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In the days to come this page will be filled with my recollections from childhood to
2008
Place: My Chair
Time has been good to me... four years ago I took the initiative to focus and find a path that would strenghten my reason for being. One rarely has records of this focus and growth. I have found that the world has been good to me and recorded in these seven films a history, one I am proud of . Now moving forward, what will be
Mark Wiener - Studio Interview - December 2008 by RogeSmithLife.com and Panman Productions 5:05 minutes
Place: BB KINGS
cross narrative - basline - sketches (120 drawings in the grouping) spreads 8.25" x 10" graphite, sumi ink on bound notebook
Place: in the rain again The door is open and the rain is hititng the the studio floor . Waitning to go out on the deck in between the thunder and lightning, I have been watching the marks of my work as the sky lights up with every crack of light.
Place: 79th street For a change of pace, yesterday after meeting with a good friends about a commission in Hoboken and the PS1 Sunday opening... we took the seven back to NYC and then six downtown, walked a block and we were in the front, reading poetry.
cross narrative - "still life"
Place: 79th street Letting nature taking its strong hand.
Place: 79th street
Where did I find my first primary shapes? to be continued...
Place: 79th street to be continued...
Place: 37th street
We all must admit to ourselves, in our moments of strength, that there are those who influence us everyday, that our interaction with them or there work gives us insight and strength. This morning I decided to tell the world that in studying the details of Sol Lewitt's work I found inspiration, and thanked him by my naming my new work Homage II with his lessons in mind. I have also thanked three other artists who influenced my vision they are represented in the works, Homage to Mr. Penn, Homage to Picasso and Ode to Pollack. We must not forget that without the past story tellers and image makers there is some of us forget that.
Homage II
Place: The rain again... One can find such peace in a rainy day.
Place: 3rd Avenue Bus It was 1969 when my best friend gave me a copy of "Coney Island of the Mind" by Ferlinghetti for graduation. This title, the phrase, this idea has stuck to me throughout my life. Speaking to the imagination, with the freedom to allow oneself to view, absorb and grow. To feel free to receive what is new and different without peer pressure, to open up ... I begin to act out my idea, for a moment questioning where to start, this phrase passes through my mind...
A Road Work
Place: Walking on Park Avenue
Thoughts have been bouncing around, what am I actually creating? What has this work of the past year brought me? The past year this has How has my life experience changed over this past year of working only in Now taking the sensibilities of structure and turning them inside out.
Place: the deck Mr. Penn had cylindrical objects on a round low table, walking in
the other side
Place: My Chair Writing an e-mail to a friend about next month's exhibition plans... "I wonder at the way fate brought us together on the walls of one exhibition..."
homage
Place: Park Avenue Armory Walking through the Fidlay Jr. Booth, a friendly gentlemen introduced himself as David Findlay. I wondered if this would be the Mr. Findlay whose gallery was so important to me as a child walking 57th st. He walked away after introducing himself, still curious I approaced him. Asking him if he knew a gentlmen by the name of Dick Widel. He looked at me, paused and with a very sincere smile said "yes, he was such a wonderful man". I proceeded to tell him my favorite story of being a young artist and Dick Widel. At an age of 14yrs with canvas under my arm, I was always more then welcomed in his gallery. This fine gentlemen introduced me to the gallery world, as open and generiuos... For years I have looked for someone to discuss this wonderful exerience, and feel the same compasion about Dick Widel...
Place: two chairs together Busy in a meeting talking about far places and my work, my colaborator shows up for a monent to drop off her laptop. Two hrs later Lisa (my collaborator) comes back refreshed from the Met. Now ready the for two us from a mornings adventures... we sit and work out our ideas... artist to currator.... put in time
Place: After Party Across the table there was the normal after party conversation, art,
"thoughts of"
Date: 04.13.08 - Time: 04:12:49 pm Event: Feeding time for Sam Sam, we all know Cats named Sam. Sam comes to feed always at 4:00pm. Well Sam really isn't Sam the cat, but the pigeon who started to visit me some time ago on my deck/outdoor painting studio. Sam is a rather rotund pigeon, your normal New York variety, varying colors of soot and tar. Today he ate, drank and then decided to come and visit with me. With caution he sat at my feet occasionally looking up at me . As I started to tell him his namesake ... he walked away, then went back to his feeding.
Place: studio floor I set forth on discovery a year ago. taking away the one thing most people love so muchm color. Then set myself apart by taking less favorable visual paths, though keeping true to what is now my vision. A year ago I performed inside-out. I am still inside-out finding the inside of all that we see and bringing forward. Commitment interesting word, standing tall, having a vision and finding a new path everday. Always seeing new. Always breathing and standing tall with conviction ... thats it. Standing tall with conviction
Date: 04.10.08 - Time: 10:45 pm Event: caught somewhere... different... somewhere in between. The place is the real art world... and what is that?
Date: 04.6.08 - Time: 12:35 pm Event: Waiting for somebody A neighbor bumped into me this afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He said to me, "it looks like you are waiting for somebody" my answer was 'for myself" and he parted.
Date: 03.9.08 - Time: 9:35 pm Event: Working against a lost hour. The subconscious never ceases to amaze me. Some 15yrs ago I worked with a young who was forced to recreate my designs by rewriting them in JAVA Code. I watched him break down each to numeric positions on the desktop. Then the two of us picked color values for those numbers and he mapped them to my design. I was always fascinated by his capability to abstract my forms into numbers. This idea, hidden somewhere in influence in my latest work
cross narrative "this has some way to go"
Date: 03.8.08 - Time: 2:34 pm Event: Meeting Pollack again Once a week I sit in the Pollack room in the MOMA. Usually I will feverishly sketch out my impressions the other viewers in the room. Today I sat mesmerized by one work, i interpreted the boldness and stretch of his strokes, his drippings, his total control of the surface. After an hour or so my book was complete, though the marks didn't resample Pollack's, What a great force and spirit he is.
Date: 03.3.08 - Time: 7:35 am Event: Waiting for a Visitor Everybody has a story, a goal. Today's studio visit is one of those stories that can never be completely told. When I was very young man my parents brought me to the gallery that is visiting my studio today. That day will always be between my parents and I...
Date: 02.18..08 - Time: 6:35 am Event: splash, grids, or gestures. The essence of all in balance and counterpoint...
Date: 02.16..08 - Time: 6:35 pm Event: napping and waking up First thought I had today after my nap... Finding my place in the sun... The answer will be found in tonight's dreams. Date: 02.17..08 - Time: 3:15 pm Event: Thinking about last nights dreams. The answer is that I do have a place in the sun...
Date: 02.12..08 - Time: 10:40 am Event: Shower Thoughts Recently I received a message from a friend This morning I was thinking in the shower. The shower Yesterday I worked on a panel for 12hrs straight...
Date: 02.9..08 - Time: 10:30 am Event: Thinking about whose on first. A thought that it has been haunting There are two people that The viewer and the maker. ... who comes first?
Date: 02.04..08 - Time: 10:30 pm Event: Thinking about those lazy minds So many people say its all about the words, "Maybe it's lazy artists relying on words
Date: 01.07..08 - Time: 4:45 pm Event: Second Entry for 2008 Having been under the weather a little for the first studio. Interesting though it seems like , actually I don't know what it seems like , but i am happy to be
Date: 01.01..08 - Time: 2:05 pm Event: First Entry for 2008 There is no looking back only moving forward. Today as I walked to the studio the light was enlightening, the smell of the air clean after the rain and the rather warm temperature was soothing. A very nice way to start the year. So now sitting in my beach chair looking at the work ahead of me I take a big breath and say thank youl for all of this, those that engage me in my life as artist.
Date: 12.06..07 - Time: 10:45 pm Event: Feeling good What else should one say to that...
Date: 12.06..07 - Time: 9:45 pm Event: feeling cold Place: 79th street Sometimes my eyes see warmth, tonight the cold is chilling to the bones. I wonder how important feeling the cold is to me, seeing the the cold is to me or even feeling the cold. Like one stroke over the other I wonder about the warmth and the cold .
Date: 12.02..07 - Time: 02:45 pm Event: filling in splashes Place: 79th street As I always do, to motivate myself is find a reason why.
Date: 12.01..07 - Time: 10:45 pm Event: Seeing through it all... Place: A friendly crowd, in a friendly home Just walking and absorbing , putting the reason why aside . Stepping aside from my side, feeling my feet firmly on the cold ground, excepting, taking a deep breath and moving forward... Seeing through it all...
Place: Walking Date: 11.21..07 - Time: 12:45 pm Event: Looking for Color ... Where...
Place: Studio Chair Date: 11.12..07 - Time: 10:45 am Event: responding Responding seems to be really what I have Cut my life out to be. They call it mark making, painting, creating, it is responding, To life. Responding....
Event: Looking inside and out There are days that we take the time to look inside and out . To explore to look inside and out.
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