notes

I’m looking at a wall of four paintings in process, all on paper. Each is developing in a different direction from the others. Number 1 began with two… more…

You’ve worked a piece a few days, things going on but none dominant, it’s inadvertently like you’ve set up a stage. And then you realize it, and you… more…

When you’re trying to make something, that’s culture. Let the materials be precisely what they are, when you let them flow splatter merge resist soak degrade as they… more…

There’s a moment in art history beyond which it became allowed, and even expected, that certain narrow categories of art would instruct you precisely how to feel about… more…

An artist I follow on Instagram mentioned offhand how she tends to get bored with one medium and flip to another. And I thought, “Yeah, me too,” although… more…

The thing is we can snow our little moments out into the world uncritically, but in exchange we’ll only receive the nearly inaudible hum we’ve sent out, returning… more…

Some painters cram so much into an abstract painting that the elements squirt and pulse and wriggle against each other gelatinously, searching for space. Some abstract painters engineer… more…

Noah Becker’s got it right in his Instagram posts, and Whitehot Magazine: being a serious artist when you have no wealth and no connections, when your chances of… more…