Howdy folks. I have a story about a wedding in the Summer 2012 issue of Monday Night, a great little journal based in Oakland, CA. I think the story is pretty good and alternately funny and sad. Consider buying a copy or you can read the issue online. Thanks!
Dave Eggers on birthday boy Raymond Pettibon’s No title (Why are we killing) (1988):
Raymond Pettibon can be credited with kicking open the door to the acceptance of text in contemporary art. Were there others who incorporated text before him? Hundreds. But whole sentences? Sentences with narrative coherence? Not many, if any at all. Text in painting before Pettibon was almost always of the aphoristic (Kruger/Holzer), expressionistic (Nauman), or just iconic (Indiana) kind. No one dared to actually tell stories, which is what Pettibon does, much to the consternation of some: he’s a storyteller. Having seen an entire show of Pettibon’s work, we feel like we’ve read his diary, seen all of his films, read six or seven short stories and a chapbook of street poetry.
ten years, 2011 - zain burgess
still image from video installlation
digital video of 10 years of american action films explosions, edited into one film installed without store knowledge in saturn electronics, berlin
Nathan Cowan for Colpa Press. I have some work for sale at their pop-up shop at a re-purposed news stand at Market and Sixth Street in SF.
