distractions | inspirations

7.30.2007

Hyungkoo Lee

http://www.hyungkoolee.net/animatus/animatus.html

Anas Animatus; Anas Animatus L; Anas Animatus H; Anas Animatus D
2006
Resin, aluminum sticks, stainless steel wires, springs and oil paint
45 x 79 x 53 cm; 49.5 x 31 x 33 cm; 52 x 28 x 34.5 cm; 52 x 30.5 x 33 cm

Seem familiar at all...? Really fantastic stuff; brilliant idea and superbly executed.

Ham Jin

That belly button baby is so mesmerizing...
More at http://www.pkmgallery.com/

The Boston Globe: Morton Bartlett

The Boston Globe | The man who played with dolls: What drove Morton Bartlett to create exquisitely realistic sculptures, dress them, and take pictures of them in evocatively staged scenes is a mystery. Since his death in 1992, though, the Boston-based photographer's figures have been hailed as works of art.

Reminder: Gen Art's Emerge 2007 Call for Entries

A reminder about the upcoming deadline for this year's Gen Art Emerge exhibition; worth a shot, right? Looks like they don't want slides anymore, so it's even easier now to get things together last minute.

Images from last year's show here: http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/110406.html
(scroll down to the Gen Art section)

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Gen Art’s 10th Annual All-Medium Visual Art Exhibition
http://www.genart.org/art.submit.htm?itemid=609
Deadline: ~~August 10~~ September 17, 5 p.m.

Emerge, Gen Art SF's annual exhibition features the work of a prominent jury's selection of Bay Area emerging artists. An all-medium exhibition, Emerge is the cornerstone of Gen Art’s efforts to increase exposure for emerging Bay Area artists and to cultivate a new generation of art enthusiasts. Emerge 2007 will be Gen Art SF's 9th annual exhibition, showcasing emerging Bay Area artists working in the fields of photography, painting, sculpture, mixed-media installation and new media. Emerge will open at the Luxe Preview Benefit on November 4, 2007.