Currency
Since 2007, Temple has been completing one drawing a day for her series entitled Currency. In an attempt to understand world events and politics, she studies one article a day in depth, draws a portrait of the primary world leader associated with the event, and writes a short caption underneath the drawing. The drawings are hung like a calendar by month, and the drawings in this show were up to date as of the day before! History in the making.
Sunday Paintings
Kim has been making paintings of the sky from wherever he happens to be every Sunday since 2001. Scrawled on top of the paint is a short, diaristic entry of his moods, feelings and activities on that particular day. Many of the paintings/entries touch on family life, outings with friends, an obsession with his children's education, social anxiety and a commitment to meditation. The presence of vulnerability in these paintings is what kept me moving through a year of Sundays with the artist.
Pulse Index
With a quick scan of your index finger, the viewer/participant instantly becomes a part of this video collage by Lozano-Hemmer. The most recent scan is the largest and bumps off the oldest and smallest fingerprint at the other end of the room. Each frame is pulsating with life, while it lasts.
A film from 1902, each frame hand-painted by the artist, and set to the music of the French band, AIR! A gaggle of scientists, giant mushroom forests, hoppy aliens, sexy ladies dangling from planets, dream-time adventure... What else could we possibly want?
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