Tag: space
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The Next Stage: Installment 8
From the beginning I have always been awed by theater spaces. During elementary school assemblies I would stare at the layers of velvet curtains on the stage of that theater which doubled as a gymnasium when no performance was scheduled. Early trips to NY theaters and especially a trip to see The Flying Dutchman at…
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Connecting Dots: Installment 7
RELATIONAL PROPERTY: a property that depends on a thing’s relationship to other things. While taking philosophy at Rice, I was intrigued with the concept of relational properties, and later used it in my thesis to describe what I created for my MFA show. In 1983 I was ready to take the images which I thought…
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Fully Cooked: Installment #6
Through the years my paintings have been ‘fully cooked’ entities. Under-paintings (painted sketches) are sometimes spontaneously loose so I know I could work that way if I wished – but no…I am not done until there is nowhere else to go. A frequent remark I hear is – ‘It must take you forever to do…