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PMA visit featuring:

he William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism May 2, 2013 - September 8, 2013 This spectacular exhibition of modern art showcases 61 works from the renowned William S. Paley Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Paley was a formative and innovative leader in the radio and television world as President and Chairman of the Board at CBS for decades. With Paley at its helm, CBS grew exponentially and nurtured the talents of broadcasting greats including Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. With his penchant for new technologies in business, Paley was drawn to modern art as a collector. Paley, inspired by trips abroad to Europe, began to collect art in the 1930s. He filled his homes with works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin, among others. Highlights of the exhibition will include Picasso’s superlative Boy Leading a Horse, 1905–1906, André Derain’s Bridge over the Riou, 1906, and Gauguin’s The Seed of the Areoi, 1892. The Portland Museum of Art is the only New England venue for the collection’s 2012–2014 North American tour.

Paul Gauguin (France, 1848–1903), The Seed of Areoi, 1892, oil on burlap, 36 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The William S. Paley Collection. © The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The William S. Paley Collection

Mass MoCa visit featuring:

Guillaume Leblon: Under My Shoe

 Jason Middlebrook: My Landscape

Joseph Montgomery: Five Sets Five Reps
 
Mark Dion: The Octagon Room

Xu Bing: Phoenix

human remains

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Left: 6' x 2', Plaster and House Paint on Drywall Right: Primed Drywall and House Paint

 

Primed Drywall and House Paint

Paintbrush

Plaster and House Paint

I Think that i have finally chosen a  "good" book. Its Helen Molesworth's, "Work Ethic". The new work on the blog is in response to this reading and a continuation of some of the ideas that were generated in critique last residency. I'm thinking about labor in contrast to artistic labor, weight, submersion, mark making and staying true to materials that reference not only art history but construction. These are primed panels of drywall that were placed end to end. I tied a paint brush and a wrench to a piece of rope and submerged them in black enamel house paint. I dragged these tools across one panel then placed it on the next. In the white pieces i filled a can with white semi gloss house paint and building materials and poured the mixture onto a panel. I tilted each of them and let gravity take control of the composition.

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Photo's from residency #2