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."