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1. Eleanor Voterakis by Lost At E Minor

   16.Feb.07, 21:10 EST
   
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   Melbourne-based artist Eleanor Voterakis works predominantly with a 2B mechanical pencil [Pacer]. "My drawings are quite stark and delicate," she says. "The drawn objects tend to be situated in a blank space, and I play around with form by leaving parts of objects unfinished or filled in as silhouettes." The detail and texture in her work is stunning, stamping her as one of the most exciting new illustration talents in Australia right now.
   
   

2. Graham Dolphin by Josh Rubin

   16.Feb.07, 20:58 EST
   
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   One of the standouts at last month's Scope New York, Graham Dolphin’s art, employing seemingly-compulsive writing as the centerpiece, simultaneously recalls Fluxus, Marcel Duchamp and the back of a notebook owned by a girl in junior high. With meticulous, miniature penmanship, Dolphin makes dense, obsessive, lovely formations of words using lyrics from pop songs as his mundane-born muse.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    "White Lyrics" indents the complete lyrics of the Beatles’ White Album on the record’s cardboard sleeve. Others works ‘engrave’ lyrics right onto the vinyl in a circular, almost runic formation. Krafwerk’s The Model and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds are just two of Dolphin’s canvases for this. In art paper, Velvet Underground Lyrics cascades the text into a violet spectrum, part Ed Ruscha, part Mark Rothko.
   
   
   
   One could argue Dolphin’s work is entirely about economies—both personal and monetary—and the tools we use to negotiate between these realms. Lyrics have no gold weight worth, just an imbued personal value. Each record probably cost $7 when it was purchased. Sentiment scribed on top, these are the silver pieces of personalized currency. By using a garden-variety felt-tipped pin to make the marks, Dolphin’s work also discusses hierarchies of value in the art market.
   
   
   
   Our world is one filled with fine print and it’s rarely used to express anything celebratory. Looking at 25 Neil Young Songs , concentric circles of pharmaceutical-disclaimer-sized writing, one begins to realize fine print has become part of our subconscious visual vocabulary.