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Denise Tassin's Unique Necco Wafers

Denise Tassin's Unique Necco Wafers

Some folks like to eat Necco wafers, but Baltimore-based artist Denise Tassin enjoys drawing on them. In a new solo show at San Francisco's Zinc Details gallery, Tassin utilizes an assortment of pens — including fine-tipped Sharpies — to create miniature drawings on Necco wafers. Her drawings have currently taken a scientific route and include carefully detailed inkings similar to those found in biology books. Who would have thought that candy and fetal pig respiratory systems go hand in hand? If that's too odd for your tastes, she also has a series of Christmas related items featuring dolls and Santas, as well as a series of individually re-sealed wafers featuring random sketches.
For those of you who haven't had the joy in experiencing their chalky sweetness, Necco wafers are thin sugar wafers made by the New England Confectionary Company — hence the name Necco. They come in eight flavors and colors and make for an interesting art medium. In fact Tassin likes them so much, she has even been known to carry a pen and pack of Necco wafers with her wherever she goes. "t's like having a little studio in your pocket."
If you're in the San Francisco area, you'll be able to see her wafers up close and personal at Zinc Details from September 9 to October 31.
However, if you can't make it to the show, be sure to check out more of her artwork after the jump, just read more

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CLIMBING BUTTERFLY - ORIYA - 27 MB

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Feelin' Groovy - Abbey Park High School Cup Sculpture '09

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Styrofoam Cup Art

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Sculptures by Summer - Recycling plastic into Art!

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2009 Recycled Art & Trash Art Exhibit EHCC/HMOCA Hilo, Hawaii

Building Custom Bicycles in New York City

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Rocketboom NYC Correspondent Ella Morton interviews Josh Hadar about his hand sculpted custom bicycles
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Senegal: Recycled Art

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Humanwire field correspondent Cheikh Seck speaks with world renowned artist, Mamadou Tall Diedhiou about his recycled bird statues.


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http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Cheikh_Seck_mlkdakar_SN_07
 

the day the pet came

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Painting Reality

Uploaded by naturamagik on Jun 25, 2011

http://painting.iepe.net/

500 liters of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint on asphalt spread by 2000 cars.
2010 Rosenthaler Platz, Berlin

By IEPE & the anonymous crew © 2010
directed by AKIZ

 

some stuff I like

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The steampunk bicycle was the creation of Jack Demarest of Mansfield, Mass., and shown by ModVic, Sharon, Mass.

New Yorkers Find It All At Stella’s Spring Pier Antiques Show

Lee Godie, French Impressionist

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Lee Godie, French Impressionist

I find it interesting that, so long after Judy Chicago and Kate Millet were festooning the Women's Building, that I helped to remodel, with great pieces of feminist art, some anonymous "guest blogger," probably a privileged, white male (and if not, someone who has learned "success" means thinking like one) has decided so subtly (but they're always subtle, aren't they?) to insinuate the artist is not legitimate. Is the art good? I don't think so. But then, for the most part, I can't stand Picasso, either, and he did a number of cartoon-like profiles. Is the artist formally educated in art history? Probably not, else she might not have described herself as "French." Is there a lot more going on here than we know from the article? Absolutely! At least she is not anonymous, as so many of my sisters, both trained in the arts and native, have become. I'm glad I got to know her. 

MOVIE: "Taxidermia"

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1 THE GRANDFATHER (lust): Right wing Hungary: fighting fascism while operating a fascist system. Feudal, agrarian: peasant class was in virtual slavery. He is peasant-turned-soldier, under the thumb of an officer, forced to live in an unheated hut, next to latrine, performing menial (and meaningless) tasks for the family of the officer. He has and is nothing except his pen!s. Lust is the only thing interesting in his life. He becomes an artist in its expressions. It is his greatest accomplishment and his ruin. 2) THE FATHER (gluttony): His mother is a sow, either literally or figuratively. Soviet invasion destroyed farms, factories; massive starvation occurred. The father is a competitive eater, professionally binging & purging: a concept completely foreign to the Hungarian population he supposedly represents. He has and is nothing except his belly. Gluttony is the only thing interesting in his life. He becomes an artist in its expressions. It is his greatest accomplishment and his ruin. 3) THE SON (pride): 10/23/56 A peaceful revolution began with students, joined by military & police. After a rocky initial transition, politics became liberal democracy; the economy developed; the people had enough to eat; individualism became a possibility & priority. He is a taxidermist. We see him working on an adult, male orangutan (not a gorilla): a highly endangered species, representing the willful trophy pillaging of the planet for individual aggrandizement. The natural world, to him, is a collection of species to stuff and display; he has no other satisfying relationships. He has and is nothing except his ego. Pride is the only thing interesting in his life. He becomes an artist in its expressions. It is his greatest accomplishment and his ruin. The director says one cannot leave out the past 60 yrs. of Hungarian politics while telling a multi-generational family story. This is my ignorant interpretation of the film. How do you explain that final zoom, if not real?

MOVIE: "In the Realms of the Unreal"

Let's take Darger's work, smear it with offal and shoot video of it! We could win an award!

I'd never heard of Darger until I stumbled on this film at NF. As a person with similar behavioral health challenges, I'm always on the look out for role models and inspirations. But, with my limited capacities for concentration, patience and retention of memory, there's no way in heck I'd be able to tackle Mr. Darger's work except by means such as documentaries.

You RUINED my introduction to the man! I researched him online a bit, before I watched the film. I know he's been favorably criticized for his methods and composition. I also know he was completely unschooled professionally. I couldn't wait to see the compositions.

You tore them all apart. I have no idea what the originals look like now! And I was so distracted, trying to reassemble the originals in my imagination, I couldn't hear what people were saying!

All through the film, I kept thinking: if the producers of this film can so badly mangle and misrepresent Darger's ART, what OTHER aspects of his life have they mutilated and mangled in this film?

You are not to be trusted with a paint-by-numbers kit, let alone a self taught genius!

Shame on you!

MOVIE: "Seraphine"

I can't find a good biography online, so I'll have to wait 'til I can buy it in paperback before I'm sure I'm on a right track about this woman. But I'm going to say this, anyway.

I think Seraphine was misinterpreted from the moment her patron "discovered" her. I don't think anybody ever really listened to what she said about her life and, instead, found her self expression unacceptable, simply because she was unconventional [read: especially for a "mere manual laborer." And a woman, at that.]

She was called to paint, and to paint visionary interpretations of the fractal qualities of the natural world.

She wasn't, as some interpret, wasteful with money. She had no concept of finances, and nobody bothered to teach her. She was at the whim of her patron and his decisions, just as she'd been at the whim of employers and landlords. And, just as with them, she was probably exploited by her patron.

Some interpret her as being "obsessed" that the end of the world was coming. I can't verify this. It, too, may be a misinterpretation.

Here's what I got from the final scene of her freedom:

I think her angels had told her to paint her way to absolution, redemption. I think she had to be baptized in paint, in order to become a Bride of Christ (in other words, a Nun). I think she gave away her most valuable possessions to people in the village who had respected her and shown her kindness. I believe that, once her parcels were empty, she planned to devote her life to her church.

I believe she was intercepted by small minded authorities, called by small minded gossips, who put her in a hell hole [also called "mental asylum"] and "diagnosed by small minded doctors who exploited her and encouraged her patron not only not to have contact with her, but to pay for better accommodations by preying on his guilt.

I think her spiritual intentions will never be fully understood because those who could have witnessed her filtered her through their own assumptions and prejudices.

I think she had fulfilled her duties to her spirituality and was on her way to be married to her God.

I think the world who would do this to such a talent is crazy, not Seraphine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9raphine_Louis

MOVIE: "True Stories"

I'm putting this in Outsider Art because it is.

I live in a landscape nearly identical to this. No mall, no industry on the edge of town, no nightclub with dancing, no suburban development. Just tumbleweeds, prairies, road runners, sky . . .

I recognized some of my neighbors in this film: not the main characters, though.

It's nice to see someone talk about small town USA without cynicism, superiority, snobbery and contempt.


This is a production about loving plain old US citizens, warts and all.

It's a "what would happen if . . ." contemplation of culture.

My favorite part was the talent show, particularly the two auctioneers, battling to be fastest, accompanied by a yodeling roper.

It's "Spinal Tap" with cowboy boots.

I think "The Matrix" stole their green on black video read out from this film.

The preacher, by the way, was played by the guy who's been playing Edward Quartermain on "General Hospital."

John Goodman's song should have been in a slightly lower key; he had to struggle.

It's visually fun, but the art never gets too distracting.

It's a fun ride!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Stories_%28film%29

book

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body wallpaper art

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/body-wallpaper-art-10-photos