ShareI have spent a great deal of my life trying to figure out how my work ‘fits in’ to the contemporary art world. To be clear, I’ve struggled with what ‘ism’ or trend or group might my work belong to so that I might explain my … Read More →
Category Archives: Relational art
Estrangement
ShareThe latest work involves an exploration of the underpinnings of Marx’s idea of Entfremdung, typically translated as alienation but really is closer to estangement. These works reconsider this idea and how it’s roots are what drive humanity further and further away from anything natural in … Read More →
Portraiture (Sticks and Stones)
Share“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will hurt forever. “ This is the truth that underlies this little rhyme that every child hears growing up. In fact, words that are meant to hurt and even some that aren’t leave long lasting scars, … Read More →
Slice me up, slice me down
ShareI remember. Unlike so many people I know, I remember. The details may not be 100% but the colors, emotions and general tone of the experiences are still vivid. So many middle-aged adults, like myself, look at young people and say, “Look at them. How … Read More →
Thinking, dreaming… and preparing
Share I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working out the issues of how I want to spend the balance of my days. Given my family history (mom dead at 62, dad at 76) if I make it to 80, it will be a … Read More →
Depression sets in (Less is More)
ShareWhat does it mean to be an artist? and then what does it mean to be an artist in the 21st century in the US? I’ve written here before how Duchamp determined what an artist was through a leap of complete conviction and belief and that … Read More →
Afflatus
ShareHad you ever heard of this word? I certainly hadn’t until recently when I read it in a blog interview with Claude Emile Furones on the website The Art Point. It’s an amazing interview with the most articulate of artists. Unfortunately, the interview is no … Read More →
Jeff Koons, Peter Paul Rubens and the kitsch of the Neo-Baroque
ShareThere is a wonderful series on Public Television called “ART:21” that I recently started watching (ah, the wonders of Hulu!). This particular series seeks an in-depth investigation into the why and wherefores of contemporary art of all kinds. A portion of a recent episode profiles … Read More →
Le Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe
Share What would a reinterpretation of this very famous painting be like? How would one handle it in a post Duchampian world? This is the question I am puzzling over at this very moment. It’s both marvelously frivolous and frankly serious being such an event and … Read More →
On R.Mutt, the Duchamp Urinal and my new installation, “Picnic in the Rain.”
ShareA month after the now infamous urinal by R. Mutt (Marcel Duchamp) was rejected by the exhibition he had submitted it to, a little magazine called The Blind Man, which was co-edited by Duchamp, defended Mr Mutt’s Fountain: “Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands … Read More →
What the world needs now is…
Share…no more bullshit. That’s the simple truth. And whether it’s in architecture, politics or art, it’s about time that everyone start calling a spade, a spade. There’s a great blog article I was reading that brought this concept and it’s encumbant realities to the fore … Read More →