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you can’t always get what you are

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Dave

Something of a perplexing look at the human condition. A mish mash collage of raw emotion, neuroses and the ups and mostly downs of alienation and marginality. It defies simple categorization and meanders through a cross-hatching of multiple narrative structures, … Continue reading →

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coloring outside lines lived

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

An ambivalence about life. A detachment, clean and without guilt that defies the romantic notion concerning childhood innocence. It is a profane illumination of sorts, to live without sentimental condescension or routine exercises in nostalgia yet without the myriad and … Continue reading →

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unvarnished truth: the naked gape

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dave

Leaving nothing to the shadowy side of the imagination. Unvarnished. To see the naked without illusions and still accept it, warts and all. If the familiarity becomes tedious and banal, so be it. Its emotional language has simply talked itself … Continue reading →

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An audacity of hope: art non grata?

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Dave

Or is it an audacity to call it art? Its audacity not to call it art. Peter Alexander Por’s recent   exhibit called Persona Non Grata- The Veil of History seemed to rile the back hairs of a large number … Continue reading →

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DEPARTMENT OF ABERRATIONS

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Dave

French artist Jean Dubuffet( 1901-1985) said that he was not a revolutionary but a permanent subversive. His work. however, coincided with attempts in other fields to dispute the accepted values of Western culture.The ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss had convincingly shown that … Continue reading →

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THE PERMANENT SUBVERSIVE

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dave

To some Jean Buffet had the greatest influence on modern art since Picasso.” My art,” Dubuffet had said, ”is an attempt to bring all disparaged values into the limelight.”  In the 1950′s Dubuffet’s fascination with textures absorbed him completely; the … Continue reading →

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