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Piece of Me, Piece of You

Apr 8, ’08 12:42 PM


Piece of Me, Piece of You from Clay Parker Jones on Vimeo.

It’s finally done!

Credits: Three Legged Legs, Zune Arts, Chromeo, Adam Parker Smith

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Zune Arts: Adam Parker Smith

Mar 27, ’08 4:52 PM

adam parker smith - three legged legs

adam & carolyn

So my cousin, Adam Parker Smith, been working with Three Legged Legs on a piece of work for Zune Arts. Here’s a video.

Apparently the deal is that his heads (documented here earlier) from Bold as Love have grown into full zombies that dance. And share the beat by biting people. Get it? ‘Cuz Zune is about sharing and all that. I’m stoked to see how it turns out. Check out their site. They do some pretty nice work.

Oh, and it’s going to be over a Chromeo track.

Adam Parker Smith - Three Legged Legs

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Best in Show: Cabrini-Green

Jan 7, ’08 1:05 PM

I’m so proud of my mom.

She just won Best in Show for the quilt pictured above at the Morris Graves Museum/Humboldt Arts Council Member Show. The art there was a pretty incredible cross-section of artists from California’s North Coast, including several phenomenal paintings, photographs and sculptures. You know, “Real Art”.

Just in case you’re not aware, a lot of artists and art critics don’t consider quilting an “Art”, instead calling it a craft. And to be sure, there is a great deal of “craft” involved in the creation of an Art Quilt, but no more than is required to create a stunning photograph or painting. So it’s validating to win such an award, especially when going up against more traditional art forms.

Congratulations, mom.

Here’s her artist statement:

Cabrini-Green Public Housing

Wikipedia: Cabrini-Green in a public housing project in Chicago’s North Side. At its height, Cabrini Green was home to 20,000 people, living in mid and high rise apartment buildings. Over the years gang violence and neglect created terrible conditions for the residents and the name Cabrini-Green became symbolic of problems associated with public housing in the United States. Currently 5,000 residents remain in Cabrini-Green.

My son rides past what remains of Cabrini-Green on his way to work in Chicago. Most of the original housing projects have been torn down and are being replaced by newer buildings. This 15-story high rise is one of the last remaining buildings. The structure is scarred with fire damage, there are burned out apartments, and a majority of the windows are boarded up or covered in newspaper. My son was impressed with how much this building reminded him of a quilt. There are one hundred and sixty-five identical rectangular window units; all the same and all very different. Many people still call this home, and to continue the quilt analogy, the residents find warmth and security in this soon to be demolished building.

Again, congratulations.

And also to my cousin Adam Parker Smith, who I’ve written about before, whose Bold as Love installation was picked up in Fiber Arts.

 

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Bold as Love

Nov 14, ’07 7:14 PM

Bold as Love - Adam Parker Smith

Last week, my cousin Adam (aka Adam Parker Smith) opened his first show in New York. I asked Johanna to go, and tried to add it to The Purple List (DENIED: Not cool enough/Nepotism not allowed), because I wanted to be sure all the cool folks I know in NYC went. Ya know, ’cause I love my cousin and believe in his art.

As I was doing a little in-family Googling today, I found that Johanna had not only posted a great set of images on Flickr, but also wrote a nice post about it. And I found it on cribcandy. And on notcot.org, pristina.org, like-love, fazylucker, wists, JAWGITS, bloggin’ since78, BEAUTIFUL DECAY (scroll down), and FAC. As always, you can see his stuff on my family’s photoblog, across the street at exitcreative.net/todayin.

As you can tell, I’m pretty stoked that he’s gotten all this “press”. He deserves it.

Below are pictures from the exhibit.

Bold as Love - Adam Parker Smith

This one is based on the Nina Berman photo… pretty crazy.

Bold as Love - Adam Parker Smith (Bush & Cheney)

This is Bush & Cheney, I think.

Bold as Love - Adam Parker Smith

This is some guy from Pirates of the Caribbean. When Adam had it on display somewhere in the sticks of Illinois, kids recognized it immediately.

Bold as Love - Adam Parker Smith (Mike Tyson)

And this, of course, is Mike Tyson. Jaw ripped off.

What follows are some more of his pieces that I find to be the dopest of the dope.

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First there’s this video of Adam’s paper plane crashing in Brooklyn.

The Plane - Adam Parker Smith

The plane in question.

Burning Plane - Adam Parker Smith

The aftermath (staff).

Penguins - Adam Parker Smith

Some paper penguins and the drawings that I wish he would do more of.

Laredo Installation - Adam Parker Smith

These dolls were on display in Laredo. And once in the Vatican. The Swiss Guards were not happy about that. But that’s his story to tell.

Wish You Were Beautiful

And this is my favorite piece ever. Super hot. I wish he would send it to me. It’s like a greeting card, but it says, “I hope you drown”. That’s Doug on the left. Doug is good at charades.

That’s all. I hope you all get a chance to check out his work at some point.

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