- ARCHIVE / Idea
- Reinhardt on Abstraction vs. Illustration
“We don’t have to dwell on what a picture is - it has subject matter, tells some story, is photographic or cinematographic, and sometimes is just plain hand-painted. The best and most effective pictures can be found in magazines and movies. If an artist is concerned with communication and a larger public, he should get [...]
- Email to a gallery director, 2003
Artifacts from the Communication Project &
Objects of the Communication Project
Captivity Syntax
Artifact 1: Wood cube with casein paint and water-based ink.
Wood platform with enamel surface.
Artifact 2: Wood stick with acrylic and oil paint, pencil, paper and tape.
Wood platform with pencil, tempera, acrylic and enamel
These artifacts were constructed along with a ‘batch’ of communication project objects. Communication [...] - Linda Norden on ‘Explaining’ Art
“This also evoked a strong position Norden has in response to the pervasive use of wall text, video documentary, brochures etc, which have become the norm of contemporary exhibitions. The urge of curators to make difficult work “accessible.” Perhaps the art world equivalent of “no child left behind.” And we all know what a disaster [...]
- Statement Revision
I create work around socio-cultural and anthropological themes. My objects, installations and projects examine the datum plane of the viewer and the syntax of communication.
Proximity Syntax
My sculpture results primarily from acts of proximity adjustment. Through investigations in the studio, I build a syntax referred to as the art object. The sculpture can also be the [...] - Studio Notes
List of Rejected Titles (July 12)
“Insulting in its Lack of Formal Consideration”
“Models for Larger Sculptures I will Never Build”
“Untitled” - Notes on the Objects
The objects are completed by their environment. The walls and surfaces called ‘background’ are part of the installation.
The objects are a practice in limitation. The construction and assemblage is defined by strict restrictions in technique and material. - In place of wiping.
Advertisements use these shots of ‘mini experiments’ to illustrate the products effectiveness. For example, the scene in this ad where the tissue is moistened with a spray bottle and then dragged with a weight on it. They construct a sort of placeholder for the action that the tissue would normally be used for. [...]
- Art Moratorium
As an individual living in a warfare state, a state which is increasingly in danger of becoming a permanent fascist nation, I must resist. My acts of resistance will, from now forward, be the only artwork I create. There is nothing more important that the fight for social justice.
I cannot in good conscience [...] - Samatha (No-Mind) Minimalism
What would it be?
Reductive work renouncing interpretation through directness, oddness and commonness.
Constantly arising, impermanent, mindfully originated.
Aware of the role of the mind in investing the physical world with value.
There are several Pali words which might describe the defining characteristics of this work:
The objects are Anatta (not-self).
The act of creation is Sati (mindfulness, attention, awareness).
The act [...] - Coming Soon
Notes: Latex Paint, Wine Cork, Hammer Striking Nail, Transparency, Laser Printing, Fluorescence, Spackle
Style: To remember and encourage subtlety. - Statement ‘Sculpture ReDraft’
Preface on Art Writing
Our experience above the quantum level is a world of composites. Art writing seeks to extrapolate form and meaning from living works of art and express these characteristics through language. The resulting linguistic objects exist in addition to the work but do not amend the work.Proximity Syntax
Sculpture is primarily an [...] - Sculpture Sketch 3
- Sculpture Sketch 2
- Sculpture Sketch 1
- Sontag
- Tuttle
- Ideas in Opposition
The Communication Syntax
A beginning is a very delicate time.
Where have you come from. Are there many of you. Where will you go next. The statement becomes the question, consequently, we modify communication immediately.
The Object Syntax
Do not approach the art object as you would any other object. The mistake of attempting to [...] - Synchronic Statement - The Future
The semantic paradox of attempting to extrapolate linguistic disseminations of living works of art.
- Historical Statement
The Line Syntax
Do not approach the art object as you would any other object. The mistake of attempting to determine its purpose will lead you away from seeing it as it is.
Not knowing, the message is or is not important; there will be a line, there is a line, there was a line, [...] - Chuck Close Hits the Nail on the Head Re: The Failure of Most Artists.
But he didn’t say it first, I’m convinced.
Chuck Close Oral History Interview Conducted by Judd Tully for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987
JUDD TULLY: You must have been quite sophisticated in comparison to other people that were around in terms of being exposed to a lot of art.
CHUCK CLOSE: Yes. And I was [...] - Emma Goldman, Oscar Wilde, “If it looks like art…”
There is good reason to start from the beginning if you’re interested in making something worth making. Who was it that originally said “If it looks like art then it’s probably somebody elses art”. The web searches are telling me it’s Chuck Close, but I am so certain that I read that from [...]
- Victoria Woodhull
The first woman to run for president lived nearby.
The My Hero Project - Victoria Woodhull
VICTORIA WOODHULL
by Barbara Goldsmith
Recently, when I mentioned to a friend that the title of my book was Other Powers–The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, she asked: “Just who was Victoria Woodhull anyway?” It seems a simple question, [...] - Astor Place Riots
A book about something that happened nearby, long ago.
ASTOR PLACE RIOTS.
ACCOUNT OF THE TERRIFIC AND FATAL RIOT, at the New York Astor Place Opera House, On the night of May 10th, 1849. With the Quarrels of Forrest and Macready, Including All the Causes Which Led to that Awful Tragedy. Wherein an infuriated mob was quelled [...] - Parameters
Allow the processes of creation, discovery and discussion to be visible on the artists personal website. Post artworks, ideas, sketches and experiences as blog entries assigning them lables so they can be seen either chronologically or by category.
- The Beginning
Create a personal art website using the blog format.