Kris Scheifele wrote a conversational piece about my work for NY Arts Magazine.
Inspired by the human activity surrounding the rock outcroppings that serve as his canvas, Sudeith uses transportation motifs to explore his primary subjects: food, energy, and scientific exploration.
This is a link to the Textile Museum of Canada’s War Rug Database. I use this excellent resource often, but it’s very hard to find on from the museums home page. There is a link in an earlier blog post, but this post will hopefully make finding these rugs simpler.
The rug above remains one of my favorites, and perhaps the most important war rug in the show organized by Max Allen.
UPDATED November 2021: Link to database updated, but new link produces sub-optimal collection printing few photos and important rugs not visible.
Sharing photos seems to be impossible now, but
here is a good Rustam rug with pictures, including very hi-res. Salt bag without photos.
A bunch of new rugs are posted and available through the links at the top of the home page. Most notably, a selection of Red Rugs. Red Rugs, once plentiful are now rare.
Other highlights are:
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Carolina Miranda has published a story on WNYC’s fine arts blog, Gallerina. It’s the first arts coverage of Kevin’s petroglyphs.
Hidden City: Unearthing Kevin Sudeith’s Urban Petroglyphs
In March Veronica Peek of Melbourne, Australia wrote warrug.com to inform us that the image in rug above (and others like it) is the Malabar Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, on Victoria Street in Singapore. It appears the image is not the Flinder’s Street Train Station in Melbourne, AU as Max Allen suggested, nor the Sultan Hussein Shrine as I suggested. Yesterday, RN wrote with the same assertion.
My primary goal in founding warrug.com was to create exactly this sort of dialogue. So, although I stand corrected, I appreciate the dialogue tremendously. Please keep the corrections coming…
A selection of rugs from the Textile Museum in Canada is on display at Penn Museum. More info and lots of interesting videos here.
…Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi serves as a washroom mat at a rebel-run prison in Libya
Today there is a story in The Daily about Kevin Sudeith’s Berkeley Petroglyph. Below is a static link, but iPad users can see more dynamic content by downloading The Daily iPad app.
Yesterday’s Sunday edition of Contra Costa Times and the West County Times featured on the Local News front page a story about Kevin Sudeith’s petroglyph in North Berkely, which opens this weekend April 30 and May 1.
“The contrast of the super-old with the contemporary was just awesome to me,” Sudeith said.
After getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art, he taught himself to grind, chisel and paint the rock he’s working on, and he invented his own technique.
“I like making a durable document of art and documenting our contemporary technology,” Sudeith said.
What: Contemporary petroglyphs (rock carvings)
Who: New York artist Kevin Sudeith
When: Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, from 10:00am to 8:00pm
Where: 1959 San Antonio Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707
Rebecca Horne, the Photo Editor at Discover Magazine, has a fascinating blog at Discover called Visual Science. Recently she posted a story about my latest petroglyph carving in Montana of the Chandra X-ray observatory.
More space petroglyphs are at Petroglyphist.com.
Besides Chandra in Montana there are two tractors (one with seeder drill), three pickups (pictographs), a water truck, an antelope (one was shot on the land while I was there), a double portrait of the original Czech homesteaders, and a cowboy with two cows.
