Not that you're the resident expert, but did you
notice that the exhibit was coming out west, like to
LA (or SF)? regards, sonar
--- James Allenspach <jimaATlegnog.com> wrote:
> We attended the opening reception at the Illegal Art
> show tonight. There
> was a great turnout; by the time we left, there were
> at least 70 people
> there. Pretty much all of the pieces on the IA
> Website were represented.
> Personal favorite was definitely the Wally Wood
> Disneyland poster; you
> can't really see the detail from the small image on
> the site, and
> there's a lot of amazing detail in the thing. I love
> the two extra pairs
> of legs underneath Alice's skirt, in the upper
> right-hand corner.
>
> Local artists were well-represented, too. There were
> some new additions
> to the show specifically for this leg of the tour.
> Our favorite was this
> strange quilted picture with Spiderman; it looks
> like a painting until
> you get up close and notice it's a quilt! Also
> represented was none
> other than Dan Lynch, who has dome some graphic
> design for Negativland.
> He had this amazing portrait of a smirking George
> W., standing in front
> of a Ryder truck being driven by Timothy McVeigh.
> Below the poster was a
> long detailed essay on how he constructed the
> portrait. Wish I had had
> time to read the whole thing!
>
> The video portion of the show was also represented.
> There's a smallish
> room that I'm guessing is normally the breakroom for
> the In These Times
> staff, where they had set up a VCR and TV. The tape
> they ran apparently
> had about two hours worth of material on it,
> including not only the
> pieces on the IA site, but a bunch of shorts from
> people like SF's
> Laughing Squid and the Guerilla News Network. The
> best piece of video I
> saw was this wonderful thing on the war on terrorism
> that inter-cut
> footage of GWB blinking and looking foolish, with
> footage of the
> weird-ass banjo-playing kid from 'Deliverance'. It's
> online, if you want
> to see it. But it's only available in Windows Media
> format, unfortunately.
>
>
http://www.sundanceonlinefilmfestival.com/shorts01_06.html
>
> So.. yeah! The show is open, it looks great, and
> there are some
> excellent events coming up in the next month or so
> as part of it. If
> you're in the vicinity, you should definitely check
> it out.
>
> jma
>
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