Slash.

Mia Pearlman | INRUSH, 2009

"Slash" is the current exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. It is part of a series of exhibitions featuring 'traditional' materials - knitting, lace making, embroidering (wish I would have seen these) - and now paper cutting. Meredith really wanted to go and anything she deems 'art' means an eyefull for all.


Sangeeta Sandrasegar | Untitled # 24, 25, 26 (from The Shadow of Murder Lay Upon My Sleep series), 2009


'He' is made of hundreds of hundreds of cut-up photographs of a body, combined to recreate the whole. His name is Alex by Oliver Herring, 2009.


Rob Ryan | Can We Shall We, 2009


Andrea Dezsö | Women in Red with Black String, 2008

These were a series of what looked like really great dioramas in two long lines.





And, of course, Miss Georgia Russell, my friend in Paris was featured on these walls. Remember her stuff? The whole collection chimed her name.


Georgia Russell | The Story of Art, 2006

Georgia Russell

At CEA, I teach with an artist named Georgia Russell. She teaches drawing. She is a crazy artist. I mean crazy in all the incredible ways. Crazy good. Crazy compelling. Crazy innovative. Crazy thrilling. She is also a magnificent human being - sparkling, beautiful, funny and humble (a rare quality for an artist as successful and brilliant as she). Here she is:



Georgia spoke last night at the institute where we teach and talked about her experience as an artist. Georgia is from a small village in Scotland, but she came to Paris as part of her studies in art. When she arrived, she spent a lot of time walking along the Seine, where all the old books are sold. She bought books and used them as sketchbooks, drawing on top of the language that, at the time, was a source of alienation for her. She would read the words and draw the city around her. Eventually, she started cutting into the books with a scalpel and felt it was a thrilling and emotional experience to destroy something - to literally take apart layers of meaning in a book. In this way, her books became sculptures of their own.


The Story of Art 2006

In her presentation, she talked about how "books modify you," and by taking the book apart, she was playing with this idea of layers and layers of meaning within a text.


Spectacle – Jacques Prévert 2006


L'Erotisme (detail) 2008 (Cut and painted book in a bell jar)

She also uses sheet music and cuts into the score, playing with the concept of timing, of measures, of movement within a piece of music.




Les Saisons de Haydn 2007

She exhibits at a gallery in London called England & Co. See her stuff on their site.