This is an odd duck for The Soulless Machine Review. I got the Mixed Greens Catalog No. 10 in the mail this week. It is a New York catalog of the Mixed Greens studio. I live in Minneapolis. I will not be able to make it to the exhibition. I want too. The art is my kind of strange.Flipping through the pages, I landed Mark Mulroney’s strange urban vinyl like paintings on page 38 and 39. This is the kind of art that I would like hanging on my yellow-mustard and catsup-red condominium walls but can’t afford it. The image includes dark puppets (for lack of a better word) like figures and monsters that fit on pencils or fingers. I can’t put my finger on the reason why these images move me, but the do. It must have something to do with the way the contrast their gritty surroundings with their absence of detail.
I was also struck by the cartoons of Kammy Roulner on pages 48 – 51. They are simple drawings with speech bubbles. I think my favorite is the depiction of a bald man with spectacles standing in judgment next to a younger looking man with a striped shirt and spiky hair who says, “Please don’t belittle my website.” Wow.
My favorite, however, is Dirk Westphal’s photographs of goldfish on pages 72 – 75. I think that goldfish are ugly, in general. Yet, Westphal’s photographs portray them as majestic and perhaps even angelic creatures. If I could make it to New York in March, I would make sure to visit Mixed Greens to see more of Westphal’s work.
The catalogue is a good one that inspires and intrigues the reader to visit the exhibitions. If I could, I would go. Bellow is the 2009 schedule of some very talented artists.
Mixed Greens
2009 Exhibition Schedule
Mark Mulroney
January 8 – February 7
Leah Tinari
February 12 – March 14
Dirk Westphal
March 19 – April 18
Coke Wisdom O’Neal
Lee Stoetzel
April 23 – May 23
A. A. Rucci
May 28 – July 3
Tenth Anniversary Show
July 9 – August 14
Zane Lewis
August 20 – October 3
Adia Millett
October 8 – November 7
Kimberley Hart
November 12 – December 23
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