Issue No. 202: Your Schedule (Sorry I posted it late.)

PARIS FASHION WEEK // S/S 2013 / MENSWEAR / 27 JUNE - 01 JULY

27th June


14:30 • TILLMANN LAUTERBACH
15:30 • HARDY AMIES
16:30 • Y. PROJECT BY YOHAN SERFATY
17:30 • JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
18:30 • MUGLER
19:30 • CHRISTIAN LACROIX HOMME
20:30 • RAF SIMONS



28th June


09:30 • 3.1 PHILLIP LIM
10:30 • KOLOR
11:30 • ISSEY MIYAKE MEN
12:30 • RICK OWENS
13:30 • WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK
14:30 • LOUIS VUITTON
16:00 • VIKTOR & ROLF MONSIEUR
17:00 • JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
18:00 • YOHJI YAMAMOTO
19:00 • DRIES VAN NOTEN
20:00 • ADAM KIMMEL
21:00 • HENRIK VIBSKOV

29th June

10:00 • JUNYA WATANABE MAN
11:00 • ANN DEMEULEMEESTER
12:00 • JULIUS
13:00 • GUSTAVOLINS
14:00 • JUUN J.
15:00 • KRISVANASSCHE
16:00 • BORIS BIDJAN SABERI
17:00 • COMME DES GARÇONS HOMME PLUS
18:00 • GIVENCHY
19:00 • JOHN GALLIANO
20:00 • BERLUTI

30th June


10:00 • BILL TORNADE
11:00 • KENZO
12:00 • MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA
13:00 • BERNHARD WILLHELM
14:00 • ACNE
15:00 • DIOR HOMME
16:00 • WOOYOUNGMI
17:00 • SMALTO
18:00 • MIHARAYASUHIRO
19:00 • DAMIR DOMA
20:00 • HERMÈS
21:00 • AMI ALEXANDRE MATTIUSSI

1st July


10:00 • PIERRE CARDIN
11:00 • LANVIN
12:00 • AGNÈS B
13:00 • NO EDITIONS
14:00 • RYNSHU
15:00 • SONGZIO
16:00 • PAUL SMITH
17:00 • QASIMI HOMME
18:00 • THOM BROWNE
19:00 • ARNYS  

Issue No. 201: Mirth, Delight, AWE....

John Kramer Scratches 'n Sniffs

Karen Irwin & I Sniffed a Jar of Piss

'WASTED'

Jon Merritt

Jon Merritt

Curator of Art-Zine: Chicago, Daniel Teafoe

'WASTED'

Daniel Teafoe & Some Nice Windows

Co-Prosperity Sphere featuring the Artwork of John Kramer (Inside & Out)

Donk ?

Issue No. 200: John Kramer Shows New Work in Group Show Friday

Mirth, Delight, AWE opens at Co-Prosperity Sphere in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago on Friday 22 June.  6 - 9 pm. John Arthur Kramer, is among the artists showing.

John says, "My work explores social politics in American culture. Issues of acceptance and alienation are explored and presented in irreverent ways, often referencing art history. Gimmicks and tricks are given as much credit as the simple, geometric forms which they often inhabit. Common detritus is glued and taped, stretched and pulled, twisted and knotted in a highly tactile, transformative process. Serious subject matter manifests itself in campy disguises with brattish attitude, pushing the boundaries of trust and allowing for personal "baggage" to guide the viewing experience. Craft is garishly exposed while repetition and organization suggests a masculine domesticity, exposing and questioning traditional gender roles. The impermanence of non-traditional materials used raises questions of value and authenticity, while suggesting a critique of modern, "throw-away" society. Embedded meanings in the materials offer a primer which helps decode the narrative."
John has consistently demonstrated an ability to uproot himself from one urban - or SUBurban - cultural tribe then transplant himself into another. It is from these not always queer-friendly intersections that he
creates poignant artwork about his experience. Much of this work identifies signifiers of good taste and codifications of high social and financial status taken from communities within which high art is un-present. 

The macho vocabulary of new urban kitsch is a motif omnipresent in the matrix of John's landscape. Conversely, there is also a recurrence of an amused examination of d-list female icons of the 1990s like Kathy Ireland. Women who have made it to the middle but think they're on top.

 Finally, John also enjoys dissecting queer sexual sub-stereotypes like piss pigs through a DuChampian-via Eva Hesse-sometimes-Fluxist lens as you can see in this photo of a structure assembled from jock straps and yellow lights woven into a triangular formation. I look forward to seeing these as well as other provocative and humorous pieces Friday at Co-Prosperity Sphere. 3219 S. Morgan St. Chicago, IL. 60608.

Mirth, Delight, AWE runs 22 June - 8 July 2012.

Erik R. Peterson

Issue No. 199: The Fashion Ambassador: Is Anna Wintour Set to Become Barack Obama's Woman in London?

Last week: film. This week: fashion. Doubling down on a strategy which incites critics as much as it seems to excite supporters, Barack Obama will devote part of yet another busy week to soliciting endorsements and campaign dollars from Americas A-list.

The President will attend a series of high-profile fundraisers with key figures from the fashion industry, led by Anna Wintour, the British-born editor of Vogue magazine, who yesterday was tipped as a possible future candidate for US Ambassador to London.

Speculative reports suggest that Wintour, 62, is a candidate to succeed Louis Susman, America's representative in the UK, who is set to retire later this year. The formidable editor, who inspired The Devil Wears Prada, has been named a "top bundler" for Obama, having raised more than half a million dollars for his "Victory Fund."

In Chicago tomorrow, Ms Wintour and supermodel Iman, who is married to David Bowie, will walk the red carpet at a fundraiser at Oprah Winfrey's TV studio in Chicago. On Thursday, Ms Wintour will join other key players at the New York home of Sarah Jessica Parker, the Sex and the City star, for a $40,000 (£25,850) a head dinner party attended by Obama and his wife Michelle. The Obama campaign's move to boost support in the fashion world comes days after he visited Hollywood for a fundraiser attended by key players in the movie business. He hosted a low-profile breakfast for 25 young Hollywood stars, including Jeremy Renner, Jessica Alba, and Zachary Quinto.

Democratic strategists hope that the President can use celebrities to once more spark the enthusiasm of younger voters, who turned-out in such huge numbers to support him in 2008, and must be persuaded to return to the ballot box this November if he is to succeed in securing a second term.

To that end, Obama's first national campaign video aired last week, during the MTV Movie Awards. It featured Sarah Jessica Parker calling Obama "the guy who ended the war in Iraq; the guy who says you should be able to marry anyone you want; the guy who created 4 million new jobs... That guy!" The video sparked criticism from Republicans, who have long used Obama's chummy relationship with the red carpet crowd to suggest that he is behaving inappropriately at a time of hardship for many voters.

Republicans say a raffle by the Obama campaign to win tickets to Parker's dinner party is "frivolous". But GOP supporters are being asked to buy tickets to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and celebrity backer Donald Trump.

A. Wintour

[From THE INDEPENDENT. GUY ADAMS.  LOS ANGELES.  MONDAY 11 JUNE 2012]

Issue No. 198: Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue

Glenn Ligon, Self Portrait at Eleven Years Old, 2004.

June 15–August 11, 2012



Center for Book and Paper Arts

Columbia College Chicago

1104 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-1996

Exhibiting artists

From Dieu Donné, New York: Polly Apfelbaum, Sonya Blesofsky, Mel Bochner, Nina Bovasso, Beth Campbell, Chuck Close, Ian Cooper, Glenn Ligon, Matt Keegan, William Kentridge, Jessica Stockholder, Richard Tuttle

Newly commissioned works by: Deborah Boardman, Annica Cuppetelli & Cristobal Mendoza, Dan Devening, Susan Goethel Campbell, Daniel Luedtke, Niall McClelland, Kate McQuillen, Zoe Nelson, Julie Schenkelberg, Ian Schneller, Matthew Shlian, Anna Tsantir


About the exhibition
Hand papermaking is an artistic process that begins with the raw materials pulp and fiber and ends in works on paper, sculpture, new media, performance, and beyond. This exhibition asks to consider not only the utility and potential of paper itself, but also the collaborative process of hand papermaking at the intersection of interdisciplinary arts and crafts. 


For the exhibition, the Center for Book and Paper Arts asked thirteen artists to create new work using handmade paper produced to their specifications by graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago. At the core of the collaborative process was ongoing dialogue concerning not only the paper itself, but also each artist's creative methodology and studio practice. 


A second part of the exhibition features works created by artists in-residence at Dieu Donné, a New York-based non-profit artist workspace dedicated to the creation, promotion, and preservation of contemporary art in the hand papermaking process. There, residencies afford both emerging and established artists an opportunity to see how handmade paper can work for them in important ways.

In this case "handmadeness" points not to a certain aesthetic or visual trope, but to realms of possibility. Material Assumptions calls into question our expectations of handmade paper in terms of its aesthetic and raison d'être, dynamically affirming its relevance as an interdisciplinary and contemporary artistic mode of activity. 


Public events: Friday, June 15

Opening reception: 4–7pm
Panel discussion: Group Effort: Hand Papermaking, Collaboration and Contemporary Art, 6:30pm


About the Center for Book & Paper Arts
The Center for Book and Paper Arts is dedicated to the research, teaching, and promotion of the interdisciplinary practices that support the book arts and hand papermaking as contemporary art media.

The Center is part of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago, and in addition to housing both graduate and undergraduate classes for that department, it publishes a critical journal and artists' books, mounts exhibitions, hosts artist residencies, sponsors symposia and public programs, and provides advanced study through a workshop program.


Media Contacts
Steve Kauffman: T 312 369 7383 / skauffman@colum.edu
Erin Purdy: T 312 369 8695 / epurdy@colum.edu
Jessica Cochran, Curator of Exhibitions: jcochran@colum.edu

Issue No. 197: 'Leaning into the Verse' at Munch Gallery

Leaning into the Verse : A Group Exhibition of Drawing.

New York, NY, June 5, 2012 – Munch Gallery is pleased to present ‘Leaning into the Verse’, a drawing exhibition by Gavin Wilson, Hong Seon Jang, Philip Simmons and Gio Black Peter. The artists work in a variety of styles and media, but share an interest for the way our own personal worlds are actively founded, combined and take place in an ever expanding universal image. It is a lyrical interpretation of the lifelong cyclic forces, wherein definitions can seem inconsequential and time warps a reality.

All four artists are New York based and will be present at the opening reception, Sunday June 17, 5-7pm.

MUNCH Gallery
245 Broome Street (between Orchard and Ludlow Streets) New York, NY 10002
212.228.1600   info@munchgallery.com

[Taken from press release.]

Issue No. 196: Samuel Morris Steward

Issue No. 195: Dead Queen Paul Lynde Would Have Been 86 Wednesday.

Paul Lynde, b. Mt Vernon, Ohio, 1926. How does one pigeon-hole the show-biz persona of Paul Lynde? Perhaps it's not incorrect to say that he was Franklin Pangborn fifty years later, given the license to say that Hollywood Code prevented Panghorn from ever saying, even though you knew, just looking at his face, that he was capable of saying it. Or perhaps Lynde was Franklin Pangborn crossed with Eve Arden, women always having been given the opportunity fro comic bitchery denied men becasue in women such behavior was seen to be "in character". Whatever he was, Lynde was pretty funny at it. And he was known, on more than one occassion, to have shocked the hair-roller set with his acid queen-like tongue. "Why do motorcyclists wear leather?" he was asked on Hollywood Squares. "Because chiffon wrinkles too easily, that's why." That was Paul Lynde in our time. Franklin Pangborn wouldn't have been permitted to know what a motorcyclist was no less to have been known anything about leather. But he might have been seen ironing the chiffon. That's the difference that time makes.

Paul Lynde, Gemini

Franklin Pangborn, b. [January 23] Newark, New Jersey, 1893. This unforgettable character actor built his entire thirty-year film career on playing prissy, fluttery clerks, bank tellers, assistant hotel managers and department store floorwalkers. Was he in fact the gay Stepin Fetchit? Who cares. He was funny, had perfect comic timing, and brightened many an otherwise dreary picture by his amusing presence. And if Pangborn's public thought that sissies and sister-marys were one and the same, so what? They sure as hell don't think so now. Rest in peace, dear Franklin Pangborn.

Franklin Pangborn, Aquarius

From The Gay Book of Days by Martin Grief (with Foreword by Samuel Steward). The Main Street Press. 1982.

Issue No. 194: The 1967 CBS Documentary "The Homosexuals"

Issue No. 193: The Responsive Eye

Issue No. 192: Peter de Potter Curates ShowStudio's Tumblr Blog

Peter de Potter

Peter De Potter is an artist from Belgium. De Potter studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and currently lives and works in Antwerp. He garnered attention for his 2001 to 2010 collaboration with Raf Simons. The collaboration was initially focused on one collection, but soon expanded to a continued, lengthy relationship. De Potter served as a consultant, assisting with concepts, as well as providing artwork – both images and words – for Simon’s prints. De Potter also designed and art directed Raf Simon’s book ‘Redux’, as well as the Raf Simons 'Repeat' installation for Pitti Immagine 2005.

In 2004 De Potter presented his video installation ‘The Young Gods’ during another Pitti project in Florence, titled ‘NEO80’. In 2011 he had an entry in ‘Transmission1 - Avant/Garde Diaries’ in Berlin, where he showed sections of his series ‘Image Machine’. Although De Potter has been producing art for the last fifteen years - photography, text, collage, appropriation – he only began to ‘officially’ establish himself in the art world in the last three years. He is notable for taking a less traditional art route by showing sections of his work directly on the internet, mainly via Tumblr pages that each show a specific series.

http://angelic-starts.tumblr.com/

http://i-am-an-image-machine.tumblr.com/

http://routine-routine.tumblr.com/

http://badges-for-honorable-lovers.tumblr.com/

[Above text: SHOWStudio.com]

Peter de Potter will be curating 1 - 7 June:
http://showstudio.tumblr.com/

Issue No. 191: Summer Shoes

Stine Goya

???

Sonia Rykiel

Chloe

Store B

Issue No. 190: ICO Exhibit

Mimi Peterson (detail)

Donna Hapac

Donna Hapac (detail)

Nikki Renee Anderson

Forms & Fragments

On Thursday 26 April, I attended the opening reception of Forms & Fragments at the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. My expectations of classic "Motel Room Art" and a tacky "Starving Artist Sale" quickly dissipated upon entering The Art Museo section of the lobby. This group show featuring 3-D wall constructions is subtly integrated with artwork from the InterContinental's permanent collection which includes Modern masters such as Rauschenberg. The labyrinth of first floor corridors are designed to also serve as an exhibition space. On display during my visit was an impressive smattering of contemporary painting, photography and mixed media work including local legend Tony Fitzpatrick.

Forms & Fragments was curated by the Schneider Gallery (http://schneidergallerychicago.com) in partnership with artist/curator Mimi Peterson for The Art Museo. It includes her work as well as ceramic pieces by Nikki Renee Anderson (http://nikkireneeanderson.com) rife with a veiled, biomorphic eroticism in her sculptural representations of the adolescent feminine experience where the mapping of identity begins.

Fiber artist, Donna Hapac's (http://donnahapac.com) forms are crafted to not only hang on walls (as they are seen in the show), but can also be placed on surfaces to function as free-standing pieces in order to be activated by the effects of ambient light. I love her use of press-on nails as ready-made materials with which she constructs marine-like, quasi-bioluminescent forms.

Shelley Gilchrist (http://shelleygilchrist.com) presents a series of cheerful encaustics referencing reductive, 70s-style decorative arts. Simple, abstracted land and seascapes are composed of curvilinear, tricolored bands and wavering stripes nodding to the nostalgia of childhood memories of the family rec. room without coming on as dated or kitsch.

Mimi Peterson (http://mimipetersonartist.com) works with found materials from both the natural and industrial worlds. Centerpieces for her high-concept weavings addresses the fragility of life induced by the imbalanced eco-system. In her six sculptures, she draws the viewer into her nests of twisted metal only to be confronted by a chilly, post-apocalyptic aftermath.

Forms & Fragments runs now through 30 July in The Art Museo (located in the main lobby of the ICO) at 5300 N. River Road in Rosemont, Illinois. To top off a day of culture, there are several high-end dining and/or drinks options on site.


Erik Peterson

Issue No. 189: Max's Kansas City