Hanneke Grootenboer’s text is dense and rich, very dense. I dance my way across, picking up notes here & there. Grootenboer quotes Hesse, saying: “Chaos can be structured as non-chaos.” — Eva Hesse It’s a beautiful line, almost like a kōan. Hesse also said: “Don’t ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work…
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Joan Jonas – Drawings
study day Joan Jonas “Dog Drawing” from a performance with Robert Ashley at La MaMa, New York, 2009 Oil stick on paper 60 × 40.6 cm Joan Jonas was born in New York in 1936. She received a BA from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1958, and an MFA in sculpture from Columbia…
And all art is poetry
Creativity is an exploratory process to find the concealed material within. We won’t always discover it. If we do, it may not make sense. A seed could draw us because it contains something we don’t understand, and this vague attraction will be as close to knowing as we ever get. Some aspects of the self…
studio morning
All winter I’ve been working on a series of paintings with the working title “The Art Disagreeableness”. It’s (unpleasantly?) personal. It’s an ongoing project with the goal of transgressing my own proneness to making nice …, my inclination to believe my task in life is to please the world around me. Yesterday I sensed a…
Failed attempt
A few weeks ago I tried out a new palette; payne’s grey, raw umber, raw sienna, white & sanguine. It was all very well matched and elegant, almost sophisticated. But it wasn’t me. If “Art (as according to Jerry Saltz) is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.” This…
Christopher Le Brun
on painting “There aren’t any reasons for painting. That’s what’s special about it. It doesn’t need justification. It’s essential that it’s not used for other purposes. All of the things which will, as it were, take away from what’s mysterious about it.” Christopher Le Brun, more info: https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/christopher-le-brun
In the workshop
Trying my hand at making intaglio prints on Plexi (acrylic glass), in the most beautiful printmaking shop; Tou Trykk, Stavanger working with water based ink Plexiglass with a tiny bit of leftover ink after the first round through the printing press Assessing…
Note to self
Brice Marden on the complexity of a very simple situation – Brice Marden is a contemporary American painter known for his subtle explorations of color and gestural lines. Marden belongs to a generation of American painters who arose in the aftermath of Abstract Expressionism and during the onsets of Pop and minimalism.
Bare Bilder
The exhibition My daughter-in-law made me this film ❤️
The exhibition
A good thing about having a beautiful studio is that it can easily transform into a gallery. Saturday I hosted my first exhibition ever, a one-day event with paintings made the past year. Around 60 guests visited and 18 of a total of twenty eight pictures found new homes.
sub rosa 