Tracks: Judith Supine (The Brooklyn Rail)

A bald, bearded guy wearing a women’s mesh bathing suit and hot-pink spectacles showed up one day on a pair of blue steel doors on Crosby Street. By the mirth in his glance, his coy little grin, he knew the reactions he provoked and loved every minute of it. A couple of months later, a pouty-lipped cowboy appeared just up the block. He wore strands of antique women’s beads, vaguely tribal, draped across his chest and a fuzzy, pink cowboy hat, smoking a grossly oversized cigarette—in one word, decadent.

Both pieces were signed “Judith Supine” in a large, loopy scrawl. The name taunted and it teased, and it revealed nothing. Who was Judith Supine? ... (continue reading)

Photo by Jake Dobkin: http://flickr.com/photos/bluejake/tags/judithsupine

Burning Man's 'Big Rig Jig' Artist Nails It on 1st Try — Q&A (SF Weekly)

The art at Burning Man this year collectively represented more than $400,000 in grants from the Black Rock Arts Foundation, plus countless of private contributions. The results were spectacular, but perhaps none more so than “Big Rig Jig,” a sculpture of two 18-wheeler trucks curving like caterpillars, one balanced on top of the other, rising forty-two feet into the sky. Mike Ross, 31, has brought sculptural works out to the annual desert festival for nearly ten years, but nothing on the scale of this fifty-thousand-pound tour de force. We caught up by phone while the Brooklyn-based artist was in San Francisco “finishing up some paperwork.” ... (continue reading)