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Thursday, July 30, 2009
3x4x3x4
I registered to take part in the Square Foot Show at the Awol Gallery this year. The piece that I was planning to enter did not work out as I had hoped, so last night I came up with a different idea. This one responds to the context of the show, using the 12x12 format requirement as a starting point. An iterative process produces 144 possible figures, arranged in a grid.
I am hoping to apply the image to a canvas.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
R-O-Y-G-B-I-V-G
I made a series of paintings. Conceptually, the idea can be conveyed in a diagram (see above), but there is definitely a difference between the diagram and the actual work. Part of the tension in the works of Donald Judd is the inevitable gap between the ideal Platonic concept and the realized piece. A lot of minimal artists embraced industrial processes, in order to distance themselves from any personal expression, and in order to close the gap between the conceptual idea and the realized idea.
I am skeptical of the claim that personal expression can be eliminated in art, and I wonder of it can instead be embraced, but still within a minimal context.
Eventually I will take some real-life pictures!
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Rule of Thirds
I recently bought a book on Minimal Art, which is of some interest to me. The Rule of Thirds is a concept that I might turn into an actual series of paintings.
The 48 different compositions are generated by connecting third points along the edges of a square, dividing it into a black and a white side. Every possible combination is represented.
The work is an initial response to conceptual art ideas, and the Rule of Thirds title suggests that the series is not completely devoid of subjective expression; the parameters are chosen with compositional principles in mind.
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