Watercolor and gouache on paper, 6” x 8”
May 23, 2012 at 11:43am Comments
Lorser Feitelson, “Untitled (February 4)”, 1967, oil and enamel on canvas, 60” x 60”
May 22, 2012 at 3:02pm Comments
What better place than here, what better time than now?
“Art is increasingly less a cultural force and more homogenous fodder for someone else’s force, be he the moneyman, the critic, or the dealer. Art is a very useful commodity to people who love money because artists’ ability to sell anything to anybody is at an almighty apogee.
Cleaning our hearts of this disgusting arrangement, there is no better time than now for young artists to divide into tribes, to build small nations from their giant whole and help design society on multiple fronts instead of feeding the machine bland, disposable coal, and there is no better time than now to burrow into a niche and silently figure out new problems for art to solve. There is no better time than now for young artists to stop undermining each other, and this group is leading that charge. This group has the ability to reject the mass-culture, mass-market existence that is fast becoming the norm exactly because they have stayed as confused as they are. No one has bullied them into making art a certain way, and no one has promised them fame in exchange for simplicity and stylishness. I’m left without any advice to give them about how to make money this fall, but I believe they are working in a way that is honest and may, eventually, be heard clearly, and be special. As I look at the work of this class, I see ideas that are on their way to getting weirder and more complicated, because competing in today’s grand commercial art race is less important to them than expressing their feelings in full. And that, like our Olympic rings, is an inherently exciting proposition, one that will help us learn to tell the difference, once more, between that which is great and that which is fleeting.”
May 21, 2012 at 9:51pm Comments
At 14:11 or 14:12 I started tearing up from the pure beauty of the moment.
May 21, 2012 at 9:25pm Comments
Page 18 of my new sketchbook, watercolor + gouache on paper, 7” x 10”
Hooray for new sketchbooks!
May 10, 2012 at 11:09pm Comments
Sonnenzimmer, Throbbing Gristle, 2009, Music Festival, The Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL., Screen Print Poster, 5 color, edition of 350.
A beautiful Sonnenzimmer poster that perfectly visualizes the sound of Throbbing Gristle.
May 7, 2012 at 9:44am Comments
Mary Heilmann, “Go Ask Alice” 2006, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”
“Color is more important than anything else. It’s the real opening and opportunity for painting now. In the world today, we see a lot of wild and strange color—commercially made color, the color of cars, plastics, combined with the natural colors of the world, combined with media colors on television and movies and computer screens and strange lights from all of those sources. All of this is affecting us all of the time. But we don’t have emotional connotations for those colors. Painting is a way to deal with those emotional connections and integrate them into this wonderful history that painting is.”
-David Reed, interview at Reed College, 2008
April 26, 2012 at 9:37am Comments
Four Blue Hills.
I finally had three consecutive full studio days and had so much fun developing new things in my work! I think some of that fun came from listening to episodes of The Secret Stash and Tell ‘em Steve-Dave podcasts while painting and being able to take breaks with Spring in full tow.
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