Mount K, 10" x 10"I made frames today for four paintings from the Mount series. They will be in the upcoming "Giganticism" show at Silas Marder Gallery, 120 Snake Hollow Rd., Bridgehampton, NY. This gallery occupies a huge barn within the Marder nursery on Long Island. In addition to the main gallery, Silas has 'shed shows' and in summer, on Fridays, shows films on the hay wall.
If anyone out east can make it, the opening is this Saturday, July 11.
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Cool! I really like this painting very much. Will you be at the opening?
I don't know if this will make any sense, but some of your paintings make me think of this person's paintings: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/StudentArt/ast_id/25279
Especially this one: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/FullSizeArt/ast_id/25279/image_id/187072/imageno/6
I hope those links work. It's not like they are so similar . .. . but something about the awkward primordialness. Or something. I have no idea if anyone else would see what I mean.
I love that green one she calls Bordel.
It's not an immediate obvious connection, but I like the idea of an "awkward Primordial" similarity. I'll look again tomorrow. I really like her work. I wrote down "Bordel", to reference, before knowing you had done so too.
Alas, I won't be at the opening.
I kinda see the connection. However, Carla's surfaces are more sophisticated. Claude's paintings have some interesting areas that I find peeter out into dead areas. They seem to have one foot ensnared in an illustrative trap. Carla has a richer understanding of every square inch. Her areas of rest are full.
Is this the barn where you showed with Christopher Saunders in a big groups show?
This is the same place.
"Carla's surfaces are more sophisticated. Claude's paintings have some interesting areas that I find peeter out into dead areas. They seem to have one foot ensnared in an illustrative trap. Carla has a richer understanding of every square inch. Her areas of rest are full."
Yes, I agree for the most part, with exceptions like in the one called Bordel and a few others -- "Landscape," "Sandwich", the one that is 51" x 51", "Walker," (to some extent). There I think the "dead" areas work. But maybe the comparison is not useful. Or, worse, annoying!
I just looked again. I really like that Bordel. I think there's a similarity in shape-making and placement, and also a similar emotional tone when the imagery anthromophosizes.
It's hard for me to understand composition in conscious terms. It's probably where I'm at my most nonverbal.
So, you're not deeply offended that I compared your work to someone else's?
Not that I meant to compare in a linear way at all. More in the way you say -- the emotional tone and the anthropomorphizing. Even there, it's an elusive connection. Your work is probably more different than alike. But it was meant positively, anyway.
Not offended at all.
In that case, hoping I'm not pushing my luck, how about Albert York?
He may be a more obvious comparison, perhaps not quite emotionally on the same plane -- you're more open -- but I think scale (tho not size; he's tiny), structure (where he put the horizon, the centrality of the main subject), palette, and something less tangible, again a compelling oddness: http://artists.parrishart.org/artist/701/
http://www.davisandlangdale.com/Pages/AlbertYork.html
Hey I'll take an Abert York comparison any day of the week. someone on fb also mentioned him in response to my work, a couple months ago. At the time I thought it was a palette similarity that led to similar emotional feel, but i do think it's also how the paintings are structured. (I feel a bit presumptuous making the comparison myself, though).
Oh, I didn't see that on facebook. This is my own independent insightful observation! Though, there is that phenomenon whose name I can never quite remember .. . simultaneous invention or discovery or something? It doesn't even apply; it's when two people completely independently discover or invent the same thing at virtually the same time.
Anyway, you'll take Albert York? That good. Me too.
Geez, are there only like five people on the internet? WTH: http://stevenlarose.blogspot.com/2009/07/compare-and-contrast.html
I said it first, though! Unless this is the fellow who said it on facebook a couple of months ago . . .
How weird.
I think there are about 45 people on the internet. Most of them are on Facebook however. Will you be my friend Nomi?
I think Steven is directly riffing off your observations, Nomi. No simlutaneous discovery.
I sure hope the Knopp/York critique goes viral.
He plagiarized me for sure. I thought you middle-of=the-country people were above that sort of thing!
I too hope the Knopp/York thing goes viral.
ah, excuse me, the legal term is "appropriation" here. The social phrase is "standing on the shoulders giants" or "I think I left a sufficient virtual paper trail so that Nomi would be credited.
Although, I must take some credit for the curatorial choices regarding Giantess Lubin's observation.
Maybe the problem is, I am not in the middle of the country.
What I hope goes viral is the discipline of comparing paintings as if they were World Cup Football teams or Pinot Noirs.
Wait. Are you saying I have a fat ass?
Yes, I discovered, through deep research, that you are not in the middle of the country.
Ha, I see you credited me on your site.
Really, it's Carla who's appropriating here. She's clearly ripping off Albert York right and left.
Would that I could. (now that sounded middle o'the country)
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