VIVIAN MAIER - MK GALLERY

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER - Man Buys 10.000 Undeveloped Negatives At a Local Auction and Discovers One of The Most Important Street Photographers of the Mid 20th Century

“She was so guarded and paranoid and private. She never let anybody get close to her. She went by aliases. She disguised herself with her clothes. She never had a love life. She never had kids. She didn’t have any family that she kept in contact with at all,” Maloof said. “The only thing she really had was her photography … and she was probably too afraid of getting negative criticism or rejection.”

Her former charges describe her as an eccentric caregiver who dressed in men’s clothes and took them on urban adventures to places kids rarely went, including gritty parts of town and a slaughterhouse in Chicago.

Her self-portraits show a serious woman with cropped hair, dressed in men's clothing and quite often in large hats. As if she was disguising herself from herself.

Her many photos of children and the destitute tell of her connection with those struggling to get by.

This was probably one of my favorite photos. THE COMB OVER! So much humor in this and the fact that the poor guy most likely had no idea there was a quirky woman crouched behind him shooting photos of his comb over. Made me snicker! 

"In death she is getting the notoriety she never got in life"

A documentary of her story has been made. I haven't seen it but it's on my list! 

Here is a link to the trailer! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2nBhQ67Zc 

JAMES TURRELL - LACMA

James Turrell: A Retrospective explores nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles), a key artist in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition includes early geometric light projections, prints and drawings, installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, and recent two-dimensional work with holograms. One section is devoted to the Turrell masterwork in process, Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape just outside Flagstaff, Arizona, presented through models, plans, photographs, and films.

Turrell's play with light and perspective. This circle would change shapes depending on the angle you would look at it. It would toy with your sense of perspectives at times thinking it was an endless hole while at other moments like it was protruding out.

The same idea with this shadow and perspective of this square! At certain angles it would seem that it was pulling in while at others out. We were told by another patron that if you stare at the corner as you walk around this, you can see a bend in the square. As hard as I tried I never saw it!

Sometimes you see things and sometimes you don't! The point was to stop trying to figure out what you are seeing and just see it. In other words, does it matter weather it's coming out or going in... only what YOU see is what matter. I know! I'm confusing myself.

A poltergiest moment. A lot of feels very out of this world and extra terrestrial!

These are small replicas of what  James Turrell has been transforming into a work of perceptual and celestial art since the late 1970s in the Roden Crater in Flagstaff Arizona.