COLLABORATION: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS

Specificity does not necessarily result in accuracy. I made a drawing from a very blurry photo. It was a very detailed drawing trying to avoid copying the photo. Ironically in an effort to avoid making a photo-like drawing I drew the details from memory and ended up with a more photo-like drawing than the photo! A friend remedied this: he shook the drawing while I photographed it. This friendly collaboration was the perfect culmination of our years of experience - Resulting in a photo-realistic drawing from a fuzzy photo then re-photographed to appear like an exact drawing of an inexact photo and hence a perfect copy. We managed to elaborately reproduce exactly what I was trying to avoid and we did so perfectly, or should it be accurately.

LSO IN NYC

RICHARD SERRA @ GAGOSIAN CHELSEA

‘The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building." Louis Kahn

...And I would add or the side of Junction / Cycle  a sculpture by Richard Serra currently on view in NYC.

ENLIGHTENMENT SUBLET

I went in search of a studio space and I was handed the keys to the door of enlightenment....

The door to enlightenment

The view from enlightenment

That was listed in Craig's List under "Temporary Sublet" and it has a view.

ALL THE LONELY PAINTINGS: MoMA

Varvara Stepanova, Figure, 1921, oil on canvas

The MoMa was smashed full of people avoiding a spot of rain and taking in the de Kooning retrospective. I too had come to see the heralded de Kooning exhibition curated by John Elderfield. However the show was so crowded that protecting my broken foot became a distraction. When I took a swipe at two young Spanish tourists as they collided with my injured paw I knew it was time for me to move on.

It was time to look at all the paintings that were not drawing a crowd. It was time to discover all the lonely paintings. de Kooning had a Cedar Tavern cool crew packed in and around each brush stroke. There was no room for the paintings to greet each other o the wall let a lone a visitor see them. 

But one floor away...Stepanova was dancing!

de Kooning

THIS HOUSE IS NO LONGER FOR SALE

FROM HIGH LIFE TO HIGH LINE: FULL MOON

Detail Laleh Khorramian: Atom Fables from the performance
with Shahzad Ismaily

Detail Laleh Khorramian: Atom Fables from the performance
with Shahzad Ismaily

 Names for tonight's full moon:

October

Harvest Moon

Hunter's Moon

Travel Moon, Dying Grass Moon, Blood Moon

Kojagiri or Sharad Purnima,lakshmi puja

Vap Poya

Introduction on NYC High Line for Atom Fables curated by Ballroom Marfa

FRONTIER F9 #0450