Ross Smirnoff Art: June 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

MONSTER ICONS

Yesterday, I bought a new sketchbook from one of my favorite bookstores in Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue. The idea of the new sketchbook is for it to be a depository of all the crap in my mind and scribbles and quotes that interest me. Well I started working in this book and realize that I am making a new series of drawings in this book called Monster Icons. I think this book will be the gateway into the paintings and the sculptures, which I've been craving to make.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Rembrandt

Has there ever been a painter on this planet who can touch this?

Michael Williams @ Canada

Michael Williams new paintings are energetic, and bold. On display are paintings that do not take painting too seriously, which is a relief. Painting is freed from it's cultural restraints, and the artist explores a world of fantasy doodles and beautiful colored washes made with an airbrush. Canada gallery comes off showing the art world that art can be kind of fun when it stops taking itself too seriously.

The paintings have a certain surfer board patina, which adds to the fun aspect. The effect of the airbrush is striking at first, seeing something unexpected and then wondering how it was done. The fact that these are painted as well makes it all the more fun. They look like they could easily be drawn, but since they are painted it displays the skill of the artist. To make a painting look like a drawing is a rare gift.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Collapse Of The Mayan Empire

Colin from Radiohead's music suggestions

Daphni- Mapfumo
South Street Player - Who Keeps Changing Your Mind
Sibylle Baier - Forget About
The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt
Nick Straker - A Little Bit of Jazz
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Daphni - Ye Ye
John Luther Adams - 4000 holes
John Maus - Do Your Best
Four Tet - Angels Echoes (Caribou Remix)
Jay Dee - Nothing Like This
Rufus Wainwright - Tiergarten (Supermayer Lost in the Tiergarten mix)
Ween - Your Party
Dominatrix - Sleeps Tonight
Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When it Hits
Sheila and B. Devotion - Spacer
Four Tet - Pockets

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The world is made the way it is so that we have no freedom to create and explore our creativity and individuality. The concept of money has made us slaves to having to do things in life that our contrary to our own desires. We need to be able to create a new form of currency in order to allow our creativity to thrive. The next revolution will be fought with our minds embracing this new currency. We need a creative revolution. Instead of focusing our minds and bodies on the way the world is and fighting against that, allow that world to exist. Freedom is contagious and If we fight the power of the world today by just being ourselves, we can lead our future back on track.

I don't know how to accomplish this task, but I know that it's needed, now more than ever.