Joseph Cornell

There, there are a lot of pieces I think a lot about.

Um, I think broadly think a lot about the work of, um, Joseph Cornell, Betye Saar, um, Renee Stout, these sort of found object, um, installations, um, because they're... again, they're little treasures.

They're little portals into something inside of them.

Um, but then another piece that comes to mind, um, more specifically is Mona Hatoum's, uh, Hair Necklace.

Yeah.

And the funniest was Anita Sarko was in a giant rocking chair that Frank Siciliano had made, and she played God.

Oh, that's...

that's terrifying and fabulous and pretty on point too

You know, I think once something gets replicated over and over again, it loses some of its heart, even though you can still see ideas and fashion of the things that we were doing, but I don't feel that the, that the essence of it is, is there.

An article came out on Artnet that talked about art and how so much of the work out there now references work before, but without any provenance, without any understanding of where it's come from.

And they showed in the photograph going with it, it looked like a giant Joseph Cornell.

I don't think the person had any idea who Joseph Cornell was.

They come in different sizes and The one that I saw in person was at the Rijksmuseum outside in their sculpture park, which is really, really cool.

She was a sculptor, but she was also a very prolific painter and printmaker.

A lot of the bourgeois that's in museum collections today tend to be prints.

Museums collect works on paper most frequently because they are usually cheaper.

Um, she was really into this, this making art.

Um, So in her early work, she kind of collected racist imagery, which she continued to do throughout her career.

She was inspired to create these works by a 1967 exhibition by the found object sculptor Joseph Cornell.

I got a lot of things to talk about Joseph Cornell.

You see that a lot in the photographs, and I sense that she uses humor a lot to relax people in the studio to get a really good portrait.

I mean, there's a famous one of an artist, experimental artist, Joseph Cornell.

Yeah.

He makes those beautiful boxes.