As the winter months begin to take over our landscape I thought it would be nice to do a Flickr Finds featuring our upside down trees. Enjoy.

Please note all photos shown in Flickr Finds blogs retain the copyright of the original photographer. To learn more about the photographer and the licensing of their images, click on the photographer’s name to visit their Flickr profile.

From albany_tim

From Howlinhill

From paintingloftcom

From theophilus1918

From Eric Marc Crawford

From shop clementine

From br_5530

Even though this image is not of Tree Logic, I just couldn’t resist including this awesome shot of the tree turbine.

From Sundance Moods

The next Flickr Finds will feature photos of MASS MoCA signage. If you have a photo of the roof sign, the big yellow arrow, etc. upload it to the MASS MoCA Flickr Group now. Your picture could be featured here next month.

Cheers,

Brittany

We’re proud to note that the exhibition catalogue for Spencer Finch: What Time Is It On The Sun? was recognized in PRINT Magazine’s Regional Design Annual 2008. If you don’t yet have a copy of the beautiful catalogue, designed by Tim Hossler, you can order one here or by emailing Hardware: The MASS MoCA Store.

Our MASS MoCA Flickr group has 116 members and 1, 147 photos in it. To showcase the fabulous pics that our visitors have been posting I thought I would occasionally pick a topic and share with you a few of my favorite Flickr photos. Since Projections will be closing on November 16, I will begin with Holzer based Flickr Finds.

Please note all photos shown in Flickr Finds blogs retain the copyright of the original photographer. To learn more about the photographer and the licensing of their images, click on the photographer’s name to visit their Flickr profile.

From Selfnonself

From jjriders

From emily shu

From mmpartee

From R Hennessy

From franola

From Sasquatch Madness

Cheers,

Brittany

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape surveys a contemporary approach the landscape, continuing a lineage from the Impressionists to Ansel Adams to the Earth Artists to today. For the exhibition’s catalogue (distributed by The MIT Press), curator Denise Markonish and I wanted to create a kind of field guide for the exhibition, a book that you could hold in your hand while walking through the show. You can purchase the book in Hardware: The MASS MoCA Store or on Amazon.

The catalogue is divided into four sections—The Historians, The Explorers, The Activists & The Pragmatists, and The Aestheticists—and features essays by Denise, Ginger Strand, Gregory Volk, and Tensie Whelan and a foreword from MASS MoCA Director Joseph Thompson.

But the best part is that Denise interviewed each artist for the catalogue. After the jump are a few personal favorites.

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Last week, David Thomas’ In the Palms of Their Hands (2007) was installed on the façade of the museum’s Building 14, the former power plant of the Sprague Electric Company. The banner—part of Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, curated by Susan Cross—is twenty feet wide by fifteen feet high and required an impressive feat of engineering to be installed. 

More photos documenting how Director of Art Fabrication Richard Criddle and his crew members Jason Wilcox and John Carli did it after the jump.

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On Thursday, September 4 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, our curator Denise Markonish will give an illustrated lecture about her exhibition Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape. After her talk, Denise will lead a walk-through of the exhibition Hudson Valley Artists 2008: The Medium is the Message for which she was the juror. Regional artists represented in the exhibition include Kathleen Anderson, Allen Bryan, David Bush, Deborah Davidovits, Tasha Depp, Dara Greenwald, Matthew Harle, Christopher Haun, Roman Hrab, Tatana Kellner, Laura Moriarty, Carrie Scanga, and Robert The.