Art Theory Ghada Amer, Kehinde Wiley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmuRXbeo6gM

Ghada Amer (born 1963 in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist living and working in New York City. She emigrated from her birth country at age 11 and was educated in Paris and Nice. Much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality, particularly the representation of female nudes in art history as ideal objects rather than human beings with a sexuality and eroticism of their own.

Work

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns. Her oeuvre includes examples of painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and installation.

Amer's multiple geographic relocations are reflected in her work. Her painting is influenced by the idea of shifting meanings and the appropriation of the languages of abstraction and expressionism. Her prints, drawings, and sculptures question cliché roles imposed on women; her garden projects connect embroidery and gardening as specifically "feminine" activities; and her recent installations address the current tumultuous political climate. Despite the differences between her Islamic upbringing and Western models of behavior, Amer's work addresses universal problems, such as the oppression of women, which are prevalent in all cultures. The submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love, the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty, constitute the territory that she explores and expresses in her art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghada_Amer

Kehinde Wiley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jNKBOMOTPA

The best F..ing Photo I Have Seen In My Life.

I was talking to my dad and he told me he had posted some photos up on facebook from a trip he had taken in 1980, to San Andres an island right outside Colombia. I took a look at the photos and I saw the most amazing pic I have ever seen in my life, so here it is he didn't give me a lot of info about it cause he was in a hurry but it speaks for itself, (my dad is the one with the camera on the left).

LIttle accident.

First post about my life, so heres the story.

I got up early to go to work, and decided to take my longboard to work so I could save some time.

On the first hill in front of my house, I was ripping, I was in the zone, anyway the pavement was a little wet and the board pretty much slid right off under my feet. I'm in a fair amount of pain and of course working as a waiter isn't a option at least for today. Fuuuckkk I'm pissed thats 10 hours of work I'm missing out on today, plus I ripped my pants and boxers. So to sum up the morning, 80 dollar pants ruined, 10 dollar boxers ruined, 150 dollars in 10 hours of work I missed out on today, plus it's the last day of work so my money income is now very limited. The sight of me falling of my board and hitting the pavement at 35 km/ph and sliding 3 meters on the ground, priceless.

heres a couple of pics from my little accident.

New Thing

New spray paints, a pastel yellow spray paint I bought didn't work so I'm kinda pissed but o well. so anyway It's a low resolution photo, I'll have to change it soon, but for now it does it's job.

"Where the Magic Happens"

My Garage studio.

This is the one in progress not yet named.

Something of Mine

Today I wanna put something of my own out there. It's a couple of paintings one finished one in progress. This one right here is the finished one called "MIA" 120x80 cm acrylic on board.