tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318918232024-03-07T14:19:02.185-05:00Chris Beacham PaintsA blog describing my odyssey in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media and all things visual art.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-43249540627837951742016-06-06T11:14:00.000-04:002016-06-06T11:15:44.471-04:002-D or not 3-D?Clearly I haven't posted much on my art lately. I have been thinking about it a bunch but haven't picked up a brush recently -- except to paint the walls in the new Brooklyn apartment. Before I left NC I worked on a few 3D pieces using wood, gourds, and metal. Oh and the odd one made from a broken <a href="http://www.robertlevin.com/">Rob Levin</a> glass bowl.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-67653113236698280392016-04-26T11:53:00.001-04:002016-04-26T11:54:55.876-04:00Finalized version of my personal website: chrisbeacham.comI recently created <a href="http://chrisbeacham.com/">chrisbeacham.com</a> that describes my work in arts-driven economic development including some interesting materials on some of the <a href="http://chrisbeacham.com/portfolio/">projects I've led</a>.<br />
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It also includes various blog posts on topics of interest like the <a href="http://chrisbeacham.com/thoughts-left-visible-unfinished-nasreen-baseball-is-starting/">Met Breuer opening</a> and a new report on <a href="http://chrisbeacham.com/more-images-from-the-bronx-museum-martin-wong-exhibit/">my fascination with Martin Wong</a>.<br />
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Check it out and let me know what you think.<div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-11485869219703558832016-04-04T14:17:00.000-04:002016-04-04T14:18:31.474-04:00The new Met Museum for Contemporary Arts: A review of the initial exhibit<h3 style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;">
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<strong>Recap:</strong> Whitney moves to Chelsea, Met buys Whitney Breuer building, remodels & creates modern & contemporary art venue, opens with a somewhat unusual show plus a dynamic exhibition of a lesser known but brilliant Egyptian artist. An unschooled writer compares the <em>Unfinished </em>show to baseball and spring training.</blockquote>
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I start here with the <em><strong>Unfinished</strong></em> exhibit and add something on the terrific Nasreen Mohamedi in a later post. So, <em>Unfinished</em> has gotten universally meh reviews. I've linked to some of the reviews at the end here, but basically for the critics it is a swing and a miss. Some say "a wild, swinging strikeout", others call it "a weak dribbler to first" while some admit that, while not pretty, "a broken bat single is still a hit." Heads up: I'm glass more than half full and I highly recommend a visit. The bad misses are more than made up for by wonderful and very fun doubles off the wall followed by a homer or two.<br />
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I loved it while still understanding the complaints. The curators stretch the concept, meander, throw some wild pitches, and generally play a bit sloppy. Mixed metaphors and rookie mistakes abound (sounds like this review). Still, it's mostly an ungainly rookie who'll make it in a couple of years. Think Nuke LaLoosh tied to the bed listening to Annie read Walt Whitman and then reaching the bigs later and winning a Cy or two.<br />
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I mean how can you hate seeing the amazing Alice Neel portrait you see top left? It's a great and melancholy story but <em>James Hunter Black Draftee</em> is a brilliant piece and really a perfect encapsulation of the conceit of the show. It basically answers the question "Is unfinished really a bad thing?" with a resounding "No!" Who decides anyway? In this case the US government, the draft, serendipity, and Alice did. Grand slam to right!</div>
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Without going into too much detail and analysis let's look at a few and see if they make a visit seem worth it:<br />
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The Rembrandt to the right reflects a beautiful casualness. Perfection is not the goal but emotion might be. The luminous knife and stunning facial richness makes this piece for me. Is it unfinished? Hard to tell. Triple off the wall for van Rijn!</div>
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Other artists featured: Pollock, Twombly, Marden, Mondrian, Newman, Johns, Lewitt, de Kooning, Picasso, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Warhol, Titian, Turner, Bourgeois, Manet, Monet, Giacometti.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-38091275867902299592016-03-23T15:46:00.002-04:002016-03-23T15:46:19.045-04:00The new ChrisBeachamPaints and ChrisBeacham websites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've moved my old Sandvox based site over to Wordpress (Twenty Fourteen theme) and I like it. It took a while but I think it's cleaner and more attractive. Go to <a href="http://chrisbeachampaints.com/">chrisbeachampaints.com</a> and let me know what you think.<br />
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I've also established <a href="http://chrisbeacham.com/">chrisbeacham.com</a> as my personal site that I'm using to sell myself after moving to Brooklyn without a job. It's also Wordpress using the Portfolio theme Ditto on letting me know what you think.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-63957684464497372952016-01-08T13:32:00.003-05:002016-01-28T15:08:13.844-05:00You never can tellSo Karen and I have given away most of our work because we had no place to keep it. It's gone to family, friends, workmates and acquaintances. This one I posted about in 2013 (see below). My older son liked it so he took it. But before he did he rotated it counterclockwise and made it into an abstract landscape (if that makes sense). Certainly is more interesting. If you own any of my paintings feel free to turn them any way you want!<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-47474831203225026552016-01-08T12:41:00.001-05:002016-01-28T15:09:39.453-05:00In Brooklyn & about back to painting!There's been no art making for a long time. Art thinking, yes, but no art making. Many reasons but the best excuse is no good studio access.<br />
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Those days are over -- we move into the new place in Park Slope, Brooklyn tomorrow. We won't have a big studio but it'll be good enough with good light. Hopefully I'll be able to post a new thing or two soon.<br />
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Now to find a job....but before that two more B&W (or sort of) that I haven't posted.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-58437993569580926762015-06-07T20:41:00.001-04:002015-06-08T16:43:26.535-04:00Earlier black and white piecesI've posted some of the black and white pieces that I've been doing with graphite powder. I was actually doing some B&W before that, just in a different format and medium. So here are a couple of them.<br />
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This is black acrylic and white ink on plywood. I'm not sure why I started doing these pieces but I did a number of them.<br />
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Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Maybe they're just boring, other times hopeless. I've been working with some of the those that are bit boring and cutting them in ways. I think I'll start trying to also cut and rearrange, collage, whatevah -- basically mixed media.<br />
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Here are a few examples:<br />
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This one of the left has one variation. I have cherry stain powder used in woodworking (I used to make furniture). I'll spread a bit of the stain powder and add a bit of water. It creates various shades of color as you see on the left.<br />
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Most of us have a tendency, I think, to visit museums like they are all you can eat buffets. You know, there is all this food and you've got to have some of everything or you'll feel cheated. At a museum we don't want to miss something really good -- especially if you think you won't be able to return. So you're worried that you'll come home from your trip to London where you visited the <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/">Tate</a> and somebody will ask if you saw <a href="https://explorerartemis.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/p1000692.jpg">Monet's Water Lilies</a> and you'll have to say "No" and then they'll spend 10 minutes telling you all about it.<br />
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But when you do that everything becomes a blur or maybe, like when Karen and I visited the new <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney</a> last week, you walk away overwhelmed and drained. (The new Whitney is amazing.) So this time I figured I'd spend more time with fewer pieces. I immediately went to the far northwest corner of the museum. I glanced around and saw Andrew Wyeth's <i>Winter</i>. It is amazing and has the added advantage of being placed near a bench where I could sit, contemplate and write in my little Moleskine.<br />
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It was painted in 1946, tempera on board, right after his father's death. What makes this piece so special? It could be the boy appearing to flee down Wyeth's famous hill, his weight and the tragedy dragging him. Or the beautiful and imposing hill itself. The brushwork with the subtle changes in color and texture that creates both a sense of space and claustrophobia. The shadow too, that follows the boy down the hill adding to the force of his sadness. It is an immensely sad and perfect painting, a simple image<br />
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that tells a story that could fill a book.<br />
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Nearby is a Jacob Lawrence called <i>Forward </i>from 1967<i>.</i> It is a great companion to the Wyeth. Here it is Harriet Tubman pushing the escaping slaves forward to freedom, playing the role of the hill in <i>Winter</i>.<br />
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She is shoving the man forward, a revolver in hand. He's enormous, strong, and terrified, hiding his facing with his immense hand. The colors are bold and the shapes blocky without the detail of the Wyeth. To me the man is the compelling figure, the lines of his ribs, the splayed hands themselves viscerally showing both his physical strength and his terror.<br />
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This vision of humanity, of fear, of tragedy, of strength, of heroism, of courage, of determination, of fearlessness both breaks my heart and gives me hope.<br />
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I felt maybe there was a piece to create a triptych with the Wyeth and the Lawrence so I walked around, glancing here and there. And then I saw it, a John Singer Sergeant of the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt">Flight from Egypt</a>,</i></div>
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circa 1877-1879. It is a sparse piece, dark, and impressionistic.<br />
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Here the forward motion is provided by lonely Joseph, staff in hand, his arm around Mary. We see Mary, her face shrouded, a shawl around her head. She holds Jesus, the child's head merely a shape but lighter and with a halo.<br />
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The donkey, his head nearly dragging the ground, appears gaunt and deadly tired, stumbling down the path, his massive ears just more weight to carry.<br />
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Joseph is held up by his staff, Mary by Joseph, Jesus by Mary, and the donkey by force of will and necessity. Joseph's face looks obscured but on closer examination quite detailed, his nose, his beard, and the holes of his eyes amazingly evocative. Again, like the Wyeth and the Lawrence, a sad, beautiful, and contemplative composition.<br />
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I spent an hour plus with the three pieces. By doing so they became more than canvas and paint and more than beautiful works of art. They told me three stories that reflect the best and worst of humanity. Stories that made me think. Images that made me sad and feel intensely alive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Grand's Talk" acrylics on canvas, 30" x 24"</td></tr>
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So...the influence for this piece came from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gs_rn=11&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=UhXdKw3ez6JZnzc08Y7Lbg&cp=11&gs_id=3n&xhr=t&q=alma+thomas&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS513US513&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45645796,d.dmQ&biw=1085&bih=602&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=-op-Uf-tFKnB0QGvoIGwAw">Alma Thomas</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gs_rn=11&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=UhXdKw3ez6JZnzc08Y7Lbg&cp=11&gs_id=3n&xhr=t&q=alma+thomas&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS513US513&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45645796,d.dmQ&biw=1085&bih=602&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=-op-Uf-tFKnB0QGvoIGwAw#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS513US513&tbm=isch&q=josef+albers&spell=1&sa=X&ei=34t-UbD8G7Ot0AHYuIGwCw&ved=0CFAQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=861c3d3d47d3d63e&biw=1035&bih=552">Josef Albers</a>, the former for her painting style and the latter for his seminal investigations into how we see color.</div>
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Secondly the colors are off. The left side is actually a green hue and the right is a much richer and darker red. I'll for a better photo but so far I haven't pulled it off.</div>
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...that was a few months ago (generously defining a few) included a painting that I called, tentatively, Weeds. Since then the weeds have sprouted and there are three of them and they won't be called weeds anymore....<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-67155699162048958112012-09-23T16:00:00.000-04:002012-09-23T16:00:25.383-04:00So it's only been four monthsOh well....pretty much all abstracts<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working title "Weeds", ink, pen and acrylics, 24 x 20</td></tr>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-52743032636767396872012-05-09T17:13:00.000-04:002012-05-09T17:13:05.245-04:00Two new piecesThis will be brief. I've been working, really, just without that much success. Here are a couple that seem to work...One is an abstract, the other another abstract portrait of my son Andy.<br />
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We talked mostly about the activities of the Town of Carrboro Arts Committee that I chair but also more generally about the arts in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and the Triangle. We had a fun talk and got into some interesting issues for developing the arts within our area. You can download the interview as a <a href="http://www.chapelboro.com/episode_download.php?contentType=36&contentId=5718126">mps</a> or <a href="http://www.chapelboro.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=5728650">stream</a> it.<div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-61870194366739583852012-03-04T10:36:00.001-05:002012-03-04T10:37:47.340-05:00Sales are nice!Sometimes people ask whether something is for sale. I think the question comes from the idea of "losing" something that came from inside, that is very personal and that, perhaps, no one else will understand. I get that.<br />
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I got into painting never expecting to show anybody anything, much less find people willing to pay actual money for them. It turns out that people like some of my stuff. (I'll also note that the buying public often ignores my best work - bunch of philistines! I still love you.)<br />
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The truth is that there are only a few pieces that are so special in that internal connection sort of way that I will never sell. There is one painting that I have some regret selling but the right person bought it so it's okay.<br />
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Yesterday I sold a painting that has gone through many iterations, changes of direction, and frankly several layers of paint. I put it in an abstract show at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/johnnysgonefishing">Johnny's Gone Fishing</a> and yesterday I got a call that someone wanted to buy it. So up to Johnny's to pick up the other pieces and sell one. Kevin Morgan bought it and he explains part of the why <a href="http://athletewithstent.com/2012/03/03/hydration-art-or-science/">here</a>. An interesting story that starts with a poem by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a> and includes references to chaos and complexity theories (the painting is titled "Chaos" and I also have an interest in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chaos theory">chaos theory</a>) and mucus. Kevin is interesting.<br />
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So here it is:<br />
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So this one is a modification of a Color Field influenced piece from a couple of years ago. It wasn't terrible, but it was also not terribly interesting. So I took a metaphorical axe to it. It became less an abstract...okay, not really an abstract but I like the colors.<br />
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It's acrylics on unprimed canvas attached to plywood (waaay more than you want to know).<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Number 2 was different. I started with a heavily gessoed over big (for me) canvas. Karen gave me the new <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mitchell" rel="wikipedia" title="Joan Mitchell">Joan Mitchell</a> biography for my b-day. Joan is one of my very favorite artists. The energy of her canvases is amazing. Oh to be that talented! So I was thinking about Joan and her use of color and composition. After a couple of hours last night - getting late - I stopped, happy with how it was going. Karen thinks it's finished. I'm not convinced- I'm not sure I see where the eye is drawn. But I have f-ed up enough paintings by not letting them soak in before continuing. I have NOT f-ed paintings because Karen told me to stop. So I'm stopping for now.</span></div>
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I'll hang a show in the back area of Johnny's Gone Fishing on W. Main Carrboro tomorrow, January 29th and it will be up through February. I've decided to show abstracts. Here's a new one. I pulled a failure from who knows when and saw a few glimmers of hope in it. After a couple of days of fooling with it something popped out. Finished and ready to go.<br />
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I'd never worked with such an odd shape of canvas before. It's, IIRC, 12 by 48. I started with an idea maybe 18 months ago. Fail. I pulled it out every few months, sometimes painting on it, sometimes just looking. Finally 6 months or so ago I did some pretty drastic modifications and I felt somewhat better about it. But something didn't ring true.<br />
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It had the box/window motif that has been a largely unconscious part of my painting from the beginning. (I'm sure there is some deep psychological reason for boxes/windows in my painting but I'm not going to go there.) Was structure the problem? How about color? Both?<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I had finished working on something and didn't feel like quitting and I had some paint that I didn't want to waste. So why not, I couldn't ruin a painting that didn't work could I? So it goes.<br />
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The color was the real key I think but the changes also improved the structural/compositional aspects. It's okay and it might not be finished but here it is.<br />
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So the other day I was working on a piece and I mixed some paint that turned out beautifully. For those who are not painters, paint mixing is an art and a bit of alchemy. You need a secret handshake and a close connection to the Buddha to get colors right. Usually I can't remember the handshake and the Buddha ignores me. This time though - ahhh - a beautiful pastel yellow that was perfect on its own and when mixed with a bit of Crimson Red (paint colors have names, odd sometimes like Neutrino Bold Turquoise or Betty Davis Eyes Green) came out just right in a reddish pastel contrast. I'll probably never be able to recreate it unless I reach totally enlightenment. Unlikely.<br />
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Anywho, I grab the aforementioned multi-layered painting and the magic paint and started to work with little hope. A line here, some paint there, a crock of the neck to see it from another perspective and ultimately I step back and Buddha has graced me with something I like. I sleep poorly wondering whether I'll wake up, go downstairs and realize that the new version, well, sucks. It's happened more times than I care to remember.<br />
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This time I don't think so. I like it. For now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"This is Not a Flag", Beyond mixed media on canvas, 24 x 18</td></tr>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-26546630155974841082011-12-29T14:43:00.002-05:002011-12-29T14:45:42.812-05:00My holiday cardOkay, so it's after Christmas but at least it's before New Years....drum roll please, the Chris Beacham annual (except last year) holiday card!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blooms in December. Ink and collage on watercolor paper, 2011</td></tr>
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Quote on back: "Cease looking for flowers, there blooms a garden in your own home" (Rumi) <br />
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If you want one just let me know and send me an address. Oh and have a fun and safe New Years!<div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31891823.post-62101850330639254432011-12-14T16:56:00.001-05:002011-12-14T16:58:15.510-05:00A new piece and a comment on Damien Hirst's SpotsI painted a new piece that is basically a series of squiggly lines with some of the created areas filled. It is a pretty simple piece from a simple process. It's been sitting there waiting for me to decide whether it is finished or not. I've been coming down on the side of "Finished!" knowing of course that unfinishing is always possible whereas continuing to paint can have disastrous and irrevocable results. So here it is as of today.<br />
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Then this morning's NYT had an article on the painter <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/arts/design/damien-hirsts-spot-paintings-will-fill-all-11-gagosians.html?scp=1&sq=hirst&st=cse">Damien Hirst</a> who is filling all 11 of Larry Gagosian's galleries across three continents with about 200 paintings -- all his famous spot paintings that go for upwards of $1.8 million each. I like some of Hirst's work; he's inventive, talented and unafraid. But his spot paintings.....not so much. So when I look at one of the paintings like this one....<br />
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....I think mine's not so simple after all. There's much
wrong with the art scene these days and the fact that the spot paintings will
move to the Tate Modern afterwards is one indication. This isn't as bad as a Jeff Koon's balloon dog but I don't think it's museum quality either. (And I'm not claiming mine is better. YMMV as they say.)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1