Some days are more exciting than others

All before noon today:

1 - A plan for managing the confusing mix of multiple unrelated projects
2 - A big picture perspective, and plan, for dealing with a current small beans issue
3 - A one-liner rant about a current small beans issue (a different one), that seems funny to me now
4 - A pretty well fleshed-out idea for an exhibition of my work. Includes title and a good start in conceptualizing the idea and the actual language for describing the idea. It's looking more and more like "Spawn" paintings will be re-addressed from a different role of artistic authority.
5 - A pretty well fleshed-out idea for curating a group of work. Includes title and a good start in conceptualizing the idea and the actual language for describing the idea. I also know exactly who and where this show should be shown. It's an idea which I've been trying to distinguish for a few years. It still needs much work, but I now know how to pitch it in a way that preserves the integrity of the idea, and which will be understood by others.

Today I love this little pile of chaos.

Now go get dressed.

Thorazine Thursdays

From a newly scanned old slide. This is small, about 5" x 7", late 1990s, and has a great title, which I can't remember.

Weird Old Painting Wednesdays II

Suspects and Victims, Name the Game, each panel about 14" x 22", 1985?

I recently found some old slides, and also fixed my scanner's transparency capability. Expect more oldies.

Weird Old Painting Wednesdays

"Protagonist", 36" x 48", 1987?

I remember challenging myself to make a cheesy romance-novel type painting. This was not done joyfully. I was punishing art, and myself. The foreground figure shows the loose paint method I used for much of the 1980s. The rest shows me struggling to paint. No idea how it survived long enough to be photographed, but I'm happy to have the image. It really cracks me up.

Studio Turf Wars V

Paintings everywhere are broadcasting to me. Finished pieces in the front room are begging for dramatic, and surprisingly specific, reworkings. The new body of little shaped paintings are calling. The metallic grounds say to finish up and prep some more. The fantasy birds idea (initially a kids' room idea) want to be made into small paintings for art fairs, under pseudonym? I need to make sales call samples for Indy On-the-Dot. I may move these commercial projects out of there tonight. They're basically done except for drying. I'm tired of stepping over and on things in there.

Kurt Knobelsdorf

Thanks MW Capacity for introducing Kurt Knobelsdorf. Show info here. Be sure to scroll through to the last few images here.

Polly Apfelbaum

Gun Club, 2002

Last Wednesday, Polly Apfelbaum gave an excellent lecture at Herron School of Art and Design. I had not really examined her work before. She took us through just enough of her process, that the unexplainable stuff fell right into place as well. It was great.