Julie Speed

Another favorite artist from the Armory Show - Julie Speed.

"Speed fearlessly mixes memories of the Old Master paintings she loves with images from fairy tales, poetry, trash novels, thrift shops, Baroque prints, newspaper photographs, and Persian and Indian miniatures, blending them together with everyday experiences and fantasies. The results of such wide and deep excavations inevitably address the Collective Unconscious so dear to Carl Jung and James Joyce." from JULIE SPEED, ICONOCLAST by Barbara Rose

In Julie's words: "I keep hours just like a real job, only longer, and in my spare time I read books, drink tequila, garden, and drive around West Texas.”


http://juliespeed.com
http://www.georgebillis.com/gallery.html

2011 Armory Show

I went to the Armory Show at the Piers in NYC yesterday and was really taken by a 54-piece work from by Whitfield Lovell, beautiful portrait drawings combined with vintage round playing cards.

"The importance of home, family and ancestry feed my work entirely," says Whitfield Lovell, known for his large-scale images of African Americans, drawn in charcoal on weathered wood planks. "African Americans generally were not aware of who their ancestors were, 

since slaves were sold from plantation to plantation and families were split up." Lovell says

Many of Lovell's drawings are based on studio portraits of formally dressed African Americans, dating largely from the early 20th century. "Any time I pick up one of these old vintage photographs," he says, "I have the feeling that this could be one of my ancestors. These images are stand-ins for the people I don''t know about."

http://www.thearmoryshow.com

http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/dynamic/artist_media_and_press.asp?ArtistID=36&ArtistCVAttributeID=173