Julie "Masking"

A lot of these of youtube. Is (s)he an artist?

Letter to Panera

10-29-2008


Dear Panera Bread,

My name is Michael Reynolds and for the past several years, I have been a loyal customer of your fine café restaurant. I have savored your French onion soup served in a sour dough bread bowl. I have enjoyed your soft furniture and softer music that lulls me into near hypnosis. I come for the food and I stay for the atmosphere. However, on this past Monday’s visit, everything changed.

As usual, I ordered a delicious soup filled bread loaf that was delivered to me with a speed and courtesy that rivals restaurants twice the price. As I sat in one of your soft, inviting booths, I laid my order out on the pristine tabletop and gazed at the art adorning the walls. That’s when I first saw it; a two dimensional statement that is so incendiary any citizen worth their fedora would take offense! I am unaware if you are familiar with the writings of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, but judging by the orientation of one of your paintings (see enclosed), I am sure you are more than aware and are taking a jab at traditional issues of representation! As a classicist, I will not return to your fine café until this wrong has been righted. Please let me know when this issue has been corrected so I may enjoy my bread bowls without being bombarded by representational politics, polemics, and the issues of painting in contemporary society.

Sincerely,


Michael Reynolds

Enclosed:


10-29-2008

UPDATE: As of November 9th, 2008... The painting is still upside down. :(

bad start to a bad day

Self portrait as a Guy Who Threw Up in a Parking Garage After Eating Apple Slices and a Women's One A Day Vitamin, 2008

hoodang

I like this drawing by Marlene McCarty... pencil and ball point pen on paper, 120 x 220 inches...

She did a series of drawings about Evangelicals and baptism... this one is from a story where this man asked his daughter to take a vow of celibacy... She met a boy online and broke the vow, and they ended up killing her parents to escape their oppressive religious beliefs... She seems to always render clothes see through-Nice N' Creepy!

mail thing

I'm sending a thing to Lucas Samaras:






(it kind of looks like a rice crispy treat)

ya'll know what time it is

Mike Reynolds... Painting Enthusiast?

Ive been copying my girlfriend's underwear in gouache on reeves paper... not sure what i'm gonna do with it yet, but...I cut out the first one and mounted it in a shadow box:




(the second one isn't finished yet)

Sexy!