This is the blog for lookupgospelchoir.com, the art site of Ryan Callis. Here is where I post about influences, and the stories behind my art. To see the art that this blog refers to, visit www.lookupgospelchoir.com.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Buy-Sellf







The French art collective Buy-Sellf brings the noise with some really interesting art/projects/products, like a tubular ping pong table, pedestrian half pipe or the cardboard fireplace and mantle. The ped. half pipe is going to be re-fabricated at our museum in June for an exhibition and will be placed outside on the sculpture deck. www.buy-sellf.com for more images.



Thursday, August 27, 2009


This kind of fires me up.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Friday, August 14, 2009

Alison O'Daniel


I'm digging on the projects and objects made by Alison O'Daniel. Visit www.alisonodaniel.com to see more work. "Double Dutch Will Take You Higher" is pretty epic.

Dante's Inferno @ TAM

Click on the flier to enlarge it and get the info you need about the screening of this awesome film on August 21st at 8 at the museum. Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet will be doing an intro and q&a after the film. For more on the film visit www.dantefilm.com and for more on Sandow's art visit www.koplindelrio.com.
I am really stoked. As I posted below I thought the film was great so to have them come and screen it Wooord.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

MegaWoosh.com

Eric ya done it again...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Chuck Close Tapestry - Weaving proofs

So thanks to Chuck Close's studio, the fine folks at Pace, and the super fine folks at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, we will be exhibiting the tapestry being weaved and shown in these videos. The piece will be in our January self portraiture show. This thing is massive and it is amazing to watch the insanity that is the loom. The video below with the 3 picture piece being woven is roughly a third of the piece in its entirety.

Tapestry weaving

Chuck Close "Self Portrait / Five Part" Tapestry