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If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

a painter

About my artwork

minimal, simple, clear, clumsy, stupid, repetitive, rhythmic, disoriented, transformational, existential, allegorical, metaphorical, meaningless, meaningful, empty, full, accidental, changing, static, deplorable, laudible, laughable, serious, sad, sweet

commentary in print or lecture form perhaps provides an instrument that would, "tell the public how the pictures should be looked at and what to look for. While on the surface this may seem an obliging and helpful thing to do, the real result is the paralysis of the mind and the imagination (and for the artist a premature entombment)."
Mark Rothko in a letter to Katherine Kuh, 1954

A search for certain beauties, certain forms, certain images that are capable of containing and depicting, in the silent language of pure painting, feelings that are beyond words and reason. While the aspect of a “moral universe” is generally deemed passé, even archaic, these days, my studies of the work of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin have tended to embed this concept and those surrounding ancient and tragic wisdom contextually within my daily practice. There is a seriousness in my work that in most instances, these days could be viewed as somewhat amusing, if not pretentious. But, I am not applying an intellectualizing approach lacking in content to painting but am interested in those elements that are intellectual in regards to painting as it is now rather than just that which appeals to the senses. The question with each new work, possibly with every brushstroke, is how does one translate one’s principles into the non-discursive language of painting with any success?
SP.

Artists I like

Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Paul Klee, Arshile Gorky, Sean Scully, Marcus Raetz, Matthew Deleget, James Kennedy, William Carlos Williams, Rainer Rilke, Remko Scha, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Frank Auerbach, Willem DeKooning, Joan Mitchell, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Tara Donovon, Yun-Fe Ji,

Music
Evgeny Kissen, Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Bach, The Kronos Quartet, Wolfgang Mozart, Dimitri Shostakovitch, Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, Antonio Vivaldi, violin, cello, flute, viola, clarinet, harp, piano, Chamber music, Charles Lloyd, Huguette Dreyfus, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker,

Interests

painting and drawing, color theory, color, nature, human beings, cats, flowers, fog, clouds, skies, art history, paintings, brushes, paint, liquids, rain, grass, trees, waves, beaches, fear, death, sorrow, myth, immaterial things, small and insignificant moments of delicacy and beauty
coffee

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