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Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez
Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help-the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possible-by inserting images of these workers into sly pastiches of iconic David Hockney paintings, subtly doctoring glossy magazine ads, and subversively slotting life-size painted cardboard cutouts into real-life situations. Domestic Scenes engages with Gomez and his work, offering an inspiring vision of the purposes and possibilities of art.
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Tomaselli's Times
Weschler discusses how Fred Tomaselli finds visual poetry in the news. Tomaselli has often courted controversy with his use of unconventional materials including consciousness-altering plants and pills. His reserves some of his greatest multicolored enthusiasm for the ongoing spirit of rebellion. Wisps of the sixties come wafting back in his own time, with the young rising up in Britain (Nov 11, 2010), in Italy (Dec 1, 2010), in Britain again (Aug 10, 2011), and finally in America (Oct 18, 2011), where the artist captures the spirit of the entire Occupy Wall Street movement by way of the determined exasperation of a solitary young woman holding up a sign that simply proclaims, I AM VERY UPSET--a message that in Tomaselli's hands just keeps ramifying and ramifying high up into the sky.
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David Hockney's Timescapes
Weschler visits David Hockney once again, this time regarding his upcoming San Francisco show of portraits and landscapes. Here, he features Hockney as he reinvents modern art in the shadow of mortality.
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The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
The more they've been shrinking, the bigger it's been getting, though maybe that's the wrong way to put it. The world's great coral reefs, that is, and in particular Australia's Great Barrier Reef, on the one hand-and, on the other, the Great Hyperbolic Crocheted Reef, brainspawn originally of a pair of Brisbane twins, transplanted to Los Angeles, alarmed at the harrowing fate of that beloved natural wonder and national treasure back home. The Great Barrier Reef has over the past couple of decades been spiraling into collapse, a direct result, it now appears, of the rising ocean temperatures and sea acidification which are being occasioned by global climatic change. Weschler takes a look at Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim's project to crochet an enormous complex of coral reefs--to demonstrate hyberbolic geometry and raise awareness of ocean acidification.
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