REDUX
REDUX
So what is Redux?
Boiled over Death? Could be. OR
All Things Andrew/ Appropriated. Let's run with that.
"WE" are at The Outpost now, pandemically adrift but not bereft; Whatever Olde Is New-Again, if pummeled.
Paintings 25 years old
(plus or minus) get a new coat of varnish and all the abuse I can muster; maybe they will be improved and maybe they won't. I have always proclaimed "painting" is Risk and Luck.
REDUX
continued
The Art Model is GONE or absent; this is The Hinterland/ supply chain issues and all that...
The Model was always a silly thing of course. Don't you agree? No opinion? I knew that.
I liked Art Groups, some variable from isolation AND where The Artiste is NOT responsible to The Subject/ Subject is: THE MUSE and anything might happen, for example, Creation.
I do believe you are much better at depiction with your iPhone than I will ever be with my little paint brush.
It's A Sign/ REDUX
August 2022
You remember The Nude? Probably not; but if so; this is such. The emphasis here is more on the conveyor of The Painting rather than The Image; i.e.its physicality as a board, with weight and size and depth. With text and an easel we proclaim it "a Sign". We sold advertisements "within" it, decades ago.
Now it is salvaged, rescued, Life Preserved, if you will AND unfortunately finds itself as a Photograph. Expect related events in
THE REDUX Section.
Intimate (as in "point out")/ REDUX
August 2022
On Point/ Sit/ REDUX
August 2022
Barnsdall Path
August 2022
We had a 40 year relationship with Barnsdall Art Center, for that we are grateful.
Unfortunately we were not competitive with The Barnsdall Fireman, certainly not after
Artist-Directors were replaced by Bureaucratic Directors. At the occasional Exhibition you might spot our efforts through the curtain in the back room.
Figure Painting was sort of a sub-terrestrial secret even to the administrators that ran the place. Over time "The Comers" became fewer and fewer.
If The Barnsdall Art Center ever fully reopens you will be able to take a very nice instructed class in Jewelry Making or Personal Bookmaking and learn to throw a pot.
We reported 30-40 times a year to a Friday 9:30 A.M. uninstructed session for 3 hours minus model rests. I made a few chicken scratch alla prima marks/ oil on canvas then went home and made it up.
The decades came and went.
Force Of Nature Allegory OR Box of Tomatoes/ REDUX REDUX
September 2022
Painting is some kind of incessant dialectic looking for a cure; do something then do something else.
The argument/ platform here is how we got from Depiction (the artist depicts) to "The Artist IS Nature"
(And SO Are You)
-an aspect of/ the rhythm of accretion and arranging, looking for No Mas. Blame me then Robert Motherwell
in that order.
THEORY IS OUTSTRIPPING EMPIRICAL RESULTS
and I am gonna have one of those Crisis Thingies...
Lucky, I have A Box of Redux in the closet!
September 2022
The Jaded, The Imp Emination/ REDUX
September 2022
If I were to tell you The Process here was to channel a distraught
Poussin and a Ruben's Imp resulting in a creature that knew its corporeal existence was dependent on GOOK under and surrounding,
would YOU believe me? I wouldn't!
After M. Leon Sculpture/ "Painter", circa 1990
September 2022
After M. Leon Sculpture/ "Sculptor", circa 1987/ Kinda Redux/ Through The Looking Glass, with Blip
September 2022
Twice in a row, Maria's Intentions are diverted by MY Insidious Viewer.
Sleepy R Takes On The Day/ Redux
September 2022
Magnifico, Color-Field/ Redux
September 2022
Oarsman/ Redux
September 2022
Red Thread/ Redux
October 2022
Homage To Jonathan Borofsky (Ballerina-Clown)/ Redux
October 2022
Homage To Jonathan Borofsky (Ballerina-Clown)/ Redux
Octoberr 2022
I Love-Hate Borofsky's Santa Monica Monument. "Hate" because it states so perfectly that ART is foiled, and "Love", for the same
reason; as said work, so decisively does state "The Impossibility Of...". {You disagree already?/ More Power To You!}
(You must be of The "I Know What I Like School" (I surmise - "from stem to stern".)
Of course it is consensus that is impossible and that is both Good and Horrible.
ART is here to stay, even if you certainly are not - and your species is a bit into classification: "Shall Be Determined". Also tenuous
is our comprehension of Reality, Necessitating tubes of Goo, Paper & Pencil, etc. to "Get It Down" OR the olde "Grab Hold!".
Will proverbial Tree "make-sound" when...? (I am of The Half Empty Entourage.)
When I sift through My Detritus, I realize The Zeitgeist is good for only an hour (15 minutes in a war Zone). By and large, the few surviving artistes I know are a tad (diplomatically edited) odious to me that I do prefer Message In A Bottle. That would be faith in "The Unknown/ Unknowns", even if they are Warholians. They All Know, Not What They Do. Between The Nothings & The NoOnes, not a location Andy Dandy had in mind. Of course I am An Innocent & plead The Universal Defense:"I merely followed The Donald into madness".
It is an NFT Universe and decoration not Art is displayed behind The Commentator's and Pitchman's heads. We wouldn't have it any other way.
Let The Fireman run for Dab Warden. Dab Warden has been Dab Warden for much too long. Maybe we can lose The Suits with plutonium buttons also. Who knows? Such a crap shoot! Be glad you were not hired to be the consciousness of an ambiguous monument. The Fine Art Road is long and winding with many stops. Meet me at Babel.
Mini-Mal
October 2022 Redux
Man On The Chair/ Redux
October 2022
After an incident of extreme frustration on The National
Scrimmage - Can't avert one's eyes from Brutal Willfulness, Davante Adams slammed aside The Photographer purporting to "supply" objectivity, when a tourniquet was appropriate... LIKE THAT.
The forces of Rationality and Its Inverse/ AbEx and The Loathsome Pictorial wrestle almost to oblivion.
Lucky to have salvaged anything.
Suspended Man/ Redux
October 2022
Several Revisions down the road...
More like: The Temptation of The Immediate
and The Obligation of The Plastic;
A Fool's Errand.
Unbridled Freedom > Regulation. Such is Painting/ Same AS IT ALWAYS WAS, if one puts back all the missing pieces.
Irrelevant, Reactionary, Obsolete: Absolutely.
Trouble/ Redux
October 2022
Madonna One/ Redux
December 2022
Double/ Redux
October 2022
Madonna Two/ Redux
December 2022
Narcissus Hires A Painter/ Redux
January 2023