Mamma Andersson

Dazzle, 2011
Mixed media on panel, 99x184.5 cm
Doldrums, 2011
Mixed media on panel, 107x195 cm
Ramble On, 2011
Mixed media on panel, 111,5x228,5 cm

Images via Galleri Magnus Karlsson exhibit, "Dog Days".

My good friend Jason Stopa had the opportunity to interview the exceptional painter Mamma Andersson for NY Arts Magazine recently and the result is a fascinating insight into her work and process. One particular part of the interview stuck with me, in which Andersson says,

"It is just daily life that interests me, all those days that just go on. It is in them that great events take place, right in front of us, but we hardly notice them. At its best, we understand afterwards what happened. It applies to love, degradation, persecution, actually everything. Suddenly, it is summer and we never noticed that spring passed."

Art Inspiration of Late

Ana Cabaleiro

Merlin James

Jason Stopa, Winter Jacket (for nathan), Oil on Canvas, 2012.

Carsten Nicolai, Pionier I, 2011. Wind machine, panels, parachute, dimensions variable.

“Salome,” by Henry Ossawa Tanner

In Conversation: Jason Stopa interviews Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford, "Welcome", 2009. Oil on canvas, 30” x 48”, Courtesy Edward Thorp Gallery.

Find the full interview here.

Also, I made a new mix you can stream:

Natural Causes pdf catalog

Natural Causes pdf Catalog (click to download pdf)

• The 20 page pdf catalog includes installation images, images of my work, and images of the works in the curated show. The curated group show is made up of site-specific work by Mindy Bray, paintings from New York artists Jason Stopa and Eric LoPresti, photographs by German photographer Alexander Binder, works on paper by Alan Kitchen, and new bronze work by Yoshitomo Saito.
• Also included is a curatorial statement by me, and an introductory essay by Christopher Reiger, and excerpts from the Denver Post article reviewing the curated show.

A Preview of "Natural Causes"

My work can be seen in the background and in the foreground is a cut felt piece by Mindy Bray - photo by Valerie Santerli

Seen here - Mindy Bray's site-specific wall painting, two small works by Jason Stopa and a painting by Eric LoPresti - photo by Valerie Santerli

Photos of the entire exhibition will be up on Friday. Stay tuned...

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 12 - Paris, Texas

This clip is the opening scene from Wim Wender's Paris, Texas. I saw the 1984 movie for the first time last week and loved it. It's a rich and beautifully composed film - it was really fantastic and a visual inspiration.

Still from Paris, Texas
Still from Paris, Texas
Mark Tansey, Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, 1981, 72x72"

Still from Paris, Texas
Luke Barber-Smith, Grace, 2009, 43x34 inches, c-print

Still from Paris, Texas

Still from Paris, Texas
Jason Stopa, Untitled (Mirror Series) Oil on Canvas. 2009

Still from Paris, Texas
Robert Adams- from What We Bought - The New World, Denver, 1970-74 - from flickr user Jodan TateStill from Paris, Texas - this one already looks like a painting.
Still from Paris, Texas
Vija Celmins, Untitled Portfolio: Desert, Lithograph, 16x20", 1975

Still from Paris, Texas

Edward Hopper, Nightwawks, 1942 - photo of the piece in Chicago by flickr user Jing a Ling. I think a lot of the google photos of this work don't show the color accurately - this one is pretty close.Still from Paris, Texas
Phil Sims, Green Navigator, 2008

Still from Paris, Texas
Damien Loeb, Lolita, 2005, Oil on Linen, 36x84"

Guest Blogger; Jason Stopa

Agnes Martin, Untitled IX, (detail) 1982 - at the Denver Art Museum - photo by mel brava

My good friend Jason Stopa shares a little about some inspiration from one of his favorite painters, writing, "I've read her writings twice this year. These are some of my favorite quotes of the late painter:

'Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.'

'When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.'

'I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.' "

New Work from Jason Stopa

Here are four very fresh paintings by my friend Jason Stopa who is currently a grad student at Pratt. His work has increased in scale and skill dramatically this year and I'm really looking forward to what comes next for him.

Following. Oil on Canvas. 2008

Static Feeling. Oil on Canvas. 2008

Lifering - 4' x 5' Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

Ambulance - 4' x 5' Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

Six Untitled Triptychs by Jason Stopa

Acrylic and Mixed Media on Panel(s) by Jason Stopa, 2007