{"id":916,"date":"2009-08-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/artists_dissatisfied_with_the\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:00:00","slug":"artists_dissatisfied_with_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/artists_dissatisfied_with_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Artists dissatisfied with the slow pace of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Lee<\/a> looks back and forward, on a continuum. <\/p>\n

\"danielleeevolve.jpg\"<\/span>Nancy Burson<\/a> began making composites in the early 1980s. (Thanks, Jen)<\/p>\n

\"nancybursoncompos.jpg\"<\/span>The rise of Photoshop made the mix and match of features between individuals and species easy. Anonymous designers at Converse do this sort of thing as well as anybody. (Design Boom<\/a> via This Isn’t Happiness<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"conversemutate.jpg\"<\/span>Painters tend to be less slick. <\/p>\n

Troy Gua<\/a>, The Boy King of Pop<\/i> (Tut and Michael Jackson) <\/p>\n

\"troyguamjackson.jpg\"<\/span>Deborah Oropallo<\/a> blurs male\/female, vintage and now.<\/p>\n

\"deborahoropallo.jpg\"<\/span>Eric Yahnker<\/a> updates Cubism with a shaggy dog story.<\/p>\n

\"ericyahnkerdog.jpg\"<\/span>Alice Tippit<\/a>‘s animals look good coming and going.<\/p>\n

\"alicetippithorse.jpg\"<\/span>Yeni Mao<\/a> prefers an electronic look:<\/p>\n

\"yenimaohorse.jpg\"<\/span>Dawn Cerny<\/a>‘s portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln shows her youth under her old age.<\/p>\n

\"dawncernymslincoln.jpg\"<\/span>I love Sharon Shapiro<\/a>‘s collages, and not because they’re perfect. Like her subjects, they are rough drafts, with the tattered edges of their dreams showing.<\/p>\n

Weasel boy\/girl can’t wait to grow up, to lose oddball status in the anonymity of adulthood.<\/p>\n

\"sshapriomutate.jpg\"<\/span>If food grew on the ceiling….(Carsten Holler<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Science fiction imagines hybrid animals we can send to war in our stead. Bryon King<\/a>‘s version pops that bubble. Titled Trophy Soldiers<\/i>, his series of deer-head drawings is a memorial to the fallen. Even when his figures are holding rifles, they’re the target.
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Daniel Lee looks back and forward, on a continuum. Nancy Burson began making composites in the early 1980s. (Thanks, Jen) The rise of Photoshop made the mix and match of features between individuals and species easy. Anonymous designers at Converse do this sort of thing as well as anybody. (Design Boom via This Isn’t Happiness.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}