Kerri Scharlin, Girls' School Kustera Tilton Chelsea 520 West 21st Street 212-989-0082 April 20 - May 20, 2006 Opening: Thursday, April 20, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
A painter painting red and green is kind of like the bumb I overheard in the park complaining to the cops that their good cop bad cop routine was predictable.
People of wealth have the means (means is a euphemism for money and its handmaiden, power) to fund non-utilitiatrian (useless) projects.
For example, the freedom tower and tree-lined environs will be largely "symbolic" because it will employ security to throw out loiterers. This symbolic act will tell the world (through mass media) that we are sick and tired of the tired and sick.
So yes, we can ignore people of wealth, but not their security forces.
These last several paintings posted here would have been just as effective, maybe more, as drawings. A lot of painters don't seem to know the difference anymore, or they can't draw well enough to make the drawing stand alone. So they add color and some brushiness and think that makes the image more worth looking at. I'm thinking no.
Kerri Scharlin, Girls' School
ReplyDeleteKustera Tilton
Chelsea
520 West 21st Street
212-989-0082
April 20 - May 20, 2006
Opening: Thursday, April 20, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Fall of the house of Plusher?
ReplyDeleteGothic tales of evil stepsisters?
Does she know how to playthe harp or is it furniture?
My guess is furniture.
A painter painting red and green is kind of like the bumb I overheard in the park complaining to the cops that their good cop bad cop routine was predictable.
ReplyDeleteMove along.
If you think of it as a game of "Red Light Green Light" with demonicly posessed children it becomes more about portraiture as a bloodsport.
ReplyDeleteThe kids I know are more larry Clark and very little if at all like this. I know a lot of kids too.
ReplyDeleteCulturewise--Im getting suffocated by all these rich people. Cant we just ignore them?
People of wealth have the means (means is a euphemism for money and its handmaiden, power) to fund non-utilitiatrian (useless) projects.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the freedom tower and tree-lined environs will be largely "symbolic" because it will employ security to throw out loiterers. This symbolic act will tell the world (through mass media) that we are sick and tired of the tired and sick.
So yes, we can ignore people of wealth, but not their security forces.
These last several paintings posted here would have been just as effective, maybe more, as drawings. A lot of painters don't seem to know the difference anymore, or they can't draw well enough to make the drawing stand alone. So they add color and some brushiness and think that makes the image more worth looking at. I'm thinking no.
ReplyDeletethe palate seems forced.
ReplyDeleteyou meant conceptual right?
ReplyDeleteSo many (spoiled bratts) evil looking Anime-ish characters being painted.
ReplyDeleteThis looks JUST like an illustration from an Alfred Hitchcock children's anthology of creepy stories. Cool beans!
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's kind of a crappy, stupid painting, otherwise.