NSFW Snuggie Parody

Thanks, Matt

Zombie Zombie

Thanks, Rene.

Matt Lock...

i5zspf, originally uploaded by Straggler From Atlantis.

... is a great drawer. Click on his pic for drawings...

AUSTIN -- We Stopped Fighting for This?

AUSTIN -- We Stopped Fighting for This?, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present,

We Stopped Fighting for This?
Lauren Cardenas, Carling Hale & Alison Kuo

A collaborative installation for the new Domy Austin project space

On view from January 21st
Opening Reception on Saturday, February 7, 2009
Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7–9pm, FREE ADMISSION
Through March 14th

"Physicist Brian Greene provided an elaborate explanation of an egg falling off the edge of a countertop and splattering on the floor. His message is that we need to experience the unfolding of disorder in order to understand the process of the expansion of the universe."
– Cheryl Akner Koler on Form and Formlessness

We are three friends who until our recent graduation were together in the studio program at a small liberal arts university. The last year of our studies was spent in an intense, indirect kind of collaboration. We did not make art jointly, but we could sense that the products of our labors had been altered indelibly by the way we had taught one another to see and understand. Drawings became sculptures that rethought the relation of line to flatness. Ceramic sculptures grew from singular gestures into playscapes littered with moments of photographable detail. Photos started looking to each other for meaning, looking as well to those liminal spaces that we sometimes create and sometimes find are already part of our lives. Inspired by the artworld we were exploring together, we eased away from the material conventions of our respective disciplines. We knew it would make sense to collaborate on a single project; we didn't know what it would look like until we did it.

Now that we are separated by the necessary changes of post-graduate life we are even more sensitive to the factors that push and pull our friends and families all over the map. How we fight and on occasion fight one another to stay connected is prickly and warm, alternately an embrace and a sending out of fine tethers. The three of us can also be catty-ass bitches, in the most pleasant and unpleasant senses of the term. Our relief, our saving grace, is that we can stop fighting for this. Our installation is a gift of time and space to ourselves.

In Austin... coming to Houston soon-ish.

NAZI KNIFE #5

DEEPER, MORE CONCERNED, LESS REAL

with JONAS DELABORDE HENDRIK HEGRAY STEPHANE PRIGENT ROOPE ERONEN ANTOINE MARQUIS JAMIE McNEILL JOHN OLSON

CYRILLE LE VELY CF LEON SADLER ROBERT BEATTY RYAN RIEHLE DAVID DOUARD JULIEN CARREYN SPENCER CLARK LEIF GOLDBERG

ANDRES RAMIREZ BENJAMIN BERGMAN MAT BRINKMAN HEATH MOERLAND GARY BEAUVAIS DEAN SULLIVAN PAT MAHERR ANDY BOLUS

MEHDI HERCBERG YU MATSUOKA LUDOVIC BOULARD LE FUR MIKE DIANA ROMAIN PERROT JACQUES NOEL JEFF HARTFORD JAMES FERRARO

ALIVIA ZIVICH NATE YOUNG MAX EISENBERG EVA REVOX CARLOS GONZALES

Silence.

This website is interesting... really playful.

Trying to get these for the shop...

shapemaker 5, originally uploaded by millergoodman.com.

I love this. Click for more like it...

In stock at Domy Austin... and now online!

HTX/ATX - Ye Olde English Dunny - Jan 22

HTX/ATX - Ye Olde English Dunny - Jan 22, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

HOUSTON - Channeling - An invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits

HOUSTON - Channeling - An invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present,

channeling
an invocation of spectral bodies
and queer spirits

Sunday, January 25, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
8pm, FREE ADMISSION [But a hat will be passed for donations]

CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition (Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns on their own campy, poetic, sexual, humorous, and even utopian terms, using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.

Please visit channelingqueerspirits.wordpress.com for news, tour info, and more information about the artists and works included in the program.

RUNNING ORDER:

Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00, video)

Elliot Montague - Well Dressed
(2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)

Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video)

Michael Robinson - Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video)

EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) - Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video)

Aay Preston-Myint - Some Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video)

Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00, video)

John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990, 24:00, video)

Total Running Time: ~68 min.

HOUSTON - Prismattak

HOUSTON - Prismattak, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

PRISMATTAK
curated by Lisa Marie Godfrey

FEATURING
Brent Wadden, Renata Lucia, Rebecca Ward
plus Rene Cruz, Woody Golden, Stepan Agov and Lane Hagood

Opening Reception Saturday, January 31, 7–9pm
Through March 14, Back image by Woody Golden

PRISMATTAK is a show comprised of bright, psychedelic, and beautiful artwork I adore. If you were to fall asleep and wake up inside of a rainbow, this is what you may find... like some sort of prismatic attack! When speaking with one of the artists involved in the show, I jokingly told him to think about how it feels to take acid in the woods. I wanted to make him smile and laugh but to also try and channel a happy, slightly uncomfortable aesthetic.

I chose each artist for different reasons, one may be using bright colors, another intense patterning or space in an inspiring way. To me, these artists speak to a sort of nervous, static electricity in the air right now. I think with this artwork it's possible to fight back... against who or what? I'm not sure, but one thing is certain, it's always best to make up your own words.

Berlin-based Canadian, Brent Wadden, images create intense, hypnotic visions, working with acrylic, enamel, pen, marker and collage. He has shown in many cities including London, Paris and Berlin.

Houstonian Renata Jones' new works transform crumpled paper into psychedelic, topographical landscapes.

Austinite Rebecca Ward will be creating a site specific installation, sure to transcend you.

Other artists participating in the show are Rene Cruz, Woody Golden, Stepan Agov, and Lane Hagood,

*a limited edition of tie-dyed shirts by Lisa Marie Godfrey will be available at the opening.

Stepan Agov http://www.flickr.com/photos/agov/
Brent Wadden http://brent.iputthedotinthe.com/
Renate Lucia http://www.renatejones.com
Rebecca Ward http://rebeccasward.com/
Lane Hagood http://www.flickr.com/photos/yar/
Woody Golden http://www.flickr.com/photos/papawoody
Rene Cruz http://www.flickr.com/people/cyclops/

AUSTIN - Nicole Eriko Smith

AUSTIN - Nicole Eriko Smith, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books is pleased to present,

Consent to Play
new work by Nicole Eriko Smith

Saturday, February 7, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7–9pm, FREE ADMISSION

“The overall tone of this series of drawings is intended to be both provocative and playful. Some of the themes I am currently exploring in my work include eroticism, violence and consent, incest, familial alliances, antagonism, affection and threesomes.

The three main characters in these drawings live and play within a space somewhere between public spectacle and private ritual. The imagery is informed by an upbringing that includes celebrations and rituals from both southern Louisiana and mainland Japan; it is also informed by an interest in the aesthetics of kink and fetishism, as well as the dynamics of power and consent. Elements of these celebrations and rituals as well as the theatricality of fetishism manifest themselves in my drawing by way of hybrid forms, body postures, accessories and relationships. I am interested in exploring vocabularies of touch and gesture, and the logic of anatomy and body posture; conversely, I am interested in how that logic is subverted when viewed through certain filters (i.e., celebration, ritual and dom/sub play).” – N.E. Smith

Nicole Eriko Smith is a visual artist working primarily with drawing and installation. Her work is character driven, and manifests itself in the rendition of interactions between characters whose bases rest in mythology, kink and the natural world. Smith's work has been heavily influenced by her interest in Mardi Gras, animated films from the 80’s, Japanese ghost stories and shibari techniques, poultry exhibitions and BDSM porn.

She has exhibited predominantly with galleries in Texas and the Pacific Northwest, including the Blaffer Gallery, Gallery 214 and Worksound. Her work has also appeared at the Commerce Street Artist's Warehouse (CSAW) and the Portland Art Center (PAC). Besides exhibiting, Smith is also involved in making artist’s books.

Smith received her BFA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX and is currently in her fourth semester of graduate work at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR.

This is why I love Patrick Phipps.

granol-indenburg, originally uploaded by trickhips.

... you should too. TRICK HIPS

LMG's current faves in the Houston store...

RON REGE JR. // AGAINST PAIN
{amazing}


Robin Schwartz: Amelia's World
{I am so jealous of Robin Schwartz's daughter getting to hang out with all these great animals!! lovely.}


The Order from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3.
{I wish this was the whole movie... but this is a pretty good example of his infatuation with masonic weirdness, the guggenheim and vaseline}


Treeson!
{of course}