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Monday, January 19, 2015





Jane Hart, curator, Miami, Florida
Attending Art Basel Miami last month was a revolutionary experience. I want to thank the curator Jane Hart for the opportunity to be there.









Saturday, November 15, 2014

November 15, 2014







I am going to give some new effort to blogging...

I'm never sure anyone actually reads 97% or more of the blogs floating around us but this little corner of the Universe will be a new attempt to journal in public toward increasing my understanding of what I'm doing in this world--transparently--and hopefully occasionally communicating some of this to those interested.

I continue to struggle with basic things. I continue to hope for better days ahead. I wrestle with locating myself in the conversation around where Art interfaces with Climate Change: Ecosophy.

blueglassfarm.blogspot.com




                                                                                                                                            estaferallah

i am the one who is at fault here.
i am the one who has refused to surrender.
it is i.  i.
i am the one who has been terrified.
terrified of love,
of being loved, and of loving.  i.
i am the one pushing you away
as hard as i can push. i.
i am the one
stopping your heart from living inside me
over and over and over again
i. i. i.
i am the one saying ‘but you have to earn it’
i. i. i.
but what does that i-game
have to do with love?
what does that i-game
have to do with love?
and who is writing these words?
who is writing these words now?
who’s voice is this?
it cannot be i.
i would never admit these things
i is clever and right
i is brilliant and in control
i has all the answers
so how can this be i writing?
none of this is rational
none of this makes any sense
and yet these feet are buzzing with life
and this heart is soft and full and open
and these tears are real
and this body open
so alive
so what?
so what is God asking then?
what is God asking?  just to love
and to hell with what i thinks?
just to take all the blame
and accept completely?
it seems God is asking just that, yes.
it seems God is asking just that.
because if i was deep enough
if i was deep enough with Love,
i would touch you
and I and you would disappear completely
                                                                                                                 


I want to put a plug in for my friend Sterlin Harjo's new film: This May Be the Last Time 

http://www.thismaybethelasttime.com/#preorder

 

Also, I'm proud to be associated with Mark Kuykendall and his wife, Lindsey Neal Kuykendall and their rapidly growing lable: Unknown Tone Records:

http://unknowntone.com/

 


On Top

My Sufi teacher, the venerable Shaikha Rahima Sweeney PhD.  has asked me to focus on "estaferallah" as a new focused practice because I've been beating myself up.  I am working with this "Holy Name" constantly toward diminishing my self-recrimination. 

I am working on The Mouth of the Tao series again. I'm searching to connect with my work in a new and more personal way. I've been distracted by doubt and many other things and am working to renew my focus. Much of good painting is seeing. Much of seeing is being empty. Much of being empty is practice.




 

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Howard Hersch at Addington Gallery

"Piecemeal": New dimensional works
Sept.7-Oct.31
opening reception Sept.7 5-8pm


http://www.addingtongallery.com/

Monday, September 3, 2012

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Victor Man    Blum and Poe April 28 - May 26, 2012

Blum & Poe is pleased to announce The White Shadow of His Talent, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by artist Victor Man. With this new series of paintings and arrangements of images and objects, Victor Man creates non-linear scenarios that are loosely based on nine fictional texts forming the book If Mind Were All There Was. Man commissioned writers, curators, and artists to write texts revolving around the figure of Giuseppe Sacchi, a 17th Century Italian painter who gave up his profession as an artist to become a Franciscan monk and died young. Sacchi left no evidence of his work and further information about his biography does not exist. One of the few, supposed traces of his life can be found in the Basilica di San Francesco in Arezzo, where his name appears in the form of graffiti, added at an unknown date by an unknown hand, on the forehead of a horse depicted in Piero della Francesca’s cycle of frescos The Legend of the True Cross, completed in 1466. The figure of Sacchi is seen as a metaphor to explore issues of ambition and failure. His almost non-existent biography could describe Man’s interest in the motif of the artist as a lonely being and his fate of self-exclusion from the world. 

Taken as a whole, Victor Man’s work is a tour de force into the multiple dimensions of memory. For every image that is carefully evoked from the recesses of history, there are many others that are plunged into the slippery abyss of remembrance and amnesia. With texts by Maria Fusco, Massimiliano Gioni, Martin Herbert, Francesco Manacorda, Tom Morton, Alessandro Rabottini, João Ribas, Torsten Slama, and Martin Vincent, Man conceived If Mind Were All There Was as a chance to re-think the making of art history as a series of acts of inclusion and denial. The texts are accompanied by collaborative drawings Man realized with artist Andro Wekua.
Victor Man’s exhibition The White Shadow of His Talent is a dense orchestration of images and words, history and fiction, and light and darkness. As in the majority of his works, Man explores painting as a site where knowledge and consciousness are caught in a perpetual state of motion; things are remembered and forgotten, and change appearance. Their location in time is never fixed and continually repositions itself.
 
As it often happens in Man’s oeuvre, multiple references are twisted in a complex web. The motif of the horse, such as the one vandalized in the frescos by Piero della Francesca, is echoed in the title of a series of massive, stone slabs: Places, Lodgings, Company, 2011-2012. Presented alongside the paintings, Places, Lodgings, Company refers to the often-told episode of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mental collapse in 1889. Evidently while in Turin, the German philosopher witnessed the whipping of a horse, after which he threw his arms around its neck and fell into a state of mental illness. In both cases – the vandalization of the image in Arezzo and the flagellation witnessed by Nietzsche – the horse becomes a metaphor for an extreme state of empathy, the medium to express deeper forms of non-verbal connection between human beings and the world. Furthermore, Man has carved eyes into the stone slabs and filled them with colored glass, a decoration partially derived from a building in Turin with nuances taken from the painting The Flagellation of Christ (ca. 1455–1460) by Piero della Francesca. These eyes reinforce the concept of “inscription,” as does graffiti onto fresco and flagellation onto flesh.
Victor Man (b. 1974) lives in Cluj, Romania and Berlin, Germany. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in public institutions, including the Centre international d'art et du paysage Ile de Vassivière; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and GAMeC, Bergamo. Man represented Romania at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and participated in the Busan Biennale in 2008, as well as a number of thematic exhibitions, including the Kunsthalle Lingen and Kunstverein Lübeck (in a two person exhibition with Dan Perjovschi); Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; Arnolfini, Bristol; Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle; Frac des Pays de la Loire; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; and the Kunstverein, Hamburg. The artist is currently having a solo exhibition at the Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg and will participate in Intense Proximity, the Triennale in Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor. He will also be part of a group show titled Six Lines of Flight curated by Apsara Di Quinzio at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Fall 2012.




http://www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitions/victor-man#images

Saturday, July 14, 2012


A favorite newly discovered artist: Elisabeth Condon

Elisabeth Condon  Acrylic on linen


http://www.elisabethcondon.com/images/paintings/walk-with-me-2012

Mark Kuykendall composer, producer and engineer


http://www.thenewhoneyshade.com/mark-kuykendall-of-the-new-honey-shade-at-unknown-tone-studio/























Farrell Brickhouse


http://www.farrellbrickhouse.net/







Lori Ellison's MOMA Drawings



Lori Ellison. Untitled (Notebook Drawing). (1998/2002)


http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=28616



Jeff Hogue’s artistic trajectory can be found most clearly in his uncontrollable love of experimentation. The works seem to span almost every conceivable medium and field of representation in an erratic, iconoclastic and willfully inventive catalogue of innovation.

His aim is to scramble the codes of artistic taste and reconfigure perceptive norms, colloquialising images from the visual field around him and re-casting them on the pictorial field via his highly personal and non-conformist style. This elusive and chameleonic methodology has sculpted his career.