"With drafting pen in hand, and who knows what in mind, [Daniel] Brush spends countless hours penning the same line. The works he thus composes are nearly 10 feet tall, and, I think, imposing. Delicate yet dreary, humble, yet while humble pompous, they seem the work of someone who finds liberation through enslavement. The trip is his, not mine." --Paul Richard, Washington Post, 1975, reviewing "Five Washington Artists" at the Corcoran Gallery. Brush now lives in New York and makes intricate work with gold.
DB probably hears the drag, the pull, and its qualities-- a glide.
Practical stuff--really, though different from designing a nuclear submarine.
I've moved into a new place with a garden and people say when will I make the garden. My reply is that I'm waiting for the history to grow to make sense of it!
It's not exactly true because there is not a second that passes that I don't make a decision. But I'm actively waiting all-the-same.
brenthallard
some of my best experiences making art is when i have to do a lot of manual labour - without the contant subjective/aesthetic decision making.
http://blog.markdixon.ca
who says busy work is w/ out subjective and aesthetic decision making? your in the zone but thats still happening. i think.
These were done on big stretched cotton duck canvases. He used a straightedge and an old fountain pen loaded with a predetermined color of acrylic. He claimed he fasted he before painting them and then worked continuously till done. The left edge never varied; the subjectivity is where the line stopped on the right and the overall steadiness you would have to make a line that long (even with a ruler). My guess is if he got halfway down the canvas and screwed up he'd have to start over. They were nice paintings. I thought about them because an old Shafrazi artist just resurfaced on the new media sites who used a machine/sprayer to make horizontal lines like this--they formed (kitschy) images like a raster scan of a TV. I got nostalgic for this work, which I think is a more interesting project.
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"With drafting pen in hand, and who knows what in mind, [Daniel] Brush spends countless hours penning the same line. The works he thus composes are nearly 10 feet tall, and, I think, imposing. Delicate yet dreary, humble, yet while humble pompous, they seem the work of someone who finds liberation through enslavement. The trip is his, not mine." --Paul Richard, Washington Post, 1975, reviewing "Five Washington Artists" at the Corcoran Gallery. Brush now lives in New York and makes intricate work with gold.
- tom moody 4-12-2006 2:05 am
DB probably hears the drag, the pull, and its qualities-- a glide.
Practical stuff--really, though different from designing a nuclear submarine.
I've moved into a new place with a garden and people say when will I make the garden. My reply is that I'm waiting for the history to grow to make sense of it!
It's not exactly true because there is not a second that passes that I don't make a decision. But I'm actively waiting all-the-same.
brenthallard
- anonymous (guest) 4-12-2006 6:05 pm
some of my best experiences making art is when i have to do a lot of manual labour - without the contant subjective/aesthetic decision making.
http://blog.markdixon.ca
- markdixon.ca (guest) 4-12-2006 9:25 pm
who says busy work is w/ out subjective and aesthetic decision making? your in the zone but thats still happening. i think.
- bill 4-12-2006 9:50 pm
These were done on big stretched cotton duck canvases. He used a straightedge and an old fountain pen loaded with a predetermined color of acrylic. He claimed he fasted he before painting them and then worked continuously till done. The left edge never varied; the subjectivity is where the line stopped on the right and the overall steadiness you would have to make a line that long (even with a ruler). My guess is if he got halfway down the canvas and screwed up he'd have to start over. They were nice paintings. I thought about them because an old Shafrazi artist just resurfaced on the new media sites who used a machine/sprayer to make horizontal lines like this--they formed (kitschy) images like a raster scan of a TV. I got nostalgic for this work, which I think is a more interesting project.
- tom moody 4-12-2006 10:07 pm