Mystery Books Inspire - who knew?!

After falling for yet another HBO’s series, Trueblood, I decided to read “The Southern Vampire Series,” which I followed up by a whole string of other mystery novels most notably Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe books. I hadn’t read a Mystery book since they force-fed us Ten Little Indians in the sixth grade, but these Nero Wolfe mysteries were so entertaining and quirky that I felt impelled to incorporate them into some prints. At the same time I wanted to try printing text w/ my images so I decided to use (and misuse) little excerpts from the books with contemporary female portraits. So far, I’ve come up with these:

Recent (?) Installations

The other weekend the boyfriend and I made the trek out to PS1 (MoMA’s satellite space in Queens). I decide it was time to get out and see some new art. And there was some! Specifically there was a fantastic swimming pool installation entitled “Swimming Pool.” It’s by an artist, Leandro Erlich, who does a bunch of surreal and interactive installation work.


Of course, on the way to PS1 you get to walk by 5Pointz – that’s the insanely well-done graffiti building, so I snapped some pics of that as well.


Anyhow, the last installation I saw that really impressed me was last years Cai Guo-Qiang exhibit at the Guggenheim. Apparently I’m becoming more and more interested in the immediacy of installation work.