2/28/2007

Duston Spear

7 comments:

Painter said...

Duston Spear @
Sara Tecchia Roma New York
529 W 20th St, 2nd floor

operation enduring artist said...

sorry, i hate these "can you explain to me questions" but, since i cant go to see the show and the images interest me, can someone who has seen these tell me where she uses the stencils?

ec said...

Thinking about this image I wonder about the attention span of the other paintings in the show. This looks like scraps of historical reference. There's a contemporary feeling to it with a frisson of historical reference--yet it leads to musing, in general, about the finish of a work and if it dates the work or nullifies, why.

Dumbpainter said...

The hand is so badly painted that my daughter said 'bird'.

zipthwung said...

i thought it was a pink flamingo hand. I dunno, makes me like it more than say, Steve Mumford, who seems to want to be funny or at least thoughtfull, and yet lacks a sense of humor and distance about something he must have witnessed first hand as a Hemingwayesque tagalong or whatever. Maybe if all the artists in the US volunteered for the millitary we could kick some tail over there.

Was that accidentally real or too persuasively ideal? I don't know.

What I do know is that there is nuclear fallout outside, so take your iodine pills and remove your outer layer of clothing to reduce exposure to radioactive dust.

zipthwung said...

"can someone who has seen these tell me where she uses the stencils?"

I saw them for you. The stencils look to be the outlines of the figures, where the interior is painted individually. THe surface varnish or whatever left me cold. The paint application is allright but not that interesting. I dunno, maybe Im jaded but this stuff feels academic.

operation enduring artist said...

"I saw them for you."

ok, yes, very strange. thank you.