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James Rielly Ghost With Red Socks, 2017
Oil on linen
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Biangle Studio Ghost Ship, 2019
‘The rigs needed to be able to fluctuate vertically with the tide while staying horizontally fixed. The pumps require a minimum depth of three feet, and the tide in the Delaware River differs six feet.’
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OHINONIHO Still Ghosts, 2022
Panel, Oil, Acrylic
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Rachel Whiteread Poltergeist, 2020
Corrugated iron, beech, pine, oak, household paint, and mixed media
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Sri Whipple The Ghost of William Blake, 2020
Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel
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Ines Doujak Ghostpopulations, 2019
collage
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Urs Fischer Ghost, 2016
oil on cast bronze
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Katie Ione Craney ghost berries II, 2021
dead berries, frame
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Drift Ghost Collection, 2011
‘With the Ghost Collection, DRIFT explores the boundaries of experimental hi-tech production possibilities to give shape to their ideas. In this regard, the Ghost Collection is about the contrast of an endless free-floating airiness captured in a tightly limiting rigid form. The inner shapes were created using a unique 3D-technique to form subsurface drawings inside solid acrylic forms on a large scale, giving the works a dualistic, and illusionistic, character. Each Ghost Chair has a very sharp-edged, graphic silhouette. Yet when placed under a distinctive light, an internal shape in the transparent objects is revealed. An unexpected organic and elusive ghostlike figure appears, like frozen smoke.’
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Angela Deane Seeking, 2019
‘From 2012 to the present, Deane has been taking found photographs, such as those from garage sales, and painting acrylic ghosts where humans once were.’
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Maya Lin Ghost Forest Baseline, 2022
50 tree sections
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Vasco Diogo Ghost, 2024
augmented reality
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Marnie Weber The Ghost Train, 2015
‘The Ghost Train is an art installation that serves as a metaphorical journey into another state of consciousness. The characters are frozen in time as they attempt to board the train with their sentimental worldly possessions that cannot transition into the non-physical. Baggage, suitcases, doilies, and figurines are stacked alongside the passenger effigies all waiting and hoping to be transported. The sounds of movement, trains, animals, and people chattering float through the station intermixed with music that shifts from free jazz drumming to haunting synthesizers to an ethereal angelic choir.’
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inges idee Ghost and Unknown Mass, 2010
Copper, chrome alloy, FRP
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Tony Oursler Blob, 2014
Form, projection
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Laurie Lipton Various, 2017-2021
Drawings
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DarkZoneWonder The Enfield Poltergeist.. The true Story behind the Conjuring 2, 2023
‘We delve into the story behind the hit movie The Conjuring 2.’
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Ed Ruscha Ghost Station, 2011
Metal relief print
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Paul Klee Fleeing Ghost, 1929
Oil on canvas
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H. R. Giger Poltergeist II – Drawings, 1983-1985
‘Thanks to his work on the iconic creature for the film Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)—a detailed account of which is given in his Alien Diaries (2013)—H. R. Giger was firmly established in Hollywood’s supernatural horror and science fiction genres. Giger went on to design all the ghosts for Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson, 1986). Unlike his work on Alien on the set at Shepperton Studios in England, Giger collaborated on the movie remotely from Zürich, basing his creatures on Michael Grais and Mark Victor’s screenplay and airmailing the airbrushed designs to Los Angeles. Due to his absence as well as misunderstandings with the director and the studio and a meager production budget, the dark inscrutability and amorphous plasticity of Giger’s initial shape-shifting sketches ended up falling flat on celluloid, coming to resemble cheap-looking monsters in a campy B-movie. Giger’s in some cases psychedelic sketches were designed as sequences showing the metamorphosis of a worm-like ghost into a grotesque dwarf that ultimately morphs into a soul-devouring Gorgon-like monster called “The Great Beast”.’
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The House of Strange Happenings Pair of Poltergeist Photographs, 1977
‘Two photographs mounted to a single matting, snipe on verso of each with syndication marks and Photo Trendsstamps, dated 13th September 1977.’
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Alicia Kwade Self-portrait as a ghost, 2020
Bronze
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Weijia Ma Step Into The River, 2021
‘Step Into The River is a haunting tale of girls living in China under its One-Child Policy. The river is significant as children who have passed are placed in the river for the current to take them away. Wei is drawn to the river by visions of her dead brother. Lu eventually takes Wei out into the river to see her brother and encounters the ghosts of other children.’
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Mike Kelley Energy Made Visible, 1979
Fiber-tipped pen, acrylic and graphite pencil on paper
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Susan Hiller Small photographic work in which the camera substitutes for the specialized vision of a psychic, 2012
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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves, 2024
‘Nowadays, Beirut is often deprived of electricity. It is not a one-time accident but a new state. In the national museum, visitors find themselves in darkness and use their phones to light the traces of past civilizations as their world crumbles.’
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Ellen Greene Invisible Mother’s Milk, 2013
‘In my usual hunting for vintage gloves and objects to use in my artwork, I came across strange and haunting images that resonated with something deep inside of me. They were “Invisible Mother” photographs of the victorian era. These photographs were evidence of a practical solution to the technical problem of photographing a wiggly baby/toddler with the long exposure times that photography of this era require. The child would be held still on the mother’s lap which was draped with a heavy decorative cloth that went up all the way over her torso and head. The mother would be obscured further when the final tin photograph was put into an oval matted sleeve, which revealed only a child nestled in a draped “background”. Over time the paper matting on many of these photographs have disintegrated revealing the once “invisible” mother, resulting in both horrific and absurd images. In some the mothers hands and/or feet would be visible creating an image of an absurd furry half rug/human holding a baby awkwardly, other times just the draped head shape loomed behind the child’s head creating a menacing ghost image.’
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Yasam Sasmazer Illuminated Darkness, 2011
‘Sasmazer works with Linden wood and bronze to carve children that represent certain feelings, from raging emotion to naive lust. The artist also makes use of shadows to help convey her message saying, “The shadows represent the darkness in our souls’ hidden side and the most frightening part of our personality. The shadow is everything you are but do not want to be.”’
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Brody Albert Empty, Except for the Ghost, 2023
‘Depunctualization, a term coined by theorist Bruno Latour, describes the phenomena of only seeing / recognizing the parts of a complex system when it malfunctions. For example, you are only aware of your stomach when you have a stomach ache, or you are only aware of your car’s engine when it breaks down.’
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RIP Jacques Roubaud ** Dominik, Hi!!! Hopefully before my birthday. And I’ll report back. Efteling is my favorite amusement park. We’re so close to ending the film’s biggest nightmare I can almost … well, not smell it, but see it. I don’t suppose you could describe those specific notebook requirements? Haha, yes, I guess should have mentioned it was in my game. In my case, it took a long time to gather those coins. People who are more skilled and completist could probably snap them up. You mostly get coins when you repair these gaping holes in the ground and walls that are everywhere, and you repair them by throwing magic confetti from a bag of confetti you carry around, and the confetti sticks to the hole and covers it and coins pour out. It’s more fun than it sounds. Wow, love was pretty lazy yesterday, but who can blame him. Love turning your apartment into a haunted apartment whether you like it or not, but he lets you pick the dead person whose ghost will forever hang around and spook you, so who do you pick? ** kier, Hey, hey, kier! Glad you dug it. I’m pretty okay, playing video games a lot and waiting for a big film problem to get fixed, and stuff like that. Glad you’re better and I hope your energy has caught up. You need it if you’re gonna do all that painting. Sounds vivid in the best way. The only time I ever did pottery and glazed it and stuff was in grade school. I made a dinosaur, but of course it just looked like a shiny turd. But most of the other kids ended up accidentally making turds too, in my defense. I still have it somewhere for some completely unknown reason. Anyway, best of luck acing the glazing process, and, knowing you, you will without any extra luck. Hope you had fun with your friend. Yesterday I played my game, made two blog posts, paid rent, answered two emails, ate spaghetti, … pretty blah. But today still has time to sparkle. Yours too, btw. xo, me. ** James, Avoid the plague, needless to say. I am pro-Chinese food. In fact, my favorite food in the world is cold sesame noodle, Szechuan style ideally. French guys seem like good people dally with. Hey, maybe you’ll dally yourself over here. Beach Boys are very good, yes. I’m all about the ‘Pet Sounds’ -> ‘Surf’s Up’ era. Or maybe -> ‘Holland’. Never been on a dating app myself. Never even peeked at Grindr over some Grinding person’s shoulder. I’m probably a let down in person too, but two letdowns might get along? Still ‘Paper Mario’, yes. I just defeated the Giant Rubberband Boss, and now I’m about to get on a boat and sail out to sea for as-yet-unknown reasons. Paris is supreme. Venice is really unique and something. The ‘DiV’ hotel, the Lido, is kind of a let down though. Sure, this blog could use a balcony, and you lounging there sipping your tea seems like it would work. So, done. ** Misanthrope, If I see any of your future bfs on the escort sites, I’ll let you know. Happy birthday to your mom a day late. 82, not bad, she’s hanging way in there. Hope that was the expectable sentiment-filled blast. ** jay, Hi. I feel like in person I can make people understand I’m not judgemental, but in prose alone … I’m pretty good at tone constructing, but suspiciousness is a dense wall. Emo night sounds kind of wonderful. Wow. I would check to see if Paris has similar events, but no amount of outfitting and make up applying would let me pass. Wait, a ‘Marbled Swarm’ t-shirt? Seriously? No, you have to be joshing. A guy wearing a ‘Marbled Swarm’ t-shirt at an Emo event would be one of those ‘I can die now’ things. Hm, okay, I think I’ll watch ‘Love is the Devil’ again then. Seriously, it’s pretty hazy in my head at this point. Anyway, nice, score! See you pronto. ** _Black_Acrylic, My pleasure, Ben. Man, take extreme care. And I trust your hat left every sentient portion of your surroundings agog. ** nat, You made it through safe and sound. You figured out who Christopher is, I see. I’m trying to adopt a ‘I should just be grateful that …’ ‘tude about that podcast, but I’m not quite managing to. Having no clue about the specific currency in ‘Final Fantasy’, I still think a million anything is a pretty impressive figure. Nor did I have any idea that one could sell oneself as a slave in ‘FF’. I thought it was just a bunch of kind of Goth-ish romping and swashbuckling and stuff. Anyway, I had it all wrong, and I guess I need to at least watch a walkthrough video or something. It sounds like you had a momentous time. ** Steeqhen, Hey. You’re tempting me to reread ‘Snowflake’ but I really, really need to read some other things first. I love living in Paris. It’s ideal. And the transport here is excellent. Best metro system in the world that I’ve seen. So total encouragement from me to consider Paris your next home. I can give you a tour of what you don’t already know and spout accurate hype as we traverse the local highlights, etc. I hope my respective rambles have whatever quality they have herein whence they’re emitting from my actual face. ** HaRpEr, No, no, I’m sure my mind’s lacks were at fault. But anyway, a reading, which, well, is a performance, although hopefully not of the ‘slam’ variety, but I don’t suspect I need to worry about you slipping into ‘slam’ mode. I was born in LA, grew up there, and have lived most of my life there, so, yes. I like Babitz’s depiction of LA. It has its slant, for sure, but it’s infused with the real. It makes a good couple with Didion, who also ‘gets’ LA. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend Pamela Des Barres’s book ‘I’m With the Band’. It’s a splendid, fun, flirty, sparklingly written book about LA when it was wild and wide eyed. It is very odd about the resurgence of interest in Babitz and unfortunate that it’s being partly occasioned by her books being accoutrement of the famous and moronic set. Thanks for saying that about the podcast. Yeah, it was annoying and full of off-base, barely thought through presumption. The way they sexualised the films was gross, and they acted/talked like Zac was just a technician or something. I know Chris a little, and he really should have known better. I guess it’s interesting to hear people talk about the films who are so far afield from understanding them. Anyway, thank you. ** Lucas, Hi. What color is your hair now? I hope your psychiatrist appointment dispelled the dread. I’m fine. Really, just kind of hanging/waiting for the film thing to be resolved. It looks like it will be any minute now, but given the untrustworthy person who has to agree, it has to be a believe when I see it thing. Otherwise, just doing what I usually do. All’s well. Most people I know either do a Substack or visit them, but I honestly haven’t gotten in the habit of checking things out there, so I don’t know any to recommend. Still, it seems like the place to see and be seen these days. Well, hey, I’ll start my Substack promiscuity with your place. Hit me up with the link when it’s gettable. Cool, thanks. Lovely Friday to you too! ** Right. I decided to make a third instalment in the blog’s ongoing, very occasional Ghosts franchise, and there it is. See you tomorrow.