Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Collection






 Noelle Ascending    20" x 16"    oil on canvas    5.27.2017




Hathor    30" x 24"    oil on canvas    5.29.17




Time to Surf    2017    9" x 12"    mixed media on paper




TV Watcher    6/2017    oil on canvas    20" x 16"




Earth Healing 4    8/2017    30" x 24"    oil on canvas




Venus: Olympus/Night    2017    oil on canvas    20" x 16"



Untitled    11.2018    14" x 17"    Mixed media on paper



Three 'I's    2010(?)    acrylic on canvas    10" x 10"



Woman at the Sea   5/2016  oil on canvas  8" x 10"


Dying Comedian    16" x 20"    pencil, pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas    10.2016



Vibration: Earth Healing 3     30" x 24"  oil on canvas  2017



Earth Healing 2     30" x 24"  oil on canvas  2017



Lake    20" x 16"  oil on canvas  2017



Earth Healing 1     30" x 24" oil on canvas 2016



Big    30" x 24"  oil on canvas  2016



Prostitute    20" x 16" oil on canvas  2016

Saturday, March 27, 2021

Objects

Looking at Klaudia Schifferle's website, I wondered at the extravagant sculptures there, often fabric, and their nearness to hieroglyphic or some other non-anthro thing though there were clear human referents. Then I came across this:



seven gifts, beton, nagellack, 2014
seven gifts, beton, nagellack, 2014




It took me a moment to see- she was not creating art, but making an object. There is no need for art anymore. Art gets us in trouble. Objects save us. Perhaps music is god, but objects are the clear evocation of the magnificence of such oneness; they are one and none other. No referents.

We are clear: art is dead. It died last week. You read about it and did not weep. Objects were there all along if you opened your eyes, when you were ready to see; anything everything. Objects are our salvation and our redemption. Die to art and let it die to you.








heels, diverse materialien 2015



Cheers.





Wednesday, March 25, 2020

ABBETH

I first encountered Abbeth at Portland, ME's Cosmic Bridge art/music festival under a bridge, a refreshingly homegrown affair with many artists' stalls among the vendors'. Immediately upon looking at her (vividly colored) drawings I felt weird; really weird, like my mind was changing, consciousness opening. I ended up looking at every last thing, scores of drawings and paintings. I'll share with you a few, more at abbeth.com, FB, IG, etc. It is my hope that you will feel it too.

Abbeth changed everything I think about the figure, about visual art in general: I was so astonished by what I saw that I saw that I needed to rethink everything, that there were dimensions unfound and uninvited to our 3-D morass. I'd wanted to take up, engage w/ the dimensional challenge for some time, but here was a road map, an exemplar for us mortals. Figurative conventions are overridden, and figure/ground, positive/negative space, objective/narrative dualities are superceded as well.

In the paradigms of figuration, there are the Cavepeople, Egyptians, Bellini, Picasso (Bacon?), Clemente, and now Abbeth; and a few million others. Not all men: props to Cavewomen, Kahlo, Spero, Schutz et al. Why's it been so hard for us to redraft the body, and it's relation to its environment? Any change is internalized to injury/death, an 'insult to the body' (see Dix). Or worse, a change in consciousness (quelle horreur). And yet, perhaps we would like to slowly, gently loosen our identification with so louche a thing, so perishable a commodity; perhaps we would like to express the confounding of corporeal identity that consistently plagues us, our worldview/self-assessment being challenged so consistently. Perhaps fun, a wee bit?

I will not share all my favorite stuff because I want to leave a few doors and windows open for you burglars. I gave up on titles pretty quickly because. It gets wilder toward the end, I ourage you to have courage. And now, without further ado, in no particular order...














Fishbowl Creature



3 Legged Walk to City




Springtime





Winter Speaking Summer
































































































































Saturday, February 2, 2019

99 Drawings

From my sketchbook. All ink on paper (a few with sanguine or charcoal added), all 5" x 3.5" (or vice versa). Here's the first few, I'll keep adding until all 99 are up. The latest postings are always at the top, so you don't have to look through the same images twice, or thrice, etc. Sorry for the 'shadows', shot in poor light.






The Life After Death
     2019







Five Senses - Smell    2019






Listening   
2019





Prayer   
2019





Waves/Water/Fire   
2019





Burning   
2019





Pup
    2019




A recent envoyé   
2019





(No) Holiday for Artist   
2019





Cave Thérma
  2019






Agency   
2019





Precosity   
2019





Lunchtime   
2019






Rondelay   
2019






Infant   
2019






Birthday Wish   
2019





Traveling Path   
2019





Script 1   
2019





Script 2   
2019




Script 3   
2019





Design 1   
2019





Poetry Mode   
2019






Technical Knock-out   
2019






My Cosmos   
2019





God II   
2019





Communion   
2019





Operatic Drama: Resist-All   
2019





Moon Reflection   
2019




Self Portrait 9   
2019





Macro phages   
2019





My Dichotomous Fellow Man
   2019





Prize-Winning Pig    2019





Musician    2018





Healthy Living    2018





School boy
   2019





Dream
   2019





Contemplator
    2019





My Bed (after T. Emin)
    2019





Weather
    2018





Camp
    2019





Flag Waving
   2018





Your Privacy Is Our Uppermost Concern
    2019





I Want
    2018





Up There
    2018






Clean
    2018





Portrait 3
    2018





Portrait 2
    2018






Portrait 1
    2018





Birth 1
    2018





Birth 2 
   2018





Thaw In/out 1
    2018





Thaw In/out
2    2018 (Winter)





Anxious Fellow 
   2018





I'M HONGRY!I'M THIRSTY!
    2018






Hands Up
    2018





Morning
   12.2018





Five Senses - Sight
    2018





Self Portrait 7
   2018