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| Peeping Toms and Sallys and Billys... |
| 2/26 by laura |
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He has big balls, she has big balls, but Christina West seems to have the biggest balls of them all.
How would you feel if you spent hour after hour sculpting a clay-man's nutsack until it was the perfect form, only to open your exhibit and have the audience contort their face in disgust, or poke and prod like children at a petting zoo. You'd be proud because it would mean you hit the render-the-human-form jackpot.
West's nude statuettes are not only shockingly realistic, but revealing as well. The newest installation titled "Shadows and Fog", places the figures in compromising and promiscuous positions with complete disregard to their preference. Gallery crawlers are then invited to voyeuristically observe the nudes who appear frozen in action - as if you paused an intimate, homemade video and were forced to imagine a storyline that could explain the cause of the action. The whole idea is quite intoxicating.
What makes this exhibit unique and engaging is West's intentional use of normalcy; the mass of "flesh" has wrinkles, love handles and saggy boobs. She falls into the category of blatant grotesqueness with Jenny Saville but has an awe-inspiring talent like Ron Mueck, but she's in Buffalo - this week in fact.
The exhibit opens Saturday, March 1st. The staff at Hallwalls would appreciate it if guests checked their lotion ad tissues at the door.
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| We're Driving Erratically |
| 2/25 by laura |
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Money doesn't grow on trees, but if it did, it would be safe to say that The Artery would be in your hands and not on your computer screen. Money also doesn't grow on shrubs or weeds, which means you have to be resourceful to find it. Well we've found a new money maker and it comes in the form of a full time job. But the Artery isn't going out of existence - we have worked too hard for that. And besides, who then, would give you anything worth reading about Buffalo?
We're cutting the crap - no more filler topics. The plan Stan, is to post Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until we figure out how the heck to manage our time better. Don't be sad, we want to believe that our topics will be more focused and more alive. Think of it like this, The Artery is going on a diet, slimming down. No one likes a fat kid, remember?
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