While recently in Phoenix, I visited the Scottsdale
Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.smoca.org/
which had a Warhol exhibit; I'm not a Warhol
fan, but even so it was was interesting to see so
much of his work and be reminded how his 'portraits'
of Mao and Marilyn seemed as much of consumer
packaging and that multiplication of
images as of the person, and how on the other hand,
his individual images, Jews in America, one of his
series, were individualized and evocative of the
person, which made me wonder, given the Factory aspect
of his work, its commentary upon productionism and
practice of it ( it's hard not to notice that the
colors, smears of her mouth, etc, do to
Marilyn, artistically, what the culture did, etc) if,
after the Holocaust, the struggle artistically with
the individual body/name/face isn't invariably
preoccupied with the exterminated Jew.
Also there was an interesting exhibit of the work of
Petah
Coyne which I hadn't seen before.
http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=121
There are all sorts of links to other exhibits by her
and also some interesting interviews if you google her
name, if you want to look at more or read more. Her
work is disturbing and powerful, I was particularly
struck by her Daphne and also an untitled piece which
was a net of hair, horse and human hair, like the
flying sweep of someone's hair, across one wall in
which were caught several now knotted up and embalmed
ducks, like Buber's birds that build 'nests in one's
hair', though it always hard to say with such pieces
if they translate when viewing them on the web and not
as the installation pieces they are.
Best,
Rebecca
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