right now they are worth checking out.