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r.ed monde blog

Discover the artist’s character r.ed monde in stop-motion animation, graphic novels, and exhibitions.

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A special day honoring the life and legacy of artist David Driskell at @skowheganart with the reflections of scholars, curators, former students and Skowhegan’s own Sarah Workneh who led a tour of the campus after a panel discussion. Dr. Driskell didn’t live to see the retrospective of his work organized by @highmuseumofart and @portlandmuseum where you can see it now, or at @phillipscollection and @cincyartmuseum in coming months.

My work is temporarily with The British Libraries’ greatest hits in the Treasures Gallery. If you go, please take a picture for me! Hard to say if I will make it, though it’s been on view for 18 months already! It is not often that works in the permanent collections of museums and other institutions are on view...for various reasons, including space and conservation.

We know these are real Vermeers in part because they were cut out next to each other from a hand woven bolt of canvas. The thread density lines, or canvas weaves, match up, as my drawings of digital images generated by algorithms reveal. William Sethares and Richard Johnson created these files (that I drew on paper) and the means to see the handwoven supports various artists painted their works on, invaluable information. In April, for example, a Poussin painting at London’s National Gallery, long questioned as a fake, was declared genuine when canvas weaves showed it to match up with two other Poussin paintings. My new project is called WeaverMeer - a nod to the profession of Vermeer’s father, a weaver, and to the canvas weaves I am drawing. Full disclosure: this project also allows me to make what looks like colorful “abstract” work but is actually knowledge. I also love to share the patient research of others that work behind the scenes. I am grateful to Bill Sethares for working directly with me on this project, and explaining things like signal processing.

Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is also on view at @ngadc - but NOT this drawing I did of the canvas weave of the painting. Two computer scientists help us learn about the objects through algorithms (I am drawing) showing where the threads are denser or more sparse, aka the thread count. With this information, we now know National Gallery of Art’s Woman Holding a Balance was painted on canvas cut from the same bolt of cloth as Berlin Staatliche Museen’s Woman with a Pearl Necklace.

National Gallery (DC) is free and open! Proud to be flanked by @clarissasligh and #ronihorn in Time/Travel show at @ngadc through September 17. Not sure if I can get there in time, but it is nice this show was able to happen, albeit in a smaller version, after being canceled last year due to the pandemic. I have two works in the show - Bologna Sample (1992), a portable color sample of 179 street addresses in the center of Bologna, and Artificial Hills (1998) about the strange origins various man-made hills in the past 1500 years in Bologna, Italy.

Four years since 24-year-old artist Khadija Saye died along with many others in a fire in London due to malicious decisions regarding the exterior building insulation of the Grenfell Tower. Justice won’t bring back this wonderful artist and the scores of people who lost their lives in minutes, but hopefully no one else will suffer the same fate due to highly flammable building materials.

Likely this Italian student’s homework to find the meaning of diaspora applied to Jews in history. The Diaspora Pavilion exhibiting Khadija Saye’s photography and Yinka Shonibare’s library among other notable works four years ago marked my education of diaspora referring to the Black diaspora as opposed to the constant peregrinations of Jewish people, usually due to laws and persecutions. It was a remarkable show, made all the more poignant by the death a few weeks later of the young artist Kadija Saye, in an apartment building that torched in minutes due to highly flammable cladding installed to save the building firm money, its dangerous nature and safety record purposefully obscured. The case is still ongoing, but ultimately greed took many lives in an instant. Watercolor of Post-it note found on the ground in Bologna, Italy. Painted in 2021.

14 years ago today! That went fast. Was honored to be a part of the Skowhegan community with so many fun, passionate and interesting folks. Happy 75th @skowheganart ! Cent’anni, as we toast in Italy. Post your memories people!

Thank you environmental and food activists for teaching us about sustainability...so we are not just “born to eat” but able to reflect on the impact of our eating and growing in larger contexts. Fake popsicles made out of glue and watercolor for my Palate Palette - Ancient Pops of Wisdom (2017), edition of 7 copies. Based on a conceptual food performance with @gelatauro in 2001.

Victorious Secret

Read about the artist’s traveling mosaic installation, dedicated to Title IX, that features women athletes in bikinis winning the Pentathlon 2000 years ago.

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