January 14, 2006
January 13, 2006
THE KREUTZER SONATA: HISTORICAL WORK BY RICHARD TUTTLE
At Zwirner and Wirth and Nyehaus.
Drawing has often been a daily practice for Tuttle, and occupies a primary position within his entire body of work: the artist often refers to his artworks, whatever their medium, as “drawing,” in the sense that drawing can be understood as a metaphor for improvisation, process, or, ultimately, for thinking. This exhibition will present an extensive selection of works on paper that demonstrates Tuttle’s continued formal and conceptual experiments.
RICHARD TUTTLE
Untitled
ca. 1986
Relief and collage on paper
11 x 7 x 1/2 inches; 27.9 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm
January 12, 2006
January 11, 2006
Occidental 1-10
Occidental 1-10, 2006 (Jan. 1-10), HTML, 260 x 798 pixels each
I continue to look for and find ways that these small, flat, slick, saturated, light-filled, hard-edged, site-specific HTML images have some connection to the things I'm doing on canvas and paper.
For the past year I have been making paintings that consist of four canvases, and sets of drawings that consist of five pieces. The reason behind four and five is another story, mostly intuitive, something about balance. In these works, which consist of multiple pieces, I am interested in the interrelationships of one piece to another, and of all of the pieces to the whole. Another way of saying this is that I am interested in visual narrative, though it's not necessarily a linear kind of narrative, it's more like hopscotch.
I wanted to kick off the new year by forcing the issue a bit- make some HTML drawings here that would push ahead something in the paintings. And I wanted to be forced to make variety, four times a day, over at least ten days. The challenge with this HTML work is to find something new to do; it's not that easy, actually. Not difficult in that it's hard, but difficult in that there's not a lot of leeway inside this medium.
There are moments in some of these ten sets of drawings when the four pieces become something much more together than they ever would individually. Sometimes the simplicity of the HTML drawings is enhanced by the complexity of putting one thing beside another. I can never make them be much more than what they are: small, flat, slick, saturated, light-filled, hard-edged, and site-specific. The thing for a visual artist to do is to make visual things. It's only by making and making that I can eventually make something that will stick. This day by day practice is about making something sticky, whether here or someone else.