Category: Uncategorized
-
Invented Language
Calligraphic marks sometimes appear in my work. I started including these graphisms in large oil paintings in the 1980s. They continue to reflect my love of Chinese calligraphy mated with impulses to communicate meaning in ways that lay along side of language. Detail from Floating World 7, 2018. I recently…
-
Floating World 5
In conversation with art patron Agnes Gund, in response to “Why use bright color?”, Ellsworth Kelly replied: I want some joy in what I do. I can dig that! Thinking of color: Color can release the weight of any sentiment. A spectrum of color supports a spectrum of feelings. Neighboring color reactions depend on things…
-
The Red Page
The Red Page has hung around for years in various piles and boxes of sketches and cut paper. Several layers of red acrylic paint over a page from a mystery paperback. Where to go with it? ____ It has had a strong and consistent hold on me for all these years. Usually I would pick…
-
Enter: Squiggly Marks
A few faint calligraphic swirls make an appearance in Floating World 4. A FEW FAINT CALLIGRAPHIC SWIRLS. WHY? To tell you something to speak to you to to connect to you Want you to listen to say Something to listen to To want to be listened To hear what is seen To look to see to say Like the…
-
Through the Green #2
A “this looks familiar” feeling accompanied my work on this painting beyond the fact that it is a continuation of the first Through the Green painting influenced by Bridget Riley. Elements from large oil paintings done decades ago hovered respectfully at a distance: an overall quality of interconnecting shapes and an underpinning of line…
-
Under the Influence
part 1 Draped in curvilinear shapes. Bright folds dipping, sliding under and over. Swaying over and round. Gestures. Imprints of movement. Choreographed. part 2 I keep a book on Bridget Riley nearby my working table. Absorbing her paintings. Reading commentaries on her work, her connection to artists as diverse as Cezanne, Mantegna, and Seurat whose…
-
A Simple Solution to Appreciating Abstract Art
“I love it…” It being abstract painting. The quote is that of New York Times art critic Holland Cotter from a fine recent article entitled The Joy of Reading Between Agnes Martin’s Lines. An article that respectfully lays out the many reasons to go view Agnes Martin’s retrospective currently at the Guggenheim…even if you don’t find yourself easily loving…
-
A Rectangular Blank
A blank sheet of 140 lb weight Arches hot-pressed paper for watercolor and wet media is 100% cotton and fairly heavy. The surface is smooth and the black edges from the binding are rough. The example I’m looking at is 9 x 12 inches (not exact), a rectangle…but a pair of scissors can change that. And…
Ynotartblog's Blog 