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- bill 11-11-2017 10:26 am [link] [3 refs] [add a comment]

Nice value (maybe) and in line with the Steve-Steve-Alex photo colors below


- Skinny 11-07-2017 8:27 pm [link] [3 refs] [2 comments]

Captain Beefheart, a rock legend, recently died. Your gallery represented him as a painter under his real name, Don van Vliet. How did you discover him?

I owe Penck for Beefheart. In East Germany, there was a lively black market for LPs, and Beefheart’s records were the most expensive of all. Penck was a huge fan of Beefheart as a musician, and revealed to me one day that Beefheart was also a painter; so I got in touch with him. He had stopped playing music because he hated the music market, and although as a painter he was totally authentic, no one really took him seriously. The most unbelievable freaks -- rock fans -- came to his exhibitions; occasionally a few pictures would be sold. 

However, I was not able to position him, and so far there has been only one museum exhibition of his work, in San Francisco. I visited him a few times in California. He lived in a wooden house, and I could always find him sitting on the veranda and looking out to sea. Once I asked him what he saw. He replied: “Seals. Seals. Sometimes it looks like a seal, but it’s a surfer. And then a shark gets him.”

 


- bill 11-06-2017 10:41 am [link] [add a comment]

"Slough"  Performance by Steve DiBenedtto, Steven Doughton, Mr. Alexander Wilson. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art


- steve 11-06-2017 9:53 am [link] [3 refs] [3 comments]

Doomtown Curated by Kristan Kennedy and Steven Doughton


- Skinny 11-02-2017 11:13 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

Strange Attractors


- bill 11-02-2017 8:44 pm [link] [1 comment]