Curated by studio artist / writer / DJ Dennis Kane

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Annette Lemieux

ideological minimalism

This week’s art post features the great work of Annette Lemieux. She works in a variety of media and works in a theater of memory, examining aporias in accepted, dominant narratives. Check her work at her website.

SPIN 2017 Pigment inkjet on cotton

Left Right Left Right 1995 30 photolithographs

ANNETTE LEMIEUX Mon Amour 1987 Gelatin Silver, AP1/1

Fumeé 2015 ink prints on paper

AREA OF REFUGE 2017 Pigment inkjet on cotton

Black Mass, 1991, Latex, acrylic, oil on canvas

Untitled 1994, Photogravure and stencil

“She’s looked at archetypical images from art — 20th century art history, but also film — and edited them and tweaked them to give them new meaning, whether that’s cheeky or critical, She’s always taking something from the world and turning it on its head to give it new meaning.”

— Al Miner, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Photo Credit:

Mitchell Inns & Nash, Annette Lemieux

Whitney Museum, Annette Lemieux

Quote and Portrait Credit: WBUR, Annette Lemieux, Whose Art Addresses History And Politics, Wins MFA’s $10K Prize

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Sam Durant

Public Protest

This week’s art post features the work of Sam Durant. Durant is a multi media artist whose works focus on hierarchies of power, referencing historical moments and social acts of resistance or response. Durant’s works are often made for public display outside of art institutions and attempt a larger public discourse.

Hebron, 2007, c-print, 158 x 140 cm. (62.2 x 55.1 in.)

If You Are Not Angry You Are Not Paying Attention, 2017, Light Box, 176 x 166 x 15 cm. (69.3 x 65.4 x 5.9 in.), Unit London

Public Engagement 3, 2013, Sadie Coles HQ, London

Proposal for Public Fountain (detail), 2013; Public Engagement 1, 2013, Sadie Coles Gallery, London

Public Engagement 2, 2013, Sadie Coles Gallery, London

Public Engagement, 2013, Sadie Coles Gallery, London

Sam Durant, Civil Rights March, Wash. DC, 1963, 2002, LACMA

Like Man I'm Tired of Waiting, 2002

Sam Durant, *Untitled* (drone), 2016-2021

Sam Durant, *Proposal for Public Fountain, 2021, Sadie Coles HQ, London*

Sam Durant, Like, Man, I’m Tired (of Waiting), 2021

“Since the 1990s, Sam Durant has developed a research-driven artistic practice in which he dissects and reframes both dominant historical narratives and forgotten facets of our collective past...

(L)ight boxes are based on hand-drawn protest signs that the artist found in photos of street protests. By giving the personal phrases and slogans from protest movements an existence as a colourful light box, Sam Durant emphasises their necessity, and often also the humorous or utopian character of the messages.”

— Art Lead

Photo Sources:

ArtNet, Unit London

Mousse Magazine, Sam Durant, Proposal for Public Fountain, Sadie Coles HQ, London

Unframed, Sam Durant, Like Man I’m Tired of Waiting, LACMA

ArtLead, Billboard Series #21, Sam Durant and the Art of Dialogue

Toward Freedom, Untitled (Drone), 2021