Art Hound

Regine Ramseier via The Jealous Curator inspired by the writings of Herman Hesse.

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Ana Serrano’s amazing, mind-blowing, kaleidoscopic work in Salon of Beauty at Rice Gallery.

Ana Serrano is a first generation Mexican American born in Los Angeles, California in 1983. Her work bears reference to those in low socioeconomic positions, with particular interest in the customs and beliefs, as well as the architecture, fashion, and informal economies present within this segment of society.

Serrano saw the title, Salon of Beauty, hand-painted on the side of a small beauty salon. She was struck by the phrase’s slightly awkward, yet poetic quality. Later she realized it was a literal translation of the Spanish phrase, Salón De Belleza, which normally would be translated into English as “Beauty Salon.”  - Rice Gallery 

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Ben Cove is currently in a group show called Peering Sideways at Project Space Leeds. This is a smattering of his work across media from the last couple of years.

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Tatiana Trouve at Galerie Perrotin via the always inspiring all the mountains. I’d really love to see this work in person.

Trouve’s work “…takes you on a trip down the rabbit hole, and brings you into a world where nothing appears to be as it seems.  It is the place in our subconscious where memories, images, and thoughts blend to create those little fragments of truth that we can never decipher.” A Stay Between Enclosure and Space

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Martin Grasser and Jiyun Ha (aka 2ppl) are friends from Art Center who co-produced GFS using photocopiers and newspapers from all around the world. What they created was a wealth of new imagery, all appropriated from existing imagery. Their idea is very simple yet also pretty mind-blowing.

The Global from Scratch Project is an installation which attempts to capture the emergence of a new global culture born out of technological advances… (which have) eliminated many of the boundaries that in the past have separated people into unique geographic and nationalistic cultures. As these cultural traditions begin to fade and change, we see a new culture, a global culture, created almost from scratch.

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Xerox paintings – the artists’ favorites from GFS.