My favorite moment of the school year was my friend Z asking a visiting artist “what is your relationship to power” during his lecture Q&A. I was like hell yeah we are out here in Baltimore being obsessed w painting, look at us!!!! Painting as a historic lense has a relationship to power we all know it, we all think about that in painting school. It’s a big part of the deal. 🤓🧐
I was like “ooooh” when she asked that and then he answered, and the answer was honest and pretty deep, thank you sir. I think if you answer that question honestly it’ll bring you somewhere important. I spent the rest of the semester thinking about it tbh, not gonna tell you what I think here in words it’s going in the paintings.
But there will also be like jokes in the paintings and dumb stuff too, gotta keep it dumb that’s the other thing I learned so far. ❣️
I spent a whole decade making paintings before coming to grad school, they were weird then and they are just getting weirder in this arena. Whatever my relationship to power might be, I’m grateful to it ➿ for letting me be a f r e a k.
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 see ya! Xx
Documentation from ➿double take➿ a really sweet group show this painting was in in ❣️Baltimore ❣️ this charming city.
Thanks to @redgiantgallery and the artists. Specifically @eeorks . The 🔀 double take was accomplished by each of the artists in residence at Red Giant inviting another artist with whom to pair their work — for a total of 6 of us. Ellie found me in another group show and our paintings became friends before us, like kids at a playground making their parents set up a play date.
Loving making, loving meeting. Loving painting.
This painting kindo of tire marks in a puddly parking lot.
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