Dr. Ned Rifkin on two portraits of Farrah Fawcett at The Blanton Museum ...

ラフォーレ原宿 2011春夏 be noisy.LAFORET

Stying Stuff Pedicure Game at girlGames4u.com - FREE ONLINE GAMES FOR GIRLS

Stying Stuff Pedicure Game at girlGames4u.com - FREE ONLINE GAMES FOR GIRLS

BANDAI - Konapun #9 - crepes

Mireille Mathieu - Es geht mir gut, Chéri

GIDGET

Fischli and Weiss' THE POINT OF LEAST RESISTANCE

What's going on with our show?

Our gallery is cleared and ready for installation for our Strange Contraptions show, but where are the artworks???

Here is another submission for the Strange Contraptions exhibit. I have the artist statement for the collected work, so let me know what you think.

Piece for submission in the Strange Contraptions show.

Strange Contraptions Card

Call for Artists!

Chinatown Galleries

We are meeting at The Company to begin our exploration of Chinatown Galleries.
Address:
THE COMPANY
955 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
T: 213-625-1008
E: info@thecompanyart.com
http://www.thecompanyart.com/
There is free parking on the tail end of Yale Street north of College Street. It runs parallel to Broadway and Hill (see map above).

Strange Contraptions Statement

Strange Contraptions

We imagine and we conceive, yet at times our ideas may stray so far from our original intention that it may morph and evolve well beyond the fringes of "normalcy." How much does our attitude of "play" contribute to our art making, and how far can we go when we lose ourselves in reverie? Strange Contraptions examines the superfluous narrative of construction, as in a Rube Goldberg machine--the visual layers, or strategies, that make up a process. The work(s) in this exhibition carry the attitude and aesthetic of complexity as well as simplicity regarding design, and communicates to the viewer the raw and inventive motion of our streaming imagination.

no hope

baby cage

http://nuffy.net/pics/cool/invetions-from-the-past/unusual_invetions_from_the_past_4.jpg

a mighty yet compelling contraption in my perspective :)

Merijn Bolink

http://www.merijnbolink.com/

Untitled (winnower (agricultural device))---1995---two winnowers of which one has been grinded completely and reshaped into app. 2000 wooden grains and 120 metal vessels---120 x 170 x 65 cm---collection of the artist

Cynthia Minet

Fatima Huang

http://post-la.blogspot.com/2009/09/fatima-hoang.html

Michael Wodkowski

http://post-la.blogspot.com/2009/09/michael-wodkowski-and-annette-wehrhahn.html

VISION

Jamie Isenstein
working title: Radunculous Audience Taste Vase 9742011
Ceramic glasses, enamel, pedestal, glass, flowers
20 x 17 x 33 inches

FROZEN FORM

DAVID KORTY CERAMICS

Spirograph Commercial - 1973 - Spiromania

Finnish interview with Ville Valo

Spirograph Commercial - 1973 - Spiromania

Amazing Japanese Fake Pool

overview

Strange Contraptions: Thesis Statement

We need a thesis statement for our show. This is my proposal.

Strange Contraptions (*rough draft*)

We imagine and we conceive, yet at times our ideas may stray so far from our original intention that it may morph and evolve well beyond the fringes of "normalcy." How much does our attitude of "play" contribute to our art making, and how far can we go when we lose ourselves in reverie? Strange Contraptions examines the superfluous narrative of construction, as in a Rube Goldberg machine--the visual layers, or strategies, that make up a process. The work(s) in this exhibition carry the attitude and aesthetic of complexity over simplicity regarding design, and communicates to the viewer the raw and inventive motion of our streaming imagination.

Brian Gyson's dream machine

Brian Gyson's Dream Machine

the dream machine from Brian Gyson was a 78 turn table with a tube placed on top of it that had cut outs and in the middle of the 78 record player turn table was a light bulb. Gyson died in 1986 alone and in poverty in Paris (we should all be so lucky!) He was an artist and co- conspirator with William Burroughs and gave the concept of cut - ups to Burroughs as a gift.

Strange contraptions in Fashion

Family Guy Breakfast Machine

Henry and Emauel's Bridge

Adam Teraoka

Sheri's strange but functional ring

a few thoughts from robot victor

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question

so I guess what is running through my head is - how to bring in (curate) items that not only fall under the title of "Strange Contraptions" but how "We" as students can realistically obtain the ideal item and guarantee its delivery and safe return (logistics) and doing so with zero money and with the given of this is a one night only show - (what is available for one night - that can be obtained and set up in a gallery) two artist I have contacted - well - it appears that this concept is not in their financial interest. On the other hand - it would be a positive step forward for a student here or beginning artist. Exactly - what can we gallery students can identifyto bring in to the gallery ? I see a lot of great definitions but what can be presented as concrete and realistic to put on display?

Contraption (definition of)

2 definitions that I found for CONTRAPTION:

1)Contraption (noun) -a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device.

2) Contraption (noun) - a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.

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Some Background information:

Origin: 1815–25; perhaps contr(ivance) + ( ad ) aption, variant ofadaptation

—Related forms

con·trap·tious, adjective