Kidnapper's Art Book (deux) and Lynda Benglis

Aleathia says:

Kidnapper's Art Book x 2

"Welcome to the middle of nowhere: open 9-6"

"Sophisticated Metropolis"

Today's artist from the SF MOMA text is Lynda Benglis!

This time I simply put in the work "knot" and she was sent my way with a beautiful piece called "Lambda"

Kidnapper's Art Book, SoundCloud, and Charles Strong

Aleathia says:

Hello fair friends!  Today's art book was a long one for me. I usually have them done in fairly quick order, but I ended up spending almost 2 hours on this one. I feel like it is getting back to the style I was deep into before with several layers and more mixed media with markers, paint, and rubber stamping which lends it to be more original than simple collage. It is interesting to see the progression over the last few months and how distinctly each page depicts my day.

Kidnapper's Art Book. 7-11-2017. Impossible Deepest Night

Today's SF MOMA artist is Charles Strong who was an abstract expressionist who recently passed away. In the art generator I asked for "green" and they sent me a painting by him called "Hemlock".

Charles Strong, Hemlock, 1962

Enjoy your daily art bits. Learn something new whenever you can.

I am currently enjoying playing around with recording stories and poems that I have written. I am not sure how far it will go, but you can find me at Sound Cloud under Aleathia Drehmer.

Yay.

Aleathia

Kidnapper's Art Book and Gabriel Orozco

Aleathia:

Oh yeah, I have been doing something called the Kidnapper's Art Book since the end of May which has been helping me through my recent transition from being coupled to single but more importantly it has lead me back to something I love so much....collage. This is a daily project and I will start posting them here along with a new found artist (new to me).

Kidnapper's Art Book 7-10-2017 "Handled Properly" by Aleathia Drehmer

A FB friend of mine so kindly posted a cool thing that you can do through SF MOMA by sending them a text to 57251 with the words "send me___________" and you fill in the blank. It can be any reference, color, word, etc and they will pull you a painting generated by the request from their collection of over over 32,000 pieces.

I put in "collage" and they sent me Gabriel Orozco who not only does collage, but a wide variety of painting, photography, sculpture, and installation art which you can see some pieces at the SF MOMA site.  This is what they sent me:

Quills and Frills-10/11/2014 Oscar Varona

John Says:

In the fall of 2007 a man by the name of Oscar Varona, from Madrid, emailed me in regards to a pathfinder I did on Kenneth Patchen.  That emailed turned into several emails, turned in to an almost-decade long friendship, in which Oscar and I have shared our views and thoughts on everything from writing to art to relationships to internet porn to politics to you name it.  In short, the guy is a class act all the way. 

Oscar is also a fantastic artist as well.  He is the author of a book of short stories Tremolo (2003), and he has been published in several journals including: Mondo Kronheca Literature, Metazen, AscentAspirations, and Groenlandia.  Oscar was also an editor of Madrid’s own Delirio, a cultural journal that ran from 2009-2012.  I’ve even had the good fortune to publish Oscar Varona in an issue of Pittsburgh’s own The New Yinzer when I acted as a guest editor back in 2009. 

Aside from writing Oscar Varona is also one hell of an artist.  His pictures and collages have been exhibited in Madrid.  You can read a wonderful interview with him HERE at Jung Katz, and see some more of his art HERE as well.