{"id":8192,"date":"2011-01-05T19:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T03:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2011-01-05T19:03:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T03:33:57","slug":"artists-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/artists-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists talking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artists are not actors, they don’t usually do well on video or in film. Most will admit that they never know what they’re doing, even after the work is finished. So unless you tape an art historian or critic, or happen on a garrulous and charismatic personage – maybe like Gulley Jimson<\/a> – you’re flat out of luck if you’re looking for descriptions from the horse’s mouth, as it were.<\/p>\n

But having said that, I’ve been a fan of Bill Maynes’ videos on artists<\/a> since I discovered them a few years ago. His camera allows the artist full rein, without questions or structure.<\/p>\n

For example: Lois Dodd<\/a> -\u00c2\u00a0Painters are just lucky that they actually see things. Not everyone really seems to see the world that they’re living in. And It’s such a kick really – seeing things, you know?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lois Dodd<\/strong>
\nView From Porch<\/em>, Jan. 2009
\nOil on masonite
\n17 5\/8 x 14 3\/4 inches<\/p>\n

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Lois Dodd<\/strong>
\nSprirae in Bloom<\/em>, 1984
\nOil on masonite
\n12 x 14 inches<\/p>\n

All Dodd paintings: Courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York<\/p>\n

Or Jake Berthot<\/a>, who is opening at Betty Cuningham<\/a> this week and has more to say than most:\u00c2\u00a0You become the servant to the painting. In the beginning you’re the boss. That’s about thinking, but it’s not about feeling. At a certain point, there’s no rationale…. there’s no system.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jake Berthot.<\/strong> After Somei Satoh’s “Toward the Night”,\u00c2\u00a02008<\/p>\n

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Jake Berthot.<\/strong> Coming of the Passing,\u00c2\u00a02008<\/div>\n
In making a painting, you can either be involved with a system or a method.<\/em><\/div>\n
With a method – like C\u00c3\u00a9zanne – who had a method of investigating or making a painting…Within that form\/method is that at a certain point, you have to become the servant of the painting. The painting dictates what’s going to be done to it.<\/em><\/div>\n

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I’m working on single trees. And they really are just like portraits. With the paintings I’m working on now…paintings are more atmosphere, hanging onto landscape painting by a hair. What interests me is gaze and place.<\/em><\/div>\n
Someone asked me about what my paintings were about and I said I wanted to paint silence before it disappears…..I can spend days without hearing a car go by. So it’s also about the quietness of that gaze.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Berthot lives in the Catskills, Dodd lives half the year in Maine. I envy that quiet – my view of woods is intact, but new development around the corner is creating a cacophony of noise all day long.<\/div>\n

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