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01 June 2018
upcoming curatorial project - 'west' opening at galerie kenilworth
West, featuring work by Ethan Rafal (San Francisco) and Max Cozzi (Milwaukee)
galerie Kenilworth is pleased to announce its fifth show, and first guest curator, West curated by aryn kresol. West looks at the work of two artists exploring the American West through photography. Each using distinct composition, technique, and presentation, Ethan Rafal and Max Cozzi use the medium of photography to navigate the features of the western scene.
Ethan Rafal is an artist based in San Francisco, California. His work examines the individual and collective experience of violence and the ways that subsequent representations of violence inform personal and national mythologies. West features photographs from his body of work entitled The Evening Pink. Exposed in the interior and Pacific West, the images comprising The Evening Pink explore timeless questions about the relationship between man, nature, and violence.
Max Cozzi is a fine-art and editorial photographer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated with his BFA in Photography in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His body of work, American Southwest, explores the American West as an unspoiled desert – intendedly implied to carry on endlessly beyond the image’s frame – contrasted with scenes of the man-altered landscape.
Through examining the work of Rafal and Cozzi, this exhibition highlights connections and distinctions between the cultural and natural landscape.
There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 14 from 5–8 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. The artist, Max Cozzi, and curator, aryn kresol, will be in attendance.
31 December 2017
Top 5 of 2017
Top 5 movies of 2017
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Dunkirk (2017)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her & Him (2013)
Top 5 books of 2017
The Dead Ladies Project Jessa Crispin
Native Son Richard Wright
Haunted Rockford, Illinois Kathi Kresol
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
Zen Habits Leo Babauta
Top 5 songs of 2017
Funnel of Love Wanda Jackson
You and Me Penny & The Quarters
QUICK Tank and The Bangas
On the Nature of Daylight Max Richter
Epilogue Justin Hurwitz
Top 5 albums of 2017
Top 5 exhibitions of 2017
Ragnar Kjartansson: God, I Feel So Bad Reykjavík Art Museum
Do Ho Suh Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
How Posters Work Milwaukee Art Museum
Dinosaur World Eureka Springs, AR (it totally counts)
Ásmundur Sveinsson (museum & gardens) Reykjavík Art Museum
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Dunkirk (2017)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her & Him (2013)
Top 5 books of 2017
The Dead Ladies Project Jessa Crispin
Native Son Richard Wright
Haunted Rockford, Illinois Kathi Kresol
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
Zen Habits Leo Babauta
Top 5 songs of 2017
Funnel of Love Wanda Jackson
You and Me Penny & The Quarters
QUICK Tank and The Bangas
On the Nature of Daylight Max Richter
Epilogue Justin Hurwitz
Top 5 albums of 2017
Only Lovers Left Alive Soundtrack
Drive Soundtrack
I Love You Honeybear Father John Misty
In Alpha Mood Ami Shavit
Coming Home Leon Bridges
Drive Soundtrack
I Love You Honeybear Father John Misty
In Alpha Mood Ami Shavit
Coming Home Leon Bridges
Top 5 exhibitions of 2017
Ragnar Kjartansson: God, I Feel So Bad Reykjavík Art Museum
Do Ho Suh Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
How Posters Work Milwaukee Art Museum
Dinosaur World Eureka Springs, AR (it totally counts)
Ásmundur Sveinsson (museum & gardens) Reykjavík Art Museum
31 December 2016
Top 5 of 2016
Top 5 movies of 2016
Metropolis (1927)
One More Time with Feeling (2016)
The Revenant (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
Top 5 books of 2016
The Diary of Anais Nin
Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances Arne Glimcher
M Train Patti Smith
Willem Sandberg: Portrait of an Artist Ank Marcar, Willem Sandberg
Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
Top 5 songs of 2016
unfucktheworld Angel Olsen
Skeleton Tree Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Wild is the Wind Nina Simone
Like the Moon Future Islands
The Hills The Weeknd
Top 5 albums of 2016
Skeleton Tree Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Burn Your Fire For No Witness Angel Olsen
Smile Brian Wilson
Live at Town Hall Nina Simone
Blackstar David Bowie
Top 5 exhibitions of 2016
Agnes Martin Guggenheim
Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s–90s Denver Art Museum
Taking Center Stage Milwaukee Art Museum
Highlights from the Collection: Design Into Art Noguchi Museum
Haunted Screens Milwaukee Art Museum
Metropolis (1927)
One More Time with Feeling (2016)
The Revenant (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
Top 5 books of 2016
The Diary of Anais Nin
Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances Arne Glimcher
M Train Patti Smith
Willem Sandberg: Portrait of an Artist Ank Marcar, Willem Sandberg
Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
Top 5 songs of 2016
unfucktheworld Angel Olsen
Skeleton Tree Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Wild is the Wind Nina Simone
Like the Moon Future Islands
The Hills The Weeknd
Top 5 albums of 2016
Skeleton Tree Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Burn Your Fire For No Witness Angel Olsen
Smile Brian Wilson
Live at Town Hall Nina Simone
Blackstar David Bowie
Top 5 exhibitions of 2016
Agnes Martin Guggenheim
Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s–90s Denver Art Museum
Taking Center Stage Milwaukee Art Museum
Highlights from the Collection: Design Into Art Noguchi Museum
Haunted Screens Milwaukee Art Museum
28 November 2016
postcards from new york
untitled (noguchi) 27 november 2016 queens ny © aryn kresol |
untitled (they don't repeat) 28 november 2016 new york ny © aryn kresol |
untitled (the last painting) 28 november 2016 new york ny © aryn kresol |
20 January 2016
Mark Twain, in a letter to Clara Spaulding, 20 August 1886
There isn't time -- so brief is life -- for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. there is only time for loving -- & but an instant, so to speak, for that.
10 January 2016
femTALK - upcoming group exhibition
FEMTALK TO HOST OPEN HOUSE, AN ASSEMBLY OF ARTIST WORK & PERFORMANCES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2016 FROM 10AM UNTIL 10PM
Plum Dragon is a live-work space located in a Craftsman-style duplex in the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI.
FemTalk invites you to attend a salon celebrating one year of ongoing dialogues and support surrounding the topic of feminism at Plum Dragon (1007 E Auer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53212) in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood. The open house format, referential to the domestic spaces in which the monthly dialogues occur, will run from 10 AM until 10 PM that day. This will be the first initiative from the group that will open to the public, and it will include installation, performance, two dimensional works, and more from women who have participated in FemTalk for over the past year. Plum Dragon is located a short walk from the 14, 15, and 60 bus lines in addition to residential street parking available within the neighborhood.
FemTalk is an assembly of individuals who identify as females created out of a request for support from other female artists that associate with an art world primarily dominated by white males. The participants of FemTalk choose independent definitions of feminism that reflect their own lived experience, allowing for open-ended interpretation on how feminism is used as a lens for empathy and equality. Developed as an exploratory model for collaboration and critique, FemTalk has grown into a professional circle of women who meet monthly and discuss issues that arise from identifying as a woman in Milwaukee’s creative industries. It is a project that explores labor validation and production support, both individually and collectively within the group.
Salon participants include: Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Sara Daleiden, Ariana Huggett, Ashley Janke, Jenna Knapp, aryn kresol, Fatima Laster, Monica Miller, Martina Patterson, Tia Richardson, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Alice Waraxa, and Della Wells. Additional performances and collaborations will occur throughout the day.
Plum Dragon is a live-work space located in a Craftsman-style duplex in the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI.
31 December 2015
Top 5 of 2015
Top 5 movies of 2015
Geisha Boy (1958)
Interstellar (2014)
Frank (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Top 5 books of 2015
Where the Heart Beats Kay Larson
Long Life Cool White Moyra Davey
Ray Johnson: Correspondences Donna De Salvo
From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit 1967 - 1980
Top 5 songs of 2015
Bad Girl Lee Moses
Coming Home Leon Bridges
Wild is the Wind Cat Power (& by Nina Simone)
Better Times Beach House
Love Soul Majical Cloudz
Top 5 albums of 2015
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Gold Shadow Asaf Avidan
Sleep Talk Shannon & The Clams
I Love You, Honeybear Father John Misty
Savage Hills Ballroom Youth Lagoon
Top 5 exhibitions of 2015
On Kawara-Silence Guggenheim Museum, New York
David Bowie Is Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Modern Rebels Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Jean-Michele Basquiat: Notebooks Brooklyn Museum, New York
Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool) Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
Geisha Boy (1958)
Interstellar (2014)
Frank (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Top 5 books of 2015
Where the Heart Beats Kay Larson
Long Life Cool White Moyra Davey
Ray Johnson: Correspondences Donna De Salvo
From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit 1967 - 1980
Top 5 songs of 2015
Bad Girl Lee Moses
Coming Home Leon Bridges
Wild is the Wind Cat Power (& by Nina Simone)
Better Times Beach House
Love Soul Majical Cloudz
Top 5 albums of 2015
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Gold Shadow Asaf Avidan
Sleep Talk Shannon & The Clams
I Love You, Honeybear Father John Misty
Savage Hills Ballroom Youth Lagoon
Top 5 exhibitions of 2015
On Kawara-Silence Guggenheim Museum, New York
David Bowie Is Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Modern Rebels Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Jean-Michele Basquiat: Notebooks Brooklyn Museum, New York
Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool) Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
28 December 2015
Ellsworth Kelly, 1929 - 2015
I am nourished by the past, I am questioning the present, and I am stepping into the future.
13 November 2015
n o w h e r e - closing
Invited by Lynne Shumow, of the Haggerty Museum of Art, and Deirdre Dempsey, of the Department of Theology to speak to the Marquette University Honors class at my solo show on view now at 10th Street Gallery of In Tandem Theatre.
12 September 2015
n o w h e r e - upcoming exhibition
I will be showing work from two concurrent series: n o w h e r e and she said, he said.
Opening view will be September 25 from 6-8:30p.
I hope to see you there.
09 July 2015
22 May 2015
4' 33"
David Tudor walks across the stage and sits down within the boundaryless universe. He crosses his legs (so to speak) and begins an interval of non-doing.
As the stopwatch ticks, he will perform "nothing."
In these four-plus minutes an opening occurs.
No expression of will or ego.
No walls between composer and performer.
No walls between the pianist and the people listening.
No dualistic divisions into "high" or "low," "good" or "not good."
No "art" versus "life."
No value judgments and no lack of value judgments.
No arising and no lack of arising.
No separation of any kind -- no walls at all -- and therefore perfect interpenetration.
No form and no lack of form, no emptiness and no absence of emptiness.
No sensation and no lack of sensation.
No music and yet the music of the world.
As the stopwatch ticks, he will perform "nothing."
In these four-plus minutes an opening occurs.
No expression of will or ego.
No walls between composer and performer.
No walls between the pianist and the people listening.
No dualistic divisions into "high" or "low," "good" or "not good."
No "art" versus "life."
No value judgments and no lack of value judgments.
No arising and no lack of arising.
No separation of any kind -- no walls at all -- and therefore perfect interpenetration.
No form and no lack of form, no emptiness and no absence of emptiness.
No sensation and no lack of sensation.
No music and yet the music of the world.
21 March 2015
24 February 2015
Postcards from Winnipeg
Dining room of the Fort Gary Hotel |
Morning light |
Street scene across from Winnipeg Art Gallery |
Madonna of Port Ligat awaiting return |
Installation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery |
Installation at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art 23-24 february 2015 winnipeg mb canada © aryn kresol |
12 February 2015
31 December 2014
Top 5 of 2014
Top 5 movies of 2014
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)
The Bad Seed (1956)
American Hustle (2013)
Top 5 books of 2014
Ian McEwan Atonement
Keith Haring Journals
Patti Smith Just Kids
E.E. Cummings 100 Selected Poems
Tricycle Magazine (Quarterly)
Top 5 songs of 2014
Brian Eno Baby's On Fire
Beach House Myth
Arcade Fire Wake Up
Future Islands Tin Man
The Knife NY Hotel
Top 5 albums of 2014
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito
The Knife The Knife
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
Future Islands In Evening Air
Keiko Matsuo and Her Ensamble 18th Century Traditional Music of Japan
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)
The Bad Seed (1956)
American Hustle (2013)
Top 5 books of 2014
Ian McEwan Atonement
Keith Haring Journals
Patti Smith Just Kids
E.E. Cummings 100 Selected Poems
Tricycle Magazine (Quarterly)
Top 5 songs of 2014
Brian Eno Baby's On Fire
Beach House Myth
Arcade Fire Wake Up
Future Islands Tin Man
The Knife NY Hotel
Top 5 albums of 2014
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito
The Knife The Knife
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
Future Islands In Evening Air
Keiko Matsuo and Her Ensamble 18th Century Traditional Music of Japan
25 December 2014
16 October 2014
Postcards from Asheville
A view of Asheville |
Battlecat Coffee in West Asheville |
Just arrived |
Asheville, where they paint the telephone poles pink |
Brand New |
After the Asheville Art Museum |
Studio visit with Julie Armbruster |
The running man |
Thinking of you, Just Kids |
NC zines 12-15 october 2014 asheville nc © aryn kresol |
13 June 2014
Keith Haring, Journals (November 12, 1978)
p22: Drawing pictures in the snow is the most perfect example of my attempts to create a perfect form. Inevitably the snow is in constant change: There is no way to control its permanency or its form. Drawing in the snow is like trying to paint a picture that will record specific thoughts at a specific time. You draw fast and you are always aware that you are creating something very temporary, very auto-destructive, very instant. It goes quickly and there is not time to worry about it. It is important for the experience, for the time it exists and the time it has occupied in a never-ending process of creation/construction and destruction. A circle. It is possible to reach the highest levels of instantaneous response recorded in spontaneous method and representative of purest through when you are working with the knowledge that the work you create is temporary, insignificant in a broader sense, significant in an immediate sense, a perfect representation of time passing, time existing. Then you realize you are reacting instead of acting. Responding instead of contriving. Art instead of imitation. Primal response. Humanistic attempts at succeeding time.
This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction (obliteration).
This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction (obliteration).
31 December 2013
Top 5 of 2013
Top 5 movies of 2013
Killing Them Softly (2012)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Tree of Life (2011)
The Great Gatsby 3D (2013)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Top 5 books of 2013
Alan W. Watts The Way of Zen
William Gass On Being Blue
Roland Barthes Camera Lucida
Plato The Symposium
S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
Top 5 songs of 2013
The Head and the Heart Rivers and Roads
Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side off Live: Take No Prisoners
Alva Noto Garment
Strings of Consciousness Asphodel
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Top 5 albums of 2013
The Head and the Heart The Head and the Heart
Olafur Arnalds And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
Glass Boy подключение
Efterklang Piramida
Killing Them Softly (2012)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Tree of Life (2011)
The Great Gatsby 3D (2013)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Top 5 books of 2013
Alan W. Watts The Way of Zen
William Gass On Being Blue
Roland Barthes Camera Lucida
Plato The Symposium
S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
Top 5 songs of 2013
The Head and the Heart Rivers and Roads
Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side off Live: Take No Prisoners
Alva Noto Garment
Strings of Consciousness Asphodel
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Top 5 albums of 2013
The Head and the Heart The Head and the Heart
Olafur Arnalds And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
Glass Boy подключение
Efterklang Piramida
17 October 2013
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (1964)
None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art. We can only quarrel with one or another means of defending and justifying art which becomes particularly obtuse or onerous or insensitive to contemporary needs and practice.
01 October 2013
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