Comments on: Superhero Lonely

Superhero Lonely

brownpau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:28:35 -0800

Spock (nsfw) -- titled "Planet New Hampshire," part of Superhero Lonely, a 2005 exhibition of paintings by John Jacobsmeyer.

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By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:44:59 -0800

Shaved is the only rational choice.

By: rlk

rlk — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:46:47 -0800

Fascinating.

By: tapeguy

tapeguy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:06:42 -0800

Live schlong and prosper.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:13:03 -0800

He's naked, Jim.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:18:41 -0800

It's a lot like something Komar and Melamid might have done if Star Trek had been Soviet. It's pretty good.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:26:16 -0800

The way that picture's cropped, we'll never know if Spock is cut or uncut. I think it's pointed just like his ears. And I'll bet his baby batter is green.

By: spock

spock — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:33:16 -0800

Best of the web.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:34:48 -0800

Above the hands, a pair of white arrows depicts movement, a reference to American Sign Language. This amplification of classic hand gestures—used extensively since the beginnings of figurative art—into the embodied language of the deaf, is a device Jocobsmeyer uses in many paintings, with mixed results. In "Howl: Lou Ferrigno's Soliloquy in Central Park" (2005), we see the wide eyed "Hulkster" with a Beatle haircut, his pumped arms motioning, trying to express some unstated point. Yellow curved arrows above the hands contain the beginning text of Alan Ginsberg's "Howl" written in reverse. However clever or facile these kinds of painterly devices are, unless carried out to some more absurd extreme, they seem a distraction from the overall thrust of the paintings, as if to overcompensate for some perceived lack of conceptual content that the paintings, in their own right, don't really call for. I don't know. I think it depends on how you encounter the paintings. I looked at this one first (what can I say, I'm a Wolfman fan) and wondered about the arrow. At first I thought it was a patch of blue sky rendered strangely. It wasn't until I looked at the next one (this one) that I got that the figures were signing. I think it adds something really unique. I don't think I've ever seen a painting that depicts sign language before. I don't think the signs are something added to make up for a lack of content. I think they're an itegral part of the content. I like them. They're all characters who have experienced something or have a point of view that is unique and they're trying to express that.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:36:26 -0800

Since naked Spock is not making out with naked Kirk, colour me unimpressed. And to think I was once concerned about the internet permanently warping my mind.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:37:03 -0800

"The way that picture's cropped, we'll never know if Spock is cut or uncut. I think it's pointed just like his ears. And I'll bet his baby batter is green." I'm the LEPRECHAUN!!!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:19:27 -0800

The evil Spock has a pubic goatee.

By: rusty

rusty — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:31:03 -0800

Kitschy.

By: tits mcgee

tits mcgee — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:55:00 -0800

::swoons:: I think I have to go have some private time now.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:26:50 -0800

This is why Art School Confidential was a flop; what's the point of satirizing shitty art when guys like this exist?

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:17:25 -0800

Sorry, the Internet took a shortcut and got there first.

By: wittgenstein

wittgenstein — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:48:30 -0800

This one is my favorite. (But that episode has always been a guilty pleasure.)

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:30:31 -0800

Hah! Jack The Pelican! I know them very very well - I almost invested in them! A really good gallery, great work most of the time, both good technique and good concept....

By: limnrix

limnrix — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:30:34 -0800

One of my favorite professors at the New York Academy of Art, where I'm getting my masters. Yeah, it's goofy. I like goofy.

By: joe defroster

joe defroster — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:53:57 -0800

art is complicated...