![]() Two sculptures and three videos by Christian Marclay, who lives and works in London and New York, areĪlso inspired by records and music. Japanese artist Taiyo Kimura’s five-minute video, Haunted by You, features scenes of the artist and record players. Afro-Peruvian artist William Cordova created a work on paper and also a column of 3,000 reclaimed vinyl records, entitled Greatest Hits (para Micaela Bastidas, Tom Wilson y Anna Mae Aquash). In the months leading up to The Record, and as the exhibition traveled around the country, the Nasher Museum acquired works by artists in the show. The exhibition included a broad range of works, such as a hybrid violin and record player, Viophonograph, a seminal work by Laurie Anderson David Byrne’s original life-sized Polaroid photomontage used for the cover of the 1978 Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food a monumental column of vinyl records by Cordova and an important early work by Robleto, who transformed Billie Holiday records in an alchemic process to create hand-painted buttons. Works by Christian Marclay, who has made art with records for 30 years, included his early and rarely seen Recycled Records as well as his most recent record video, Looking for Love. ![]() The artists in the exhibition use the vinyl record as metaphor, archive, artifact, icon, portrait or transcendent medium. The Record presented some of the best, rarest and most unexpected examples. Since the heyday of vinyl, and through its decline and recent resurgence, a surprising number of artists have worked with vinyl records, Schoonmaker pointed out. The Record opened at the Nasher Museum and traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Miami Art Museum, now the Perez Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum, organized the exhibition. museum for the first time (Kevin Ei-ichi deForest, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Taiyo Kimura, Lyota Yagi). ![]() The exhibition featured work by 41 artists, including rising stars in the contemporary art world (William Cordova, Robin Rhode, Dario Robleto), outsider artists (Mingering Mike), well-established artists (Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Carrie Mae Weems) and artists whose work was shown in a U.S. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combined contemporary art with outsider art, audio with visual and fine art with popular culture. Bringing together artists from around the world who work with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examined the record’s transformative power from the 1960s to the present. So unless you have time and patience, this DIY project may not be for you.The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl was the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. It’s like, try and get that mosquito out.” Frederick says each resin process takes a full day to set in. Think of Jurassic Park with the mosquito inside. “Air bubbles seep through into the plastic. “The most difficult part of my new process is definitely the resin,” Greg said. Now, with his latest collection, he’s upping the ante on the nostalgia and incorporating cassette tapes as the canvas the vinyl pieces will rest upon. He only uses discarded, unplayable vinyl records he gets from record stores and on eBay. “So, she owns one of my pieces.”įrederick’s art is truly DIY to the core. “Someone commissioned me for a gift for Stevie Nicks,” Frederick said. He’s been commissioned to make portraits for some of the biggest artists in the world. Greg has since made vinyl portraits in various sizes of a host of stars, including Sade, Erykah Badu, Michael Jackson, and Mick Jagger, to name just a few. He initially tried arranging pieces of vinyl on already made photographs before deciding it would be cooler to make portraits with just the vinyl. “One day I thought ‘what if I got rid of the photo?’ That’s pretty much how Vinyl Pop Art started.” “One day walking around Brooklyn, I found a box of chipped 45s, took them home, started playing with those, and adding to it,” Frederick said. “Someone commissioned me for a gift for Stevie Nicks, so she owns one of my pieces.”
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