Upcoming Shows
- Affordable Art Group Show > Holliston, MA > April 27-29 2007
Holliston Historical Society / Asa Whiting barn
547 Washington street Holliston, MA.
For more info call 508-359-6232 / got-art@comcast.net
- South End Art Walk > Boston, MA >
May 19 & 20, 2007
Gallery Nachotta > Portsmouth, NH >
Solo Show > June 2007 (more info coming)
Painting
As I said I've been working on a large number of paintings for these shows.
I'm happy with how they're progressing and, as always, it feels as though I learn something every time I work. I never quite know what I'm going to find in these paintings so it's a process of discovery and always being attentive to the surfaces as things develop and then working with those cues. More a matter of improvisation and paying attention as anything else.
There are over 30 new pieces on the site and more to come, and I'll shoot out an email to my mailing list when that happens. If you would like to be placed on the list so I can notify you of shows and new work please send me an email.
Other Art
I've came across a book of the work of a great artist/designer, Ryan McGinness, who I had not been familiar with.
Blurb..."Extending beyond Pop’s elevation of marketing logos to art, McGinness pushes his work into the realm of the commodity. His output spans from traditional paintings to video, installations and a range of consumer products, fusing high and low culture through the language of advertising."
McGinness Installation
Book of his work: "Installationview" > Amazon link
McGinness Rug
He has a wide wide range of work and arenas. To me, I love that this guy's work expands all over the place from design, art, installations, commercial arenas, galleries, books, etc. Blurs all sorts of boundaries and cliches surrounding art/galleries/commercial work/design.
This is something that has long been an interest of mine and it's long struck me that the many of the cliches and mythologies surrounding that of the artist and what constitutes art/artwork, etc are ridden with stale, sentimental, romanticized, compartmentalized views. Not that I'm above them or don't participate or that some of these modes of understanding and operation don't have their place.
I guess it amounts to that I at least try to be somewhat aware of some of this as I go. And I'm also always on the lookout for artists that are trying to expand the boundaries a bit and do it well at the same time. For me this would mean people like Joseph Beuys, Ornette Coleman, Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Matthew Barney, Bjork, etc.
In any case, I've also been looking at classical Greek art, Sally Mann and Howard Hodgkins.
Hodgkins, if you are not familiar with him, is a British artist who does generally small-scale paintings that appear to be abstract but according to the artist, aren't. I first came across his work at the Yale Center for British Art in 1988 or so and I thought that that was among the best painting I had ever seen.
An exhibition of his work just closed at the Yale Center (and I didn't see it...I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I saw that I missed it by a week). This is the NYtimes review of this show (note that it will likely not be on the NYtimes for too long...if not, plese do a search on him...he really is great).
Howard Hodgkin's "After Degas" (1993)
“Keep It Quiet” (2000-1)
Anyhow, hope to see you at one of the shows above and again, new work on this site shortly. Thank you for visiting.
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