A re-evaluation of the past few months as a symptom of problems encountered years ago. 31 January 2008

I’ve been frustrated by my work on many occasions, but for the past couple months, I have experienced a kind of frustration that has made me think of the first, and most consequential of these frustrations.
When I was a senior in high school, I made a collage — I used a photograph of a pair [...]

Interruption 7 January 2008

I haven’t posted any new work since the beginning of November, and it’s partly because I haven’t been working. I have a few new drawings, actually, but can’t really bring myself to post them yet. I think there’s some trouble with the series I’ve been working on. Firstly, I’ve been forgetting that [...]

Tobias Putrih, at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase 17 December 2007

I first saw Tobias Putrih’s work at the Museum of Modern Art’s P.S. 1 Museum. His series of sculptures entitled Macula, layers of cardboard carved into shapes suggestive of geological phenomena, stood in a corner room with large windows. The outside light filtered through the layers of corrugated cardboard, making the [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach 1 December 2007

Success: after the struggle with doubt and anxiety has been won, our weaknesses and failures defeated, when we can say we’ve “got a history, full of lightning victories, conceptual breakthrough, it ain’t no mystery,” this is what its all about:
http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/dih/W/360/A/dvk/css/dvm/
Girls and paintings. Peter Halley must feel like a rock star.

A question on being Minimal-ish 10 November 2007

Why, rather than “Minimalist,” is my work merely “minimal-ish”? Partly, I think this is due to my unwillingness to treat art purely as formal experimentation, though I admire much of the work of an artist like Donald Judd. His plywood sculptures are really very sensitive to texture and space, but I can’t [...]

A slight bend in the road, from which we look back awhile 25 October 2007

I’m switching over to a new project for the moment. I’m having certain doubts about my work, which I will attempt here to explain. Of course, I have doubts about everything, so there is never a clear answer or alternative for me — but sometimes, through practice, we see that certain doors have, [...]