01 January 2024

Andy Warhol, 1928 – 1987

 They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

31 December 2023

now here (night objects)
30 December 2023
yucca valley, ca
© aryn kresol


28 October 2022

 


now here (color-coordinated kicks)
28 May 2022; 22 September 2022
new york, ny; sunnyside, ny
© aryn kresol

21 September 2020

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01 June 2018

upcoming curatorial project - 'west' opening at galerie kenilworth

West, featuring work by Ethan Rafal (San Francisco) and Max Cozzi (Milwaukee)
galerie Kenilworth is pleased to announce its fifth show, and first guest curator, West curated by aryn kresol. West looks at the work of two artists exploring the American West through photography. Each using distinct composition, technique, and presentation, Ethan Rafal and Max Cozzi use the medium of photography to navigate the features of the western scene.
Ethan Rafal is an artist based in San Francisco, California. His work examines the individual and collective experience of violence and the ways that subsequent representations of violence inform personal and national mythologies. West features photographs from his body of work entitled The Evening Pink. Exposed in the interior and Pacific West, the images comprising The Evening Pink explore timeless questions about the relationship between man, nature, and violence.
Max Cozzi is a fine-art and editorial photographer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated with his BFA in Photography in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His body of work, American Southwest, explores the American West as an unspoiled desert – intendedly implied to carry on endlessly beyond the image’s frame – contrasted with scenes of the man-altered landscape.
Through examining the work of Rafal and Cozzi, this exhibition highlights connections and distinctions between the cultural and natural landscape.
There will be an opening reception on Thursday, June 14 from 5–8 p.m.  Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. The artist, Max Cozzi, and curator, aryn kresol, will be in attendance.

31 December 2017

Top 5 of 2017

Top 5 movies of 2017
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Dunkirk (2017)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her & Him (2013)

Top 5 books of 2017
The Dead Ladies Project   Jessa Crispin
Native Son   Richard Wright
Haunted Rockford, Illinois   Kathi Kresol
Between the World and Me   Ta-Nehisi Coates
Zen Habits   Leo Babauta

Top 5 songs of 2017
Funnel of Love   Wanda Jackson
You and Me   Penny & The Quarters
QUICK   Tank and The Bangas
On the Nature of Daylight   Max Richter
Epilogue   Justin Hurwitz

Top 5 albums of 2017
Only Lovers Left Alive Soundtrack
Drive Soundtrack
I Love You Honeybear   Father John Misty
In Alpha Mood   Ami Shavit
Coming Home   Leon Bridges

Top 5 exhibitions of 2017
Ragnar Kjartansson: God, I Feel So Bad Reykjavík Art Museum
Do Ho Suh Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
How Posters Work Milwaukee Art Museum
Dinosaur World Eureka Springs, AR (it totally counts)
Ásmundur Sveinsson (museum & gardens) Reykjavík Art Museum

31 December 2016

Top 5 of 2016

Top 5 movies of 2016
Metropolis (1927)
One More Time with Feeling (2016)
The Revenant (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Rogue One (2016)


Top 5 books of 2016

The Diary of Anais Nin
Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances   Arne Glimcher
M Train   Patti Smith
Willem Sandberg: Portrait of an Artist   Ank Marcar, Willem Sandberg
Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler 


Top 5 songs of 2016
unfucktheworld   Angel Olsen
Skeleton Tree   Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Wild is the Wind   Nina Simone
Like the Moon   Future Islands
The Hills   The Weeknd
   

Top 5 albums of 2016
Skeleton Tree   Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Burn Your Fire For No Witness   Angel Olsen
Smile   Brian Wilson
Live at Town Hall   Nina Simone
Blackstar   David Bowie


Top 5 exhibitions of 2016
Agnes Martin   Guggenheim
Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s–90s   Denver Art Museum
Taking Center Stage  Milwaukee Art Museum
Highlights from the Collection: Design Into Art   Noguchi Museum
Haunted Screens   Milwaukee Art Museum

24 December 2016

untitled (rooftops)
24 december 2016
milwaukee wi 
© aryn kresol

05 December 2016



untitled (rooftops)
5 december 2016
milwaukee wi 
© aryn kresol




28 November 2016

postcards from new york

untitled (noguchi)
27 november 2016
queens ny 
© aryn kresol

untitled (they don't repeat)
28 november 2016
new york ny 
© aryn kresol

untitled (the last painting)
28 november 2016
new york ny 
© aryn kresol

19 November 2016

untitled (spider)
19 november 2016
milwaukee wi 
© aryn kresol

20 January 2016

Mark Twain, in a letter to Clara Spaulding, 20 August 1886

There isn't time -- so brief is life -- for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. there is only time for loving -- & but an instant, so to speak, for that.

10 January 2016

femTALK - upcoming group exhibition

FEMTALK TO HOST OPEN HOUSE, AN ASSEMBLY OF ARTIST WORK & PERFORMANCES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2016 FROM 10AM UNTIL 10PM

FemTalk invites you to attend a salon celebrating one year of ongoing dialogues and support surrounding the topic of feminism at Plum Dragon (1007 E Auer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53212) in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood. The open house format, referential to the domestic spaces in which the monthly dialogues occur, will run from 10 AM until 10 PM that day. This will be the first initiative from the group that will open to the public, and it will include installation, performance, two dimensional works, and more from women who have participated in FemTalk for over the past year. Plum Dragon is located a short walk from the 14, 15, and 60 bus lines in addition to residential street parking available within the neighborhood.

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FemTalk is an assembly of individuals who identify as females created out of a request for support from other female artists that associate with an art world primarily dominated by white males. The participants of FemTalk choose independent definitions of feminism that reflect their own lived experience, allowing for open-ended interpretation on how feminism is used as a lens for empathy and equality. Developed as an exploratory model for collaboration and critique, FemTalk has grown into a professional circle of women who meet monthly and discuss issues that arise from identifying as a woman in Milwaukee’s creative industries. It is a project that explores labor validation and production support, both individually and collectively within the group.
Salon participants include: Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Sara Daleiden, Ariana Huggett, Ashley Janke, Jenna Knapp, aryn kresol, Fatima Laster, Monica Miller, Martina Patterson, Tia Richardson, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Alice Waraxa, and Della Wells. Additional performances and collaborations will occur throughout the day.

Plum Dragon is a live-work space located in a Craftsman-style duplex in the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI.

31 December 2015

Top 5 of 2015

Top 5 movies of 2015
Geisha Boy (1958)
Interstellar (2014)
Frank (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Nightcrawler (2014)


Top 5 books of 2015

Where the Heart Beats   Kay Larson
Long Life Cool White   Moyra Davey
Ray Johnson: Correspondences   Donna De Salvo
From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit 1967 - 1980


Top 5 songs of 2015
Bad Girl   Lee Moses
Coming Home   Leon Bridges
Wild is the Wind   Cat Power (& by Nina Simone)
Better Times   Beach House
Love Soul   Majical Cloudz
   

Top 5 albums of 2015
Impersonator   Majical Cloudz
Gold Shadow   Asaf Avidan 
Sleep Talk   Shannon & The Clams
I Love You, Honeybear   Father John Misty
Savage Hills Ballroom   Youth Lagoon


Top 5 exhibitions of 2015

On Kawara-Silence   Guggenheim Museum, New York
David Bowie Is   Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Modern Rebels    Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Jean-Michele Basquiat: Notebooks   Brooklyn Museum, New York
Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool)   Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg


28 December 2015

Ellsworth Kelly, 1929 - 2015

I am nourished by the past, I am questioning the present, and I am stepping into the future.

13 November 2015

n o w h e r e - closing

Invited by Lynne Shumow, of the Haggerty Museum of Art, and Deirdre Dempsey, of the Department of Theology to speak to the Marquette University Honors class at my solo show on view now at 10th Street Gallery of In Tandem Theatre.

21 October 2015

now here (sultan, smith, and sarton), 21 october 2015, milwaukee wi, © aryn kresol

12 September 2015

n o w h e r e - upcoming exhibition

I am excited to announce that I have been invited by curator Luke Farley to  exhibit artwork at the 10th Street Gallery in Milwaukee.
I will be showing work from two concurrent series: n o w h e r e and she said, he said.
Opening view will be September 25 from 6-8:30p.
I hope to see you there.



29 August 2015

now here (parked), 29 august 2015, chicago il © aryn kresol

09 July 2015

hb dh

David Hockney with Bora Bora glasses by the artist Michael Childers, 1978

22 May 2015

4' 33"

David Tudor walks across the stage and sits down within the boundaryless universe. He crosses his legs (so to speak) and begins an interval of non-doing.
As the stopwatch ticks, he will perform "nothing."
In these four-plus minutes an opening occurs.
No expression of will or ego.
No walls between composer and performer.
No walls between the pianist and the people listening.
No dualistic divisions into "high" or "low," "good" or "not good."
No "art" versus "life."
No value judgments and no lack of value judgments.
No arising and no lack of arising.
No separation of any kind -- no walls at all -- and therefore perfect interpenetration.
No form and no lack of form, no emptiness and no absence of emptiness.
No sensation and no lack of sensation.
No music and yet the music of the world.

21 March 2015

untitled (note from ted, september before last)
21 march 2015
milwaukee wi 
© aryn kresol

24 February 2015

Postcards from Winnipeg

Dining room of the Fort Gary Hotel

Morning light

Street scene across from Winnipeg Art Gallery 


Madonna of Port Ligat awaiting return

Installation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Installation at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

23-24 february 2015
winnipeg mb canada
© aryn kresol

12 February 2015

untitled (I WANT TO REPRODUCE THE OBJECTS AS THEY ARE OR AS THEY WOULD BE EVEN IF I DID NOT EXIST)
12 february 2015
milwaukee wi 
© aryn kresol

25 January 2015

untitled (bird tracks in the snow)
25 january 2015
rockford il
© aryn kresol

05 January 2015

untitled (oriental at night)
5 january 2015

milwaukee wi
© aryn kresol

31 December 2014

Top 5 of 2014

Top 5 movies of 2014
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)
The Bad Seed (1956)
American Hustle (2013)

Top 5 books of 2014
Ian McEwan   Atonement
Keith Haring   Journals
Patti Smith   Just Kids
E.E. Cummings   100 Selected Poems
Tricycle Magazine (Quarterly)

Top 5 songs of 2014
Brian Eno   Baby's On Fire
Beach House   Myth
Arcade Fire   Wake Up
Future Islands   Tin Man
The Knife   NY Hotel

Top 5 albums of 2014
Yeah Yeah Yeahs   Mosquito
The Knife   The Knife
The Knife   Shaking the Habitual
Future Islands   In Evening Air
Keiko Matsuo and Her Ensamble   18th Century Traditional Music of Japan  

25 December 2014

Happy Christmas to all with love

Andy Warhol and his Christmas tree in the Factory, 1964, photographer unknown © AWF

16 December 2014

untitled (everything is great)
16 december 2014

milwaukee
© aryn kresol

09 November 2014

untitled (homage)
9 november 2014

milwaukee wi
© aryn kresol

16 October 2014

Postcards from Asheville

A view of Asheville 
Battlecat Coffee in West Asheville
Just arrived
Asheville, where they paint the telephone poles pink

Brand New

After the Asheville Art Museum
Studio visit with Julie Armbruster
The running man

Thinking of you, Just Kids

NC zines

12-15 october 2014
asheville nc
© aryn kresol

26 July 2014

lesson plans
26 july 2014

rockford il
© aryn kresol

13 June 2014

Keith Haring, Journals (November 12, 1978)

p22:  Drawing pictures in the snow is the most perfect example of my attempts to create a perfect form.  Inevitably the snow is in constant change: There is no way to control its permanency or its form.  Drawing in the snow is like trying to paint a picture that will record specific thoughts at a specific time.  You draw fast and you are always aware that you are creating something very temporary, very auto-destructive, very instant.  It goes quickly and there is not time to worry about it.  It is important for the experience, for the time it exists and the time it has occupied in a never-ending process of creation/construction and destruction.  A circle.  It is possible to reach the highest levels of instantaneous response recorded in spontaneous method and representative of purest through when you are working with the knowledge that the work you create is temporary, insignificant in a broader sense, significant in an immediate sense, a perfect representation of time passing, time existing.  Then you realize you are reacting instead of acting.  Responding instead of contriving.  Art instead of imitation.  Primal response.  Humanistic attempts at succeeding time.
This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it.  Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction (obliteration).

10 June 2014

untitled (postcards from maggie)
10 june 2014

milwaukee wi
© aryn kresol

03 March 2014

untitled (doc's diner)   
2 march 2014
rockford il
© aryn kresol

16 January 2014


 









































untitled (for maggie)  
8 august 2013
beacon ny

© aryn kresol

31 December 2013

Top 5 of 2013

Top 5 movies of 2013
Killing Them Softly (2012)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Tree of Life (2011)
The Great Gatsby 3D (2013)
Night of the Hunter (1955)

Top 5 books of 2013

Alan W. Watts   The Way of Zen
William Gass   On Being Blue
Roland Barthes   Camera Lucida
Plato   The Symposium  
S.E. Hinton   The Outsiders

Top 5 songs of 2013

The Head and the Heart   Rivers and Roads
Lou Reed   Walk on the Wild Side off Live: Take No Prisoners
Alva Noto   Garment 
Strings of Consciousness   Asphodel
Arcade Fire   Reflektor

Top 5 albums of 2013

The Head and the Heart   The Head and the Heart  
Olafur Arnalds   And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
The Knife   Shaking the Habitual
Glass Boy   подключение
Efterklang   Piramida 

17 October 2013

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (1964)

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did.  From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.  We can only quarrel with one or another means of defending and justifying art which becomes particularly obtuse or onerous or insensitive to contemporary needs and practice.

01 October 2013












































untitled (sunset in the hudson highlands) 
30 september 2013
cold spring ny

© aryn kresol

27 August 2013

untitled (metro-north, hudson line)  
27 august 2013
beacon ny

© aryn kresol