carlagirl photo.

practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

going around and coming around

Great news—my girl Kelly found a job, my girl Zoe has been chosen to represent in the Whitney Biennial, I started making photographs in earnest again, and I get to work only 4 miles from my house—no more driving (though I will miss the compellingly terrible Andrea Lewis and the sublimely crazy Dennis Bernstein)! They [...]

you know your job is, um, slow when…

…getting a cup of tea constitutes something exciting to do. Walk to the kitchen, select the bag, place in glass, pour hot water, walk back, sip…

positive energy

My dear friends’ infant son is having open heart surgery tomorrow, and they sent this plea out to their friends, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask a few more folks:
Tomorrow (8 a.m. – 2 p.m. PST)…Whatever it is that you do that feeds your spirit—meditate, chant,pray, run, ride, walk, work, climb, cook, garden, [...]

this is when i love art (and this is when I don’t)

Check out Bill Fisher and Richard Lou’s “Missing Stereotypes” project about runaway race-baiter Jennifer Wilbanks @ http://billfisher.dreamhost.com/nohate.html. It’s smart work that was censored courtesy of friends of the Wilbanks family. A comment on their site excerpted from a letter to the Gainseville Times:
I guess racism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Wow. Yeah, [...]

  • Have news or announcements? Please E-mail me at carla@carlagirl.net
    © 2010 carla williams. all rights reserved
  • RSS 81 Press

    • Interesting powerHouse news March 11, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 11, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 11, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]