8:11 AM 7/16/2008 [original draft]
automatism with a heavy filter
also see the artist as a filter
My definitions of automatism and how I use it:
Automatism as a “pure” process in art making is virtually impossible to achieve. An artists process involves making history and life history and it is impossible to eliminate this history from a person’s [...]
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automatism with a heavy filter
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
diversity discussion, again!
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
8:52 AM 5/16/2008 [original draft]
diversity discussion, again!
my art work is like handwriting; all from the same hand, just different content. There are distinguishing identity marks embedded. Sometimes they aren’t readily apparent. Even when I use a particular artist as a filter or aid, the final results come close to the originator, sometimes, but most often [...]
painting-as-process
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2:40 PM 5/11/2008 [original draft]
painting-as-process
Concept: The process, techniques, and materials, and design, and everything else painting is the subject, content, meaning, raison d’etre defining painting and its message/s communicated, real or otherwise. In many ways it [concept] has always been this way for painting save for the illustrators who work exclusively with word-to-painting translations whether [...]
Size does matter
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
10:14 AM 3/24/2008 [original draft]
Size does matter
1) If it weren’t for the bad economy for the past 4 years (for me) and who knows how long for others in my situation (artists/painters), I never would have started working on small wood blocks. Another influence on me to turn to painting on wood, recent retro of [...]
Two places at the same time and nowhere at all
Posted in Just Stuff on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1:59 AM 2/27/2008
Two places at the same time and nowhere at all–
If Gerhardt Ricter can work in two completely separate aesthetic schemes at the same time, non-objective abstraction and fuzzy foto realism, then I can work on neo-geo and automatism-chance based non-objective paintings at the same time; or nearly the same time. I don’t [...]
AE and Automatism
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 [...]
base aesthetic/philosophy
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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]; [...]
negatives = novelty, kitch, fashion…
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Duchamp is a fraud
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
the synapse
Posted in Just Stuff on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
