Monday, December 29, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Failure
No one (well ,one guest and her friends) attended the show. The one guest who did, avoided commenting on the show. She didn't like it and didn't feel engaged enuff to say anything to my face. Which is ok. I told her time and again that I didn't care to hear "that she loved it.." just how she really felt about it good or bad. I just want to get a sense of what's so for people HERE and NOW> many of the people I see most of the time are hesitant to just be honest in the moment and that FRUSTRATES THE HELL out of me. I get alot of poker faces and phony exchanges. This is a process, an experiment and inquiry and I am in search of people who want to take the journey honestly.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Social-ism
Therefore what's at issue is not necessarily the painting of this or that "pit-cher" but the intelligent appropriation, bringing into the forefront of the underlying relation that produces..East Hampton 1992...Amy Lumet 1984..Eric Fishl, Mary Boone, Paris, Dalton, Chelsea, Beverly Hills and so on..not social climbing but social realizing...
The Artworld as Spectacle
"art is not a collection of images, it's a social relation mediated by images" more accurately it's the social relation which is PRIMARY to the phenomenon we call "ARTWORLD"..my opening tomorrow takes place in my off the radar gallery in LIC. I am an artist who has no meaningful body of work, has participated in no meaningful exhibition to date. I amongst my RISD, Wburg and Chelsea peers have no REAL identity in the artworld proper, and yet I am ...somehow.. a fixture on the theme..the next few years will be an ongoing ontological experiment...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
right now I am working at CIBT..cruising the web..daydreaming.
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/people/laster/laster12-16-08.asp
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
First Exhibition in NYC
This Sat the opening reception for my first NYC exhibition takes place in a gallery in LIC> very excited. Will have another solo show in April 2009. Facebook has facilitated publicizing. Alot of interesting social politics. I think the work is ok. appropriate to this stage of the game. You only get better by getting in there and taking your lumps. Windows Gallery 1303a Jackson Ave 7pm- 12am 12/20
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Barnaby Furnas
Thurs nite went out to Barnaby Furnas show. Love his work. Think it connects to my "Life During Wartime" show. Bought his book at galley and he signed it for me. found a huge masonite board in Chelsea, carried it home on the E Train.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Arts and leisure ..Chelsea 1994
When I returned to NYC in 1994, after abruptly packing my shit from mom's house in Reston, Va..I encountered the renovation of the Flatiron District and the emergence of Chelsea as the new art scene. By this time the East Village scene had peaked and died, with it had died that whole "down and out, with a beat-ific vision" aesthetic myth which was born in the DeKooning era and reached it's apotheosis with Basquiat and Haring.
Chelsea was where Warhol'ism bi-furcates. Andy was downtown, but once he got shot he decided to be more UP-town for the rest of his life. Chelsea was where the gay scene left Stonewall behind for martini bars and Dolce Gabana. It was also where the artworld demanded it's products be now high gloss and produced by MFA's with resumes and dense ideological premises.
to be cont'd
Chelsea was where Warhol'ism bi-furcates. Andy was downtown, but once he got shot he decided to be more UP-town for the rest of his life. Chelsea was where the gay scene left Stonewall behind for martini bars and Dolce Gabana. It was also where the artworld demanded it's products be now high gloss and produced by MFA's with resumes and dense ideological premises.
to be cont'd
The Hamptons 1989-1993
I joined the Coast Guard when I was 25, in 1987. They sent me to Cape May for boot camp, Wildwood NJ for first Seaman's station , up to Governor's Island..that's where I studied marine electronics and got to choose my next station. I chose Coast Guard Group (East) Moriches...gateway to the Hamptons and reasonably close to NYC.
My previous experience with the Hamptons had been with Dalton Schools friend, Doug Zang's Summer home in Westhampton. We all used to hang out there fairly often in 11th and 12th grade. So I called up some of those old friends clueless about the area, and asked them what "Mastic Shirley" was like. They joked with me.."Like 'Queens' only more intimate.."..I had alot to learn about the Hamptons...and I did. to be cont-d
My previous experience with the Hamptons had been with Dalton Schools friend, Doug Zang's Summer home in Westhampton. We all used to hang out there fairly often in 11th and 12th grade. So I called up some of those old friends clueless about the area, and asked them what "Mastic Shirley" was like. They joked with me.."Like 'Queens' only more intimate.."..I had alot to learn about the Hamptons...and I did. to be cont-d
Friday, October 24, 2008
New York 2009
Let's begin with the end. When you start to think on "paper" or virtual paper people often take the approach of "castles in the air". But I will start with where we are and where we want to go. I will focus on myself as "already installed" in a world but free to "write and draft up" other involvements.
Themes..
1. Artworld
2. Race
3. Sex and loving
4. Success, income
5. Friends, social circles
6. Political Science
7. fringe philosophies
8. the Hamptons
9. Bohemia
10. CIBT
11. Family
Themes..
1. Artworld
2. Race
3. Sex and loving
4. Success, income
5. Friends, social circles
6. Political Science
7. fringe philosophies
8. the Hamptons
9. Bohemia
10. CIBT
11. Family
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Christopher Lee's great drama of being to doing...
Have you stepped out into a new career, or your life-long dream and found that it’s not working out? So now you are angry with God for holding out a promise (“follow your bliss,” etc.) and not keeping it. Yet God has not failed you. What has happened is that you have confused “Doingness” with “Beingness,” and therein seen failure. (There is a lot said about this in Bringers of the Light, which discusses, among other things, the concept of Right Livelihood.) Let me just state a principle here which I believe I can reduce to one sentence.
It is from Beingness that Doingness springs... not the other way around.
In other words, let’s say you feel you are a writer. You would really be happy if you could “do” the thing called “write.” It could be poetry, prose, novels, whatever. You just want to write. But you can’t “do” that, because you’re “caught in the corporate world,” or whatever the particular “trap” seems to be that you are in. Okay, so you can’t write for a living, and therefore you are not “being” the thing called “happy.”
The above paradigm suggests that “beingness” springs from “doingness,” and is dependent upon it. That suggestion is false. In Ultimate Reality, it is just the other way around. Your “doingness” is a demonstration of what you are Now Being (consciously or unconsciously).
If you want to “be” the thing called “writer,” “be” that thing no matter what you are “doing.” In other words, you could be a dishwasher at the Stork Club, and still “be” the other thing called “writer.” (Half the writers in New York are.) Put another way, writers write to be happy, no matter what they are doing to stay alive! A true writer never stops writing, no matter what he is doing, no matter where she is working, no matter how little time there is. There is always time to be who you are, because the time to Be Who You Are is all the time.
So write, write, and write some more! Write day and night! On the bus! In the john! During the coffee breaks and after the day is done. Write. Write! Write from the heart of what you think is good and beautiful and wondrous about the world. Or about what you think needs changing, if you prefer. Just write your truth, and write it truthfully. Then send it off. And keep sending it off! Keep writing and keep sending it off! For days. Weeks. Months. Years.
Insist to the Universe that you Are who you Are... no matter what it “looks like” you are “doing.”
For further clarity on this question of being, please reread CwG Book 1, Chapter 12. Also Chapter 11 while you’re at it.
Beingness must always precede creating. The person who gets the “perfect” job is not being “rewarded” by the universe, but is simply being presented with that which he has already created through his beingness. The universe did not “reward” the man, but simply presented that which he had already created through his beingness. The universe does not “reward” as such. Rather, it only presents us with the opportunity to make use of that which our beingness has manifested in our lives.
Your responsibility is to be the Greatest Version of the Grandest Vision you ever had about yourself. In this, you have total responsibility. Your beingness will attract unlike things like a magnet, but, if you can continue to be that which you have chosen to be despite the appearances of these “unwanted” occurrences, an amazing thing happens. By maintaining your beingness despite everything else, it is as if a vacuum is created which draws opportunities to you for you to experience your beingness to an ever-increasing degree.
Back to Neale Donald Walsch
Back to Avenarius’ Book of Quotations
It is from Beingness that Doingness springs... not the other way around.
In other words, let’s say you feel you are a writer. You would really be happy if you could “do” the thing called “write.” It could be poetry, prose, novels, whatever. You just want to write. But you can’t “do” that, because you’re “caught in the corporate world,” or whatever the particular “trap” seems to be that you are in. Okay, so you can’t write for a living, and therefore you are not “being” the thing called “happy.”
The above paradigm suggests that “beingness” springs from “doingness,” and is dependent upon it. That suggestion is false. In Ultimate Reality, it is just the other way around. Your “doingness” is a demonstration of what you are Now Being (consciously or unconsciously).
If you want to “be” the thing called “writer,” “be” that thing no matter what you are “doing.” In other words, you could be a dishwasher at the Stork Club, and still “be” the other thing called “writer.” (Half the writers in New York are.) Put another way, writers write to be happy, no matter what they are doing to stay alive! A true writer never stops writing, no matter what he is doing, no matter where she is working, no matter how little time there is. There is always time to be who you are, because the time to Be Who You Are is all the time.
So write, write, and write some more! Write day and night! On the bus! In the john! During the coffee breaks and after the day is done. Write. Write! Write from the heart of what you think is good and beautiful and wondrous about the world. Or about what you think needs changing, if you prefer. Just write your truth, and write it truthfully. Then send it off. And keep sending it off! Keep writing and keep sending it off! For days. Weeks. Months. Years.
Insist to the Universe that you Are who you Are... no matter what it “looks like” you are “doing.”
For further clarity on this question of being, please reread CwG Book 1, Chapter 12. Also Chapter 11 while you’re at it.
Beingness must always precede creating. The person who gets the “perfect” job is not being “rewarded” by the universe, but is simply being presented with that which he has already created through his beingness. The universe did not “reward” the man, but simply presented that which he had already created through his beingness. The universe does not “reward” as such. Rather, it only presents us with the opportunity to make use of that which our beingness has manifested in our lives.
Your responsibility is to be the Greatest Version of the Grandest Vision you ever had about yourself. In this, you have total responsibility. Your beingness will attract unlike things like a magnet, but, if you can continue to be that which you have chosen to be despite the appearances of these “unwanted” occurrences, an amazing thing happens. By maintaining your beingness despite everything else, it is as if a vacuum is created which draws opportunities to you for you to experience your beingness to an ever-increasing degree.
Back to Neale Donald Walsch
Back to Avenarius’ Book of Quotations
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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skateboards
one thing I know about the contemporary artscene is that I HATE the skateboard, comic book crap you see in Bushwick start up galleries and elsewhere. It's a phenomenon of straight from sub-urban high school to artschool. From my composition notebook to the "DIY gallery" walls. I hate ALL of that crap.
My Life
Went out to Chelsea openings and Wmsburg openings, saw a slice of the artworld. Ran in to a friend of mine a very talented painter with her daughter. Felt like an outsider, nothing going on myself, no after parties. Watching "Talented Mr Ripley.." What is arts and leisure these days in the \NYC artworld? I was never very disciplined as an artist and I have reaped what I have "not" sewn. That's the narrative now. "What shall I do? But what shall I do?" Classicism of the European arts and the Romanticism of negritude and NYC's "beat" history. So many kids and black kids especially fall for the Basquiat myth. Basquiat is the ultimate symbol of the art "easy" button, I LOVE his work but regrettably it has spawned a horde of failed "wannabes". What would be the dramatic possibilities of a black artist negotiating the tensions between the classical ideal and the romantic spontaneousness of negritude?
Monday, September 1, 2008
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