{"id":1908,"date":"2009-06-15T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2009-06-15T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T03:03:17","slug":"mark-mothersbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Mark Mothersbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutatovisual.com\/html\/art_merch\/rugs_gallery.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/sleepover.jpg\" alt=\"Sleepover, 2009\" width=\"319\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sleepover, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mark Mothersbaugh is devolving. While he still plays and composes music (think scores for Wes Anderson movies), the keyboardist of the 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post-punk bank Devo has always been more of a conceptual artist than simply a musician. His latest show, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Postcard Diaries: WE MUST REPEAT,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bears witness to his prolific production; there are just a few dozen examples of the 30,000+ postcard-sized images that he has been creating daily as a visual diary over the years. And although these prints and paintings have an R. Crumb-style appeal (and Murakami-style marketing know-how), Mothersbaugh impresses most with his new projects: namely, his rugs. His custom-made rugs take old and new imagery and create visually engaging and tactilely irresistible works that are produced in editions of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153P.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, Mothersbaugh is still making us scratch our heads and chuckle (Irvine Fine Arts, Orange County)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Mothersbaugh is devolving. While he still plays and composes music (think scores for Wes Anderson movies), the keyboardist of the 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post-punk bank Devo has always been more of a conceptual artist than simply a musician. His latest show, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1908\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}