new relic
Here is a new relic that has just been completed. This relic took so long to finish, I am not going to tell you how long -- it's that embarrassing. I don't know how to link thru the image yet, so if you want to see a bigger version click here.
I am completely sick of looking at it! Thank you relic, for finally being finished. You have been a real albatross.
posted by sloth @ 12:40 PM
84 comments
84 Comments:
This one took so long that it grew a narrative, which I might share later.
I don't know how I feel about it as a painting; it's still too new. Luckily there is another one underway in the studio, so the fixation is eased a little bit.
I know I need to loosen up as a painter. I'm trying, I swear...
I love it! The landscape references are a newish thing, no? And the curlicues rock. It's an exciting painting, Ms. Sloth!
JD, JD!!!!!
So great to get a post from you! Please let's get together in real life. I am freelancing from home this week - maybe we could look at galleries or something?
PS JD, thank you for saying nice things about my painting.... it is a little terrifying to post it.
SLOTHY!! Magnificent work! I would love to see it in person.
I sent the link to UpCountry. She seconds the sentiment. I told her I was in love and her reply was (in her words), "OOH!! ME TOO!!!"
Krixy you are the sweetest. Maybe one day I will have another solo show & get to show this painting... in any case, I'd like to have the blog pals over to the shaq at some point. It looks likely that we'll be getting a new one, so a shack-warming party might be in the future.
YES!! Upcountry is coming to town in March for the 40 birthday bash. I am wondering if we might arrange a shack visit with you perhaps. I will email you the dates and make an appointment with the receptionist at log.
Oh Slothy! This painting is beautiful! It seems ecstatic, full of movement, strange too.
I love.
Thank you, PD! I think it's 50" x 44" ...kind of medium-sized.
Hi Hammy, the swirls are crazy swirling thoughts...
I loved seeing your drawings the other night; they are wonderful.
It's all painted with a brush, PD.
(grr, blogger is doing the f*ing time warp again...)
It makes me think of Bernini and explosions. Those swirling cloud bases at the Vatican and that sunburst. And swamps, and exuberance!
I changed my mind about 10 times on the color, so it's more built up than I would have liked... the one I'm working on now I have started in acrylics & will finish in oil, am hoping to overcome various problems that way.
it does feel huge. It really explodes out of its canvas.
Krix, keep me posted about UpC's visit. I'm not sure what the studio moving sitch is, so I'll have a better idea when that all gets resolved.
But I would LOVE to have you guys over!....
I would be so excited to see it in the real!
Sloth! How did I not see this until now?! LOVELY. RIOTOUS! Right on! I think i am responding most to those crazy flehsy forms/figures. especially the left one - twisty and turny. It's so hard to make abstract shapes speak this way i think. It's something we could speak of if you did not find me too pretentious. i dunno.
Wow, i want to see the relic in person too. in the flesh. so it's oil paint? i am curious about paint applicaition, matte vs shiny, edges, etc.
these material things are the things for nerd hillbilly relic-makers like me. did you use hemp in that there turnip bag ma?
i love what you did in the lower left corner- i'm feeling reflections on a lake inside a japanese woodblock.
and the marbelized sky is very interesting.
i'm glad you spent a long time on it- there is a lot for me to see
FB, I will talk art with you anytime...
plus, I am a total materials-nerd, too.
hi Margrok, thank you for coming by... nice to meet you!
Well, no need to thank me Sloth--you are the master. I am just a lowly canvas waiting for you to make me special.
Oh god PD, a whole can of nooles just blew out my ears...! You are too funny.
"and class, don't forget to bring those broken dishes in next week!"
"But Professor Anonymous, I only have the finest Royal Dalton china."
"Well what can be more radical than that Mitzy! We're talking anti-market here, class."
"Are we talking The Piggly Wiggly? Because I shop there all the time, sir."
Slothy, your relic is a revelation, however much time you put in was well worth it, you've arrived at a brilliant place, it's explosive, which is all the more weird because the surface looks like it's painted slowly. It's a trippy painting, like Bridget Riley, screws with my optic-nerves. My favoride part is where the blue swirly sky part plunges into the placid water part. Wait no my favorite part is the assy floaty forms. I would love to see in the flesh too someday. What about the loosening up thing, curious to know more about that, like painting wet into wet? Or with the imagery? What and Why?
I was looking at the Bellmer dolls yesterday/today and see a memory of them in the humanoidy forms.
Beautiful, Thank you Slothy.
well, okay... but can the next painting be art for pussies? I do love them so... Snowball and Lady Puff...
Thank you, Corny!!!
I want to get more intuitive & color outside the lines a little bit more, I guess. Y'know... more spontaneous, looser. It is a struggle.
And yeah, Bellmer is definitely an influence. I did a paper in grad school (Johanna Drucker's class -- great!) on Bellmer and Cindy Sherman. Been chewing on him ever since.
plus yes, maybe wet-on-wet; I don't do it so much but love it in others' work.
thanks so much for your comments, Corny; they mean a lot.
WOW sloth
The few things I have seen of yours have been a little too beige. Made me worry about you. I think this explosion of color is a great sign of an inspirational future.
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I got the link. You can delete it if you want.
PD, noodles.
it's actually fleshy-fleshy-flesh-flesh, PD... not much of that at beige. except maybe the hooker? Krix?
if my painting starts to look like this, then you will know I'm in trouble.
i love those paintings. i have to send them around my beige now. chanks.
in some perverse way I like them. The one in the lower-right-hand corner looks like an office ca. 1985... that blouse... that hair... that phone. Makes me queazy.
oh my god sloth, at my beige we just had a like 15 separate email string about these paintings. thank you. i totally love them - in a way.
the one in the lower left - or as daiel dubs it - the erotic one - is the most disturbing to me. my favorite is probably the first one though. the bald spot.
we think it depicts an alternate dimension where there are redfaced stone people in charge. the computer screen in the first one is the port hole to this alternate dimension.
oh my god. we are really really bored here. i should have included you on the email string.
Sloth. Bustin' OUT!
"the erotic one"..... HAHAHA! love it!
I like the one on the upper left: the pot belly & the empty blue space portal. Tell Krix we found the wormhole.
Also love the notepad in the 3rd one. "move all icons down." existential.
You are right sloth. The hooker likes to show off the fleshy mcFlesh here at cubeworld. Haven't seen much of her lately. Probably on a coke bender with Number Two.
ahhhhh wormholes. If I only had one now. Could take the place of beaming technology or maybe they are intertwined. I will think more on this as I have absolutely nothing to do here today except work on homework and send resumes.
... yet funny!
You need to take your show on the road pd, seriously.
Daiel just told me that he would pay me one dollar to climb up on my cube and declare that i was jesus christ. that is the extant of the humor today here.
oh, and i am completely paranoid and afraid since i have posted a zillion comments on painter nyc. i am not so articulate in the blog forum sometimes. i get scared me be dumbdumb.
FB, you are a christ-like figure. It would not be a stretch. I say go for it.
no FB! You are one of the smart ones in that forum... voice of reason & whippy-snap insights... More!
p.s. did you take the dare?
I have to go buy cat food now. My kitty is looking at me with those big eyes, like on Shrek 2...
HEY!!! I can't talk to you guys through this blogger wormhole. I'm being teleported into the past.
Smit, Smite, Smote, how much money have you got?
I am Jesus. I know what you will ask before you ask it.
I'm stuck in the wormhole with Jesus. F me.
p.s., Jesus, do you do smites? I have a list.
paranoia is fierce. Cannot express things clearly.
daiel is constructing a cross as we speak.
i think you might need fabeebles for this one pd. for your boss.
whoa blogger just did the time dance again.
THAT IS SICK
how mysterious! just like the blogger time-warp.
he is right. I was looking at him.
I think you may need to post this one, PD.
This is beautiful Sloth, but beautfiul doesn't do it justice. I too want to see it in person, I hope we caan begin our group tour sometime soon. I am not going to be blogging much for the next few days - in Miami for UF's project show in a trailer thingy at Fred Snitzer. Should be fun. Away.
I am really blow away by your painting, Sloth. You push and work and it comes out ecsatic, just like Hammy says. It's an ideal I care about very much.
Slothy, mm, pd, fb, w.w.,hammy, HeartasArena, thanks for taking the time to post on painternyc yesterday,
I'm not sure that painting is worth the concideration it got, but some interesting ideas emerged from the conversation. Thanks.
MM, you are the sun king. Congratulations to Uncle Fritz!
Oh Corny, there is something very cruel about being hung out for public examination... sometimes I think we kill what we dissect.
pee ess: I am always rocked by your work & am excited to see your show!
Wow, Sloth, this is pretty darn exquisite. There is a quality of course of tight control & design combined with a sensusous loosey fleshy bust-out. So the 2 together make a great tension, & along with the rhythms and colors and particularly the spatial, I have to say yes. I like looking more and seeing more, if you know what I mean.
So much sun in dark swirls make bright inside. Sloth your luck abounds, many recessed hard edge drips. Heart can come outside, through mind?
Hiya Sloth. I like to come back to look at your painting. I am so excited for you. Plus I would like to know how long it took you to make. Because my big paintings take a year and a half or more sometimes. I am curious.
It is nice down here in Miami. But I have to tell you something, I am a little afraid of the ether now. I know it will be ok and fun again, but I feel like I got my ass kicked and am still not sure why. I guess I am a horse with blinders on, otherwise if I had my blinders off I would know. Sensitive MM. Stay inside, MM. Why are we getting bashed for wanting to talk to and support each other? I find it sickening. Get off me. I did nothing but try to facilitate a playful environment. This is my sincere belief. It was my sandbox. I was unaware there were pups who wanted throw sand in my eyes. Pissers.
Capt'n, thanks so much for the nice comments! I feel like the imagery is there, but I wish I could do a loosey flesh bust-out paint application, like our Corny! She is such a virtuoso of luscious paint splat.
Corny = anal expressive. Slothy = anal retentive.
I think I may need to develop a drug habit.
Sushi, heart is trying very hard, but mind has stuffed all the cracks with steel wool. Still nibbling.
MM, I have been thinking about you a lot lately, missing your presence in the ether painfully.
MM, this episode of ether turbulence will pass & quiet down. It seems inevitable that the jerks will occasionally breach the sandbox, and I know that you feel the cruelty & take it to heart, because you are a sweet Mountain Man with tender feelings. Think of walking down the street in Manhattan; every so often you pass a crazy person who shouts epithets at you for no apparent reason. The interwebs are like the public square, and every nut in town is able to pipe up. Ignore the crazies, think to yourself, "poor crazy guy, he seems very angry. He must be an unhappy person," and then give him wide clearance.
One winter day I was walking in midtown and this random guy hawked a big lugie right in my eye. His aim was perfect. It was one of the most violating experiences of my life, and 2 days later I got the flu. Why did this asshole do that to me??? Because he is nuts. He is nuts, it sucks, and there is nothing I could do about it. I still walk around in Manhattan.
You must have taken some comfort in all of the outpouring of love & support from friends & strangers alike; just keep that in mind, to arm yourself against the creeps in the ether. Hearts.
I am so ANAL RETENTIVE SLOTHY!!! geez, you have no idea, I fight the urge to be tight which is my natural inclination. Like yourself i decided i couldn't take it anymore so began to load paint onto the canvas but really it's still pretty controled, it doesn't feel "expressive". I think Sillman is really expressive with her paint, she makes paint dance and sing, I feel more like I'm mocking paint (and painting tropes) sometimes. I don't know, it's all very confusing.
...But thanks Slothy, what you say is heartening.
Sorry, I want to take that thing i said about mocking paint tropes back, i didn't mean that, i love paint, i love painting...
Thanks Slothers, I know you're right. I just got all ballsy and kunty and what not and well I guess I'm over it.
And as to the painting - I have this feeling that even the most "expressive" painters are secretly anal retentive. It's such a self-made practice, where would we be without all our rules. Sometimes I think it's all wide open, there are no rules, then I realize we are defined by the rules, the choices, the limitations. It's still play but it's psychotically limited and focused play. Limited in the non-pejorative sense.
Whatevs, I ramble. I can't wait to get back in the studio and Sloth, I don't care what they say, it may be masturbatory and congratulatory to tell you so but this painting looks fucking amazing.
Valentines Day dinner invite for you.
awwwww, regi.... you REMEMBERED!
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