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- The Shown Heart
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- Too Many Moons — At Principle Gallery
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- Moment Revealed — At West End Gallery
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you’re stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
–Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir
Point of Contact — You Could Win It!
I am on the road this morning, heading to Alexandria, VA for the Gallery Talk I will be giving today, beginning at 1 PM. I have some new paintings with me, like the three smaller pieces shown at the top, along with some other cool stuff to give away, including the painting, Point of Contact, shown here on the right. I think it’s going to be a fun talk as well as an insightful one.
I am focusing today (this is written yesterday since I am on the road right now) on luck since someone will have a bit of luck at today’s Talk when they walk away with a favorite painting of mine.
I also thought luck was appropriate since luck or serendipity or whatever you want to call it has played a big part in my career as an artist. I’ve encountered it in my dealings with galleries and people who’ve helped me move along. I’ve seen it play a part in my painting , when what looked like a mistake suddenly turns out to be hugely fortuitous, opening up new avenues that I hadn’t recognized before.
I included the passage at the top from Mark Vonnegut, son of the great Kurt Vonnegut, from his memoir on his struggles with mental health issues. His thought here on art and how it helps one sort out and find a way to escape the trap of living as someone you know yourself not to be makes sense to me and speaks to my own journey and luck as an artist.
That might part of the talk today. Not exactly positive on that but it’s a possibility. I won’t know until I am standing there.
Hope you can make it. If you can, good luck to you!!
1 PM at the Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA.
Here’s song for the road. It’s a highly entertaining version of Road to Nowhere, the old Talking Heads classic. This from David Byrne‘s wonderful stage show, American Utopia. Lots of fun…
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