Monday, October 24, 2011

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.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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.



Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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.



Thursday, October 13, 2011

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



Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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:




OctoberHarvest MoonHunter's MoonTravel Moon, Dying Grass Moon, Blood MoonKojagiri or Sharad Purnima,lakshmi pujaVap Poya


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

FRONTIER F9 #0450