Visiting The Museum Of Jurassic Technology

I read Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology while enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute New Genres Masters Program back in 2003, and today I finally had the opportunity to check out MJT in person. I particularly enjoyed the motorized rotating bell …

Torino Share Festival 2009: Market Forces Exhibition Review

Sensing demands a market. Values are automatically assigned to a stimulus as a function of their reception. This fundamental law of being, embodied at an unconscious level, manifests in every aspect of human existence. To have a body unaware of the market of stimulus is to have a body damaged by its environment. In a …

Ellsworth Kelly and Christian Marclay at SFMOMA

When I first came out to San Francisco in March of 2002, I went to the SF Moma to see Eva Hesse’s retrospective then later I was out to apartment hunt, I returned in June of 2002, and saw Sampling by Christian Marclay and Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco. I distinctly remember being really psyched …

Recent Trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

I went to see the “Japanese Masters of the Brush” show and was so impressed with the sheer volume of the work. So many ink paintings, and the mounting was as integral to the pieces as the composition. Ike Tiaga and Tokuyama Gyokuran create work with traditional themes interpreted in their own style, and I …