paper or paint - tm

selected apparitions

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...and recycled twitter posts:

antonelli electr. "automatic music" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3tqP-r3vs

thomas brinkmann "ulla" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdAPNj-Xg2k

"He studied painting in high school and has apparently at times considered being an artist" (New York Times review of artist)

peaches and 2% lowfat milk

dr. laura, lenny bruce of the right

"you retreat to your commentless blog and do not dare to face moi"

rupert pupkin and jerry langford together on tour

pee wee's dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hS6voNnwQ

clipse - grindin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOZ7HPu9yU

http://superamiga.tumblr.com/post/936649371/five-minutes-of-funk-whodini

And now, interrupting twitter posts to present this painting:

selected_apparitions_framed

(a collage I made years ago [with scissors and rubber cement!] in a new digitally enhanced setting)

more twitter posts (used as loren ipsum):

facebook is for mom...and Bonesmen

"Several new Christian churches have been welcomed near Ground Zero ... in Hiroshima." (Greg Palast)

no way i'm computing my twifficiency

john brunner's stand on zanzibar (1968) predicted the 2010 world population as 7 billion (it's 6.8 by current estimates)

I live in BosWash and have visited ChiPitts and SanSan

increase in cake competition shows parallels increased upper tier marie antoinettism?

"There are mysterious parts in that book, but the only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people." (argento dialog)

"why is there a Chicken of the Sea but no Tuna of the Farm?" (stoned Pynchon conversation per michiko kakutani)

ink jet "vermiform" drawings

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jr_compton_tom-moody-6344

Photo by JR Compton of some work I showed in Dallas' And/Or gallery a few years ago. He wrote that the show left him cold but I really like the photo he took.

This was all done with a PC and home printer, so it is not painting in the sense we've been discussing over at Paddy's. It's in that tradition, but with a different set of problems than what type of pigments to smear across what surface, whether to use stencils or collage, whether to avoid or cop to other painters' stroke technique.

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Black and White Goya

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goya

A few months ago was rewrapping some old paintings and took this photo.
The image is handpainted oil, based on a portrait of Goya by Vicente Lopez from an art history book. I made it a few years out of art school. Surfacewise it's pretty tight--it's holding up as an artwork. I didn't know Gerhard Richter at the time I did it but would have compared it to him (only warmer and more human for all the distancing of the grisaille photoreproduction).
Was laughing at the reaction to Damien Hirst's recent desire to paint like Rembrandt. Some of the fogey artbloggers were making fun of his nerve. Of course he's right--that kind of skill is still possible. The question is, is it necessary?