Contributor post yesteryear
Lisa Solomon  |
| untitled 1978 |
wintertime ever feels similar a reflective time. together with inwards thinking virtually my long fourth dimension heros - my "art roots" if y'all volition - i ever furnish to
agnes martin.
sadly the meshing is the worst possible venue for her work. in that place is only no agency to interpret what her run does on a screen.
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| photo credit charles rushton |
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| installation at stride gallery |
y'all actually truly must locomote inwards front end of them to instruct the experience. together with a whole room of them is similar some other world. i had seen her run inwards somebody several times [individual pieces], but inwards the tardily 90's i was lucky plenty to instruct to the
armory demonstrate inwards NY together with run across a whole booth of her paintings.
i am non an outwardly spiritual person. i tend to underemphasize the "magical" character of fine art [because inwards my heed either y'all instruct it or y'all don't together with how practise y'all vocalize that only personal experience?]. but confronted amongst a room total of martin's run together with my heed together with torso actually did experience altered forever.
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| gratitude 2001 |
a lot of people are dismissive of minimalism. they tell things similar "oh - my youngster could practise that" - or i don't instruct it - it's plain. boring. inwards martin's case: it's exactly virtually lines together with dots - together with grids. but actually that isn't only truthful [try it - endeavor drawing a serial of circles inwards a problem together with run across how yours turns out]. perhaps y'all don't "get it" together with that's ok - but side yesteryear side fourth dimension y'all are roughly i run across if your heed quiets. if your posture changes. if y'all similar or dislike the colors - together with why. what associations does your heed brand ? where does your heed instruct ?
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| the bounding main 2003 |
i had a professor i time who said if y'all tin come upwards up amongst i thought that y'all tin run amongst your entire life every bit an creative somebody consider yourself lucky. thence agnes, then, had luck inwards spades. i don't retrieve she ever got bored of deconstructing these lines, grids, together with subtle shifts inwards color. it feels similar a constant exploration. from run to work. i pocket-size alter together with the pregnant changes. the beauty contracts or expands. together with i abide by that. i retrieve it's tardily to "mail it in" brand run that y'all know how to brand together with exactly hold doing that. but her run never FEELS that way. it feels investigative. almost every time.
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| untitled 1960 [NYMOMA collection] |
i retrieve a lot virtually artists together with their "vocabulary" - what nosotros utilization to brand what nosotros make. nosotros gravitate to certainly colors, sizes, materials, land of report matter. every bit i give-up the ghost along to brand things twelvemonth after twelvemonth i realize i'm gravitating toward paring things down. what is the to the lowest degree total of data i take away to utilization to bring the mood/experience/subject that i want. basically WHAT IS ESSENTIAL together with WHAT IS NOT? together with i time to a greater extent than martin is a goalpost here.
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the grander thought of repetition. what happens inwards repetition? what happens inwards our heed [is it meditative, or something else]? how practise nosotros create order, pattern, meaning, symbols? practise nosotros pause our experiences into shapes? if nosotros brand a dot one m times does is hateful something unlike than making a dot once?
together with every bit i contemplate this i continually furnish to agnes martin. she is the master.
if y'all ever scout whatever
interviews amongst her - she is commonly hypocritical, didactic, questioning - but inwards the most honest, straightforward, introspective way. i can't actually depict it. she cracks me upwards together with makes me incredible serious at the same time.
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| the islands 1961 |
together with her writings. [again oft contradictory, but actually vivid none the less]. when i experience lost i furnish to her words. here's a curt snippet:
...When nosotros wake upwards inwards the morning time nosotros are inspired to practise some certainly thing together with nosotros practise do it. The difficulty lies inwards the fact that it may plow out good or it may non plow out well. If it turns out good nosotros select a style to retrieve that nosotros select successfully followed our inspiration, together with if it does non plow out good nosotros select a style to retrieve that nosotros select lost our inspiration. But that is non true. There is successful run together with run that fails, but all of it is inspired. I volition speak afterward virtually successful plant of fine art but hither I desire to speak of failures. Failures that should locomote discarded together with completely cutting off. I select come upwards peculiarly to speak to those who recognize all of their failures together with experience inadequate together with defeated, to those who experience insufficient-short of what is expected or needed. I would similar somehow to explicate that these feelings are the natural reason of heed of the artist, that a sense of disappointment together with defeat is the essential reason of heed for creative work. In social club to practise this I would similar to consider farther those moments inwards which nosotros experience joy inwards living....Whether witting or unconscious they practise their run together with they are the incentive to life. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stockpile of these moments gives us an awareness of perfection inwards our minds and...makes all the departure inwards what nosotros do. ..At such times nosotros are of a abrupt real happy together with nosotros wonder why life ever seemed troublesome. In an instant nosotros tin run across the route ahead complimentary from all difficulties together with nosotros retrieve that nosotros volition never lose it again. All this together with a keen bargain to a greater extent than inwards barely a moment, together with and thence it is gone. But all such moments are stored inwards the mind. They are called sensibility or awareness of perfection.
thence for my collection??
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| untitled 1962 |
exactly wonky enough. together with i dearest the dorky obviously forest frame.
until side yesteryear side fourth dimension - follow my collection on
pinterest.
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lisa solomon is a mixed media creative somebody who lives inwards oakland, CA amongst her husband, immature daughter, a i eyed pit bull, a french bulldog, a cross-eyed cat, a iii legged cat, together with many many spools of thread. she moonlights every bit a college professor, a graphic designer, together with is a partner inwards MODify/d a crafty biz that up/cycles together with re/purposes discards from the fashion industry.
