From exhibition at Landmark College, Putney, VT. βThe Lure of the Local,β 2024.
Curator: Humberto Ramirez
3 daughters married in 6 months: 2024.
Song: The Parting Cup
Fall 2024.
A painting by Gesina ter Borch, 1660
Video: Memorial films 2020-present (20)
a: The body only: video images from performative footage used to develop paintings. Original inspiration was reenacting Bruce Nauman's "wall/floor positions"
b: A storage for time: Considering the idea of painting as "a storage for time." With acknowledgement of Jutta Koether for the thought.
1 Christmasnite: a time of waiting with hope. Messianic time.
2 Gustaf Carlson: 1863-1909, my great-grandfather.
3 Mount Washington: How Mount Washington, a haunted place, haunts me.
4 Marsden Hartley: Homage to Maine painter Marsden Hartley
4a Hartley Bow: Performative homage to the painter
4b Corea/Katahdin: Hartley's places in Maine
5 Emily Dickinson's Window: A consideration of what happens when a poet sits by a specific window for years.
6 Falling: When I/we fall/fail.
7 Getting up: How is it possible soldiers can get up and move forward from the trenches?
8 Johns' body: A tribute to Jasper Johns and Brice Marden and the aging body.
9: Naked
10 Less: "We wait, we are bored to death there is no denying it." Godot.
11 Illuminated manuscripts: a COVID project to keep things going.
12 Dyatlov Pass/Paris 1959: Historic utopias.
13 Westmissing: Utopias that have been lost.
13a The Missing: Those that have been lost.
13b Westledge: An idea of utopian education.
14 Nightwalk: Moving in the dark.
15 Savor: To slow time down.
16 Joachim/Non: History, art history. Joachim, Anna, Giotto, Matisse, Conversation.
16a Painting Non: Process.
17 Waterfall figures: looking at Sons-in- law to be. Truro. Nine walks. Gettysburg. Specific places at specific times.
18 Enjoyment: Enjoyment will set me free. Repetitive abstract painting.
18a Ten 8x10 paintings on cheap canvas: Just to keep going.
19 Two paintings about history: The eclipse. Robert Walser. Richard Werner, my uncle. The Eiger. Quentin Stockwell, "I would dy." Munch. Joan Jonas.
19a Pedestrian: Images of pedestrian crossing figures collected on 1 walk to the studio.