Circle

Acrylic on canvas, 9"x9" (w/frame, not shown)

Inside a Square

Acrylic on canvas, 10"x10" (w/wood frame)

Vertical landscape

8"x10" (with wood frame), acrylic on canvas.

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 12"x12" (with wood frame)

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 9"x9" (with wood frame)

Detail

New batch

At the Whitney

I saw this at the Whitney the other day:http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/TrishaBaga

Quite simply it strikes one as a selection of visual footnotes without a term paper.

Philip Guston's Advice to Himself

Do not make laws
Do not form habits
You do not possess a way
You do not possess a style
You have nothing finally but some "mysterious" urge - to use the stuff - the matter.

From Guston In Time by Ross Feld

Visual Language

"There is an extremely subtle but significant difference between an image that is in itself a manifested act of seeing and one that uses vision to represent the world."

Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema

Paintings Spring 2012

Watteau

Jasper Johns

"...when you begin to work with the idea of suggesting, say, a particular psychological state of affairs, you have eliminated so much from the process of painting that you make an artificial statement, which is, I think, not desirable. I think one has to work with everything and accept the kind of statement which results as unavoidable, or as a helpless situtaion. I think that most art which begins to make a statement fails to make a statement because the methods used are too schematic or too artificial. I think that one wants from painting a sense of life."

Alex Katz Says (2)

"I think nature's just a vehicle for art."

Richard Serra

"What I decided is that what I'm doing in my work right now has nothing to do with specific intentions...If I define a work and sum it up within the boundry of a definition, given my intentions, that seems to be a limitation on me and an imposition on other people of how to think about the work. Finally, it has absolutely nothing to do with my activity or art. I think the significance of the work is in its effort, not its intentions. And that effort is a state of mind, an activity, an interaction with the world."

Bresson's Joan

To be shown March 13 on TCM, along with several other films about Joan of Arc.

The Recorded Past

http://therecordingsoflindasmith.yolasite.com/

Warm book

Miss Charlotte Vale

Assortment 2