The Top 10 New Media Moments of 2011
Who says the coolest artistic moments of 2011 had to happen at Venice? I sure don’t! To say that I’m at my computer all the time is an understatement, so the following list reveals the most exciting...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
I wrote about the application process for artist grants in my last post by way of interview with the artist Beverly Fre$h and author Gigi Rosenberg. In this post I will focus on the grant experience....
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | You Teach Some, You Learn Some
When I win the Hugo Boss Prize, I’ll definitely thank the professors I met along my BFA and MFA way. Without them, I wouldn’t know how to dress for openings, patiently nod during boring conversation,...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Trial & Error: On Teaching with Beverly Fishman
A person’s hair sometimes illustrates the inner workings of the head to which it is attached. Beverly Fishman, my mentor in grad school, has curly hair – not gentle ringlets, but fierce, uncompromising...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | When I Was Your Age
My first year of grad school at San Francisco Art Institute happened to be Renee Green’s last year as Dean of Graduate Studies. One day while I was waiting for a class that Renee was teaching to...
View ArticleBecoming Colossal with Blogger Christopher Jobson
I hate the word “blog.” The sound I hear when I say this word aloud is tied to words that likewise evoke the unpleasant: blah, blob, blab. Merriam Webster defines “blog” as the following: “a Web site...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Collaboration: Whale of a Time!
Earlier this week I watched an elaborate documentary about wildlife in the coldest areas of our planet. I watched the television with utmost attention as a seal on a floating block of ice fell victim...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | HELP!
Dear Abby and Ann Landers, a new member has joined the club. Welcome artist and writer Bean Gilsdorf, now fielding your art-related questions on her weekly advice column HELP DESK on Daily Serving....
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | How to Rule the Art World
Every Sunday after church, I like to look at myself in the mirror for an hour and then look at my website and all the artwork on it for another hour. Each time I visit my website, I’m disappointed...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Creative Criticism with Christopher K. Ho | Hirsch...
Hirsch E.P. Rothko begins in the shitter. The opening scene of the fictional memoir, written in part by New York based artist Christopher K. Ho, introduces the eponymous protagonist: Rothko is a...
View ArticleMeet Our New “Praxis Makes Perfect” Columnists!
Today we bid a fond (but only temporary) farewell to Praxis Makes Perfect writers and column founders Jacquelyn Gleisner and Jeffrey Songco, both of whom are taking some time off from writing for the...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | How To Build A Fire
Lighting a fire is only half the battle. It is the building of a fire that proves the ultimate test of how long the flames will last and the amount of heat it will radiate. After graduating from...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | A is for Aphorism
I have a confession to make: I’m addicted to clichés. Also idioms, memes, and platitudes. I love all kinds of overused, trite, or essentially meaningless language. (Let me just take this moment to...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Vulnerability of the View
During these dog days of summer, it’s hard to imagine that the invention of sunglasses did not derive from a desire to shield eyes from the sun. Instead, the smokey quartz lenses introduced in the...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Touched
Had you walked by the Sony Plaza in midtown New York City this past Friday, you might have seen me through the second floor glass walls trying frantically to fix a wired-up laptop sleeve with a pair...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Carrying Home
There’s no place like home. The old adage rings true, but its simplicity is deceiving. Each of us has a complex and storied relationship with our place(s) of origin; for me, it is those places that...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Why the Meta Matters
The temperature in Chicago was cool for a mid-August day when I drove back into the city on I-90 last week, eagerly anticipating my first glimpse of the unmistakable skyline. My internship at the...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | A Good Wind: Forces of Nature in the New Age of Innocence
There are always forces at odds in this world of dualities, often beautifully illustrated by actions occurring in nature. Order is challenged by chaos, movement disrupts balance, struggle defies rest....
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Repeat Repeat Repeat
My residency at NYU ITP started like a hurricane, quickly sucking dry all my time and energy. But I can’t complain. I practically get an extra year of art school, except this time I get paid. Although...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Disorderly Conduct: The Imperfect Librarians
I’m in New York, and am surprised to discover a quiet stairwell as one of my favorite sites at MoMA PS1. Tucked away in the museum’s northwest corner, the stairwell houses Vertical Painting, a...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Having It Both Ways
About halfway through my freshman year of college, I abandoned plans to major in English, choosing instead to pursue my newly discovered passion for art history. I have never been able to fully...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Yes, We Insist
Coincidentally, I was bound for Chicago the day after celebrating the results of our presidential election. Charged with the energy of President Obama’s acceptance speech on Tuesday evening, I came to...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Animating Passion
I’m lucky enough to be auditing a puppetry and performance course taught by the brilliant Ithai Benjamin, a major perk of my post-graduate residency at ITP. One of the biggest draws of the class is...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | In The Long Run
This week I found myself sitting in the cab of an old Chevy pickup truck, gathering an odd assortment of objects: yellow BB pellets, cheese danish wrappers, rachet straps, empty bottles. Taking my...
View ArticleTaking Stock
As the end of the year approaches, many people look forward to the advent of a new season. Perhaps they anticipate more professional and financial success or a more holistic lifestyle in the next year....
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | No Rest for the Teaching Artist
The end of the calendar year marks the beginning of winter break in academia. For me, it has been tough juggling an academic residency with my creative endeavors, so I let out a big sigh of relief...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | The World Is Not Flat
Packed into a small gallery in Brooklyn, sound-amplified water drips beside me from an ice block suspended above a pair of stainless steel mixing bowls. I am waiting for the start of Aki Sasamoto’s...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Chicken Soup (for Those Who Love Art)
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the winter meeting of Chicago Museum Exhibitors Group (CMEG) held at the Museum of Science and Industry. I’m no exhibit builder or designer, but I was intrigued by...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | High Time: On Ritual and Duration
In the desert, time takes on a different dimension. Standing in its quiet expanse, time can slow until it virtually stands still. The open and meditative qualities of this landscape lure many in...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Let the Kids Ride
Last week, I climbed to the top of Queens county’s tallest clock tower. It was a hard ascent up the rusty metal ladders of the 14-story building—I fear heights—but I was determined not to let that...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Lure of the Line
Looking at the horizon, an apparent line is the natural authority we rely upon to separate earth and sky. It is deceiving in its precision, often transcendent in its effect. Recently, I made a trip to...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | Where Does the Art Happen?
In elementary school, I hated the process of erasing—the grubby flakes that rubbed off when you used the other end of the pencil, the telltale smudges on the page, and those terrible instances when...
View ArticlePraxis Makes Perfect | New Situationist City
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a...
View ArticleWelcome to the Funhouse: Mike Kelley’s “Mobile Homestead”
The facade is clean and white, and the shutters are a quaint blue. But step across the threshold and any conventional notions of a house are checked at the door. Above ground, an interior with select...
View ArticleTopography of Time
Standing on a Brooklyn pier, I am staring out at the East River and thinking about plaster. Specifically, I am thinking about a plaster wall piece by Anthony Pearson that I recently saw at Marianne...
View ArticleOn Landlines
For weeks, I’ve been carrying around a piece of paper with handwritten digits for an underground landline. The number belongs to The Newsstand, a pop-up shop that, for about a month, inhabited a small...
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