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Issue # 4 of One11 - Playground Politics
October 2012
Posted October 29, 2012 at 2:53pm in studio one11 zine zine culture playground politics gif drawing collage
National Geographic Mashup #1 (from December 2011) - star explosions in the Tarantula Nebula and the cityscape of Seoul, South Korea
25/04/12
Posted April 25, 2012 at 8:20pm in National Geographic stars Tarantula Nebula Seoul South Korea collage light
This spread almost softens my heart to Hallmark holidays… almost.
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Five drawings from my series, “An Afternoon At Versailles, 23/01/11” on an authentic, handmade Japanese origami album.
Drawings by Brit Bachmann.
Posted January 28, 2011 at 5:36pm in Château de Versailles Paris Versailles art collage drawing illustration train Brit Bachmann
Posted November 28, 2010 at 4:11pm in American Spirits Brit Bachmann Paris collage drawing mixed media pen scotch tape tobacco cigarettes
Halloween with Basquiat
Walking through a retrospective for a dead artist is both stirring and somber. Although all retrospectives function pedagogically to summarize art practices, retrospectives for dead artists are always overshadowed by the their fates.
I spent Halloween with Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Everything was remarkable. I could stand in front of a single collage for 20 minutes admiring the oil stick gestures as though they were being drawn before my eyes. I have never spent so much time in a single exhibit. The following piece was especially captivating in person…
Jawbone of an Ass, 1982
Madonna and Basquiat in Rolling Stone, 1982
Basquiat accomplished something that few artists have been able to do - access the creativity and inspiration of a child in adulthood. Madonna said “he was too fragile for this world.” Perhaps he was. However, his art is not shy or fragile. Basquiat’s work is a fierce commentary on humanity. He adopted a style used by small children to express the truths in this world that children cannot yet know.
Untitled (Fallen Angel), 1981
In 1988, at the age of 27, Basquiat died of a heroin overdose.
Basquiat : Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
*Special thanks to Miguel S. for waiting in queue with me for 2 hours.
Posted November 5, 2010 at 3:21pm in Jean-Michel Basquiat MAM Musée d'Art Moderne Paris Larry Clark Jawbone of an Ass Madonna Untitled (Fallen Angel) painting collage halloween heroin
This drawing is loosely based on the fable of Little Red Riding Hood. The topic was chosen by my good friend and occasional-collaborator, Catherine de Montreuil. We may be 7,734 kilometres apart, but we can still plan a drawing party!
To see Catherine’s interpretation of LRRH, check out http://www.cdemontreuil.blogspot.com/
The perfect afternoon at McSpadden Park, Thursday, June 24.
Red Racer, Cocorosie and collage.
I am inspired by collage. My close friends can attest to the fact that I carry a glue stick and a sketchbook at all times. I have only lived in Vancouver for 57 hours but already, this city is fuelling my thrill. There is graffiti on graffiti on graffiti, overlapping flyers on telephone poles, newspaper mâché-ed sidewalks, high-rise landscapes, and excessive human clutter, aka. a collagist’s playground.
Tuesday I took a stroll through the Vancouver Art Gallery and discovered Kerry James Marshall, a Chicago-based artist whose work addresses the plight of African-American stereotyping. The image I chose to showcase is titled, Many Mansions, 1994. It is part of a series that depicts social housing projects in Chicago and L.A. All the housing projects were given frivolous and artificial names, juxtaposing the reality of low-income housing. Not only does his work successfully convey messages about segregation and ignorance, but it also represents an example of contemporary collage. Marshall uses acrylic and paper on unstretched canvas. In some of his other works, he also uses old newspaper clippings and glitter on various backdrops, from fibreglass to wood panel.
