wondertheory

Tootwo

2008-04-03T21:52:00.003-04:00

After a month of visitors and a lot of art viewing, here I am in the quiet routine again in crazy NYC. Going to the Armory and the other art fairs is like a research project. It can be overwhelming to see that amount of art at one time, actually it is impossible to really look at anything in the midst of that amount of one thing. Except for Arturo Herrera's small photographs. I looked at these for a long time and in the sea of the Armory, they were the ones I remembered.

City as School

2008-02-27T17:04:00.006-05:00

After going to Texas for CAA I am back here in Brooklyn. Even though I have my bad days here in NYC, I can't deny all of the things I am learning here and the great things I get to see every day.

New York is a completely different planet. It is a world within a world and I get lost in its visualness all of the time.

As old as hills

2008-01-28T21:17:00.000-05:00

Tonight, after a long day I read the New Yorker article on John Currin. I can't say I like his paintings but I can appreciate them and am glad they're out there. At the end of the article there were 3 quotes that I thought were amazing and felt right, I was surpirsed he said them actually...

1. The meaning of painting is what you do with your hands
2. The way things are painted trumps everything else
3. So much art now doesn't want to look like art, but painting can't help it

UFO

2008-01-16T18:41:00.000-05:00

Walking around the city is like excavating an ancient future. There is better art around the walls of buildings than most of Chelsea. These things I am finding are simple, essential information kind of images. All of the unnecessary stuff is omitted and they are truly minimal. I hope my own work can have as much inside as these 2 things I found right next to each other on the corner of 18th and 7th ave.

Today on NPR, they talked about the UFO sighting in Stevensville, TX and what the people saw. There was a bright red light, which was large in diameter and moved very fast. Army fighter jets were chasing the UFO and the people thought this was evidence that what they were seeing was not an everyday occurrence.

These are strange signs that I like to pay attention to.

Happy new year!

2008-01-11T16:28:00.000-05:00

OK, so it has been months since I worked on the blog and originally it was set up as a beginning to the print project I worked on this summer with sonnenzimmer, which was an amazing experience.

What I had really imagined the blog becoming was a place to show all of the amazing things I see everyday that sometime become art and sometimes do not. I walk around with camera, see something of wonder, take picture, and then look at it for a long time until it works it's way into becoming a painting or a drawing.

The things I love finding are usually small or obscure, overlooked, and kind of strange when you spend time really looking at it. This seems to make sense to me. In this world of bigger, louder and more, more, more, it is my hope to spark a quiet revolution.

I hope to use this blog as a place to show some of these pictures that are used mostly as source material and allow them to exist in their own rite.

PRINTING

2007-07-08T15:14:00.000-04:00

I love being at the shop! It is a totally different process than painting. Somehow it feels like working backwards, I am glad I have Nick and Nadine's help. So far we have printed the background, all transparent yellows, laying down the shapes so we can then mess with it by printing solids on top.

THE AURA OF WHALES

2007-07-06T18:43:00.000-04:00

This morning we all sat down to a lovely breakfast outside of the shop when we heard a loud crackle and a flash of light. A few mintues later we realized the whole block had lost power! So we got a late start today but we finally got back to work and printed the 3rd color....of course we are heading down the minimal road...

SONNENZIMMER

2007-07-05T16:57:00.000-04:00

I have been invited to print an edition at the beautiful SONNENZIMMER (sun room in german) print shop in Chicago with Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher. We have just started and it is a very organic print, making one move, printing it and then responding and making the next move, etc. So far the print is based on torn paper pieces and the layering and blocking out of colors and shapes. I am loving the print process and getting out of my solitary studio practice and collaborate!
Here are some pics...