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Post by Teddy at PopDrawer.com on Jun 19, 2008 20:06:41 GMT -8
If you're a Gary Baseman fan, we had fun doing an interview with Gary for our website that might interest you. Would love your feedback. Cheers! Teddy www.PopDrawer.com |
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Post by sybilm on Jun 19, 2008 23:35:37 GMT -8
Great Interview...Im a huge baseman fan! cant wait to see the new stuff..
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Post by Teddy at PopDrawer.com on Jun 21, 2008 6:28:47 GMT -8
Thanks! We're working on some other cool interviews for the next few weeks. I got to see a lot the paintings for the Barcelona show. It's wonderful stuff. We'll post more right before the show.
Teddy
www. PopDrawer.com
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 4, 2009 16:38:31 GMT -8
Posted up a candid interview with Baseman about his show in Israel. I never realized he was Jewish. Interesting body of work this time.  Arrested Motion (AM): Can you tell us a little about this show and the symbolism you are using in this body of work? Gary Baseman (GB): My exhibition is titled “Sacrificing of the Cake,” but the art is not about cake. Not literally. Not quite. Cake is sweet, but my exhibition is bittersweet, just like life. It’s about slaying the dragons of the past, so one can live a fulfilling life now and in the future. I named the dragon, “Ooga,” which is Hebrew for Cake. My mom tells me when I was in Israel at age 4, I kept saying “ooga, ooga, ooga.” And I have strong memories of these Holocaust Survivors in Israel seeing me as this “golden child” holding me in their arms, and feeding me cake and telling me I am the future, and creating this new world for me. Growing up in my middle-class life in Hollywood, I was happy to accept the beliefs of my parents who are Eastern European Holocaust survivors. Their beliefs provided me with a good foundation for living. But as an adult, those beliefs transformed into dragons and changed my innocent, safe reality into one crowded with dragons that began to strangle, choke, and suffocate me, keeping me from living a happy self-fulfilling life. This exhibition is about my slaying of the dragon, which I named “Ooga.” This dragon was the protector of my parents and their generation but the imprisoner of me, who has kept me from my own personal destiny and growth. I acknowledge now that I need to become my own liberator. I need to forge my own path of “good” and fulfillment, even if my “good” is imperfect and bittersweet, mixed with the pure and the impure, right and wrong, vulnerability The rest of the interview here for those interested. |
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 22, 2009 11:46:12 GMT -8
 A nice image available as a print to display with your hot cha cha figures. |
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 17, 2009 10:58:09 GMT -8
  Gary sent some images of him and Toby in Israel LOL. Here are some with Jerusalem meats. More pics and videos of their adventures here. |
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Post by sabotage on Apr 20, 2009 23:51:55 GMT -8
Did anyone get the Baseman Coachella shirt this weekend? By the time I saw it and went to the merch tent it was sold out. Anyone have a picture of the image at least, I haven't been able to find it.
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 27, 2009 7:05:28 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 5, 2009 8:58:03 GMT -8
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Post by COOPER COLE on Oct 7, 2009 11:38:50 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 11, 2010 10:12:46 GMT -8
Here is drawing of Jonathan LeVine.  |
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Post by richardtharbaugh on Feb 11, 2010 12:20:43 GMT -8
Why do his digits all look like thingyes? Speaking of Baseman, He's had a show up in Brazil for a couple weeks: www.choquecultural.com.br/?area=bio&aid=52Looks like if you move fast, you can still get 'first pick' |
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 22, 2010 21:11:36 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Jul 3, 2010 5:44:10 GMT -8
He did a poster for Faith No More that will be available as a print. |
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 27, 2010 8:16:00 GMT -8
Look at Ninja from Die Antwoord wearing a Baseman suit for the cover of their debut album. The group's video recently was chosen as one of the 25 winners of the youtube exhibition[/b] at the Guggenheim.  |
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 20, 2011 21:54:51 GMT -8
His plans for this year: www.lacanvas.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=637&category_id=195&Itemid=242And Baseman’s got even bigger plans for 2011. In May there’s a museum show in Israel with a fashion designer who has a line inspired by his art. In June he has an exhibition at MOCA Shanghai, and he’s also in an independent show at the Venice Biennial. In August the Shanghai show travels to Taiwan. And he’s also working on a new series of figures, a secret-keeping society. But before any of that, he’s finishing a solo show opening March 5th at Jonathan Levine in Chelsea |
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Post by treeoflife on Jan 22, 2011 3:40:09 GMT -8
"One of the most well-known artists in the world, Gary Baseman..." Priceless.
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 13, 2011 8:27:50 GMT -8
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Post by danbarry on Mar 14, 2011 21:54:54 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 31, 2011 4:49:30 GMT -8
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Post by Weekender on Apr 14, 2011 10:51:34 GMT -8
Piece for the WATER WORKS, Giant Robot  |
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Post by saL on Oct 6, 2011 8:58:00 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 27, 2012 13:38:35 GMT -8
He has a showing coming up in Milan. More info here.   |
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Post by saL on Apr 6, 2012 8:24:14 GMT -8
 poster for upcoming Sea No Evil charity event |
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 19, 2012 17:46:26 GMT -8
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