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Just read this essay by Olivia Laing in her book "Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency"about the painter Sargy Mann. He progressively lost his sight towards the end of his life, and when he couldn't barely see anymore he produced these beautiful set of paintings of people in between leaving the pool and going inside this little sitting room. His debilitated sight made him focus a lot more on the blocks of colour, that are so vibrant they scream on the paintings, even when seeing them through a computer screen.
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Well, I like small paintings, they often have a certain ephemeral lightness. They are a kind of finger exercise by the artist for larger works. Because they suffer less from compositional constraints than large paintings, they seem more spontaneous. This small picture is called "Me by Claudia's Pool", its colors are wonderful, the light in Los Angeles, it is painted from a perspective that anyone who has ever lain in a hammock knows. That moment when you look at your own legs as if they have an independent life of their own.
PS~ The painting is in Paris in Yanma's studio and it is not yet sold. It costs less than USD 500, if you are interested, I will put you in touch with Yanma.
Apr 3, 2024
Sonja Sekula has been absolutely neglected in my opinion. & it has a lot to do with her particular intersection as a queer & mentally ill woman in the crowd of abstract expressionists. I adore this painting and I will never forgive the MoMA for taking it off view.
It's essentially a landscape of collaged and colliding interiors and exteriors, full of faces and people and one very charming little mouse carrying a snack. Every time I look at it I find a color or figure that I didn't see before.
Here’s a link to an essay about it just months into the pandemic.
Jul 28, 2024
cutieful painting i saw by dana schutz ::
Schutz painted this emotionally charged composition as part of a group of subjects she called "self-eaters," imaginary characters who have the power to regenerate by consuming portions of their own bodies. In part, such a hallucinatory narrative might represent an analogue or allegory of painting itself, a practice that artists continue to reimagine through both regurgitation and reinvention. Here, Schutz brings into being two subjects with mask-like heads who, in her words, are "sort of consoling each other," or else "trying to feel what the other one is doing." Evoking touch rather than sight might contradict the notion that painting is a purely visual medium, but Schutz’s work appears both optically charged and sculpturally formed, constructed of worlds within worlds.
Jan 30, 2024
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Do not underestimate the sun. You will regret not wearing sunscreen, specially if you are at the beach (and i'm not talking about regreting it in 40 years, i'm talking about the next day when you'll be all red and hot and not in a nice way 😭)
Jan 26, 2024
I think It's the sweetest thing ever when someone puts a lot of effort into making and keeping a garden. Hope to grow one of my own someday 🌱
Jan 26, 2024