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August 11th 2009 An article about me is out in Rare Magazine right now! check it out! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday July 19th 2009 Today I found that austin360.com published the critique that Lori Waxman wrote about my art... She looked at 8 of my images, a 5 line biography/artist statement and wrote the review within 20 minutes... It was part of an event organized at the Arthouse at the Jones Center called 60WRD/MIN ART CRITIC. People walking on Congress were able to watch from the sidewalk as she was typing reviews behind a glass wall... They had set up a flat screen that was hung inside and allowed anybody to read as she was typing. Quite dramatic especially for the artists! Lori Waxman is a Chicago-based critic and art historian who has published articles and reviews in art journals and has written many catalogue essays. Waxman's writings have been published in The Chicago Tribune, Artforum, Artforum.com, Modern Painters, Gastronomica, Parkett, Tema Celeste, as well as the defunct Parachute, New Art Examiner, and FGA. She teaches art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is completing a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. I was so nervous! There is a copy and paste from the website : Henri Molle 7/10/09 4 p.m. Hallucinogenic flowers, fun-house-mirror storefronts, acid-colored river views-the imagery painstakingly concocted by Henri Molle through hours and hours of digital manipulation is the stuff of the Surrealists, once upon a time. Today, though, the garish colors and trippy effects through which Molle filters his photographs of Austin and its surroundings reveal not the psychological experimentation that the Surrealists were after-in terms of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary-so much as a new way of making pleasurable and appealing imagery. Molle takes the subjects of the dedicated amateur photographer or painter-attractive city views, romantic country vistas, cool storefronts, still lifes, close-up scenes from nature-and makes them weird, yes, but weird in a way that would appeal to anyone who likes hot colors, jazzy shapes, nifty effects, and, in the end, recognizable and romantic subject matter. Though the digital effects are radical in how they transform their base images, what's curious is that the end results have nothing particularly radical about them. Nor need they: the most pleasant images rarely do. -Lori Waxman
What a relief!
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