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| front steps with paint scraped off to reveal red concrete |
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| deconstructed painting, 2010, canvas with several layers of paint scraped off |
Sunday, October 24, 2010
paint off
Sunday, October 3, 2010
big and small
I finally had a good amount of time in the studio this weekend- many hours, relatively uninterrupted. I had in my mind the idea of big works vs. small, and the idea of painterliness.
the big vs. small was triggered by having seen Mary Addison Hackett's terrific show at the Kristi Engle Gallery ( for some reason I'am not able to link right now) and also Mark Dutcher's FaceBook thread about painterliness.
This is part of Mark's quote: "it is hard to make a small painterly painting (is) because usually when someone tries to make a small gestural painting, it comes across as either being a shrunken down version of the large work"
Mary Addison said in her talk on Sunday that she doesn't work small and yet in the past year she has done gorgeous small works. Gorgeous. at least her blog is linked here even if I can't link the kristi engle site and MAH website.
I have been working small for a while and love it, love working big and small simultaneously and bouncing between the two. i work with brush, pallet knife (spelling?) and fingers. I am showing somewhat older work in this post because the photos that I took were too blurry! also it has been a week since i started this post. wow, it is harder than I thought to do this. I think I need to spend less time commenting on other people's facebook pages and more time on this. or maybe just paint!!!!
the big vs. small was triggered by having seen Mary Addison Hackett's terrific show at the Kristi Engle Gallery ( for some reason I'am not able to link right now) and also Mark Dutcher's FaceBook thread about painterliness.
This is part of Mark's quote: "it is hard to make a small painterly painting (is) because usually when someone tries to make a small gestural painting, it comes across as either being a shrunken down version of the large work"
Mary Addison said in her talk on Sunday that she doesn't work small and yet in the past year she has done gorgeous small works. Gorgeous. at least her blog is linked here even if I can't link the kristi engle site and MAH website.
I have been working small for a while and love it, love working big and small simultaneously and bouncing between the two. i work with brush, pallet knife (spelling?) and fingers. I am showing somewhat older work in this post because the photos that I took were too blurry! also it has been a week since i started this post. wow, it is harder than I thought to do this. I think I need to spend less time commenting on other people's facebook pages and more time on this. or maybe just paint!!!!
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| cordon sanitaire 2009, oil on canvas 48x48 inches |
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| tantrum, 2010 oil on masonite 7x5 inches |
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| red one, 2010 oil on panel 6x6 inches |
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