"Paper is an organic material, almost like human skin," the artist Zarina Hashmi has said.
(Cotter) ★ Guggenheim Museum: 'Zarina: Paper Like Skin' (through April 21) "Paper is an organic material, almost like human skin," the artist Zarina Hashmi has said.
(Smith) ★ Guggenheim Museum: 'Zarina: Paper Like Skin' (through April 21) "Paper is an organic material, almost like human skin," the artist Zarina Hashmi has said.
(Roberta Smith) ★ Guggenheim Museum: 'Zarina: Paper Like Skin' (through April 21) "Paper is an organic material, almost like human skin," the artist Zarina Hashmi has said.
From x-rays of his cells to tiny sculptures made from his skin, the artist created self-portraits of his life as a young black man.
In a series called "What Lies Between Flesh and Blood" (2009), flat planes of color evoking the spiritual serenity of a Mark Rothko work reveal, in their detail, a mosaic of tiny images of wounds and discolored skin the artist has taken from pornographic Web sites.
Covered in a suit of e-skin, graffiti artists would have a new, ever-evolving canvas they can add to their portfolio.
Bash details Williams's move to New York, her prominence at Café Society, her passionate devotion to musical innovation and to the innovators themselves — and the trouble she faced due to her musical seriousness, her gender, and her dark skin (light-skinned black artists found a much easier time of gaining acceptance).
Perhaps Biro's father had lacked that divine spark of originality, or perhaps he had sacrificed it while inhabiting the skin of immortal artists.
He had the thin skin of the artist as well as the guilt that his Catholic upbringing had instilled in him.
