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Focused conversations with the experts of the art world, aimed at encouraging art enthusiasts to take a closer look at the art market.
American artist Morgan Bulkeley has spent a life time exploring humanity's impact on the environment, the perilous state of nature and the corporate agenda of promoting mass consumption that lies at the core of the increasing threat to wildlife and humanity itself.
Philip Guston really, was huge in my mind. I saw a show of his, probably in 1975, at the Whitney Museum of American Art and in that show I saw a piece that was probably 8 feet long and 5 feet tall and, basically, it was a line across the middle of the painting and the top half was sort of a dark green and the bottom was kind of a pearly grey. When I saw the piece, I didn't know what it was. I felt like crying and I looked at it and I must have sat there for 15 minutes just staring at this piece. It was a transformation for me really to feel that intensity. And I began to really, think about his work a lot more after that and, really, that’s what kind of pushed me toward looking for a way to paint figures that weren't specific.
I think of it as almost a mouse chewing on a bone, it’s like chewing and making little marks and building it up. Mine is much more agitated, anxiety-ridden, I guess. I think of it as little marks that are kind of almost shaking, your hand shaking or something.
I was an English major and read an awful lot of literature in my earlier days. There are too many stories to tell and there always will be.
One of the things that's happened with my work is that I'll do a piece and it gets so dense and complicated and kind of intricate, entangled really, and it feels like you can't even move through it. Often after that it will feel like I have to do a piece that is more open, that has a clarity and a sense of possibility, of movement in it. I find that often pieces really suggest the next piece. So there’s been a kind of a natural progression for me in terms of seeing where I’m going by looking back at where I’ve just been.
Cy Twombly
I love Cy Twombly as well. I began to, kind of, think about him in terms of some of these marks that are up in the sky, and, all of a sudden,
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Focused conversations with the experts of the art world, aimed at encouraging art enthusiasts to take a closer look at the art market.
