Learning to Share

2010-11-22T22:11:00.000-08:00

If your life were a video game....

2009-09-23T11:43:00.000-07:00

would you play beginner, intermediate, or expert?

My delicious account

2009-03-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

http://delicious.com/ramonaquimby

my bookmarks ya'll

Watch Out Fritzl

2009-03-23T13:16:00.000-07:00

go see this!!!!!

2009-03-23T13:14:00.001-07:00

Louise Bourgeois
February 26, 2009 to May 17, 2009
"The Hirshhorn presents a major survey of the works of Louise Bourgeois, the French-born artist who emigrated to the United States in 1938. Inspired by ideas and styles from diverse avant-garde art movements in Europe and America—notably Surrealism, primitivism, psychoanalysis, conceptualism and feminism—Bourgeois forged a highly personal amalgam of images and materials. Personal memories play a central role in her works, yet the sculptures themselves fascinate viewers who bring their own emotional associations.

The exhibition opens with Bourgeois' early drawings and paintings, followed by the sculptural series of "Personages," starkly abstracted standing figures created in the aftermath of World War II. Subsequent sculptures hang from the ceiling ("Spiral Woman," "Arch of Hysteria," "Janus" and "Legs"), attach to walls ("Torso Self-Portrait" and "Mamelles"), and are secreted in dramatic enclosures ("Destruction of the Father").

The exhibited works encompass a startling array of images and materials, ranging from traditional plaster, bronze, marble and wood to plastic, resin, latex, wax, steel fences, toy doll fragments, electric lights, fabrics, glass, rubber and found objects. The highlight of the exhibition is a stellar array of Bourgeois' rarely seen masterpieces: the large structured environments known as the "Cell" series, including "Cell (Choisy)," the autobiographical duo "Red Room (Parents)" and "Red Room (Child)," and the nightmarish "Spider" cell. The exhibition is accompanied by a 320-page catalog.

Louise Bourgeois was organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with Tate Modern, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Louise Bourgeois at the Hirshhorn Museum is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

The exhibition is made possible in part by the Agnes Gund Foundation, Glenn R. Fuhrman, Ginny Williams, and George R. Roberts. Additional support is provided by the Holenia Trust in Memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the Friends of Jim and Barbara Demetrion Endowment Fund, and the Hirshhorn’s Board of Trustees.

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See if you read this whole article

2009-01-05T07:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google

This is LIfe

2008-07-24T10:05:00.001-07:00

DSC_0242
Originally uploaded by ramonaquimby

My roommate brought home 40 lbs of live craw fish from Louisianan and stuck them in our tub for two days while the water was running to clean out their bowels. It was fun then it wasn't

Crazy Beautiful

2008-07-08T18:40:00.000-07:00

NY Library Of Congress on Flickr

2008-05-19T09:07:00.001-07:00

Sir Genille Cave Brown Cave (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

The Library thought maybe they should make information public. I think they just started this but there are some pictures from the 1910's, 40's, and 50's so far, you can do anything you want with them...but don't take my word for it. oooh i can't believe i just said that

2008-04-05T14:39:00.001-07:00

These kids are from the future

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I had three tables at work today

2008-03-26T13:17:00.001-07:00

I made $25 and a napkin. Worth it i guess he was maybe 4 years old

In the middle

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table
Originally uploaded by ramonaquimby

from my print for the LOL commandP BFF 4EVA PORTFOLIO. it's a table

>>>>>Opening Saturday March 29, 6-11 PM
Show Runs Through April 26
@ Plant Zero Art Center
0 East 4th Street
Studio 23

I am Graduating

2007-12-03T17:16:00.000-08:00

B F A

I had to make a book of my work and here it is. You can order a copy if you really want right here
or just look at it.

Sex and Freaks in the Olympic Village

2007-12-03T15:00:00.000-08:00

Scotsman.com
I should never have quit swimming...

Egypt what?

2007-12-03T14:43:00.000-08:00

I really want to do this

Petronious

2007-11-12T13:40:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on Louise Bourgeois

2007-11-01T10:27:00.000-07:00

I was given the article, "The Spider's Web" Louise Bourgeois and her Art by a teacher after a crit. In the article there is a quote from the artist on her personal psychological difficulties "Women are losers. They are beggars, in spite of women's lib." Much of her work is in protest of such a fate. Bourgeois was the last of three girls and named after her father as her mother felt guilty for not providing a boy for her husband. Louise (her father's name was Louis) felt, "I was suppose to make myself forgiven for being a girl". She was inturn her father's favorite and his spitting image.
I am the middle of three girls in my family. I too am my father's daughter. Growing up I demonstrated my father's athletic capabilities, physical appearance, sarcasm, and logical nature. I felt i needed to fill the spot of a son for my father.Although I am not bitter and take a certain pride in the matter I can certainly relate to Bourgeois's conflicts with identity. After all, Am I not a woman? It's a constant battle between logic and emotion, a sort of double-consciousness if you will...The struggle continues

2007-11-01T09:57:00.000-07:00

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Theory of the Dérive

2007-10-22T13:56:00.000-07:00

I'm just really into this right now
Derive

Patterns circa 1928

2007-10-22T13:50:00.000-07:00

Tate Modern
I have been wanting to do a book of woodcut prints that were entirely geometrical patterns maybe designed on a computer or inspired by computer imaging. Looks like someone beat me to it.

Virginia Fishesss

2007-10-22T13:43:00.000-07:00

So my Dad's birthday is comming up and I've been trying to find him a really awsome illustrtae book of the fish of virginia and I havn't been able to find one that meets all of my criteria so i had this really great idea...make it myself. The trouble is getting source images for the illustrations. I did find a nice categorized list on the dept. of game and inland fisheries
here . I will start posting the drawings as they come, maybe do some etchings

Click For Some Serious Cartwheel Action

2007-10-12T08:59:00.000-07:00

So yea, just click on the picture. Some quality was lost in translation, but hey it's my first gif ever and I would like to thank cindy for her extreme cartwheeling skills.

Size 8

2007-09-26T14:38:00.000-07:00

My complete shoe collection. I am currently doing a drawing dealing with my love hate relationship with shoes and you know just stuff in general.