flommist laurie rosenwald in nyc, ends may 9

Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of cre­atives that set­tle into their own lit­tle niche. Artists and de­sign­ers who be­come one-trick-ponies.

When, Las­z­lo Mo­holy-Nagy showed up in my his­to­ry class and said any artist who sticks to one medi­um ‘should not be tak­en se­ri­ous­ly’ it res­onat­ed. It’s also why I teach de­sign ba­sics, cause a good han­dle on the build­ing blocks and one can do al­most any­thing vi­su­al­ly. Can com­mu­ni­cate, evoke, be dan­ger­ous.

I’m not sure where I first ran across Lau­rie’s work.

I’d tie it into the so­cial mael­strom and my per­chance for dig­ging thru im­ages, or­ga­niz­ing things on blogs (such as this and this) and my eye for works that have some­thing to do with the ear­ly mod­erns. In her case, I saw her jump­ing around medi­ums – and in her paint­ed works, I see threads to H.N. Werk­man, Fer­nand Léger, Willem Sand­berg, Stu­art Davis.

And BOLD­LY mov­ing forward.
With colour and ty­pog­ra­phy and goopy, goopy PAINT.

Lau­rie is also not young, which some­how Amer­i­can so­ci­ety re­lates this to the con­cept of be­ing ‘done.’ Pro­fes­sion­al­ly, I’ve been danc­ing around the all-too-real AGEISM ism for a bunch of years now – been told many times in the past decade that I’m ‘too old to be do­ing what i’m do­ing.’

Well, I’m call­ing bullshit. 

To­day, I am push­ing my own work in di­rec­tions I nev­er thought I could do – scary tho thrilling that this is – with the con­cept of be­ing com­fort­able or com­pla­cent be­ing the killjoy of What I Could Pos­si­bly Be Ca­pa­ble Of. 

I see the SAME THING in Lau­rie’s work – and I be­lieve this is the se­cret to Not Re­al­ly Ag­ing.

It’s not plas­tic surgery, it’s a life ap­proach – syncs with the FLOMM man­i­festo – and ro­ta­tions of the earth should NOT de­ter­mine our val­ue as hu­mans … an­oth­er blog post on that, an­oth­er time.

Lau­rie’s OPEN­ING is to­mor­row night. And if you miss that one, there’s an­oth­er OPEN­ING the day af­ter to­mor­row night …
 
 

“I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT I WANT TO EAT IT!”

wax paint­ings by lau­rie rosenwald
cu­rat­ed by john cheim

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at
Para­sol Projects
171 Eliz­a­beth Street New York City
Open 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily

artists re­cep­tions
Fri­day + Saturday
6 + 7 May 2016
6–8 p.m.

Show runs thru May 9

 

 

 

 
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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