More Pets

While I don't usually draw from life, occasionally the cats get into my sketchbook. I just ran across this one. Probably the same cat as before.

Now (that the Armory Show is over) We Return to our Usually Scheduled Program

That is, more sketchbook stuff: this dating back to the time when the children I had prepared for my entire life up 'til then, refused to be born. These little watercolors seem sort of comic and light-hearted to me now, but that was the darkest decade of my life and I still wonder that I managed to survive the craziness, rage and depression. My body had betrayed me completely and I subjected myself to as much "science project" as my meager health plan would provide, which, clearly, wasn't enough. Me and how many thousands of other women? It was and still is more than I can comprehend and shook my world order more severely than any of the cataclysmic global change stuff that currently rocks the daily news. For a long time, I considered doing a serious piece about the whole drama, but 20 years later, I still can't touch it. So for now, this is all I can muster. I vaguely remember a sense of ironic detachment when I did these. It was a desperate attempt to "get a grip" whilst treading the quicksand of despair. I even wrote poetry during that period.

Actually, the middle one reminds me of a painting I did when I was still young, optimistic and blithely unaware of the impending tragedy. They say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hah! they also say (or at least my therapist did) that "Time heals all wounds." In my opinion, time only makes you old. You learn to live with the wounds.

Armory Show 20120, part III

The last installment. I warn you, an embarrassment of riches, of every stripe.

another Alfred Leslie (I think)

Betty Parsons

Unknown artist (to me, that is)

Sol LeWitt 

Fairfield Porter

Rick Horton

This artist was completely unknown to me. He died young, but how gratifying that his work survives to be seen.

Rick Horton (again)

Leonore Tawney

Jacques Villègle

more Jacques Villègle

Chakaia Booker

Etienne Bossut

And now for a taste of Spring. By this time, I was walking by too fast, and was too tired to get every artist's name, but the picture made an impression because of its lovely greens. For more Spring Green, check out Joanne Mattera today! Gorgeous.

more Spring!

...and even more

Eemyun Kang

Marc Quinn

artist unknown (detail)

artist unknown

Florian Süssmayr

the irrepressible Sister Corita  (Corita Kent)

more Corita

Ian Tweedy (ensemble)

Ian Tweedy (individual piece from ensemble)

Ian Tweedy (another individual piece from ensemble)

Ian Tweedy (another individual piece from ensemble)

Ian Tweedy (another individual piece from ensemble)

assemblage, artist unknown

details from assemblage, above

a beautiful drawing in red, but I'm not sure who made it

Joan Mitchell

unknown painter

Dineo Seshee Bopape

I almost missed this piece; it was just stuck on a wall in a hall at about eye level, but with all the chaos and clutter, easy to walk right past. A nice restful moment.

Magnolia pods & Shark's teeth (artist unknown)

Of course I had to get a picture of this, since I 'm obsessed with magnolia pods.

Conrad Marca-Relli

another Conrad Marca-Relli

George Herms (I think)

unknown sculptor

wrapped fetish, (sculptor unknown)

:::

And then it was time to go home, but the art didn't stop at the door of Pier 94:

unknown street artist

The Elephant Again: Armory Show 2010, part II

Again, I just let my camera do the thinking for me. No analysis, no critique, not even any hierarchy or organization. And I don't even know if I like all of these. They just jumped into the camera, for what it's worth. Oh, and by the way, my studio partner was with me and some of these are his. Enjoy!

 

John Marin

Charles Burchfield

more Burchfield 

I am a bit of a nut, because I live in NJ and I grew up in New England. It's got the steamy, swampy atmosphere of both places.

Burchfield Wallpaper Pattern (Yeah, really) 

more Burchfield Wallpaper (this is a segue, look out)

Marc Dennis

"Georgia, Georgia..."

James Rosenquist (detail)

I took this because I paint "realistically" some (well, most) of the time and I just wanted to see how he did it. Definitely frisket work with the overlaid image. I admire this guy so much, you can't imagine. I guess it's the irrepressible big spirit. Of course, he started out painting the sides of building out in the Midwest, so big that, as he remarked: by the time you got all the way around, it was time to start painting all over again. (or words to that effect).

Jacques Villègle

Alfonso Ossorio

I'm a fan partly because I feel he is part of my family. 

My aunt worked with him on a church in the Phillipines in 1949-51. 

It was a big project and that's all they talked about when I was little. Also, I found a little drawing by him when we were cleaning out our old house. So I guess that makes me a "collector".

(OK, my bad, I didn't get the info for this visual extravaganza.)

Mark Innerst

Wayne Thiebaud

Elmer Bischoff

(another Bay Area guy, from an earlier time)

Betty Parsons 

(who knew? This palette looks remarkably like some Helen Frankenthaler I've seen, only punchier, less watery. Now I gotta look it up. Also, I'm getting a definite Matisse vibe.) 

Elaine deKooning 

Well, enough for now. We are still so low-tech around here, that we share a computer and it's an old one at that. So I'll post some more later.