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I went to Pulse yesterday. The amount of art at these fairs is astounding. You could see a thousand pieces in a day, and probably only remember the bad stuff. It is an exciting, yet slightly vertigo inducing, way to look at art. I’m still on the look out for a painting of William Shatner.
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By Thomas Seely
I went to Pulse yesterday. The amount of art at these fairs is astounding. You could see a thousand pieces in a day, and probably only remember the bad stuff. It is an exciting, yet slightly vertigo inducing, way to look at art. I’m still on the look out for a painting of William Shatner.
Overheard in Miami
“It’s not enough to find the worst painting. You have to find the biggest worst painting.” –Gallerist
“You look like Bob Dylan!” –Owner of a Dallas based art handling company
JPEG Collection
(All artists exhibiting at Pulse)
Total Spent Today: $81.800
Total Spent: $119,000
Remaining Funds: $851,000
Andy Diaz Hope (www.schroederromero.com)
Cerebrus
$14,500
Andy reconstructs digital photos using gelatin pill capsules filled with pieces of the original images. The meticulousness and time put into this work is incredible, and it shows in the results.
Laurel Roth (www.schroederromero.com)
Beloved
$4800
This peacock is made mostly from fake fingernails, and junk store hairclips. Laurel also hand carves beautiful cat and dog skulls out of aluminum, crystal and polysulfone plastic.
Kenneth Tin Kin Hung (www.postmastersart.com)
Gas Zappers
$8000*
Post apocalyptic polar bear battles George Bush and Halliburton. I wont tell you how the video ends, but it involves Al Gore and a death ray made from solar panels.
Thomas Wrede (www.thomas-wrede.de)
Drive in Restaurant
$7500
I’m only partially familiar with this German photographer’s work. The piece struck me mostly because I was starving, and the diner in the photo looks like it would have amazing cheeseburgers.
Kim Keever (www.ktfgallery.com/artists/kim_keever)
Forest 68
$17,000
Kim Keever builds landscapes in a 100 gallon fish tank, fills it with water and photographs his creation through the glass. The resulting images resemble romantic 19th century landscape paintings, and are easily some of the most imaginative landscape photographs I’ve seen.
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (www.postmastersart.com)
High Seas
$30,000*
My photo of this work sucks and doesn’t nearly do High Seas justice. Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s sculpture/video/installation is a giant ocean liner resting atop the frame of a ship’s hull. Around the frame a motorized video camera travels around the ocean liner projecting its video recording onto the wall behind the sculpture. As the camera travels up and down the curved peaks in the track, the resulting video portrays the ocean liner as though caught in a storm. This piece recalls the low budget special effects used in early disaster and science fiction movies, and the pixilated video and jerky mechanics have a kind of Erector Set feel to them. Work like this makes me feel totally inadequate as an artist, craftsman and citizen. However, it is so well done and so fun to look at that I don’t even care. If I had the cash to actually buy this piece I’d have it set up in my garage for neighbors to come and look at during BBQs.
