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I miss my grandma. She was such an amazing woman and artist. Very introspective. I love the way she looked at life. She would always notice the small unusual details with so much gratitude. I love her conceptual art projects of the 70’s. She once made a map of store fronts around San Francisco, creating a sort of scavenger hunt gallery, proving that art is all around us. Years later, I took the map and photographed what the store fronts turned into…
Feb 25, 2025
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legend, goat, icon. If there’s someone I’m never going to stop giving flowers to until the day I die no matter how annoying it gets, it’s Marisol. And maybe Larry David but that’s another rec. To describe her art practice in a few sentences would be to butcher its true mission, as I think is true of most art practices, but to not try at all would be even worse. She created to understand herself, her place in the world. Her style was a hard-fought-for realization of her personality. A mix of pre Colombian folk art, classic sculpture, and the Pop Art scene that was happening around her, the works feels futuristic and ancient at the same time. Honest work, funny work, confounding work. And when she was at the height of her recognition in the 60s, all anyone wanted to talk about was her being hot and a friend of Warhol. Then everyone stopped talking or caring about her. Also when she was at her career peak, she went by 1 name like LeBron or Rihanna. Absolute legend. I’ll never forget seeing her sculpture “Love” for the first time in an Art History lecture. RIP to the goat
Feb 1, 2025
Discovered this artist at the Venice Biennale where she had her do not agree with agnes martin all the time series on exhibition. Somehow in a pavilion of the “best selections in the world” they were some of the few pieces that felt relatable and deserving. What do i know, I’m a random American community college student who won the chance to walk amongst the rich for a day. Anyway, I adore her snarky, metamodernist, minimal style
Mar 1, 2025
i was first introduced to her work at an exhibit i went to for a gallery class i took two semesters ago. i almost skipped class the day we went, but i’m so glad i didn’t. the moment i walked into the gallery, i was overwhelmed with emotion, which i felt the need to suppress in the chronically quiet gallery space. i couldn’t believe such a sterile room was bursting with so much love in the form of corita kent’s art.
most of my classmates didn’t experience this same connection with the work, with one of them going up to me and asking “doesn’t this make you feel uncomfortable?” which i, confused, responded concisely, “no, it doesn’t” … i presumed she asked me that, because corita kent, or sister mary corita as she was known to many, was a nun, and a lot of her art did have religious connotations. the classmate who asked me this question, like me, is jewish, but i didn’t feel squeamish or weird around corita’s work.
strangely, i felt held, wholly understood. the religious aspects of her work may not resonate with me as a jew, but they resonate with me as a person who believes that art and words play a huge role in building and strengthening caring communities.
even if you’re someone that isn’t super religious, like me, i still urge you to check our corita’s work online (click the link!) and in person, if you live in LA where the corita art center is.
thank you for reading this far <3 lastly, i’d like you to read the picture below, of corita kent’s “ten rules” which she created in the 1960s for her students at immaculate heart college. these words were arranged by calligrapher david mekelburg and hung in her classroom at the time. one day, when i become a teacher, i hope to hang these words (and some of my own) in my classroom <3
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All his short documentaries are wild and hard to find. The gambling one was a big inspiration for me for The Last Showgirl. I felt like you’re able to see how the city can take hold of a person— unlike any other place. You see the people who come visit and the people who live there.
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