Objets Etranges #3
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
When I’m working on art, I’m thinking a lot about other artists. One of the artists I started to dig into and learn about while I was working on this piece is this woman I had never heard about until
I’m always looking for inspiration and new artists that I haven’t heard of before. One of my favorite ways of finding new artists is to follow this poster on Instagram named folesdog. This person puts up around 5 great figurative works of art a day. I like to go back through old folesdog posts and see how many artists I can identify. Its shocking to me how many artists I’m finding out about for the first time because of the posts on this thread. I’m loving it. I’m building up an entire new narrative of what the 20th century art world was about based on these artists that practiced and worked together while the abstract expressionists and color theorits of NYC were at the fore.
One of the artists folesdog has introduced me to is this great lady named Lois Dodd. I saw a couple of her landscape at night pictures and was blown away. The moon, the sky with clouds, the color possibilities.
Sometimes when I’m painting, I’ll imagine different people who are viewing the work. I wonder who they are. For some reason my mind often skips to a traditional gallery in New York city. By traditional, I mean the space would be more like a large room often on the second floor of a gilded estate that had been broken into sophisticated stores on more than one floor. When I was a kid, we would go to get shoes every year and i’d remember the shoe salesman coming out with a few different boxes of shoes and he would fit the shoe on my foot for me with fan fare. I see the gallerist in my mind coming to the sophisticated clients with a fine selection of paintings. The gallerist unfurles one painting after another to those clients. When I’m in a groove and feeling good I like to think of my paintings in that moment. The first assault on someone, the act of presentation and then how the work will assault the viewer. I want my work to hit the viewer hard, to leave brain damage. I want to have the work sit up and knock the characters in my imagination around.
