{"id":808,"date":"2009-02-21T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2009\/02\/21\/megan-whitmarshthe-fucking-crap-of-life\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:07:00","slug":"megan-whitmarshthe-fucking-crap-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2009\/02\/21\/megan-whitmarshthe-fucking-crap-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"~MEGAN WHITMARSH\/the fucking crap of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"megan<\/p>\n

OPENING TODAY – SAT – FEB 21 – in LA !! – 7-10 PM !!<\/p>\n

MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE ‘ – also: C.F. and MATT FURIE
\nWITH OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE BY DOLPHIN FORCE
\nthe show runs: FEB 21 – MARCH 21, 2009
\nNEW IMAGE ART<\/a> – 7908 SANTA MONICA BLVD – LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
\nHRS: WED-SAT 1-6 PM OR BY APPT.<\/p>\n

\"Megan
\nARTWORK BY MEGAN WHITMARSH\/COURTESY: NEW IMAGE ART<\/p>\n

MEGAN’S ARTIST’S STATEMENT – FOR THE SHOW – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’ – IS WORTH READING !!<\/p>\n

“I am a child of the 70s whose sense of futurism is informed by Star Wars [fucked-up dusty robots] instead of Tomorrow Land. A future with entropy and drug use and weeds growing in the cracks between the scratched plexiglas windows of the geodesic domes. Bits of yarn and dusty houseplants. If this sounds bleak, I don’t mean for it to. perhaps the healthiest land of futurism is one that admits entropy and flux. Perfection is suspicious, worn and dusty can mean well-loved too. Who loves the Stepford Wife?<\/p>\n

“The visual noise of my youth wasn’t only Reagan and the Day After; it also contained optimism and complexity: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Mork & Mindy, The Muppets, and punk rock.<\/p>\n

“When I make a giant mountain of handmade trash I am lost in the fun of making, and feel like a kid building a fort. In the end I must resign myself to the fact that I have just added more crap to the world, but this seems an inevitable art of being an artist and a human. I try to remain optimistic. I like art that is generous in spirit and amateurish, art that inspires rather than intimidates. <\/p>\n

“I consider art a practice of transformation. We cannot expect to make new energy; instead we must reinvent, recycle, and transform what exists already. Making art is my attempt to synthesize my optimistic vision of the future with my pragmatic appraisal of the world I inhabit.”<\/p>\n

MEGAN WHITMARSH received her MFA from the University of New Orleans.<\/p>\n

check out her newly designed website: MEGAN WHITMARSH !!<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"Megan<\/a><\/p>\n

LUCKILY, MEGAN RECENTLY SENT US SOME JPEGS OF SOME OF HER NEW WORK !! – TO BE INCLUDED IN – THE NEW IMAGE ART – MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’ – SHOW !!<\/p>\n

\"new
\nMEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘GIANT LUMP’ – 65 x 55 in. embroidery and fabric<\/p>\n

\"new
\nMEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’ – 40 x 30 in. on paper.<\/p>\n

\"new
\ndetail, MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’.<\/p>\n

\"new
\nMEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘COLORWORK’ – 40 x 30 in. also on paper<\/p>\n

\"new
\ndetail, MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘COLOR WORK’.<\/p>\n

also with work in the show:<\/p>\n

\"CF\"<\/p>\n

\"CF<\/p>\n

CF aka CHRISTOPHER FORGUES !!
\n“Born in 1979 in Fitchburg MA, and currently living in Providence, Rhode Island, Chris is also known as CF – a comic book maker, musician and artist. He performs his music under the name Kites, and has numerous self-released tapes, as well as recordings on Load Records.
\nHe plays hand made electronics, originally simple oscillators that have now advanced with his skill as an instrument builder into more complicated synthesizers. Both his visual and aural art has been influential among a growing underground of contemporary American art and music that could and maybe should be called “noise”. he helped to release the free comic Paper Rodeo<\/em>, and has just published the first book of a trilogy titled: ‘Power Masters’ with PICTURE BOX, INC.
\nCF received his MFA at Massachusetts College of Art.” (gallery website)<\/p>\n

check out: LOAD RECORDS !!<\/a>
\n
\n\"load<\/a><\/p>\n

and, MATT FURIE has work in the show, too.<\/p>\n

\"Matt<\/p>\n

\"Matt<\/p>\n

MATT FURIE: “was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1979. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He currently lives in San Francisco. Matt Furie’s drawings come form a mix of child-like enchantment and momentary adult situations. His self-proclaimed “…children’s book illustrations for adults’ combines traditional and modern mark-making for his ripe, cartoon-inspired characters. last year he was awarded best Visual Artist by the SF Guardian in the 20th annual Goldie awards. … His art has appeared in numerous magazines including juxtapoz, vice, the believer, the oxford american journal, and swindle.” (gallery website)<\/p>\n

\"dolphinforce\"<\/p>\n

and, DOLPHIN FORCE will perform at the opening.
\ncheck out: DOLPHIN FORCE\/MySpace<\/a><\/p>\n

wow – so MEGAN has promised to send us – some more pix !! STAY TUNED !!<\/p>\n

\"new<\/a><\/p>\n

UP-DATE: SUNDAY MARCH 1, 2009 – MEGAN SENT US SOME PIX !! FROM THE SHOW !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Megan
\nMEGAN WHITMARSH – WITH HER ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’ PILE – ‘FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’, RIGHT ON !!<\/p>\n

\"Megan
\nMEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘TRASH MOUNTAIN’.<\/p>\n

\"Megan<\/p>\n

\"Megan<\/p>\n

\"Megan a large wall piece by MATT FURIE !!
\nCOL. SAUNDERS – eat your heart out !!<\/p>\n

\"Megan<\/p>\n

\"megan
\ninstallation shot: MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE’ with CF and MATT FURIE.<\/p>\n

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY: MEGAN WHITMARSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OPENING TODAY – SAT – FEB 21 – in LA !! – 7-10 PM !! MEGAN WHITMARSH – ‘THE FUCKING CRAP OF LIFE ‘ – also: C.F. and MATT FURIE WITH OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE BY DOLPHIN FORCE the show runs: FEB 21 – MARCH 21, 2009 NEW IMAGE ART – 7908 SANTA MONICA BLVD – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}