Kristin Cammermeyer: Paintings

March 21, 2009 5:44 PM

More paintings that I like: This time, they are by Kristin Cammermeyer. Here is a statement about the paintings. Here are some examples that I particularly like.

Cammermeyer is featured in the latest issue of New American Paintings.

(The way the website takes you to the paintings is a bit weird, though.)

posted by wittgenstein (24 comments total)

Sorry, but the way the website takes you to the paintings is ridiculous, as is embedding each one in a flash object.

It is bad enough when artist-types sacrifice usability to make a graphical or design statement, but this is just a long, ugly, "pages turning" montage, every time I click into the site.
posted by paisley henosis at 5:54 PM on March 21 [1 favorite]

Discover America's finest emerging artists

I know it's a very established descriptor in the art world, but, I wish they'd drop it. "Emerging artists" just sounds so... precious, or something.

Or, sci-fi. I picture the artists emerging from some sort of bio-mechanical pod, and zapping me with their tentacle art-ray.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:35 PM on March 21 [1 favorite]

That "I" link hurts my soul. I think that the feeling you get from the interface is the exact opposite of the intended feeling of the paintings.
posted by Bernt Pancreas at 6:37 PM on March 21

Interfacefuck.
posted by autodidact at 6:43 PM on March 21

Here is an interface that I particularly hate.
posted by Mcable at 6:48 PM on March 21

"Emerging artists" just sounds so... precious, or something.

It's right up there with debut novelist, as a phrase I am sick of hearing.
posted by jayder at 6:48 PM on March 21

I think that when you've got an online image gallery, it's really important to keep the controls simple and in the same place. They could have made something that looks great with simple HTML, CSS and JPGs, but no, they have to encapsulate everything in a Flash object.

The Web archivers of the future will be hating us.
posted by dunkadunc at 6:56 PM on March 21

I would like to be zapped with a tentacle art-ray, please?
posted by Burhanistan at 7:13 PM on March 21 [1 favorite]

ZZZZZZZZZAAAAPPPP!!!

Feels pretty good, eh?

sincerely,

Emerging Artist
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:36 PM on March 21

Awesome! I can't wait to go rip off some obscure outsider and make it big on the gallery circuit!
posted by Burhanistan at 7:39 PM on March 21

BEYOND the interface, these pictures are really nice!
posted by puckish at 7:44 PM on March 21

All the interface hate. I can understand it, because what is it with artist's websites, amirite, but I like some of the paintings quite a bit, myself.

She needs to get the high-school doodles out of the Archive/Miscellany section, though. It doesn't need padding that badly.
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:47 PM on March 21

I am not a big fan of paintings but I like her work.
posted by rageagainsttherobots at 7:48 PM on March 21

~She needs to get the high-school doodles out of the Archive/Miscellany section, though. It doesn't need padding that badly.

Oh wow, I hadn't even noticed. Except for this one, which is the best thing on the site, for some odd reason.
posted by paisley henosis at 7:53 PM on March 21

That's the kind of web interface I expect out of a photographer.
posted by interrobang at 8:06 PM on March 21 [1 favorite]

More paintings that I like:

I believe this is why they invented blogs, no?
posted by R. Mutt at 8:11 PM on March 21 [2 favorites]

That's the kind of web interface I expect out of a photographer.

Whatever it takes to keep people from stealing my images, that's what I require. That, and it has to navigate like no other site on the web. Period. Those are my design criteria.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:21 PM on March 21

BACK HOME BACK HOME BACK HOME BACK HOME BACK HOME BACK HOME

help, I'm spinning
posted by geos at 8:36 PM on March 21

Whatever it takes to keep people from stealing my images, that's what I require.

I've got news for you. Unless you're somebody really major, nobody wants your images. Sorry to burst your bubble.
posted by jayder at 8:40 PM on March 21

Whatever it takes to keep people from stealing my images, that's what I require.

Usually, only porn/celeb sites need worry about that, and any motivated thief knows how to get them anyways. If your browser can display it there's a way to harvest it from the server.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:43 PM on March 21

I've got news for you. Unless you're somebody really major, nobody wants your images. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Your smug and superior tone is misplaced, my friend. You have no way of knowing what images someone who's out to steal images might want. And as a matter of fact, when it comes to stealing images, the less "really major" you are, the more likely it is that your images will be stolen and reused elsewhere. The image thief knows that the little people have less power and resources at their disposal to track down such misuses, and to sue.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:06 PM on March 21

It's nice work. Sort of like David Hockney meets Arschille Gorky meets the cover of Dark Side of the Moon. You can tell she is pretty brave with her materials, too, which is a damn near priceless virtue.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 9:35 PM on March 21

Wow, that site really has hit the pinnacle of obnoxiousness.

Too bad I'm also "meh" on the paintings themselves. For some really awesome paintings, it might even out, but as is, it was a sub-par internet experience.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 8:08 AM on March 22

Before I even clicked on the links or the comment thread, I knew this was mostly going to be about the interface, not the art.

Her works make me uncomfortable kind of like the works of Francis Bacon do. Though I'm delighted by the play of color, line, etc, there's this existential sense of "body horror" (for lack of a better phrase) . . . and yet this body doesn't seem to have boundaries -- in fact, it's the background, not the foreground. Whether that says more about me or about the art, I have no idea. Cool stuff.
posted by treepour at 8:38 AM on March 22