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Artist Caroline Wright's Dream Architecture Blends Live Painting With Live Music

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:46:55 -0500

Artist Caroline Wright's Dream Architecture Blends Live Painting With Live Music:

Artist Caroline Wright is no stranger to beautifully unusual collaborations. She once collaborated with Ballet Austin on a performance piece in which the moving dancers were her canvas. This time around, Wright has collaborated

In the middle of the night, I wake up and draw my dreams. These...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:51:34 -0500

In the middle of the night, I wake up and draw my dreams. These drawings are like gifts in the morning — strange, spindly missives from my asleep self. How can I recreate this space in my waking life? How close can I come to the subconscious while drawing, and what happens if that drawing becomes a performance?

These drawings: My teeth are my cello bridge, and they’re falling out in slow motion, as the strings fly off into space.

These were all on my desktop and just made a nice little chamber...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:13:29 -0500

Josef Albers "Color Study of Grays"

Sarah McKenzie "Void"

My "Blue Moonlight"

These were all on my desktop and just made a nice little chamber ensemble.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:33:54 -0500

"I’m not paying ‘homage to the square’. It’s only the dish I serve my..."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:33:28 -0500

“I’m not paying ‘homage to the square’. It’s only the dish I serve my craziness about color in.”

- Josef Albers

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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:32:19 -0500

"I’m especially proud when colors lose their identity and become unrecognizable."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:29:55 -0500

“I’m especially proud when colors lose their identity and become unrecognizable.”

- Josef Albers

"Juxtaposing two colors puts me in a state of intense excitement."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:29:09 -0500

“Juxtaposing two colors puts me in a state of intense excitement.”

- Josef Albers

Thank you, Josef Albers! My contraband images of his studies at...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:27:12 -0500

Thank you, Josef Albers! My contraband images of his studies at the Morgan Library, before I was caught (The last one is from the Wall Street Journal, and many more are on arttattler). My lingering bitterness about the B I received on an assignment in VA 1 to “come up with your own Albers’ squares” one evening was assuaged by seeing the amount of study that went into his pursuit of color, which he compared to a musician’s endless rehearsals.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:10:24 -0500

Robert Irwin at Pace. It’s hard to tell what’s...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:04:15 -0500

Robert Irwin at Pace. It’s hard to tell what’s happening here, but he cut a square out of the tinted glass, so you could see and hear and feel 57th street. Irwin always said he didn’t want his work photographed, because the image is nothing like the experience. His work makes the experience of being the viewer a self-conscious one, but in the best cases you forget yourself completely.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:51:41 -0500

Leave it to me to find this in New York. (Can you find the...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:59:28 -0500

Leave it to me to find this in New York. (Can you find the Statue of Liberty?)

For some reason, I thought I might be a good traveling...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:31:09 -0500

For some reason, I thought I might be a good traveling tumblr’r, but that was not the case. In catching up, I’ll start with Al Taylor (1948-1999) at David Zwirner. This man learned his way around a line! He worked hard at taking that line out into space, dancing with shadows and gravity, but to me, the drawings are more satisfying. Very satisfying. I love a show where you get to walk around inside the artist’s head, seeing the unique problems that preoccupied him and his myriad responses. Click his name above for more images on Zwirner’s site.

While checking out my friend Alma’s gallery, I was happy...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:05:16 -0500

While checking out my friend Alma’s gallery, I was happy to discover the work of Judith Belzer. These paintings spoke to me right away, with their looseness of line and color. They feel like she just got out the markers and used them til they ran out of pigment, sitting on the floor with legs splayed and mapping a space I fully understand. But looking back through her older work, I see that she only came to that looseness over time, slowly releasing what didn’t serve.

I’m so proud of my old compatriot Alma Chaney (we painted side by side at Pont-Aven) for her...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:53:38 -0500

I’m so proud of my old compatriot Alma Chaney (we painted side by side at Pont-Aven) for her upcoming solo show at George Lawson Gallery in Los Angeles. Her paintings are so thoughtful and full of texture, the pictures will make you long for the real thing.

YES! Georg Herold at Barbel Graesslin.

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:21:38 -0500

YES! Georg Herold at Barbel Graesslin.

I’ve been thinking about definition - hard lines versus...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:51:00 -0500

I’ve been thinking about definition - hard lines versus soft, a platonic ideal of clearly delineated space. Collage is a good way to get there, but paintings so often lose their hard lines if you are impulsive as I am.

So I’m enjoying the work of Brad Eberhard, whose overlapping forms and overlaid colors keep the clean lines of collage while having the effect of dappled light. They also feel full of symbolism, possibly relating ancient folklore.

That reminds me of an artist I met in San Francisco, Jovi Schnell, whose paintings are loaded with secret meaning and code that begs for cracking.

Denise Levertov - The Secret This is so satisfying. THE...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:36:56 -0500

Denise Levertov - The Secret

This is so satisfying.

THE SECRET

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don’t know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can’t find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

Check out this music video from Thunderegg. Will Georgantas, the...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:26:03 -0500

Check out this music video from Thunderegg. Will Georgantas, the mind behind the egg, is a dear friend I’ve had the fortune to overlap with twice at Virginia Center for Creative Arts. I think this video will give you a good taste for his lo-fi sound and thoughtful, self-deprecating lyrics.