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Very interesting work from the artist Vadis Turner. Turner is having an opening exhibit April 7th in New York City.

Exhibition will be held at Lyons Wier Gallery

New York,  April 7 - May 7, 2011

For more info about this show, check out

Lyons Wier Gallery

Ms. Turner’s work is an intersection where color theory, abstraction, assemblag and feminism meet head on. The artist’s innate color sensibilities and energy pay homage to the New York School of Abstract Expressionist and Action painters like Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, by employing broad strokes of color. Through Ms. Turner’s exquisite and unique use of materials such as ribbon, clothing, antique quilts, lace and yarn, the artist continues to explore and exploit traditional “feminine” materials and creates a contemporary dialogue as found in the works of artists such as Petah Coyne and Shinique Smith.

Turner states, “During the creation of my marital Dowry and Reception (Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art), I became interested in the aesthetic bridges between diverse rites of passage. Elaborate ceremonies honor, idealize and purify the subject as they transition from one life chapter to the next. The subject simultaneously embodies a climax and demise. A new identity is conceived. An old identity dies. In this body of work, elements of ceremonial adornment are partnered with various processes of decay. Satin ribbons and flowers are fixed in a stilled state of destruction and removal inspired by fire or mold. Through consumption and repurposing, each process re-imagines the beauty and energy of change and loss.”

Ripe Dirt/Fresh Burial 2011, Ribbon, clothing, antique quilts, mixed media, 60 x 60 in / 152.4 x 152.4 cm

Want to live in Paris?

RARE PABLO PICASSO

INTERVIEW 1966

-RTBF: you really like the word love, Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso: Yes, even the girl who interviewed me for I do not know what newspaper, I told her: "Ah, you know, for me, only love counts, is not it ?

-RTBF: you like people?

-P.P. : Everyone, I loved passionately, and I even think I would like a door knob, a chamber pot, whatever.

RTBF-: do you like TV?

-P.P. : I have it. I started a day because there was the wedding of Princess Margaret. Someone loaned me a TV and I saw the parade of the princess. And I kept the television and I continued to watch.

-RTBF: what would be great when you were on camera, this would leave you alone release. You would be so capable of doing great things for viewers and you would invent news things for them?

-P.P. probably. Sometimes I find wonderful things on TV, very nice things I like and that interest me. But sometimes it's terrible things. I say this because we are both here alone. Ah, this is not true, because everybody listens!

-RTFB: If you had to choose yourself the time, the paint, the canvas which should you survive, what is this painting, that period?

-P.P. I do not know. It's difficult. Done so with the intentions of the moment, the time and the state in which everyone and myself we are. It's difficult. At the time of Guernica, Guernica I did because it was a great disaster, even the beginning of many others that we followed. But finally, it is. It's personal. Basically, these are the memories that everyone writes.

extrait de l'unique interview de Pablo Picasso en 1966. Tiré du film de Pierre-André Boutang: "Treize journées dans la vie de Picasso"