Go See This. Claes Oldenburg @ MOMA, NYC.

You can see more information here.

Go See This. Willem De Kooning at MOMA.

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Epic Proportions. Google Art Project.

In Googles commitment to catalog everything in the world they have done one more amazing one and started cataloging the artwork at major art museums throughout the world.

Go here.

Epic Proportions. The Photography of Michael Wesely.

Multiple year long exposures capture the building of such iconic places as the Museum of Modern Art renovation and Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

The decollage artwork of Jacques Villeglé.

Jacques Villeglé caught my attention back in college at a MOMA exhibit called High & Low. His work primarily focuses on the anonymous and on the marginal remains of civilization. Villeglés work is considered decollage because of his building up of layers and then intentionally ripping away to reveal the underlying layers. I love his use of typography from advertisements and images that are randomly placed throughout his works.

Villeglés work reminds me of the intentional art that often happens in urban areas where advertisements are partially torn away revealing fragments of the previous advertisement. The raw energy that Villeglé captures in his work and the vibrant color inspires me in the way that New York inspires me with its grittiness and beauty.

You can see more of his work here and here.

The artwork of Brice Marden.

While at East Market Street Antiques the owner, Sandra, mentioned for me to check out the artwork of Brice Marden. I did a little research on his work and found out that I really like it. I am surprised that I had never seen his work as it resides in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York.

Considered a minimalist, much of his art consists of structural grids that remind me of William S Burroughs work. Strong black and white compositions. Stark in nature that have a certain depth as if you were looking through window panes.

You can see more of his work here and here.

The photorealistic artwork of Robert Bechtle.

I found the photorealistic artwork of Robert Bechtle when I stumbled upon a photo of "News Stands, Los Banos, 1973". Bechtle's work is serene even though many of his paintings take place in cities (San Francisco specifically). His work feels like an early morning with its long light and absence of crowds. Bechtle's work shows the mediocrity of life. Simple living at its finest. The middle class when there still was such a term.

He started drawing at a young age and with encouragement from his teachers and family, pursued a future as an artist. Bechtle won a scholarship that paid for his first year of college by submitting a portfolio of artwork to a national competition. After graduating from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts), he was drafted into the U.S Army and sent to Berlin, where he painted murals in the mess hall and delighted in visiting European museums. Besides making paintings, watercolors, and drawings, he is an accomplished printmaker: he worked in lithography early in his career and mainly in etching after 1982 when Crown Point Press began publishing his prints.

He taught at San Francisco State University from 1978 to 1999. Bechtle lives and works in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Robert Bechtle's work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney and the Guggenheim in New York, as well as the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institution and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

You can see more of his work here and a New York Times article here.



"News Stands, Los Banos, 1973"