“Caricature” performance announcement.
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Dear Painter, what does it take for you to make your painting? Painter, please find a way to paint what you want to paint! How are you going to learn all on your own!? All alone?! You are not a mime?! Nor a parrot!? You are playing a role in a vast theater of participants. You, the caricature, is performing for us, and for you, in order for you to perform. Well, the studio weather was beautiful today indeed! A solidarity of caricaturists. Plenty of light, color, air….and everything, everybody, all around and it’s nothing at all! Low pressure, high expectation. Shall we take a stroll on this path here? How about you, you, you? You can come too, too, too…………By the way, the Franz West sculpture has disappeared……..
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“…it took about 5 hours for me to even look at those paintings i made. i felt like they were some of the worst, most awful and frivolous things i’ve ever did….which is also a pretty weird intense, and debasing feeling….especially since it ended up seeming like the complete opposite. Where does that come from? Who is that coyote? I realized that for me, by doing this, by putting myself in this uncomfortable situation, exposing myself, embodying this caricature, mobilizing my studio, my nuts and bolts!!! helps me get much closer to what it is that i want to paint - finding a subject that is actually worth pursuing with paint is not easy to do. I don’t subscribe to a dandified painter-pep-pep. I can’t stand the mimicry, but I love vague-ness, which is also not easy to do. Vagueness for the viewer’s generosity.
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His convict benefactor revealed, Pip grows into a class-less existence. “X” What does it take for me to make a painting really matter to me? How do i create situations from which to learn? Cast the net out farther….again. Sometimes locking yourself up in the studio seems SO dead and boring that you gotta bust down the walls and just take it elsewhere for a moment, then return i suppose…