Slipping the fur skin of a dead animal over a perfectly crafted taxidermy form produces a visual illusion of life, much in the tradition of a trompe l’oeil painting. In traditional taxidermy terms, the relationship between man and animal is that of a hunter conquering nature. The tradition of taxidermy as art dates back to [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For more than 20 years, John O’Brien’s Dolphin Gallery has been a cultural and community epicenter for Kansas City artists. Located in a huge white wall space in the West Bottoms, a historical area in downtown Kansas City, the Dolphin is the size of a barn, and embodies the charisma of an established Chelsea [...]
Peregrine Honig’s experience at the Proyecto Áce Residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, attuned her senses to an unfamiliar culture as well as her American roots. This sentiment is reflected in the image she honed at the residency: Analogue Tendril, a silkscreen series of two blonde-haired, blue-eyed boys gazing vacantly into a nether space. Honig carried the first phase [...]
In a perfect world, every artist would have an opportunity to take time off and wander into that space outside of reality where creativity blossoms. Few artists make a living off of their work alone, and even so it’s difficult to constantly feel inspired and motivated to make work in your hometown and studio. This [...]
Peregrine Honig LACED Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri–St. Louis January 24–March 23, 2013 “Lace is the fabric of ceremony: virgins and whores, brides and saints, pastries and mourners, drug dealers and corsetry. From a conventional trim around the edges to extreme fetishist binding, lace marries the ethereal to the forbidden.” —Peregrine Honig, [...]
Peregrine Honig LACED Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri–St. Louis January 24–March 23, 2013 “Lace is the fabric of ceremony: virgins and whores, brides and saints, pastries and mourners, drug dealers and corsetry. From a conventional trim around the edges to extreme fetishist binding, lace marries the ethereal to the forbidden.” —Peregrine Honig, [...]
CHICAGO — The excitement and buzz around Expo Chicago, the Windy City’s resurgence into the international art world, felt deafening. Practically every artist in the city who knew how to handle art was in some way involved with the fair. Newcitynewspaper, the city’s #1 alt-weekly, published “Chicago top 50 artists,” a timely and simultaneously ballsy list explaining [...]
xoxoo love, loser American culture is obsessed with winning and success, yet it is fixated on losers. On August 10, 2010, in the final episode of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the reality television competition for artists, 1.48 million people nationwide watched as artist Peregrine Honig lost the final challenge. She came in [...]
By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann Pop culture is replete with stories of young men realizing their potential and becoming heroes. In the first season of Work of Art, pop culture’s introduction to the heretofore secretive Art World, America was provided with the familiar hero’s story. In the tenth and final episode, The Big Show, [...]
By Alicia Eler & Patricia Herrmann American culture idealizes the beautiful boy as one who lives “between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood.” Unlike adults, he is alive to “enjoy every second of every minute of every hour of every day…” The beautiful boy can do no wrong. His natural habitat is [...]
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