Lulu Wolf : Blog

toshiko takaezu

2011-03-20T16:09:00.002-04:00

"Toshiko Takaezu, a Japanese-American ceramist whose closed pots and torpedolike cylinders, derived from natural forms, helped to elevate ceramics from the production of functional vessels to a fine art, died on March 9 in Honolulu. She was 88.
...

In her stoneware and porcelain works, some small enough to fit in the palm of one hand, others monoliths more than six feet tall, Ms. Takaezu blended the expressive bravura of painters like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline with the calm, meditative quality of traditional Japanese pottery in forms suggestive of acorns, melons or tree trunks."

“I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables,”

“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used ... an artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”

recently acquired

2011-03-06T22:34:00.000-05:00

a good one indeed. interviews, notes, quotations and prints, drawings and watercolors.

baskets

2011-03-06T20:56:00.000-05:00

nice mid/late 19th and early 20th century american baskets.
wandering around online auction houses.

hermeto pascoal

2011-02-09T12:46:00.002-05:00

sounds of outside, outside; sounds of outside, inside.

I wish I understood Portuguese

Richard Brautigan in a Hammock

2011-01-27T22:21:00.001-05:00

Shelter

2011-01-24T18:13:00.002-05:00

SHELTER from jason sussberg on Vimeo.

two things

2011-01-18T20:36:00.001-05:00

quick collages I made over summer and forgot about.

2011-01-06T11:38:00.001-05:00

cool-warm

2011-01-05T20:19:00.000-05:00

whoa-o-o-oh

2011-01-05T19:41:00.003-05:00

via

365 water glasses project

2011-01-05T14:57:00.000-05:00

I have just started a new project for the new year, a very simple one, of drawing one glass of water every day for a year. I wanted to do something that would keep me working every day, and something simple and quick enough that I felt I could actually commit to doing it for a year. I've recently fallen out of drawing, my formal work becoming heavily collage, so this is also a way to make sure drawing doesn't fall by the way side.

I have created a tumblr to document this project, there is a more formal project statement posted as well. It's fairly modest right now, but hopefully it will come together as the project progresses, with drawings in pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, black and white or color... we'll see...

My goal right now is just to stay committed to the project, and at the end publish a book of the drawings.

The url is 365waterglasses.tumblr.com Please follow if you like!

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2011-01-03T12:25:00.000-05:00

love you kjw

Happy New Year!

2011-01-01T17:57:00.002-05:00

Chet Baker

2010-12-30T11:44:00.003-05:00

Thanks Brooks!

Wow Magazine

2010-12-08T10:44:00.000-05:00

Tthe people at WOW Magazine just published a short portfolio piece about me this week... WOW is a french online arts/culture magazine that features a lot of really talented artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers and the like. Happy to be a part of it! Thank You!

On a completely unrelated note- I used to have this little block set when I was a child. They are so beautiful! Wish I could find them again... perfect christmas present.

yumiko sekine

2010-11-29T23:03:00.000-05:00

I also think that this woman's house is beautiful.

update

2010-11-29T22:59:00.000-05:00

I have made some new work, and revised my website a little, more work and changes hopefully to follow soon. You can see it here. I'm sorry that the sizing of images is all over the place.

water

2010-11-29T22:52:00.001-05:00

The beginning of this video, under-above water, is good.

by morgan massen via quality peoples

a beauty - colorado, 1970.

2010-09-03T11:47:00.002-04:00

Shown to me a couple years ago by a friend, this has become one of my favorite films, of one of my favorite women.

I'd like to be where she is.

matt and kim shirts

2010-08-20T15:05:00.000-04:00

I made a design for a Matt and Kim t-shirt in the spring, and it's now available to buy in their store! Check out the shirt here, and their music and other matt and kim goings on here.

Wa-oooh

2010-07-31T10:56:00.000-04:00

Homesick for California.

ok. enough for now.

Louise Bourgeois

2010-05-31T20:46:00.000-04:00

1911 - 2010

amazing woman.

Prints for sale!

2010-05-28T16:57:00.002-04:00

hallu hallu!

3 of my collages are now available for sale on Little Paper Planes!
Right here!

Arrangements

2010-05-18T11:25:00.002-04:00

I am going to look for some nice vases today. I hope I am lucky enough to find ones like these.

Yesterday was my last day of school at Parsons, My family will be here tomorrow night, and on Friday I will be a graduate. Wahoo!

~~I don't remember where I found these images, if someone does, please let me know.~~ philippe munda I think?

to san francisco

2010-04-26T18:19:00.000-04:00

this is nowhere

river canyon

montana

Sending these off to San Fran for the show on friday. Feeling really good about the way the came out... I think I work best at night. The bottom two collages are made from the pages left after cutting out the textures I used for the top collage ... if that makes sense. The glitter is put into some of these shapes by cutting a door into a parallel universe.

Edward Weston

2010-04-25T13:56:00.000-04:00

(b. 1186-1958)
Going through an old LIFE magazine looking for collage bits, I found "Nude on Sand Dune" in a short article about the Guggenheim fellowship he had just received (in 1937). Said to be one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century... I just found out about him yesterday. Better late than never. His photographs are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen.

April 30 HERE AND THERE.

2010-04-23T19:46:00.001-04:00

If you live or are going to be in the SF bay area next Friday it would be really cool if you went to this show! My friend Alberto has curated what I'm sure will be a super awesome show at the newly new gallery/art space place Garage Sale Project. I will be exhibiting some art along with other cool collage ladies. Wahoo!

mmmmmug

2010-04-14T09:18:00.004-04:00

Lost this mug to someone else quicker than me. It wasn't even on ebay. It was on etsy, just sitting there. bummertown. would have been nice to get this one. No, it would have been a dream come true. I searched on ebay and found another and now I have it! I love this mug! I really, really do. Using it every day.

Goodbye Hello, perfect mug!

Cripple Creek

2010-04-09T10:51:00.001-04:00

Buffy Sainte-Marie, the mouth bow & Sesame Street.

Ian & Sylvia Tyson

2010-04-08T10:53:00.002-04:00

Early Morning Rain, one of my favorite Ian & Sylvia songs, written by Gordon Lightfoot. You should have this beautiful song if you don't already.

& a cover by Peter, Paul and Mary:

On a side note, I just received the prints for Little Paper Planes! They will be sent out tomorrow and hopefully be available a few weeks after.

Hope you're having a lovely Spring.

Lord Darkness

2010-04-02T10:04:00.003-04:00

I finished this piece earlier this week as part of a project with the Brooklyn Super Hero Supply Co., an non-profit after school program that fronts as a super hero supply store. Its a really amazing store with plenty of supplies for all makes of superheroes, I definitely recommend a visit.
We were given a character description of either a superhero or a villain, written by one of the kids in the program, and asked to create the art to accompany the story. I was given "Lord Darkness". He's "middle age but still suffers from childhood trauma (his parents gave him one crumb to eat every 20 months!) He travels in pure darkness and lives in his lair on Saturn."
This was definitely one of the best projects I've done in a while, and made something pretty different from what I'm used to making ... and used glitter- So very fun. You can't see the sparkle or layers too well from the scan (you can click the image to englarge), I collaged a texture for the background and then covered that with a layer of "gun metal" glitter, and then collaged over that. It was a good time.

this is the color

2010-03-20T18:10:00.001-04:00

2010-03-03T14:50:00.009-05:00

I am very excited to tell you that soon you will be able to purchase a few of my collages from Little Paper Planes. They that sell some really awesomebeautiful prints, books and other cool things by many super talented artists, and I am so excited to become a part of their community! Here are the collages that will be for sale, they will probably be available in a month or so. I will let you know when they're up and for the taking!

New York Times

2010-02-19T14:08:00.001-05:00

Sorry this took so long! It's been a busy week. Anywho. Here are the sketches for the New York Times Illustration I did last week! It was published in the paper on Tuesday, and you can see the final online here.

oh my!

2010-02-10T16:34:00.000-05:00

I got an e-mail earlier this morning from the art director of the New York Times Op-Ed page asking me to do an illustration for an article that will run this weekend! I am so excited and nervous. This is my first "big deal" illustration job. The size is tiny tiny, but I am still worried about what to do! Its a crazy short job - sketches due tomorrow morning and the final on friday! It's for their "Letters" section, in response to an article written about NASA's plans with Mars ...

more soon....

Postalco

2010-02-01T22:16:00.000-05:00

www.postalco.net

Iannis Xenakis

2010-01-29T18:14:00.000-05:00

So I'm trying to be more proactive this year, and as part of that I'm doing art-related outings (aka artfarting) every Friday with my friend Garrett- starting today! Of the few galleries we wandered into, the Iannis Xenakis exhibit at The Drawing Center, was really great. He was a modernist composer who studied civil engineering in Greece and worked with Le Corbusier in the 50s. Pretty awesome. The pictures I could find on the internet and from their site don't do the show much justice unfortunately, but if you live in New York, it's up until April 8th. Go see it!

"Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary will explore the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of over 60 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this will be the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included will be rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. "

The Drawing Center almost always has great work up, and they have another show at the "drawing room" (Xenakis was in the main gallery), a group show titled Sea Marks. I didn't get to see it, but it looks pretty good, maybe next Friday!

carter & cash

2010-01-21T10:08:00.000-05:00

Johnny Cash & June Carter - Jackson -1968

June Carter

narwhals

2009-12-11T12:01:00.000-05:00

Mr. Fuller

2009-08-31T18:55:00.001-04:00

tomorrow is my last first day of school at parsons. time to start up that thinkin' learnin' machine.

If you're into horses...

2009-08-02T21:40:00.000-04:00

My childhood friend Mimi has a very cute blog about all sorts o' equestrian things.

Games & Hares

2009-08-02T21:31:00.001-04:00

Well I went off again. Seattle and Los Angeles. I think I told you before? But now I am back for a good long while and enjoying this last month of summer before school starts up again. It will be my last year and then I suppose I'm supposed to make something of myself? We'll see...

Playing Settlers of Cattan in Toby's kitchen. I was getting closer look and it did nothing. I can be sure buttttt I think I lost.

(photo from a lovely seattle lady and new friend Ally)

Before I left I did this drawing for my friend Reese (dragon dagger) who now owns the lovely bead store he works in. It is now called Wild Hare. If you're ever in Norman, Oklahoma you should go there and make some pretty things and become friends with one of the greatest people on this side of the world. I very much like the drawing and hope you do too..

sorry it's a bit of an unattractive scan!

have you seen

2009-07-17T15:38:00.000-04:00

the catorialist??? really you should check it out. much better than the satorialist.

"Maybe the most effortless un-buttoned cardigan ever? "

i am in seattle visiting my friend toby. it is beautiful. I have picked many berries and did some gardening and lake swimming. lovely.

Well

2009-06-28T20:00:00.000-04:00

via jeffrey broadhurst

via passport to tresspass

I don't really have anything to show you right now ... most of my things are packed up because I'm moving, to Park Slope, on july 1st! But once I'm settled again I will have photos from my trip to england/italy/france and new drawings all of which I'll try to post asap!
but its been a good while since I posted so, in the mean time.. on the topic of different places and spaces.. some pictures of places im dreaming about.

returned from travels

2009-06-28T19:01:00.000-04:00

(kersti & I)

Hello!

2009-05-08T17:13:00.001-04:00

some of the first leaves of summer from my street

I have a week left of school, Finals are due next week. Many projects due. I'm mostly excited about a photo-lithograph book/poster and a calendar of etchings. I've also made a wood sculpture and am most excited to be finished with that and see it all complete. I'll try to post some pictures of it when I'm done this weekend.

On the 19th of May I'm going to Europe! for a month! I am traveling alone, but staying with friends, and I am very excited. Northern England, London, Paris, Berlin, Milan. I want to go to prague, but I think I won't have time this trip. my goals for the trip so far: eat good food and try to find a nice little thing.
I just uploaded a bunch of pictures from my flickr, mostly doodles from my moleskine notebooks.. if you want to see, it's here.

cowboys!

2009-03-23T22:08:00.000-04:00

(a very favorite movie)

reading

2009-02-21T11:32:00.000-05:00

whoa beautiful pictures-like the one from a few days ago- that I'm sure I'll be posting more of:

always in love with...

some books I have just finished, some I am in the middle, some I have just gotten from the postman. oh so lovely oh so so!

gloop glop

2009-02-17T16:04:00.000-05:00

I started making marbled paper a couple weeks ago ... ahhhhhh
blowing my MIND!

...and a monoprint

my favorite color is blue.
and mustard. and cream. and beige. (not the same). and maroon. and olive green. and. white. and.

its just that...

2009-02-15T01:55:00.001-05:00

(photos from here)

Valentine's Day is one of my least favorite holidays. My lovely dear friend toby and I took a day trip up to Cold Spring and it was beautiful. but tonight back in the city it was not so beautiful at all.

wherewhatwhenwhotherein I want to be and not here

2009-02-15T01:45:00.000-05:00

from a new (old) book I just just got called Woodstock Handmade Houses ...

(oh how I would like to be there)

I went away for winter vacation for a long time and it was soso nice. I went home and to North Carolina and to San Francisco. I have many things to show you and will soonsoonsoon. Books and Moccassins and Pictures and Papers and.

Chair

2008-12-18T12:24:00.000-05:00

About a month ago, 13 other students and I started a project with Design Within Reach and Emeco, to transform this chair. The reception party for all the finished chairs was last wednesday, and Emeco decided to take my and one other student's chair to put into their museum!

I had such a fantastic time working on it, I'm so flattered that they enjoyed it so much. You can see more pictures of the chair on my Flickr page, and if you're ever in Pennsylvania you can go to their museum and see it! I don't know why you would be. but maybe one day you will and you'll have the greatest urge to go to the chair designer museum.

threegoodthings

2008-12-18T12:03:00.000-05:00

1. Today is my last day of class!

2. Tomorrow I fly back to California!

3.I finished it yesterday and now I have an official website!

please please please go look! www.luluwolf.com

Happy Holidays!

2008-12-16T17:20:00.000-05:00

A super steamy Christmas to you and you and you and you!

I made these last night, they will either be a folded card or a double sided postcard ... I haven't decided. For all friends and family ... except maybe my Grandpa. Let me know if you would like one and I'll send her over!

a new!

2008-12-13T16:08:00.000-05:00

I'm working on a new book! It will be in accordion-style I think. Hopefully I'll finish it soonsoonsoon. This is the possible cover/front page.

You Should Read Earle Birney

2008-12-07T21:37:00.000-05:00

The Bear on Delhi Road

Unreal tall as a myth
by the road the Himalayan bear
is beating the brilliant air
with his crooked arms
About him two men bare
spindly as locusts leap

One pulls on a ring
in the great soft nose His mate
flicks flicks with a stick
up at the rolling eyes

They have not led him here
down from the fabulous hills
to this bald alien plain
and the clamorous world to kill
but simply to teach him to dance

They are peaceful both these spare
men of Kashmir and the bear
alive is their living too
If far on the Delhi way
around him galvanic they dance
it is merely to wear wear
from his shaggy body the tranced
wish forever to stay
only an ambling bear
four-footed in berries

It is no more joyous for them
in this hot dust to prance
out of reach of the praying claws
sharpened to paw for ants
in the shadows ofdeodars
It is not easy to free
myth from reality
or rear this fellow up
to lurch lurch with them
in the tranced dancing of men

Srinagar 1958/Île des Porquerolles 1959

lunar

2008-11-25T12:50:00.000-05:00

the first month of the 2009 lunar calendar I'm working on.... the scan is a bit crooked and a bit too tight but you'll be alright.

letsgofromheretothere

2008-11-17T19:11:00.001-05:00

i don't want to work.

forest woods

2008-10-21T16:16:00.000-04:00

stirring

2008-10-19T21:22:00.000-04:00

franklin booth

cold air and quick winds are here

brilliant pelicans

2008-10-15T19:05:00.000-04:00

today

2008-09-27T12:57:00.000-04:00

Paul Newman dies at 83

january 6, 1925 - September 27, 2008

finished

2008-09-26T18:41:00.000-04:00

great

2008-09-18T21:06:00.000-04:00

Feather and Folly

2008-09-17T14:15:00.000-04:00

I have to create a band poster for a class I'm taking, so I'm making the poster for my friend holly and toby's band feather and folly for their show in october! The finished one will have the right date and location... but untill then I've made it up ... I do wish they were playing in a barn...

workworkwork

2008-09-17T14:04:00.000-04:00

part of a drawing for a silkscreen poster I'm working on.... bumbumbum...

abc

2008-09-17T12:11:00.000-04:00

a few drawings ... the first and last are from the beginning of the summer, the middle was done last week ... when it rained rain. its feeling like fall more and more and more.

the foothills of southern california

2008-08-28T14:53:00.000-04:00

Broad Beach & Topanga Canyon

does anyone live in there?

or something small here?

no ink cover illustration

2008-08-02T17:35:00.000-04:00

for the cover of a collective poetry book from Santa Monica Community College (SMC)

from the mountain on down to the sea, cool cool water keeps on cooling me

2008-08-02T17:30:00.001-04:00

i'm going to california in 12 days.

the good book

2008-08-02T17:29:00.000-04:00

Gettin' Hairy & Goin Up the Country

2008-06-16T11:22:00.000-04:00

Here are a few spreads from a zine project I did this May for my typography class ... first creating a typeface and from there bringing it into a zine with some country woodsy feels .... really fun project.

First & Almost

2008-05-04T12:39:00.001-04:00

I'm new&empty&in progress.

Untill I'm older&fuller&finished, Please look at my arts here