Rocktown, Indiana: Reworked Painting from 2007

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Reworked Painting from 2007

before

24" x 48" revised

I recently bragged on facebook about having some good "reworking" sessions. Here is one. I think this one goes into the "Love Hovel" bin now.

4 comments:

Nomi Lubin said...: Yes, you have not failed to improve each of these.

Surely you have some ruined failures hiding on your floor? ;)

Not that the before version here is uninteresting, but you take it from being somewhat confined by a specific, though not explicit (to me), narrative, to something more broadly mysterious. Not to say that a specific narrative is inherently limiting -- I don't think that at all. Nor do I mean that you HAD to remove the sign and the figure, though you did and it works. But it was not a simple "this then that" formula -- clearly the painting is reconceived. Yay.; September 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Carla said...: I have so many ruined paintings it's not funny. Some panels seem jinxed. No matter how thoroughly I paint out or sand down all previous work, the work I do on those panels just always fails to go anywhere.

There is a certain type of narrative I slip into, that nags at me. It's not bad, per se. It just wraps things up too neatly and too simply.; September 11, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Nomi Lubin said...: This one looked like it was about you making paintings (?). Not a bad thing, I agree. Though, somehow felt limiting here.; September 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Carla said...: This painting had so many incarnations, and so many lost paintings in it, from reworkings, that I grabbed onto this ending point. So I guess it was about 'making a painting', out of sheer frustration.; September 11, 2009 at 1:16 PM

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