Hollis Brown Thornton

New Work

Heavy, goldleaf and light on wall

More Irwin at Quint Contemporary

Great article in the LA Times on the Irwin show...

ROBERT IRWIN – Works in Progress

Cordy Ryman: Tempest

Hesse

I really love seeing the process behind it all...the search

Painting's not dead silly

.. another great article by Roberta Smith.

Walter Benjamin on academia

Pairings

Dialogue on this...
J.M.W. Turner and Dan Flavin

Go!

I Love You

New work on paper

spray paint on paper



spray paint on paper

In my studio

David Byrne on the process of creative collaboration

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Testing the Waters

Here are some of my new studies. Don't know about them yet, but they could turn into fields of blobs.

For David...

Celebrity Portraiture

Sound guy who makes more than sound

Here is a smarty smart guy for you. loving lots of this soundwork

Thinking and Making

So.. thinking about the Roberta Smith article in the NYT and Iris' awesome post about Richard Tuttle
I find myself wondering why it can be so hard for some of us to permit ourselves to make work from a place of indulgence and delight.. trusting our ideas enough to spend time working them out as opposed to editing ideas before the conceptual process has even begun- never mind the physical act of making.

This quote from Roberta Smith's article struck me:

What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.

Maybe part of this angst is symptomatic of the fast pace of daily life or the need to multi-task. I'm not sure..

thoughts???

Tuttle

Post-Minimal to the Max...

Because I want to.

A Collective Effort

MUTT is going social. The authors of MUTT blog have decided to confirm all the right wing fears of increasing American socialism. The future of this site will be dedicated to a collection of artists from various parts of the country who will regularly post images, articles and ideas about their work, their scene, and general thoughts about the state of contemporary art. Participants will be invited based on their shared interests in creating a network of individuals who share a common interest in transforming the way we view and think about artists, art and where it comes from.

Kenneth Noland

Steal This Art Idea

Spend a year making decorative sofa-sized paintings, the kind that suburban housewives go gaga over. Find a third tier gallery to represent you and your "new" work. Price the work according to the length of a given collector's sofa. Offer to custom match any furniture, decor, or home building style. Make tons of money at this. Use your new wealth to amass an important collection of works by critically acclaimed contemporary artists. Display this work throughout your home. Host a party; invite your collectors as well as the area arts intelligentsia. Document this event. At the end of the year, stop. Go back to making good work.

New Year, New Blog

Rather than boring myself with process images or self-gratifying notes about how well my practice is going I've decided to expand things a bit by looking outside of my own studio into the larger world of art, its production, and, sometimes, the dumbest thoughts that come to mind. This blog is dedicated entirely to questions about art and its relationship to people I know (or want to know), our shared experiences, and our need to understand how it all comes about. Enjoy!