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Miles of Slime and Smiles by Joe Grillo

Edited by Ben Furgal, with a foreword by Jim Drain Published by Neoglyphic Media

Joe Grillo is a force of nature unleashed on the page! This collection captures an iconic body of Grillo’s work, assembling drawings used to make his contributions to the legendary Paper Rodeo newspaper. Presented here as a facsimile of the original sketchbook, alongside all of the full-page collages that appeared in Paper Rodeo. "Miles of Slime and Smiles" is the largest body of the artist’s work to be published; a snapshot of Grillo catching a wave, released on the 20th anniversary of its creation.

124 pages, full color j-press printed, perfect bound with foil stamped cover, 8.25" x 10.5", edition of 500 copies 📚

$30

ZZ, Jim Drain, 2003, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift Size: 21 x 28 1/2" (53.3 x 72.4 cm) Medium: Felt-tip pen and synthetic polymer paint on cut-and-pasted paper

Artists Using Crochet

Try to think of crochet outside of any preconceived ideas you might have about it. Crocheting is a just another way of constructing fiber and fiber-like materials into a structure that can be manipulated to serve your art production.

Here are some examples of contemporary artists using fiber in their work....

Images from top:

large scale crochet installation by Ernesto Neto

Jim Drain “drifter” a sculpture from 2018

Congratulations & Celebrations project by Ellen Lesperance, worn here by Jennifer Kabat

sculpture by Josh Faught

public art project by Orly Genger called Hurly Burly from 2016

yarn bombing Los Angeles 2013 project “CAFAM Granny Squared”

Welcome to Fiber Sculpture!

This blog explores textiles to supplement the content I cover in the fiber class I teach each semester at CSULB. This Fall we will explore a variety of off-loom textile structures within a contemporary sculpture context. We will examine and research these techniques from a contemporary art perspective, in hopes of finding ways that these ideas, materials, processes, and techniques can serve to enhance your own developing art practice.

Check this blog regularly for links to important course information, tutorials and supplemental material to enhance our lectures, homework assignments and other class updates, and more as we explore the world of fiber sculpture.

Images from top:

Jim Drain, exhibition view of 2007 show “I would gnaw on my hand”. I’m looking forward to seeing a new exhibition of Drain’s work coming up on September 10th at the Pit II, here in Los Angeles.

Carmen Argote, “Place On-Fold” installation view, showing at the Orange County Museum of Art this past summer.

A Nari Ward project made with shoelaces from 2011.

Recent work by Isabel Yellin. If you like this, check out her work in person this coming September 9th through October 7th at Night Gallery in LA.

Josh Faught, Legs, 2013.

Sculptures made with pipecleaners by Don Porcella  You can see his work until September 2nd in a group show in LA called Trapper Keeper.