tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post2049082656514916445..comments2023-12-25T05:14:54.292-05:00Comments on This is an archive. Click <a href=http://olysmusings.blogspot.com>HERE</a> for the new site.: Is there room at the inn for Kara Walker?Olyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03050655657910944678noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-77626063957506619462008-04-05T15:39:00.000-04:002008-04-05T15:39:00.000-04:00I often wonder where we, as a society, are accompl...I often wonder where we, as a society, are accomplishing by paying attention to this culturally constructed concept of "race". I feel that this concentration on "racial inequality" is a mere facade to hide the issue of economic inequalities. Art concerning racial concepts is definitely important, but how many times are inequalities derived from one source?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-5954540520728065692007-11-25T20:48:00.000-05:002007-11-25T20:48:00.000-05:00olympia, you have touched on a theme that also rai...olympia, you have touched on a theme that also raises my blood pressure, but for me, not so much the art or corporate world, but the political realm in the moment as I walked down 7th Avenue this evening, where the Kucinich people begged for signatures to get him on the ballot. A registered Dem. lady said he didn't "need" to be on the ballot, because he didn't "fit" the N.Y. dem. agenda, you see, so she wouldn't deign to donate her signature, signifying the political "glitterati" decide then who are worthy of consideration and what their role should be in order to qualify. This is life in the real America, not the ideal America. Keep your ideals, even when it means lambasting the glitterati and running the risk of offending those who can ruin you with their self appointed power!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-42626526625177095302007-11-20T19:07:00.000-05:002007-11-20T19:07:00.000-05:00good post,far better than ,for example "Anonymous ...good post,far better than ,for example "Anonymous female artist"general rantings-you will go far.arebourshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06129183347516811016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-87449351650161276702007-11-09T21:53:00.000-05:002007-11-09T21:53:00.000-05:00I think he fits into the "great sculptor" category...I think he fits into the "great sculptor" category where race doesn't even play into it.<BR/><BR/>And this is exactly what I'm talking about in this piece.<BR/><BR/>But he's the exception to the rule, by far.Olyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050655657910944678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-66563881347290240272007-11-08T22:03:00.000-05:002007-11-08T22:03:00.000-05:00Curious to see where you think Martin Puryear fits...Curious to see where you think Martin Puryear fits into all this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-18327891777772604922007-11-07T23:45:00.000-05:002007-11-07T23:45:00.000-05:00Nicely said, Oly. That sort of backhanded racism i...Nicely said, Oly. That sort of backhanded racism is evident all over the arts, echoing like a ping pong ball. <BR/><BR/>To me it betrays the common fear running through the art world: fear of not having perfect taste, the insecurity of needing art to "signify" rather than "just be." People are so culturally scrambled they cling to any evidence of a rooted common heritage--itself an empty signifier for genuine human warmth and connection. <BR/><BR/>When there's a level playing field, one can't judge anyone on anything except individual merit... if you secretly don't think you've got merit, that's a damn scary idea. Prejudice, dogma and cliche become like comfortable chains keeping you safe and weighed down through the hurricane of aesthetically attuned perception.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-65974995823070291492007-11-06T20:00:00.000-05:002007-11-06T20:00:00.000-05:00Hi, Christiane.Thanks so much back for your commen...Hi, Christiane.<BR/>Thanks so much back for your comment.<BR/><BR/>I certainly do know several "artists of color" (how sad that I even have to refer to it as that)-- but in each of their cases, yes, they have either had an extremely difficult time "proving themselves" and their work; or yes, they do indeed "fit the mold" of what the art world is "looking for."<BR/><BR/>I.E., their work focuses on issues of "identity," etc..<BR/><BR/>I personally am starting my own Piece De Resistance on "How to succeed as a half-Venezuelan/half white chick art blogger", but I'm not sure how it will sell.<BR/><BR/>So instead, I just keep typing and say what I feel.<BR/>:)<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good fight, chickadee.<BR/><BR/>OlyOlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050655657910944678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7927882277741101113.post-84698483957346003102007-11-06T19:25:00.000-05:002007-11-06T19:25:00.000-05:00Thank you for eloquently and poignantly outlining ...Thank you for eloquently and poignantly outlining my daily frustrations, as an artist of color, as they say. <BR/>My situation further complicated by the sheer fact of being multi-ethnic.<BR/><BR/>In the "white" circles of art, there is sheer confusion as to why I'm not, as you so well put it "crank(ing) out pieces that address what the Caucasian-dominated art glitteratti feels a "black artist" SHOULD be concentrating on". <BR/><BR/>Same goes for the "black" circles of art, for I don't seem to be dark enough to experience and express the discrimination I see and feel.<BR/><BR/>Hence, as an artist, who deals in the social-political, the psychological, the dream states, I am relegated to a limbo, not of my making, watching the art world pretend that it isn't as racist as it's corporate counterparts.<BR/>What a Ha!Christiane Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975668537430627076noreply@blogger.com