Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
D:\artstatements\aeandautomatism.txt
1:45 AM 9/15/2007
AE and Automatism
I have always wanted to work within the classic American Abstract Expressionist School of painting since I can remember. When I first started to study art, I was immediately attracted to painters working this way. I fumbled around with other approaches, but when I finally did hit my stride [...]
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D:\artstatements\thewayiworkoctober2007.txt
1:30 AM 10/8/2007
The way I work October 2007; updated January 2008.
Base aesthetic/philosophy: Classic American Abstract Expressionism.
Present focus: Automatism practice from as pure an interpretation as possible.
Medium: acrylic polymer
Support/s: Cotton duck canvas, paper, various woods, linen, plastics
size: canvas [4" x 4" to 72" long side]; paper [4x4 to 17x34]; [...]
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
D:\artstatements\noveltkitschandtheantisocial.txt
12:49 PM 10/16/2007
negatives: my take on some of the art now being shown in galleries everywhere?????
*****
novelty
kitsch
fashion [not fashion as fashion once in awhile breeds some very serious new art]
shock for shock
anti social
sexual
isms [fem, fag, etc]
cult
just to be different
no message
narrative [for me this is a no no; I don't respond well to [...]
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D:\artstatements\truenew.txt
12:39 PM 10/18/2007
Duchamp is a fraud
Art. We gotta have boundaries. Art isn’t art because mr. x says the elements he/she puts together is art. In order for elements to become art they must meet some commonly agreed to definitions and defined criteria of what makes, painting say, a painting and not just [...]
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
D:\artstatements\the synapse.txt
1:29 PM 10/19/2007
the synapse
When the synapses are working and there is a direct path from mind thru hand to the painting, the painting usually turns out ok; ok, I mean I will accept the solution that appears before me. this doesn’t mean that there won’t be additional “first choice solutions” to go through [...]
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
D:\artstatements\allwaysthevoyer.txt
2:45 AM 11/25/2007
always the voyeur
This for me is the job of the artist regardless of chosen medium. Being a voyeur. Observer. Through our structures the artist takes [we] note of what is happening in his/her [our] time. Some of this noting is criticism that at times is both positive and negative, [...]
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
D:\artstatements\dejavu.txt
1:52 AM 12/7/2007
deja vu
When painting and my process evolves into something that looks familiar to me, I will move to erase the familiarity and restructure the painting process to reflect a process that becomes me. Creating paintings through a process that becomes me is my ideal. Success at times is debatable. Usually [...]
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D:\artstatements\formulaart.txt
2:20 AM 12/19/2007
formula art
I have been studying the paintings of Edward Lentsch of Minneapolis. He presents an image that seems fairly easy to make in large numbers. He also seems to work images out of a formula. I often ask the same question of artists and their work, especially after looking at [...]
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D:\artstatements\repeatablility.txt
2:48 AM 12/31/2007
repeatability
Working the way I do, conceptual and technical structure derived from purist automatism (as an ideal), repeatability is relative to the moment. Over time some image structures show up again and again. I believe they derive from a central part of my nature; exist as finger prints exist. These image [...]
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D:\artstatements\whattomaakeoftoday.txt
2:33 AM 1/2/2008
what to make of today????
After looking around the web for art by new artists (to me) (most are much younger than me) and most of these younger artists have a much different take on what art is/was/to be than I do. I really don’t know what this means, this first/last statement. [...]
