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<description><![CDATA[It’s time for a change. Look, See has moved, effective January 1, 2008: looksee.chrisashley.net/ This new blog is powered by WordPress (I have been running a test version in parallel with this current blog since late October). It is my intention to continue making an HTML drawing for every day in 2008 and beyond. I see no reason to stop now. Since April 2000 I have blogged at three locations. April 6, 2000 to February 15, 2001: my first blog, XYZ, no longer functioning online, exists as an incomplete archive stashed under my current domain name. Powered by an early version of Manila running on my desktop at UC Berkeley.February 21, 2001 to October 22, 2003: A Place to Work, Nothing Fancy, powered by Manila on a Windows server at UC Berkeley. It is not supposed to be online anymore, but surprisingly, it’s still there. October 12, 2003 to December 31, 2007: the most recently past version of Look, See; hosted under my own domain at Cornerhost, it is powered by Movetable Type. The complete blog is intact, functional, and searchable. It comprises: 2,239 postsApproximately 1,541 HTML drawings (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)Images of over 200 works on canvas and paperForty eight essays and other related writing A bunch of other mostly art-related posts The HTML drawings have been used to make inkjet prints that are hung in groups, typically by month; to date works based on this medium have been exhibited at eight galleries between May 2006 and January 31, 2008. Landmarks &amp; AnomaliesOne of the earliest HTML drawings I can identify is Boxboy, posted November 24, 2000.The first really satisfying HTML drawing is Night Driving, posted January 19, 2001. One of the goofiest HTML drawings made is Cow, posted February 24, 2001.A breakthrough occurred with Summer Short Stories, July 14-28, 2002; I realized how content was useful to the edge between abstraction and representation. First use of images in HTML drawings during September 2005.Animation, March 2006.All 2004 HTML drawingsAll 2005 HTML drawingsAll 2006 HTML drawingsAll 2007 HTML drawingsPlease visit the new place, and if you can, update links and bookmarks. &nbsp;Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow, 20071231, HTML, 310 x 230 pixels...]]></description>
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<title>Ain&apos;t Gonna Work Tomorrow</title>
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<title>The Birds Stop Their Singing</title>
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<title>My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darling</title>
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<title>Art Review : Chris Ashley: I Made This For You</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I Made This For You reviewed by Timothy Buckwalter for KQED Arts & Culture: Art Review : Chris Ashley: I Made This For You I'm gonna say this right off, and then we can move on. Chris Ashley has created the grooviest advent calendar. Ever. At some point that idea will hit you as you are wander through I Made This For You, Ashley's current online show at Marjorie Wood Gallery. I'm sure there is some element of intent at work here; Ashley's daily drawings are laid out in pop-up windows that represent the days of December. When the calendar realization first hit me I lost interest in the work for a bit. It all seemed so hokey, and kinda hoary, but only for a brief while. Soon the serious joy that is the exhibition quickly lit back up. And serious joy it is, in a hard edge sort of way. Read the rest......]]></description>
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<title>While Jesus is Bleeding</title>
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<title>With Nothing to Sell</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-27T17:18:51-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dwell in That Shack</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-26T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Where Happiness Never Ends</title>
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<title>Up This Hill and Down</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-24T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sang in True</title>
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<title>The Fire is Burning (Happy Birthday Ann)</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-22T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Set Your Fields on Fire</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-21T23:26:48-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Small Praying Band</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-20T23:44:49-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Where the Birds Are Still Singing</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-19T20:46:42-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>No Pomp or Style</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-18T23:30:42-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>How Much I Yearn</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-17T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>How They Linger</title>
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<title>Filled With Green</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-15T00:53:58-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Noise of Wings</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-14T23:49:07-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jack O&apos;Diamonds</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-13T23:59:59-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Eyes of My Mind</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-12T19:24:25-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dew Drops On The Ground</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-11T00:05:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>On The Other Shore</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-10T20:40:11-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Just Before Dawn</title>
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<title>Meet Them in Heaven</title>
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<title>Never Go Back Home</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-07T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Get Up Rounder</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-06T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Rough and Rocky</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-05T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>My Burning Cheek</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-04T21:32:40-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Master&apos;s Bouquet</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-03T22:23:02-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>&quot;B I T M A P: as good as new&quot; catalog</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;Figure, Head, Rock, Tree, 2007, 30 inkjet prints, 55 x 51 inches (installation view, B I T M A P: as good as new @ vertexList (Nov 24th 2007 – Feb 03th 2008) &nbsp; &nbsp;An online catalog of this exhibition can be viewed on the vertexList site or downloaded as a PDF....]]></description>
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<title>But Not Forgotten</title>
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<dc:date>2007-12-02T21:51:01-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Tempted and Tried</title>
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<title>&quot;I Made This For You&quot;</title>
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<description>The MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF AN ONLINE EXHIBITION OF HTML DRAWINGS BY CHRIS ASHLEY &quot;I Made This For You&quot; by Chris Ashley on view, online only, now through January 31, 2008 at THE MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY... http://www.marjoriewoodgallery.com/exhibitions/ashley The Marjorie Wood Gallery is pleased to present San Francisco Bay Area artist Chris Ashley&apos;s &quot;I Made This For You.&quot; Chris Ashley uses HTML to make colored tables that are rendered as images by a web browser. He calls these &quot;drawings,&quot; which he has made and posted daily on his blog. Although the images he makes are typically &quot;abstract&quot; they often reference and allude to the real world. He tries daily to make something that is beautiful, that is pictorially interesting, and that responds to or embodies an idea or subject. Each day during December he will make one HTML drawing that will be posted online at the Marjorie Wood Gallery Website, where they will accumulate during the month. The completed set of drawings will be exhibited through the end of January. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay, &quot;Painting on Water,&quot; by Oakland artist George Lawson. FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact: Marjorie Wood (415) 641-4967 The MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY is devoted to promoting innovation and experimentation in the visual and literary arts. Commissioned projects by emerging and mid-career artists and writers are available to view at: http://www.marjoriewoodgallery.com...</description>
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<title>Untitled</title>
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<title>&quot;B I T M A P: as good as new&quot;</title>
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<description>Announcing Blip Festival and &quot;B I T M A P: as good as new&quot; VertexList space and Blip Festival have the pleasure to present &quot;B I T M A P: as good as new&quot; a group exhibition celebrating the history of the digital image, the aesthetics of early computing and early video-game consoles. Expect pixels, old monitors and 8 bit sounds!&quot;B I T M A P: as good as new&quot; is proud to feature: Chris Ashley, Mike Beradino, Mauro Ceolin, Petra Cortright, Paul Davis, DELAWARE, Notendo (Jeff Donaldson), Eteam, Dragan Espenschied, Christine Gedeon, Kimberly Hart, Daniel Iglesia, JODI,Olia Lialina, LoVid, Kristin Lucas, David Mauro, Jillian Mcdonald, Tom Moody, Aron Namenwirth, Mark Napier, Nullsleep, Marisa Olson, Will Papenheimer, Prize Budget for Boys, Jim Punk, Akiko Sakaizumi, Paul Slocum, Eddo Stern and CJ Yeh.A reception will take place at vertexList on Saturday, November 24th 2007 from 7pm - 10pm.The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, February 3rd, 2008. Live 8 BIT music performance @ the opening reception, 8.30pm. VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm -6 pm, or by appointment. We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues onBayard St. For more info please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 258 3792About Blip: The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this November into December, focusing on the 8-bit scene - musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and across the United States....</description>
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<description><![CDATA[ The following essay was written for the exhibition catalog for: Steven LaRose: Portraits or Landscapes from the Uncanny Mist November 10 - December 22, 2007 Kristi Engle Gallery 5002 York Blvd. Highland Park, CA 90042 Opening Reception: November 10, 2007, 6:00 - 9:00 pm ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Steven LaRose&rsquo;s Otherworldliness Well into Kevin Costner&rsquo;s underrated film Waterworld, there is a moment when the camera views &ldquo;the Mariner&rdquo; about three-quarters from the rear and we catch a glimpse of a gill behind his ear.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s an unexpected, even shocking moment&mdash;although it makes sense that a future water-covered earth resulting from melted polar ice caps would require the evolution of gills, it&rsquo;s jarring because it&rsquo;s an otherworldly way of being that exists &ldquo;outside of or not in accordance with nature as we know it&mdash; nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental[1].&rdquo;&nbsp; Because of his gills, the Mariner can dive to the remains of previous civilizations at the ocean&rsquo;s bottom to retrieve objects or artifacts valued as treasure.&nbsp; Looking at Steven LaRose&rsquo;s new paintings, I think of the Mariner&rsquo;s gills, the kind of world he lives in, and his activities. Context Over the past year or so I have witnessed the development of LaRose&rsquo;s current crop of paintings via virtual studio visits.&nbsp; Generally, he reports progress on his blog[2] with images and writing elaborated in discussion with a community of fairly regular visitors, while finished work is captured and sorted in Flickr [3].&nbsp; Anyone can look, although clearly, seeing paintings on a monitor is no substitute for the actual thing.&nbsp; Still, peering over the artist&rsquo;s shoulder, even edited and in pixels, is a privilege few people experienced in the past. It has been fascinating to follow the ups and downs and back and forth from my ringside seat.&nbsp; Having watched LaRose&rsquo;s (heroic) struggle with the many paths his work took until he wrangled them into a more focused, though certainly not myopic, direction, I think of how he has entwined several components into a combination that is integrated and strong.&nbsp; Three components in this recent work I want to discuss are subject matter (the otherworldly), material (the properties of colored liquid), and viewer experience (the sublime). Otherworldly From the first moment I finally relaxed enough to successfully snorkel I was immediately enthralled and terrified.&nbsp; I knew that I had entered a hostile and indifferent world in which I am a complete foreigner, but that I could carefully visit and observe.&nbsp; For years I have known: I am no Mariner.&nbsp; Floating face down on the surface of the ocean, one sees tremendous beauty, but in colder and deeper waters, particularly, the sights are almost monstrous and vaguely repelling, or compellingly otherworldly. LaRose&rsquo;s images ooze a sense of otherworldliness.&nbsp; His images depict some other form of life from an environment foreign to me.&nbsp; The scale is weird and indefinable, and we can&rsquo;t really know how large something is: near or far, microscopic or gigantic?&nbsp; What kind of space is depicted: shallow or deep?&nbsp;Are two depicted objects supposedly different sizes or instead positioned closer to and further from the plane upon which they&rsquo;re painted?&nbsp; Despite all of my looking I can&rsquo;t know with certainty where I am in relation to the images, and, in fact, I don&rsquo;t even know if I&rsquo;m in the same world.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m a visitor. Numerous ambiguities let me look at these images in several ways. The two shapes in Beautiful Miasma might be ocean life, microbial life, or extraterrestrial life&mdash;are they parent and child, or prey and predator?&nbsp; 05-26-07-b is simultaneously a Jurassic Cyclops skull, a setting sun over a megalithic formation, and an egg or eyeball in a bell jar.&nbsp; 05-22-07-c is a snail and a cauliflower, a dendrite and a nebula, and antennae and an explosion.&nbsp;Is this nature or fabrication, history or fantasy, science or monstrosity?&nbsp; Although &ldquo;outside of accordance with nature,&rdquo; I take some consolation in knowing that it&rsquo;s all simply paint on a flat surface, but only a little consolation&mdash;because everything I see is unnamable and uncertain I am filled with the inner struggle, even anxiety, of approach-avoidance, fascination and revulsion, and a deeply engaged ambivalence. &nbsp;And I like that, in a creepy, familiar sort of way. Liquid The story goes that God made a form and blew life into it, resulting in Adam.&nbsp; But that&rsquo;snot necessarily a useful model for the artist: He made the form that He imagined to receive the life that He had planned for it, whereas the artist struggles to find a form into which he desperately hopes to be able to breathe some life. The former is perfectly conceptualized execution, while the latter is chaotic trial and error.&nbsp; The artist finds ways to realize form and life, though the route may be indirect and unexpected, delayed and unknown. Many of LaRose&rsquo;s recent images are made by blowing on the paint though a straw, or with a compressor or hairdryer; by pushing the paint with objects; and by tilting the horizontal support.&nbsp; The thought of blowing paint brings Jean-Baptiste-Sim&eacute;on Chardin's The Soap Bubble, ca. 1734[4], to mind, but rather than blowing a perfect sphere, LaRose&rsquo;s blown shapes resemble burst bubbles and splattered liquid. Yet I don't see accident and disorder; but instead composed images of colored liquid deliberately shepherded into complex layers of skittering lines and choreographed shapes like explosive floral fireworks. Pushing colored liquid around a horizontal surface with a straw is a risky business for an adult attempting to make serious images.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s related to Surrealist techniques: coulage, frottage, grattage, heatage [5].&nbsp; It&rsquo;s also a grade school thing, akin to scratching lines through black ink to uncover the brilliant waxy crayon field below.&nbsp; Is this a way of suppressing expected art skills, or developing new or unexpected skills?&nbsp; For LaRose, whose drawing and painting skills are extremely impressive, to blow paint is to avoid an expected dexterity of the hand, while employing other extremely sensitive parts of the painter&rsquo;s body&mdash;mouth, tongue, throat, lungs&mdash;areas that are soft, delicate, vulnerable, hidden. Sublime Edmund Burke's idea of the beautiful and the sublime, published in 1757[6], is that the &ldquo;Beautiful&hellip;is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us [7].&rdquo; In Tracey Bashkoff&rsquo;s excellent introduction to the catalog On the Sublime[8] she quotes Burke, noting that beauty is &ldquo;that quality or those qualities in bodies by which they cause love, or some passion similar to it&rdquo; and the sublime is founded on &ldquo;whatever is qualified to cause terror.&rdquo;&nbsp; She notes that in comparing sublimity and beauty, Burke concludes that &ldquo;they are ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure.&rdquo;&nbsp; Bashkoff says, &ldquo;Those things in nature that cause terror by their association with potential danger are sources of the sublime.&nbsp; But this danger may be at a distance or even staged, and therefore causes delight rather than pain.&nbsp; These things &lsquo;are capable of producing delight; not pleasure, but a sort of delightful horror.&rsquo;&rdquo; Delightful horror: floating on the ocean's surface, staring into the darkness and strange life below; the strangeness of the Mariner's gills, and the mystery of his deep dives and life on the vast ocean; the fascination, revulsion, charm, and uncanniness of LaRose's images. &nbsp;The otherworldly is the sublime. LaRose&rsquo;s large painting 100207 contains an ominously roiling, multi-chambered amoeba floating in the sky, tentacles hanging down, billowing clouds around it; I think of the mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, hovering over the staged landing area, blasting its five ominous notes. &nbsp;In 061307B a spotted, cushiony anemone-like shape is buoyantly suspended, reminding me of the foreboding danger in Albert Bierstadt&rsquo;s Storm in the Mountains[10], ca. 1870, a view of a lush green valley towards mountains over which churns a mass of rain clouds, forming an arched space under which we look into the distance. The weather hangs heavily, in constant motion and perhaps about to clear, but we can&rsquo;t be certain, so there is caution. This is the sublime: something awesome yet threatening that we should avoid, but which fascinates us despite our strong sense of self-preservation. Treasure LaRose&rsquo;s sense of the otherworldly, his exploitation of the inherent physical qualities of colored liquid, and the notion of the sublime in his art make for an integrated body of work. &nbsp;Despite the variety of images, he is operating under a singularly strong and coherent vision.&nbsp; He conjures a strange world out of paint, the movement of his body, and the swift sureness of his eye. &nbsp;While painted images are unavoidably flat, square, and composed, LaRose&rsquo;s images are also deep, vast, and difficult to identify, shocking and surprising.&nbsp; He is the Mariner, diving down as far as he can, almost recklessly, to pull out treasures of strange shape and utility that have been submerged in a darkness too difficult to access through the form or language which we habitually use. His is a rich and serious undertaking. Chris Ashley Oakland, CA October 2007 [1] http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/OTHERWORLDLY [2] http://stevenlarose.blogspot.com/ [3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/larose/ [4] http://www.metmuseum.org/special/chardin/soap.R.htm [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_technique [6] http://tinyurl.com/3yo498 [7] Ibid. [8] On the sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell. Bashkoff, Tracey. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. 2001. [9] Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Steven Spielberg. 1977 [10] http://tinyurl.com/3dwkjq Images: Top: Steven LaRose: 05-26-07-b, 2007, ink on panel, dimensions unknown Middle: Steven LaRose: 052207c, 2007, ink on panel, dimensions unknown Bottom: Steven LaRose: Beautiful Miasma, 2007, ink on panel, dimensions unknown...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[This was originally published at the new group blog just launched a few days ago to cover Bay Area art: Bay Area ArtQuake. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I walked through SFMoMA last Friday, intent on scoping out the three big shows currently there: Joseph Cornell, Jeff Wall, and Olafur Eliasson.&nbsp; Here are some thoughts: The Cornell show is on the third floor, which is normally the photography galleries, and has been that way since the museum opened.&nbsp; I normally walk through the museum like a trained rat, knowing what era or medium will be in which gallery.&nbsp; It was a little disorienting.All three shows are in dimly lit or dark galleries.&nbsp; Man, that's hard on my eyes.&nbsp; Here we are having a wonderful streak of beautiful November weather, and I feel like I'm wasting the day at a matin&eacute;e.&nbsp; But I understand why the lights are low: Cornell's materials are vulenerable to exposure;Wall's light box photos need the lights dimmed;Eliasson fun house installation depends controlled lighting. Each of the shows involves a very different kind of looking, a different sense of scale to the body, and a different kind of space: Cornell's space is close and intimate-- the head or face is in relation to the object; Wall's is the public space of outdoor advertising-- the body in relation to the object; Eliasson's is environmental-- the body in the object, and a kind of rubbing together of nature and architecture, which I guess would be something along the lines of landscape architecture or environmental planning.They finally changed the paintings hanging in the Clyfford Still gallery! Nothing to do with Cornell, Wall, or Eliasson, but I thought it was worth mentioning.More thoughts on Joseph CornellI thought I knew Cornell's work pretty well, the collages and boxes and films and drawers full of photographs and ephemera, but I was wrong.&nbsp; Of course there is the myth about him as the obsessive naif, and I suppose I bought into that. But this exhibition shows him as an artist with extreme focus and clarity of vision, and the nerve and chops to realize his vision.While Cornell's focus and vision might initially seem narrow, they were not simple; this work is complex in ways I don't think I can understand.&nbsp; It's mysterious, and layered, and cinematic.&nbsp; I think there is something in much of his images that is about capturing the feeling of singular moments in film- a moment or person of beauty, a certain juxtaposition, a movement, some kind of grandeur, something that happens in one moment in a film and then is gone; sitting in a dark theater watching moving images of projected light is thrilling, but certain moments in this medium can feel magical.&nbsp; I think Cornell was after that magic. That, and backyard astronomy, which is another kind of camera and cinematic experience. And celebrity worship, another kind of star gazing, And also the theater of the Peeping Tom or voyeur. And something that might look to us like nostalgia, but which was in Cornell's time the objects and images from his childhood, and from the generation just prior to him. These probably aren't original ideas on my part; they're probably in the literature, but Cornell's art definitely works in these many areas, as you can see for yourself.Think of the Scrovegni Chapel, which is really one big box, and looking up at the ceiling, which is a deep cobalt blue above littered with gold stars, and substitute Lauren Bacall for Mary, and you're drifting towards Cornell. It is a huge, impressive show, a bit of a landmark.&nbsp; The biggest surprise for me was seeing the skill with with Cornell made things.&nbsp; Components of some of the boxes are quite finely crafted, and there are collages that show genuine sophistication in terms of how color from different pieces are combined, how texture is laid next to another, how line and edge are used.&nbsp; This formal kind of stuff is something I did not expect to be bowled over by. He knew what he was doing. The low light in the galleries combined with the amount of work can tire the observer, so plan your visit: at first, you might quickly walk through the show; next walk back through and carefully see the first half the show; after that, take a break at a cafe; finally, go see the rest of the show.&nbsp; Take your time-- it's worth it.More thoughts on Jeff WallLots of big photos, lots of light boxes.&nbsp; Most look staged, though there are a few where you can't quite tell for sure.&nbsp; I'm guess that they're all staged.&nbsp; OK, so it's tableau. It's artificial. No Henry Wessel or Diane Arbus here. We're talking Baroque. It's great to see the beautiful Northwest, and interesting to see the lower middle classes making it big in 20th century art.&nbsp; Many of the people look a little downtrodden, and often wherever they are posed looks rundown, beat up, neglected.&nbsp; What are the images in these light boxes supposed to be selling?&nbsp; It doesn't look like a healthy product.&nbsp; Maybe they're public service announcements. I can't tell. Those light box images are kind of grainy looking-- bet they looked fantastic when they started showing up in the 80's.&nbsp; It's a funny thing about, say, Vermeer or Bouguereau or Seurat or whoever you want to name- a painting made two hundred years ago still has the same visual resolution as a painting made today.&nbsp; You know, no one at Sony's research labs is working on making paintings with a better resolution; every painting has 100% resolution, and always will... well, except for The Last Supper.&nbsp; But I think it's a little depressing, you know, the state of photography-- all those light boxes, and they already look like relics stored in a billboard company warehouse. Wait, am I looking at stills from some mid-80's TV show that I didn't know existed? Wall wants to make paintings that have the impact of large paintings- impact in terms of size, and impact in terms of subject. He wants to be a history painter, like Jacques-Louis David or Charles Le Brun, but his history is that of the suburbs, the shabbily built and poorly planned, the oppression of being a capitalist worker pawn, the ordinary struggling person, our neighbor, how a fire engine pulls up to a house down the street we walk out on the porch and shyly watch from a distance.They're spooky, and the size and the medium provide distance. We can look really closely without getting personally involved with anyone. We are witnesses with impunity. Whatever happens has so many witnesses that my testimony isn't needed. Something not so nice is going on, but there will never be any justice. That's the way things there.We all know by now that photography lies. Knowing that Wall's work is a deliberate fabrication allows us to put that idea aside and to focus on a truth. The truth is that much of life is not glamorous. Most people, even famous people, still put their pants on one leg at a time. We are cruel and judgmental, although our conscience pushes us to overcome that base instinct. Wall's photos give us the opportunity to experience the distance between higher states-- consciousness and conscientiousness-- and more basic ones-- impulse, reaction, habit, and to observe how we move from one to the other. It's more cerebral than emotional, cool than hot. The notion is good; filling, but not that tasty.More thoughts on Olafur Eliasson Can anyone tell me why this show is better than anything at the Exploratorium? Sure, this is some family-friendly show. Makes you feel all good because you experience something kind of basic and pure and simple. But basically, it's purely simple backyard science-- fill a wading pool with water and drop rocks into it to watch rings collide and cross, and observe the shimmer of glimmering light on the pool's bottom. What is the big deal here? Didn't Lucas Samaras already do the mirrored room? Why isn't Larry Bell a God, rather than this latest Golden Boy. How is Eliasson's moss wall a better work than any Richard Long stone or mud installation? Why is this better art than sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon watching a sunset? Why is this better than any waterfall? Why are major art institutions so enamored with this stuff? First Matthew Barney, and now this. I don't care how many people laid on their backs in the Turbine Hall at the Tate gazing at the fake glowing sun of The Weather Project. This is some lazy stuff. And don't get me started on the BMW with the refrigerated exoskeleton-- you can keep your hi-tech message art. What is with all of the clamor about this show? Why are people oohing and ah-ing? Geez people, go out on the balcony and walk through Barnet Newman's Zim Zum. Leave the museum, walk across Third Street, and enjoy the fountains at Yerba Buena Gardens.Or, go back and walk through the Cornell show.I like the groups of photos well enough, so some points there, but otherwise I can't even say, &quot;Hey, Olafur, nice try.&quot; No Clapping Man-- he's napping.===========================All images borrowed from sfmoma.orgJoseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination: Saturday, October 06, 2007 - Sunday, January 06, 2008Jeff Wall: Saturday, October 27, 2007 - Sunday, January 27, 2008Take your time: Olafur Eliasson: Saturday, September 08, 2007 - Sunday, February 24, 2008...]]></description>
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<title>Kevin Finklea at Pentimenti</title>
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<title>Interview with Daniel Goettin</title>
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<description>The interview I did with Daniel Goettin for Minus Space in 2006 is published in support of his current exhibition at Gallery Florian Trampler, Diessen am Ammersee, 23. September 2007 - 11.November 2007....</description>
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<title>Interview with Tilman</title>
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<description>The interview I did with Tilman Hoepfl for Minus Space in 2006 has been used in support of his recent installation there, and also published on Tilman&apos;s website....</description>
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<title>Proposal for Four Windows</title>
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<title>Raoul De Keyser: Ice Birds</title>
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<description> Raoul De Keyser: Ice Birds, 2007, oil on canvas, 77,0 x 56,0 cmZeno X Gallery, Antwerp...</description>
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<title>John Zurier: Summer, 2007</title>
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<description> John Zurier: Summer, 2007, Oil on linen, 28&quot; x 22&quot;Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, 19 de septiembre – 25 de octubre de 2007...</description>
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<title>Alan Uglow at Galerie Onrust</title>
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<title>Proposal for Two Windows</title>
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<title>WYSIWYG</title>
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<title>Last Frontier</title>
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<title>Birch Hill</title>
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<title>Black Spruce</title>
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<title>Stryker</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;Stryker, 20070927, HTML, 360 x 400 pixels...]]></description>
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<title>Fairbanks</title>
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<title>Hyperphagia</title>
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<title>Grizzly</title>
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<title>Livengood</title>
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<title>Nenana</title>
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<title>Creamer&apos;s Field</title>
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<title>Musher</title>
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<title>Hibernate</title>
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<title>Toklat</title>
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<title>Fifteen Watercolors</title>
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<description> Fifteen Watercolors, September 2007, Watercolor and Pencil on Crane&apos;s 100% Fine Cotton 24 LB. Premium Weight Acid Free White Thesis Paper, 11 x 8.5 inches each (scanned; click each for large view)...</description>
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<title>Tanana</title>
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<title>Sandhill Crane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;Sandhill Crane, 20070916, HTML, 400 x 360 pixels...]]></description>
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<title>Himmel und Masse at Root Division</title>
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<title>Athabascan</title>
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<dc:date>2007-09-15T23:59:59-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Juan Melé: Marco recortado n.º 2 </title>
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<description> Juan MeléMarco recortado n.º 2 [Irregular Frame No. 2], 1946Oil on masonite, 27 15/16 x 18 1/8 x 1 in.Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, 1997.102 “The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art From the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University; reviewed by Robert Smith, NY Times: Our notions of the origins of shaped paintings are readjusted by “Irregular Frame No. 2,” a distorted grid in shades of green, blue, rust and yellow made startlingly early, as these things go, by the Argentine artist Juan Melé in 1946. In this flamboyant little work geometry turns blunt, in advance of Minimalism, and cartoonishly savvy, in advance (and somewhat contradictorily) of the abstract painter Elizabeth Murray....</description>
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<dc:date>2007-09-15T09:08:55-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Glacial</title>
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<dc:date>2007-09-14T23:59:59-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Denali</title>
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<title>Green is Good</title>
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<description>The following was written for the catalog for Alan Ebnother&apos;s exhibition at Wade Wilson Art, Houston, March 2007, but in the end was not used. I&apos;m using it here. I also interviewed Alan for Minus Space in 2005. &quot;Green is Good&quot; The subject of a recent email from Alan Ebnother is &quot;Green.&quot; The rest of the email simply reads, &quot;Is Good.&quot; That was it. Good for what? For Alan; for me; for painting? I don’t’ know, it’s just good. I can’t argue with that. Green is. But when I say, &quot;green,&apos; which green do you see? Cabbage, broccoli, chard, or lime? Mint, pistachio, rosemary, or pear? Moss, iguana, malachite, or pine? Traffic light, crocodile, seaweed, or seafoam? We each can think of our own &quot;greens.&quot; I have a catalogue that lists over fifty different green pigments ranging from pale green-yellow earth to grassy brilliance, from the lushest emerald to dry, dark, mold-like powder. These pigments are clean dirt, crushed rock, and ground mineral from around the world with various physical qualities. A pigment is not just color; each results in a paint which is dense or smooth, fine or coarse, opaque or transparent. Once Alan mentioned, &quot;people who first come to the desert and say that there is no vegetation or wildlife. On closer observation the desert opens itself to their vision and a complete world of plant and animal life becomes apparent.&quot; An artist looks for territory and sets to work exploring it, figuring out what is there and responding and adjusting to what he is finding. Each painting has its own qualities, and every painting is new. The artist finds what he is making only by doing it. The painter wants to bring components of the painting into place, and the materials work for and against that force. Dylan Thomas’ poem that begins, &quot;The force that through the green fuse drives the flower | Drives my green rage; that blasts the roots of trees | Is my destroyer,&quot; reminds us of the power and energy in things that are green, and that even growth is cyclical and eventually destructive. Green has many possible meanings. Green symbolically represents the &quot;Anahata,&quot; the fourth, or the heart/emotions, chakra related to love, equilibrium, and well-being. In our times, being green means engaging in renewable and sustainable consumption. Green is used in night vision goggles because the human eye discerns the greatest variety of shades of that color. Often, green means &quot;go,&quot; yet is also the color of envy, poison, and radioactivity. Color enters memory, perhaps imperfectly, and despite being incredibly elusive can still resonate specifically, prompting associations tied to emotion, time, and place. The meaning of an art work, the kind that is explained verbally, is overrated. We clamor to understand, but a painting is not a package to be unwrapped with words and consumed only intellectually. Tidy explanations are for the impatient and incurious, and typically miss the point. A painting is like a corner of the desert, a complete world for the viewer to experience. The painting is the fuse, our interaction with it is the force, and our understanding is the flower. Once, Alan made a green painting, and then another and another, and he simply followed his own progression of experiences using different green pigments, different brushes, different supports and sizes. He staked his claim and committed to exploring it. Twenty six years later, he hasn’t run out of green or territory. Chris AshleyOakland, CAJanuary 2007 Above: Alan Ebnother, &quot;December 20, 2006&quot;, Oil and pigment on linen, h: 36 x w: 36 in / h: 91.4 x w: 91.4 cm, Wade Wilson Art...</description>
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<dc:subject>Art Writing</dc:subject>
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<title>Permafrost</title>
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<dc:subject>HTML Drawing 2007</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-09-12T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Alluvial</title>
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<title>Chatanika</title>
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<dc:date>2007-09-10T19:50:54-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Subarctic</title>
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<title>Deadhorse</title>
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<title>Polychrome</title>
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<title>Coldfoot</title>
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<title>Tundra</title>
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<title>Aurora</title>
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<dc:date>2007-09-04T12:07:09-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Yukon</title>
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<title>Boreal</title>
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<title>Chena</title>
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<title>Root Division: INTRODUCTIONS  2007</title>
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<description>INTRODUCTIONS 2007Exhibition of 12 Bay Area Emerging ArtistsOpening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 7-10pmThis exhibition features painting, drawing, photography, prints, sculpture, video, &amp; film by twelve emerging artists living and/or working in the Bay Area. Chosen from over 175 submissions, jurors Gregory Lind, Jessica Hough, &amp; Dana Hemenway decided on each artist for both the formal and conceptual strength of the work presented. The goal of Introductions 2007 is to create exposure for emerging artists in San Francisco by showcasing their artwork. In presenting engaging and high quality artwork, Root Division nurtures the accessibility &amp; appreciation of the art of our time. Artists: Christopher AshleyAmanda BoehmJeff EisenbergJoel D. FruddenJose GuintoJessalyn HaggenjosBarbara HolmesAndrew KleindolphConrad M. Meyers IIJessie PaigeAaron RosenstreichVanessa WoodsJurors:Gregory Lind: Owner &amp; Director, Gregory Lind GalleryJessica Hough: Director, Mills College Art MuseumDana Hemenway: Gallery Manager, San Francisco Arts Commission GalleryOpening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 7 to 10 pm Exhibition Dates: September 7 - 29, 2007ROOT DIVISION3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness)San Francisco, CA 94110415.863.7668info@rootdivision.orgGallery Hours: Wednesdays- Saturdays, 12-4 pm (or by appointment)...</description>
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<dc:subject>exhibitions</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-09-01T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Glaze</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-31T23:26:44-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Trap</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-30T23:59:59-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Roll</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-29T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sump</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-28T19:26:58-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>In progress</title>
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<description> Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 each...</description>
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<dc:subject>Studio</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2007-08-28T00:09:49-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shutter</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-27T19:51:23-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Buff</title>
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<title>Flow</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-25T17:45:33-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Flaps</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-24T23:59:59-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Strap</title>
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<title>Breaker</title>
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<title>Bay</title>
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<dc:date>2007-08-21T00:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shield</title>
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<title>Mold</title>
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<title>Form</title>
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<title>Hold</title>
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<title>Cleat</title>
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<title>Dusk</title>
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<title>Cove</title>
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<title>Drape</title>
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<title>Tread</title>
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<title>Blind</title>
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<title>Tack</title>
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<title>Shuttle</title>
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<title>Sash</title>
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<title>Corner</title>
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<title>Slide</title>
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<title>Case</title>
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<title>Brace</title>
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<title>Unit</title>
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<title>Grasp</title>
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<title>Sandi Miot&apos;s Recent Paintings </title>
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<description><![CDATA[This essay was commissioned for the recent catalog, "Sandi Miot: Wax Games" (http://sandimiot.com/).&nbsp;Sandi Miot&#8217;s Recent Paintings &#8220;There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. It's a simple experience, you become lighter and lighter in weight, you wouldn't want anything else. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.&#8221; Agnes Martin Place An artist typically can&#8217;t help but absorb and reflect her environment in some way. Where she spends her times seeps in and affects the art, often in very direct ways, such as in terms of light or color or space, and also in seemingly less direct ways, such as an artist&#8217;s subject, intention, or spirit.The pace of life in the artist&#8217;s environment, or the local political climate, may also somehow be in the art. Geography and weather of course help shape outlook and sense of place, and also whether one is near water, among hills and trees, in or near the city, or beneath one kind of sky or another. If making art is part of how one lives, then where one lives and works is also part of the art.Sandi Miot made her way to Northern California after living many years in Florida. She says that on arrival she felt immediately at home and knew she&#8217;d found the place where she would live and make her art. Her studio is in a large 1930&#8217;s building on a former US Air Force base north of San Francisco, where she is a powerful force in the local art scene. The restored buildings there are solid and spacious, California-style Mediterranean constructions well suited to the landscape, built of sturdy wood and thick stucco, fitted with large windows, and topped with roofs of red Spanish tiles.Nestled amid rolling hills on the west and the San Francisco Bay on the east, this location is wonderful in every way: open, quiet, light-filled, airy, and inviting. There is life here: deer are often seen grazing under the oak trees on the hill, one sees and hears birds, and there is the invigorating presence of numerous other artists whose studios are also located in this complex. Here, Miot works on a daily basis in a large white room with a high ceiling. There are several work tables, a desk and comfortable chairs, many books within easy reach, and of course her art&#8212; paintings finished and in progress hang on the walls, and works on paper lay about in various states of completion. This room is a place in which to work, to sit and look, and to contemplate.Encaustic It is important to know that Sandi Miot&#8217;s primary medium is encaustic, a way of painting with pigment in heated wax that goes back at least as far as the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 CE. Entering the studio the senses are immediately filled with the smell of wax and the sight of the paintings bearing thick, lustrous color.The next thing you might notice is the hot plates and the blocks of colored wax lined up in trays. Unlike painting in oil or acrylic, where you can basically squeeze paint from a tube and begin applying it immediately, encaustic requires tools, time, and preparation&#8212; the hot plates need to be turned on, the wax needs to melt, and each color needs it&#8217;s own pan and brushes. There is labor involved here, and you can easily see it in the paintings. Paint is built up in layers and often melted back down with torches, resulting in a surface that is thick and textured yet soft and smooth, in places almost liquid, puddled, earthy, and organic, such as in Miot&#8217;s Sapphire Silk, Garnet Ambience, and Citrine Veneration, (all 2001). In others, flame-carved crevices cut through a painting's topography to reveal layers of color, like sediment, a kind of geological history, as seen in Beginning and Sanskrit (2007). (Left: Beginning, 2007, Encaustic on Wood, 12&quot; x 12&quot; x 2&quot;)Wax seals and insulates&#8212; the painted image is both on and in the surface. Encaustic's translucent quality results in a colored light that glows through layers, luminous like a burning candle, stained glass, or amber. Since wax cools quickly, it drips or runs very little, indicating a sense of brief or frozen time, which furthers the sense of a captured moment that Miot uses to good effect in paintings like Awakening and Prophecy (2000).Encaustic requires a sturdy support. All of Miot&#8217;s paintings are on wood panels, which have a very particular presence&#8212; thick, heavy, strong, and crafted. Some of the work walks a fine line between painting and sculpture, often venturing towards relief, some projecting several inches off of the wall. Many works consist of multiple panels, each a smaller unit of a larger whole. A wood panel covered in wax presents several dualities: hard and soft, solid and liquid, opaque and transparent.Connections In Miot&#8217;s work the paint, the supports, and the imagery have an iconic, object-like quality. They have a historical connection in several ways to, say, Sienese panel painting: the wood panel feels like a shape, not simply a canvas; the painted image is luminous; details are carved into the surface; and they feel built to last.I am reminded of Duccio di Buoninsegna&#8217;s panel painting Madonna and Child (ca. 1300) at New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Museum. The gold ground is flat and inscribed with the Madonna's halo, and the space of the painting is shallow. There is an association I make, coincidental but fortuitous, between this painting and Miot's use of wax and heat&#8212; at the lower edge of the gilded frame on Duccio's painting two rounded notches have been burned into place by candles set beneath the painting. Not only is devotion depicted in the painting, there is also evidence of devotion, the result of burning candles. A painting like Miot's Sanskrit (2007) comes to mind, which has a centered, brilliantly colored image and a carved, relief-like surface made with a torch. While Duccio&#8217;s image is painted in small, repeated strokes, Miot creates her image with a finely controlled flame.Paintings such Dance I and Dance II, (both 2007), each square and in low relief, make me think of Lorenzo Ghiberti&#8217;s twenty-eight gilded bronze reliefs (1404-24) on the north door of the Baptistery next to the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. And Miot&#8217;s use of multiple panels shares the narrative quality Ghiberti&#8217;s reliefs. These poignant, almost incidental visual rhymes made across seven hundred years, from Duccio and Ghiberti to Miot, are a reminder of art's history and its continuing value.Images Miot's art images are the result of constantly managed chaos and order. Paint applied gesturally suggests improvisation and intuition, while panels that are arranged in grids create order. Strokes applied deliberately contrast with less easily-managed areas where paint is carved with a torch. Geometric shapes hover over fields of scattered color. This contrast of chaos and order is an emotional push-pull for the viewer, who falls in and out of balance, moving from one state of consciousness to another.Color is of course an important component of Miot's painting, as well as her use of multiple panels to make a single work. She often uses a saturated palette of pure and unmixed color, as in the vibrant, celebratory Night Music (2007). Recent paintings that consist of multiple panels hung in a grid or or rows are painted in an ordered spectrum of color that gradually shifts from one panel to the next, a gradation that suggests movement or a transition from one state to another.Sunrise (2007) is a good example&#8212; the five deep vertical panels transition from a bright orange on the left, through red and purple, to a deep blue on the right. The color across the forty two panels of Lifelines I (2006), six columns and seven rows, transition both vertically (light to dark) and horizontally (blue to orange). Additionally, the panels in Lifelines I reduce in size as they descend in each column, so that it contains two kinds of transitions: color (pictorial) and size (physical).Miot's art is both consistent and diverse, an interesting balance to maintain. Part of the consistency comes from her use of encaustic and certain formats. But it also comes from a concern for making images and creating meaning using a limited vocabulary of shapes and marks: squares, strokes, drips and thrown paint, layers, lumps, and crevices. And although diversity might best be illustrated by describing a few paintings, it isn't easy describing paintings that have so much built up color, so many different kinds of textures, and so many ways of treating paint.Awakening (2002) contains a horizon line, with black above and orange below. In the black field three molten hot orange squares are each rotated in a different position, appearing to have burst spinning upward and falling back downward, like cubes of lava. It's possible that these three squares are actually the same square depicted three times in a kind of animation. This image evokes Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist paintings in which stacked squares, rectangles, and lines appear to move apart and evoke space and flight, a moment in time. (Right: Awakening, 2002, 48&quot; x 48&quot; x 2&quot; Encaustic &amp; oil on panel)Dreams (2007), Eye Candy (2006), and Night Music (2006) are all diptychs, the images of which are made with drips and lines applied without a brush touching the surface. Dreams consists of two fields of deep turquoise blue carved into delicate vertical channels across which Pollock-like skeins of more turquoise are dripped and drizzled. The two red panels of Eye Candy have scattered magenta drops and a few quick lines of thrown yellow that span the two panels' dividing line. The color of Night Music is hard to name&#8212; both panels have a blue-gray ground across which a dense field of blue, lavender, yellow, and gray drops and lines are built up from the bottom edge, scattering out further as they ascend the painting. While these descriptions sound similar-- two panels side by side, a colored ground, dripped and flung paint&#8212; they really are very different images resulting in very different effects and moods.Whirligig (2007) is a new direction for Miot's work. The twenty two panels are so deep that they are actually cubes. The smallest cube is at the center on the wall, and the successive cubes form a spiral several feet in diameter that eventually leaves the wall and trails off onto the floor. Every visible surface of each cube is painted, and the color shifts from one cube to the next in an expanded spectrum; the smallest cube is green, and the color of each cube moves through yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and full circle back to green on the largest cube. Each cube has drips of complementary colors, so that a reverse spectrum runs back through the spiral. Like Frank Stella, Miot brings the painting out into the viewer's territory, creating more than in any other work a shift from pictorial two-dimensional space into architectural space.Understanding I could simply write that Sandi Miot's paintings are beautiful, a word I haven&#8217;t even used yet, and although they are, that wouldn&#8217;t be very helpful in understanding her art. That her work is beautiful is so obvious that it almost goes without saying, but in fact she deserves credit for her mastery of materials and color. To further understand her paintings it is important to point out that her images teeter between representation and non-representation, and to recognize how she takes work from the expected flatness of painting to the realm of relief and three dimensions. Miot&#8217;s paintings provide us with the opportunity to experience and reflect on emotion and thought. The dichotomy of chaos and order is both something we feel and know as an idea. As Agnes Martin suggests, time spent in front of these paintings results in things to see and feel that might not be apparent at first glance. Miot&#8217;s paintings are models for ways of being and thinking. This is ambitious and inspiring, and a tremendous gift from the artist.Chris Ashley Oakland, CA May 2007...]]></description>
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