Angela McCluskey

Know it All

Saint Gertrude of Nivelles

Flemish painting from 1530

Jack

Here's one of my few and far between personal notes on this blog. Early this morning around 1:38am, my dear cat and best friend Jack passed away. It hurts...it really does, but I am comforted by the knowledge that he is no longer in pain. He will be dearly missed. A special thank you to all the sweet notes I received earlier.

Christian Schad

Marcella, 1926

Donna Theodore

Feminity

IAMX

Spit It Out

John William Waterhouse
Lachesis

William Blake
"Hecate" or "The Three Fates"

Telepopmusik - Love Can Damage Your Health

Carolus-Duran

Le convalescent, 1860
(or The Wounded Man)
musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Richard Hawley

Just Like The Rain

John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Loise Pailleron

Back In Your Head - Tegan And Sara

James Aldridge

Words cannot express how much I love Aldridge's work.

Ritual, 2008
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 250 cm

Grant Wood
Shrine Quartet, 1939
Lithograph

Faithless

Faithless (Featuring Estelle) - Why Go

James Ensor
Masks Confronting Death. 1888
Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 1/2"

Fanny Bostrom
Pendant, 2008, papercut, 22.5" diameter

Richie Hawtin - We (All) Search

Jan Dunning

Arachne, 2003
colour pinhole photograph, 48 x 37”
edition of 5 and 1 AP

Nina Katchadourian - The Mended Spiderweb series


Mended Spiderweb #14 (Spoon Patch), Cibachrome, 20 x 30 inches, 1998


Mended Spiderweb #8 (Fish Patch), Cibachrome, 20 x 20 inches, 1998

Coming up Thursday

96 / interior, 2008, Digital Pigment Ink Print, 35 x 42.5 inches

Julian Montague's new solo show is opening at Black & White Gallery (Chelsea) on this coming Thursday. I've been a huge fan of his work since "The Stray Shopping Cart Identification Project". Definitely check out his new series, "To Know The Spider".

June 5 - July 12, 2008
To Know The Spider
Julian Montague continues his investigations into overlooked realms of daily life. In his highly acclaimed Stray Shopping Cart Identification Project exhibited at the gallery in the fall of 2006, his method was to build a system of classification around a mundane object. In To Know the Spiders, Montague mounts a visual exploration of seemingly mundane animals – the spiders that occupy the peripheries of human architectural space. His process begins with the collection and killing of a spider. He then studies its face under a microscope and from the resulting drawings creates a portrait of the spider in the form of a fabric banner. The banner is then placed and photographed in the exact spot of collection. The banner illuminates the presence of a silent witness and sometime symbiotic partner while also serving as a memorial to the spider that had to die for that understanding to be gained.

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5, 6-8pm
at Black & White 636 West 28th Street, Ground Floor // New York, NY 10001 // t: 212 244 3007


Specimen Vials 2, 2008, Digital Pigment Ink Print , 19 x 44 inches