tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10169513110127358992024-03-05T18:48:34.055-08:00The One Seriesone artist one work one dayEmily Farrantohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11478769691979853020noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-62847400661573117542012-07-05T09:31:00.001-07:002012-07-10T10:37:12.950-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">28 days, 28 solo exhibitions</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The One Series was a sequence of 28, one work, solo exhibitions. We hosted small, salon-style gatherings every evening of the 28 days. Spending a couple of hours with one work per night among an interested audience was an extraordinary experience. </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">In a sense this process reminded me how to look at artwork, or at least how I want to look at it. I want to take some time with a work, refrain from judgement, open to being changed by it. -</span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Emily Farranto</span></span></span></b></div>
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</div>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-1258342155689681792012-07-01T03:00:00.000-07:002016-05-18T15:36:00.650-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: "times";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span>
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arresting when abandoned and covered in dew. Like rainbows, almost everyone agrees they are beautiful. But unlike rainbows, spiderwebs serve a function; they are traps. I suppose what makes spiderwebs so
visually enticing is the complexity of the pattern and the fine-lined translucence
of the material. They can also be admired for their brilliant engineering and yet they are temporary. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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identify this installtion as three large spiderwebs, but the material was unclear
without closer inspection. Glass beads were strung on some fine, but irregular
translucent material that was in fact made of plastic wrap spun on a drop
spindle. Viewer after viewer asked, <i>H</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ow
long did this take?</i> I don’t believe that this work necessarily took more time to make
than a lot of other artworks and yet it seemed to solicit this question again and again. Like
spiderwebs in nature, these webs seemed to represent time itself and labor. But
unlike natural webs these served no function. Because of this they seem
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this? Why do we make art? This piece brings to mind questions about the
practice and function of art, but it seemed to invite more associative
readings than formal. The conversation drifted more naturally to biology than
to other artists. I asked the artist, because it wasn’t easily identifiable to
me, about precedent works. She
mentioned a sculpture by Eva Hesse titled <a href="http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=8715" target="_blank">Right After </a>at the Milwaukee Museum of art. I also found common ground in the
work of <a href="http://www.berndnaut.nl/works.htm" target="_blank">Berndnaut Smilde</a>, especially the cloud forms. Nature, but not. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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after we had revisited the space with a small group of people and talked for a
while about the piece, I drove by the gallery. We had not cleaned up the
glasses or wine bottles or put away the chairs. It was night and the lights inside were low. It was at this moment that the piece seemed fully realized to me––the two endeavors, creative and natural overlapping with us like in nature. Spider webs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i> look
like some sort of measure of time, the radial strands like the hands of a
clock. They represent time and what it has abandoned. I parked the car and
looked in the window at this peculiar scene in the half-light: the circle of empty chairs, the debris, the drooping webs sparking overhead. I thought of the
circular, lilting melody of the title, about passing an afternoon discussing
art, these strange and pretty things we do before we’re gone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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horse. But then it wasn’t exactly a horse. Or this horse was a little off. This
whole piece was a little off. It was fantastic. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">I cannot figure out why this
piece was so satisfying. So I looked for images of bronze sculptures of horses.
First of all this was not bronze; it was stainless steel. The base was spelt
maple, a wonderful detail. Second, this work didn’t really look like the
sculptures that came up in my image search. Its legs were stumpy. Its body
looked more like a dog, some kind of pointer. There were balls but the penis
seemed to be missing or extremely retracted. His anus was exaggerated. His lips
were slightly human and curled like Billy Idol’s signature snarl. Its jaw line
was exaggerated and in fact his face resembled testicles and a penis (see for
yourself!). </span><br />
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this work delivered something. I don’t know what any of it meant. But it was
funny and strange and I haven’t seen a work like it before.</span><br />
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Jordan Kantor in the November 2004 issue of ARTFORUM called “The Tuymans
Effect”. It named “…distinctively crude rendering, his chalky palette and limited
chromatic range, his use of photographic and filmic sources and cropping techniques…” as some characteristics of the artist’s work and
subsequently the work of some of his admirers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this the piece titled <i>Daisies Never Tell</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. I see Tuymans of course and Marlene Dumas. In the installation
approach I recognize Karen Kilimnick and Elizabeth Peyton. There is nothing
wrong with building a vocabulary based on the work of established
professionals. But I also believe that in every artist is the capacity for
unique solutions and a voice that can be attributed to none other than the
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said something like, as an artist you must leave your family. Then, she
clarified that you did not have to become estranged. You just needed to get far
enough to escape their expectations and limitations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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parentage, not biologically but creatively. There were moments in this piece I
started to see the distinctive voice of the artist. There were those odd and
interesting canvases with rope pictograms. There was a small sort of
aqua-colored portrait. Clearly the artist can paint. Then there were several canvases that were difficult to
invest myself in because I felt that the artist was not truly invested in them. This artist, I guessed, is more sincere, more complex,
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Donachie (sharing Luc Tuymans as a recent ancestor), were present in the gallery. I wanted to approach them
politely, thank them for all they have done and, on behalf of the artist, show
them to the end of the pier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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didn’t ask a lot. The statement instructed me to use the paper fortune teller
toy. Chose a letter: N-O-L or A. Choose a number. Lift a flap to find a word or
“impression." I found the word “ETOUFFEE”<i>. What does the impression
make you think of or remind you of?</i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"> The instruction sheet asked. R<i>ecord your
story/recollection in the diary provided.</i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"> I wrote a page in the diary saying something to the
effect that Ignatius (a nearby restaurant) had good etouffee and that they were
on the verge of getting their liquor license for four years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that suffered from my resistance was the final instruction to discuss this with
others in the gallery. I didn’t <i>want</i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"> to talk about etouffee. I did not want to talk about
Mardi Gras, or Hurricane Katrina either. In New Orleans there are plenty of
opportunities to talk about our city. I wanted to talk about art. I tried to
talk about this artrwork but it was difficult—maybe because of my own poor
performance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-63759083263015356372012-06-25T05:26:00.000-07:002012-06-26T13:05:51.302-07:00<br />
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photograph printed digitally on Arches.
In minimal language it suggested a shoreline, a couple of subtle waves,
a jetty. I was drawn to the waves, the way they were paused. The photograph was
nostalgic, romantic, and personal. I wanted to be close to it, enter it. But it
was framed in painted wood and cardboard and Plexiglas so that there were more
presentation elements than pictorial. The framing kept me on the gallery side
of the glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Other viewers and I
discussed the process of converting a pinhole photograph to a digital print and
framing it. Someone presented this possibility: a pinhole photograph is the
unique result of using a handmade camera with a little hole and no lens. The
artist has taken a pinhole photograph, then cropped or cleaned it up, printed
it digitally, and then matted and framed it. Maybe the artist was visibly
abandoning the most basic analog process for digitalization and then further
burying it in presentation. I don’t know–– I don’t think this work is asking to
be read as conceptual. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another point on the subject
of presentation was brought up by different artist: We have to protect and
preserve our work, especially when it is being shipped and installed. Thus the
framing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see. This photograph has much in common in <a href="http://www.pattyzuver.com/" target="_blank">the artist’s work as I know it:</a> nostalgic,
quiet, utilizing a kind of pictorial reduction. I don’t think this piece is
asking for a lot of dissection. It simply offers a moment, a tone, a view to
experience. I just wished for more access to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><b>Sarah Marshall</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lagniappe</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A fish, a fossil, a bubble or pearl. Lagniappe: a little
something extra, a little something for free. Lithography is a process of oil
and water.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw a story of a marine catastrophe. I saw oily fingerprints. I saw an oyster’s pearl in the mouth of a mutated fish. Or I
might have seen a moment of evolution, a fish learning to fly, a pearl of
wisdom. A little something extra. Or––</span></div>
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This was a wonderfully complex image, full of marks both readable
and abstract. They were varied but in accord. I appreciated the quiet of this piece, its resistance to
definition. I have thought many times recently that the unique gift of visual
arts is the potential to create silence or to encourage stillness in the
viewer. I don’t feel like talking much about it, which is maybe another gift of
this piece. (If you only see it only online you will miss a lot.)</div>
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</div>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-2788565837108032912012-06-22T13:52:00.001-07:002012-07-05T07:22:10.222-07:00<br />
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total of about an hour or an hour and a half. But I am looking at it again
<a href="http://davideology.com/?p=1005" target="_blank">online</a>. So I am writing this in the present tense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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framed by grey and blue nylon. Like Bernd and Hilla Becher you see the
variation because of what stays the same. What stays the same is the opening of
the tent, a sort of rounded square shape, irregular on one side where the door
flap is neatly tied. There are also two small rectangular windows in the two
top corners. After a few times through the almost seven minute loop you begin
to watch the landscape change through these subservient frames. Many of the
views are impressive. National
Parks of the West maybe. The vistas
are so sublime and the tent so…sporty. These two visual elements are share the
frame but are never reconciled exactly. I am reminded of the Gore-Tex-clad
portraits of Karel Funk, the natural and synthetic butting up against each
other. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The first several locations
are likely camping spots: flat, dry, high ground. Then, the tent hovers just
above a flowing river; we know this is a departure from the reality of camping.
The tone is not quite serious, or not quite taking itself seriously. A sign
reads “NO<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> camping beyond this point</span>”
then the tent faces a chain link fence that guards a drop off (No camping
beyond this point). A dog looks into the tent. There is a man with a metal
detector on the beach. These shots are somehow funny. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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backward we know for sure we have departed from any likely camping scenario. This
becomes more than a sequence of views from a pitched tent. It is implausible
(you don’t usually move a tent more than a few feet this way) It also resembles
the view of a person being held under the arms and dragged. It’s a helpless or
wounded posture. Or it’s the point of view of an inanimate object. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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swivels abruptly, correcting the view from one framed tree to two. At this
moment the opening of the tent most resembles the viewfinder of a video camera
on a tripod. Does the video address camping or making art? Are they
related? Are they parallel? Is it
making an analogy? The camper sets up the tent, chooses the direction it faces
conscious of the light, the view. The artist sets up the lens with some of the
same criteria. But the element of dragging the view proposes a puzzle I cant
quite complete. Which is probably good. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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restlessness named in the title? Do people camp out of restlessness? I don’t
think so, even if they change locations frequently. Maybe this is the
restlessness that propels a person who enjoys both camping and recording but is
unable to settle in and enjoy either process. Or maybe, and most interestingly, restlessness is not a
driving force but a dragging force that moves it all impatiently in the
opposite direction of the ideal view.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-25286326524730804902012-06-22T13:37:00.002-07:002012-07-05T07:20:58.650-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ldNnTXV4KAX7bGP-H9l9KJaeODiNsmcvHIU9JtNo0EBB0AA1aqw3m2qbkOCdPTWAMBugSkhKUSPRX8PuICAon9oZVxL_V0OGiBQRBG4XAppo44_9VJR4WA2T63oPzfYwabw1fqYXOvxe/s1600/DSCN1646.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ldNnTXV4KAX7bGP-H9l9KJaeODiNsmcvHIU9JtNo0EBB0AA1aqw3m2qbkOCdPTWAMBugSkhKUSPRX8PuICAon9oZVxL_V0OGiBQRBG4XAppo44_9VJR4WA2T63oPzfYwabw1fqYXOvxe/s320/DSCN1646.JPG" width="298" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">June 20</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I looked at the sky because
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plane. I looked at the dark mound of earth because of its strange shape,
contrasting tone, and its position in the foreground. The few trees articulated
with improbably dark singular brush strokes called my attention to them,
especially those creating a net-like pattern on the left edge. Then, a small,
red rectangular shape in the lower right corner, repeatedly drew my attention
to its incongruity. And I wanted to look into the vague and strangely lit
distance because I always seek this point in landscape paintings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hut. In fact, it seemed to bump into the hut on its way to other passages of
the painting. The hut actually seemed to block passage beyond it. I found myself
wondering about the focal point or fo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cal points. And I found myself thinking about Wallace
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">The sky, the distance and the hut are described without the slightly frantic texture of the rest of the painting. And its strange that a scene so still should also be so agitated, as if the viewer/painter cannot stop focusing on individual blades of grass or branches or leaves against the notion of a singular focus.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />After Sound<br /><br /><br />I was looking at this drawing a while when someone said the word “fizzy” regarding the multitude of tiny circles concentrated on the drawing’s right side. That’s right, I thought, it’s sonic. This drawing is like sound. But how was it achieving this effect? Though it was non-representational, my first association after seeing a digital reproduction was The Blue Angels, the US Navy’s flying acrobatic team. If you have ever heard jets training overhead, you know the noise. I imagined a jet’s roar from falling jet-like forms on the left and a kind of popping from the hundreds of circles. Then I remembered the title. Ah yes... <br /><br />The medium appeared to be ballpoint pen and marker on what looked like Bristol board. I wanted to see the surface of this drawing, which was behind glass. Even more, I wanted to see the drawing without the black frame. White maybe? I imagine that without the frame the effect of falling and floating and the impression of sound and movement, would be more effective. <br /><br />How to hang a drawing. This is always a problem to solve. Every solution presents a condition that becomes part of the work. In this case the use of non-precious media and the visual imposition on the drawing by the frame would argue for the drawing to be hung directly on the wall. I am harping on this only because after thirty minutes in front of the drawing the piece became more and more optically effective, seemed to expand. Seemed to make noise. It had a huge wall onto which its interesting afterimage could be projected. Part of the afterimage was that rectangle holding it back, holding in the sound that wanted to reverberate.<br /><br /><br /> EF</span></div>
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can provide an excellent vocabulary for addressing the strain of our physical
existence.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The passages of this painting I enjoyed looking at the most were those
where I sensed a struggle between the artist, the paint, and the subject. There were intersections where the
strain of the subject (hunched over, working with out-dated technology, looking
away from the task he is engaged in) and the strain of the painter
(articulating an arm, a hand) met and these were, for me, the most engaging
passages in the work. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Paintings, especially portraits, remind us that we live
in the flesh.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><i></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">The piece was
comprised of nine black and white hand-painted American flags on which the artist
has embroidered passages of the behavior management manual for prisoners at
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stitched lettering. The labor of this task was the heart of the artist’s vigil
for these prisoners. This gesture must have become tedious to pursue. But she did. We can
see that time passed and the artist approached the task in different states of
mind; sometimes the stitching is tight and the lettering small, other times the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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with overtly political art. Politics is something I want to engage in with
reason. The history of
political art is rife with propaganda and not always for the good guys. I go to
the visual arts for something else. I want ambiguity. I want tenderness. I want
a language that disrupts clarity. Some artists, like </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Francis Alÿs, manage to
apply small human gestures to huge political situations. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I do not really want to engage the flags (that tired, and loaded symbol) and the fact that the passages are </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">selected</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> from the manual, well, this editing suggested to me—against what I believe to be true––that taken as a whole and taken in context, the manual is not so bad.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">For me, the power in this piece is in the small, human gesture of t</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">he sti</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">tching. This act alone is quiet, unique, sustained. It is human and effective. A woman sewing (or
writing, like Akhmatova) for a man (or in this case men) in political prison is an old but always poignant story. I also think of the line from Allan Ginsberg’s
Howl, which is repeated several times: “I am with you in Rockland.” I believe the artist is saying this: in all of the humiliations and absurdities and institutionalized discomforts, I am with you.</span></span></span></span><br />
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see, to glimpse, to glance, to notice, to observe. The experience of sight is
remarkable. This of course is an understatement. It has to be because it is a
statement and how could language relate the experience of one of the senses?<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">This little
painting, smaller than a sheet of typing paper, held my attention for two
hours. My eyes never grew tired of looking at it because it continued to yield
a changing optical experience. The background would push forward then seem to
recede. I say background yet his is an abstract painting. Until its not. There
is the suggestion of space here, there is distance, more distant distance.
There is a horizon. There is the impression of a centered form. There is
a form in front of this one though it seems to be moving. A wave, maybe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">I see a
boat, a ship. And then, I can’t not see this form as a ship, this painting as
nautical. But it continues to change. There is a push and movement of
atmosphere. There is the light from the farthest distance pushing through to
the surface of the painting. There is almost the impression of wave-like
motion. How can this be as there is not a recognizable form in the painting?</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;">When I saw
paintings by John Constable in London I was overtaken by their strangeness. It
was not the just image but the way the surface of the painting seem to change
as I looked at it, change in the corner of my eye as I looked away. This almost
created the sensation of the drastic weather that the painting portrayed. Or
Corot, the way the trees in his paintings always seem to be moving. The light
patches of paint on the surfaces of these paintings <i>feel</i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"> like sunlight passing through leaves
on a windy day. Or Turner whose land and seascapes more abstract than
representational. They seem to <i>manufacture</i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"> light.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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painting uses an abstract vocabulary to render (as I see it) light, space,
movement, and atmosphere. This painting gives me the easy satisfaction of
looking at a landscape painting and the uneasiness of not knowing what I see.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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mention the wonderful, irregular, edges of this painting. You have to see them.
They render this painting an object as well as an image. There is not an inch
of this painting that is not disorienting and wonderful. I have written this in
the present tense because the two hour exhibition of this painting is over but
I can’t stop looking at it..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Part of the point and pleasure of this series of exhibitions is
engage in sustained looking. I arrived at this exhibition late, with only 20
minutes or so to see the work. The conversation had also run it’s course and
appeared to be winding down. I asked the person who was deinstalling to email copies
of the statement and two other pages that were included on the wall of the
piece. The piece was complicated. It required an effort of reading and
decoding. When I received the pdf of the statement text could not be enlarged
enough to read without pixilating. In other words, I missed the piece. It was
over. There was no way I could, from looking at the photographs I had taken and
reading the statement (if I could have read the statement) have had anything
but an remote and intellectual experience of the work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Last night after a long day I sat down with last month’s issue of ARTFORUM. As I flipped through the pages, not really
reading anything, I realized how often we approach artwork peripherally and
intellectually. If you are not in the room with a piece of visual art it cannot
truly reach you. I wanted to write that and see if I believed this statement.
When we look at ARTFORUM, see work online, salivate over gorgeous artist books
or catalogues we are in a way sustained but not nourished. If you are a student
or if you teach, if you don’t live in a location with a profusion of galleries and
museums, you seek art in reproductions because you are hungry for it. But I am
considering this possibility: If we accept, even subconsciously, that looking at ARTFORUM is engaging
in art we miss the real experience of looking at art, which necessarily happens
live and in person and with time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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York. I miss the option of seeing work at David Zwirner each month. I miss
the big exhibitions and the small shows. But I am beginning to think that I
should not try to fill the void with anything other than artwork, real artwork, live and in
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Andrew Hotis</b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Red Hook Box</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">There was something heartbreaking about this little box labeled <i>RED HOOK DRWGS</i> in stamped capital letters followed by a period. You name something by place once you have
left that place or once you suspect you will leave. I guessed this piece was made with the
knowledge or hindsight of departure. It was labeled on two sides the way moving
boxes or boxes going into storage are. The color the box was painted was the
tone and color of an interior wall. I could imagine the color was called sea foam or something like that. The drawings were made on the
pages of a paperback book. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the touch they felt like household textures: wax and interior paint.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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narrow wooden table, they read more like interiors. They still seemed abstract
but the way a bare wall is abstract, or a corner, or light coming under a
pulled down shade. Home. Or a former home. </span></span></div>
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means something to leave New York. I admit, I am projecting this on the piece, and can follow the biography of the artist. Even so, the small scale spoke to me of a New York apartment. The permission to move
the drawings around the table reminded me of rearranging furniture in a small
space. The drawings were packed up and labeled with the name of a neighborhood
in a city almost everyone leaves eventually, or at least leaves a few
apartments and neighborhoods behind. </span></span></div>
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the gesture of this piece. We have all moved more places than our parents. We
have left many rooms we once occupied. The drawings were both full and empty
like an apartment you’ve lived in, when you are looking around after your furniture has
been moved out. </span></span></div>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-85412786392886808142012-06-14T11:02:00.001-07:002020-06-03T04:36:18.332-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Bobby Tilton</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I did not spend two hours with this work as I have most of
the work in the series so far. I came into the gallery out of sorts and
unfocused. A small child in my care suffered a choking episode. My house has
suffered the neglect of my distraction for two weeks now. I owe people phone
calls and emails. My bank account is wobbling. So my reading of this piece may
very well be hampered or encouraged by this condition.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I remember my mother, a mother of seven, using the phrase “I
was a </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">wreck</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">”. Nowadays people
often say, “train wreck” instead of simply “wreck” and they mean “a mess.” I prefer wreck, for its openness, lack
of grandiosity and sense of observed spectacle (Nowadays nothing is anything if
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">One of the elements of this piece that enjoy thinking about
is the title. Wreck. It can be a verb or a noun. It actually does not describe
the object (a wrecking ball) but what the object does, or causes, or maybe the
person it for who it is a stand-in. So the greatest tension in this piece is
between the title and the object. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">There is also tension between, the ball and the chain that
comprise the piece. The chain is a predictable metal chain, slightly rusted.
The ball is white and covered with a cake frosting texture and free-hand
filigree, though it appears harder and denser than frosting. The ball did not
quite transcend its material (plaster?) to appear soft, cake like. It was
enjoyable to think of what the piece would look like if the ball could really
be mistaken for cake or was cake. Then again, it was enjoyable to think of it,
heavy as it was (you could tell that it had weight by the way it moved slowly
and slightly) smashing into the walls, table and wine bottles. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Male-female tension was brought up by some of the viewers.
But couldn’t shake my perspective that was inextricably linked to that moment.
I saw the wrecking ball as a stand-in for one person, the tension within one
person. Weighted and potentially menacing, but unlikely to find the assistance
to really do some damage. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">I have never considered this question before. Maybe that's because I have never seen a funny abstract painting before this one. This abstract painting has a figurative
moment. Floating in the middle of a pink rectangle was a fleshy form that I
read as most probably an ass, though there is a deliberate (I believe) anatomical discrepancy in what would be the upper thigh. We, the
other viewers and I, disagreed and discussed what form this was. An ass? balls? (I don’t
exactly see that one), a nose? (I don’t exactly see that one either.) <i>Two asses!</i>
Someone called out, after the conversation had moved on. Funny, right? So After seeing
the ass I returned to the title. It's oxymoronic. A strand is not rigid; power seems necessarily rigid. Ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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funny about this painting? So here we have this fleshy form suspended on a nauseating pink
rectangle. It especially appeared nauseating along the lower edge where it
butted up against an equally nauseating green. (I can see here that in the reproduction the relationship between these colors does not come
across accurately.) So this fleshy form was painterly. The edge of the painting allows it to
sort of float. Like it is a painting within the painting. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">A figurative painting within an abstract one.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">It is held on the surface as if being presented. Look Mommy, an ass! Funny. </span></div>
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these pokey little sticks too. They look like sticks because the paint is
raised. They remind me of piñata batons. I imagine they are trying to hit or poke at the ass or the painting of the ass. Funny. Maybe dark...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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read the rest of the painting? I saw a deep space in the upper right corner. I
was attracted it was largely obscured. There is a thread
of color that seems to glow or represent something that glows: neon or the camera
blur of lights at night. From behind the pink rectangle is a sort of explosion
shape. If the artist wanted to paint an explosion he
could have. But this form is flattened, constructed of deliberately rigid diagonal
marks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mark that bothered me. It was the vertical line rising from bottom edge of the painting and disappearing behind the pink rectangle. It formed a border
between two textured color fields. I did that annoying thing that everyone does
in graduate school; I held my hand over that line. I sort of hated that line. I did not like that it almost anchored the pink field, kept it from floating the way I wanted it to. I
didn’t like that I did not know why it was there. Or maybe it seemed to stabilize the painting in a way that I didn't want it to. Wait...maybe <i>this</i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> was the Strand of Power. That I was irked by a line is funny! It is funny and strange and wonderful that there is a language of colors and gestures and lines that we cannot decode precisely. I have a hunch
that this painting was supposed to provoke, that it was making a joke, but one
that might have been offensive or cynical. It’s pretty amazing that a painting can do
that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEideKoJPDx04U0lRiqV2h1-vJnYj996w8wF-RgbZP3N5ipuSePnT1372HVmUqMGb1kYp3febZ-smXNpiLWT86MahIssJ-0P94ABr6mvgcBBM_Jl-Z2_tEK8cLoMW7oxuQyn_lPJ-LzXSRFB/s1600/DSCN1426.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEideKoJPDx04U0lRiqV2h1-vJnYj996w8wF-RgbZP3N5ipuSePnT1372HVmUqMGb1kYp3febZ-smXNpiLWT86MahIssJ-0P94ABr6mvgcBBM_Jl-Z2_tEK8cLoMW7oxuQyn_lPJ-LzXSRFB/s200/DSCN1426.JPG" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">This evening’s piece continued to address the question <i>what is real?</i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;"> though it utilized a very different vocabulary. Oscar, four years old, interacted with a painted, wooden cutout of himself in identical clothing. Wood Oscar was attached to a piece of fishing line that had been cast over one of the ceiling beams and real Oscar spent nearly an hour hoisting the other up and down while answering some of the unscripted questions of the artist and audience.</span><br />
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artist and subject (or more accurately, collaborator) decided to nail the painting
to the wall. The final ten minutes or so were spent watching the four-year-old
hammer nails into the painting, at one point telling everyone that someone
hammered nails into Jesus. (I was waiting for someone to bring up Pinocchio but
no one did.)</span></div>
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moment that was amazing to see and impossible to categorize. This piece was
absurd, ridiculous, and utterly charming. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Authorship is a mysterious thing. This piece consisted of a wall
text in vinyl lettering, one black and white photograph, and six color
photographs. If the wall text is to be taken as fact, Dr Sausa, pictured in the
black and white photo, was a pediatrician whose amateur soft-core pornographic
photographs ended up at a New Jersey flea market. If the wall text is to be
believed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Why wouldn’t we believe the wall text? It was signed with the
author’s initials. Why would the author tell us a story that wasn’t true?
Ahh…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">When I first saw the piece and read the text I laughed out loud
at the story of the man with egg-shaped head, ugly little teeth and enormous
glasses. I was also touched by it. If we make art, we must relate to his assertion
when he declared “I am an artist.” That it came to him after waking from “an
especially brutal syphilitic fever” is very, very funny. If we make art, we are
laughing not only at him, but at ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The same sort of goes for the women in the photographs. The
women are posed, bear-breasted, and in postures of attempted (albeit rather
awkward) seduction. These soft-focus women with out-modish hair and out-modish
breasts possessed slightly odd features. One was cross-eyed, one with red hair
seemed to have a shadow of dark hair (or possibly just a shadow) over her upper
lip. In other words, in spite of the bare breasts and flirty poses these were
not sexy pictures. In fact, they rendered the convention of these mildly dirty
pictures quite absurd and somewhat sweet. In the moment of the piece both
endeavors, art and sexuality, seemed a little misguided and rather touching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">So did Yasser Aggour create Dr. Sausa? I mean there is a photograph here of <i>someone.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In the discussion inspired by this piece I learned about the
Storyville photographs of E.J. Bellocq and the role of the artist Lee
Feelander. I looked up the history later. Bellocq photographed the models (they
were prostitutes). Later, Freelander purchased the negatives, printed them and
by doing so, re-contextualized them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">I know from a conversation with the artist that the work was made
“semi-site-specifically.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">We look at these photographs and ask, Are these people really characters and not "real" people? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">The wall test is signed with the artist's initials. Is he also a character?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In Chapter One of Milan Kundera’s <i>Immortality</i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> the narrator is
sitting by a pool. He is watching a woman in her sixties taking a swimming
lesson from a much younger man. When she leaves, she turns to the young man and waves. "The essence of her charm, independent of time, revealed itself…and then the
word Agnes entered my mind." Agnes, the novel's protagonist was thus born. Later the narrator is identified as the author,
Milan Kundera. In this book and others he, Kundera playing himself, interjects. He appears as the creator, mixing with the fiction. In Chapter Two he asks: "Who is Agnes?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">In 2003, J.M. Coetzee delivered his Nobel Lecture in which he addresses the mysterious relationship between the author, the characters and the reader. If you can, listen to the audio <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/coetzee-lecture.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">“...Daniel Defoe. What was
not clear from the children’s encyclopedia was how this man fitted into the
story. The encyclopedia referred to the man as the author of
Robinson Crusoe but this made no sense since it said on the very first page of
Robinson Crusoe that Robinson Crusoe told the story himself. Who was Daniel
Defoe?”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">This work read to me like a piece of short fiction. Still, we have photographic proof. Who is Dr. Sausa? Why would an artist tell us a story that
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Kensuke Yamada</b></span></span></span><br />
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do when you look at a work of art and have no strong response? In a group
exhibition or a museum you can just move on. When a piece is the only one in
the room and you have committed to spend a while you have to get to know it a
little. Some people are comfortable arriving at a decision and spending no more
time with a work if they do not like it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where I am with that: if you invest your time and attention into </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">something it will return something. You
may begin to like a work, a kind of visual Stockholm syndrome. Or,
maybe some germ of thought will form and that can be its own reward. And then there is the fact that we
change over time. When I was in Paris many years ago I visited the Picasso
Museum. I figured that if I were ever to be won over, this was the place. Nope.
I was unmoved. A week or two ago I saw a Picasso calendar on the table in my
friend’s apartment. I looked at one, then another of the images. I still didn’t
like</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> them exactly
but I could <i>see</i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">
them. They were extremely powerful. And this in a bad reproduction! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Savvy design,
seasonal colors, the profusion of seductive imagery on every level of
advertising enters our brains; we cannot stop it. Advertising, meant to appeal,
often to the widest possible audience, is going to be conservative and our
general tastes may absorb its influences. This is what Holland Cotter wrote
about taste in the New York Times: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">“Taste is
habit, a form of learned behavior. And habit is what we rely on to make us feel
at home and comfortable in the world. So judgment based primarily on taste,
like most art criticism, is inherently conservative, predictable, fixed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">I think of the poster of the girl crying I used to visit in the bookstore of the mall near my house. I was twelve and the original drawing was pastel on black paper. A tear streamed down her face, catching the light. I want to say there was the reflection of a man (on horseback?) in her pupil. Very corny. I loved it. Later, in graduate school, I formed opinions. Really worked on them. So much talking. </span></div>
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an age of greater humility. I no longer submit my vote, thumbs up or down. In
my own work I am suspicious of paintings or passages that I like. Recently I
sat in my studio in front of two large paintings on paper. One had been more or
less resolved and the other was in what I always think of as the awkward phase.
I became very aware that my eyes wanted to be in the mire of the most awkward
passage of the more awkward painting. I have to learn this over and over again.
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">I have never
really had a strong response to ceramics. I did not understand the symmetry of
the work. I didn’t really <i>like</i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> this piece. But I walked around it and around it, spent time
with it, refrained from lobbing my judgments at it. Not to preserve <i>it</i></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, but to preserve myself, my humility,
my receptivity. This piece now exists detailed and intact in my memory. Someday
it may bloom into some thought or idea I am grateful for. “Art prepares the soul
for tenderness.” This quote is attributed to Chekov, though I cannot find the
original source. Artists like this quote because it justifies in a very large
way what we do. We can also keep it in mind when we look at other people’s
work. I want to be prepared. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Update: I have thought about this piece literally every day since I saw it. I am not sure why. Here is a full view: <i><a href="http://www.yamadakensuke.com/#!portfolio/photostackergallery1=1" target="_blank">Catch the Rabbit</a></i></span></div>
</span></span>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-15792061971336293652012-06-08T07:21:00.001-07:002012-07-05T11:39:39.189-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Dirty Funny Things</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">Red light cast down from the track lighting and the print was hung not on the gallery's longest,
dominant wall but in a little corner in the back of the room. The lightweight
paper wiggled lightly from the turning of the ceiling fans.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT;">In the constellation of carved forms
I saw the little image of dogs mating and I laughed. I continued to identify the
pictures, all sexual references, as other viewers came closer. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT;">It was fun to
witness the little eruptions of laughter. It was an adolescent-like pleasure to
point out the dirty jokes or solve for the benefit of the person next to us a sexual pun they
could not identify. The images floated in the pink negative space and I felt
like we had discovered a naughty cave painting. It was a perfect fusion of dainty
and vulgar and made sex seem anything but sexy. My favorite image was the forked-tongue snake rising from a little pair of pants. Ha! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">Who wants to bet that the first joke ever was a dirty joke?</span><br />
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</span></span></div>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-85074593716808966442012-06-06T14:06:00.001-07:002012-07-04T20:06:48.033-07:00<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lara
Schaberg</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">1. Touch<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">A long
time ago I was told not to smudge the graphite to create tone when drawing
faces. Much later I taught students to model by adjusting the pressure on the
pencil. Otherwise, I would caution, you are creating an
unintentional medium you did not intend to create. Graphite + the dirt and
oils of your fingers. Here I when I see this method applied I see the
interaction with creator and creation. The literal mixing of these 2 entities.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">2.Duality<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">There is a
passage on this piece in which a cattail is—I don’t know whether to say filled
in or fleshed out—with finger-smudged graphite. This passage is effort-filled
and tense. The graphite gives way to plum colored paint as the cattails
continue through the piece. In contrast to the cattail rendered in graphite
with a kind of myopic control, there is another described with the most distant
and casual mark, the drip. It is suddenly interesting to me, the contrast
between effort and grace. I see in this piece a record of the tension between
the artist and the artwork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">3.Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">The format
of the scroll offers a temporal experience. You move from one end of the
painting to the other. Also horizontal and dependent on time: landscape and
music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">This piece
made me think of music, the progression and variation of abstract elements
moving through time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: ArialMT;">I believe it
takes courage to enter a work of art as its creator. Soon it refuses to be
subservient and takes you to the edge of a world that very well might be flat.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<i></i>The One Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08961719225114959394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016951311012735899.post-42059233835691518102012-06-05T14:25:00.002-07:002012-07-04T20:05:03.482-07:00<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Brad Allen</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Pentastar Fleet</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Much Depends...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This piece
was funny. I think. Sculpture is not my primary visual language but I think I
recognize a joke when I see one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walk into
a room. There are wheelbarrows arranged, front wheel facing out, handles
crossing to form a geometrical shape, a pentagon. And in white chalk, on the
floor, a pentagon is drawn, holding the shape together. Inside each of the
wheelbarrows there are words, logos, rather, some of which I recognize: Toyota.
Nissan… This is when I begin to suspect that this is a joke or pun. These are
car brands on wheelbarrows. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
associations I conjured were mine alone: my brother
giving children rides in a wheelbarrow in the mountains where he was delivering
firewood as a teenager; Terry, my friend and landlord wheeling bricks down the
sidewalks between his almost hand-built houses. Less easy to explain, the
Joni Mitchell song </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big Yellow Taxi</span></i></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">”</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…</span></i></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They
paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realize I </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like</span></i></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wheelbarrows. They are so nice. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is
this a proposal to replace cars with wheelbarrows? What would that look like? For
a few minutes I think about that. I do notice though that these automakers have
been selected by some criteria not obvious to me. I don’t see Ford for example.
Hmm. Admittedly, I do not know very much about cars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was an
artist’s statement that I did not read until after I had seen the work. The statement was full of information I did not already know. The pentastar is the
geometric design used by Chrysler... According to Cars.com, 5 of the top 10 “American Cars” are produced
overseas... True-Temper wheelbarrows, according to company claims, are made in
the USA. “However”, the statement continued, “almost all wheels and tires…” You
guessed it. They are made in China. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not
sure if the statement was </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">part</span></i></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the piece or not. The more I think about it, the less I
understand artist’s statements, that is, their function. Are </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">statements supplemental</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> reading or part of the piece? I’m not sure. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I returned
to my original, naïve reading of the piece. I think I gleaned the spirit
of the artist’s intention even as I was ignorant of all of the facts and
intentions. I found humor. A little dark, a little sad, maybe, but humor. Just now I looked up the
word </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">humor</span></i></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. On its
Wikipedia page there was a quote by E.B White. "Humor can be dissected as
a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging
to any but the pure scientific mind." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of
the evening two people showed up at the gallery in a pick-up truck. We could see them through the storefront window. They walked into the room smiling strangely. A little excited, a little embarrassed
maybe. The artist had contacted a few local farms and non-profits offering the
gift of a wheelbarrow. It was a very nice moment to see, these farmers, these non-artists, taking their wheelbarrows away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Incidentally,
what came to my mind when I first heard that the piece incorporated wheelbarrows was a poem by William Carlos Williams that I keep memorized and somehow find applicable here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much
depends <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a red wheel <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">glazed with
rain<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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white<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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