Omnibus
Ryman at Dia Chelsea
“Destruction takes place so order might exist. / Simple enough. / Destruction takes place at the point of maximum awareness.” Charles Wright “An ever dimmer light.” Samuel Beckett “In every story I tell comes a point where I can see no further.” Anne Carson “That language can suggest a body where there is none.” Rosemarie …
La Storia
LA STORIA, exhibition view Thrilled to show with Michelle and Laurie in Jersey City – La Storia – listed as one of AFC’s must see events Elsa Morante’s seminal novel of Italian women and children’s experience and struggles during the Second World War, La Storia, provides both the theme and the title of the exhibition. …
A Dialog…
Jen Mazza: (A Dialogue of Three Disciplines) hi Richard, I was just finishing Joselit’s piece and found it funny/interesting that many of the things he talks about are things I have picked out from other readings. Like this quote by Hito Steyerl, which refers to her medium and documentary film, but resonates with my concerns …
In “The Finch”
I like a painting that does something, like a machine does something: you turn it on and it functions–” The click of the shutter, the click of the cliche, but lets come back to that later– I have noticed that not infrequently, when I find myself in front of a painting I have been introduced …
Painting = Machine
I think all of the ways of being affected by an artwork are valid and interesting, but my question centered around what it was I wanted my own work to do. I feel it likely that I stick to painting because I enjoy the physicality of it, the goo aspect. The way the goo makes …
Blue Vase
“The trick of the eye, a painting, a spectator and the painter is trying to make her spectator see something. The spectator is fascinated with what she is seeing and she finds something wrong in the painting. This of what isn’t apparent fascinates her and so she looks on some more…” Chennie Huang – read …
At the Watson Library
From The Library as Incubator Project: Jared Ash at the Special Collections of the Watson Library: “I had a strong feeling that Watson had a wealth of titles that Jen would find interesting, inspiring, and informative, and encouraged her to come up for a visit. I am thrilled that my hunch was correct, and that …
10 White Lies
10 White Lies and Poem of the End: proof pages and printed and bound white lie (n.) an often trivial, diplomatic or well-intentioned untruth a minor or unimportant lie, especially one uttered in the interests of tact or politeness 10 images from various web sources present 10 dramatically different takes on the original. All are …