How (not) to Make Art

2016

an artist who works exclusively
with ball and chain

you've got to enter
the unknown often

the artist went out
into the expanded field
and moved the fence
closer to the house

to shed light on an
image saturated world
or simply add to it

searching for the lines

have a plan so you're doing something
when the other thing happens

mixed media

my new album
as pencil drawing

missed opportunity
(this earth, this card)

money dignifies
what is frivolous if
unpaid for**Virginia Woolf

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the caves of last co.

the extract repressionists

collage aesthetic

that germane writer with
migrants named ceviche

explores notions
shifts perspectives
upsets expectations

subverts inverts interrogates mines challenges questions deploys

apparently

emerging art fizzes
when you open it

variable-width masking tape corrects
persistent sense of perspective

what can be said
about a chair in drawing it
that can't be said with a photo

ok yeah that

One-hundred-and-six
thematically stitched triptychs
of various sizes and styles titled
Art and the Acquired
Ability to Believe

minimal because
grander ideas fail us

either
either

one vintage print to rule them all

pattern complexity ambience
calm chaos (busy) uniformity/regularity
peace enigmatic meaningless
regular non-relational (stella)

a way to get things
on the same surface

on the state of the art of the state
of the art of the state of the art
of the state of the art of the state

unfinished

the
a bunch of
unfinished
lines×

no demonstrable
need for any of it

use uniformity
to confuse potential

another irony of
material and message

manifesto×

document-like
no spectacle
leave no trace
poetic

conceptual art is
a combination tone

material

don't repeat
yourself

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pile of dead

a place to play

mostpardonism

the self is in the sensibility
it doesn't need to talk

beware of ideas that
run ahead of execution

things that work right away then fade
things that don’t work at first then grow
things that work and remain
things that never work

programming or code
as gestural device

gravity goes like thisstruggle

working in series

call in a continuity expert

you tend to do early
what you will a lot more later
(your passion is already there)

when you have to tell
them which way is up

practice the virtue
of the momentum
of practice

somehow
split
down
the
middle

special fx

5 year plan

we are the pointillists

resistance is futile

idea or balloon

waiting

somewhat superstitious is okay

mysticism stinks

museum is an office building

vatican is a cash register

rough patch morale

untitled is to visual art what
show don't tell is to fiction

clutter is the same as no focus

chaos breeds images**Francis Bacon

choice or configuration

blue or yellow

rand function or i-ching

the work will stare at you and say
well?

(there are)
many configurations

what would a tourist do

text with
out hand
writing or
de sign

people make pictures
not rules

on size

at some point you get the picture

it's the tiny flourishes
and the broad field

conceptual


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no bullshit   —— + ——   no bullshit
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sensual

craft
entertainment
decoration
luxury goods

not to render
nor interpret

momentuhmmm

studio assistants as doping

painting
contemporary
tradition
modern
fetish
the mark

cy not sigh

art can be anything

people paint because they like painting

a drawing and a photograph
walk into a bar

the thing as evidence
of its own making

do as little as possible

on formal concerns in visual art

“please tell mr. jagger
i am not maurits to him”
— m.c. escher

when the lights are off
and the gallery is closed
is a shadow inevitable
if the object is specific

some deep
think tank

wonder about impulse
and qualities

explain what it is you do
while not thinking about it
while you do it

good i ruined it

use consistency
to direct attention

halfway

appropriation

art is easy except
for the law degree

hand made hand made hand
made hand made hand made
hand made ANDM ADEH NDMA
DEHA DMAD EHAN MADE HAND
ADEH ANDM DEHA NDMA EHAN
DMAD hand made hand made
hand made hand made hand
made hand made hand made

a minimalism that makes you
think of the hole in the wall

make it
don't plan it

the wall above
the couch in
the livingroom

name it after the teacher
who said don't do it that way

*what makes a star a star
or an asterisk, for that matter

bonus

my kid could do that
(of course your kid could do that)

an artist who works exclusively
with the middle finger

museum security

move along folks
nothing to see here

research dignifies
what is unserious if
stumbled upon

sub-pseudo-sub-sub-counter-anti-cultural investigations

expanded practice
rooted practice
contemporary practice
practice practice

intermission

don't repeat
yourself

a
just pictures
manifesto

emerging artist
emerging market
artist market
artist emerging
market emerging
market artist

olnley
lonely

postmodernism as a way
to talk yourself out of it

the artist as project manager
process as product development
experimentation as r&d

resist the urge to catalog

sincere apologies
for not making
more art recently

postmodernism

shake the letter a
out falls the letter b

name it without
giving it a title

you have to be okay with the ones
that hang around looking useless

your confusion as feature

digital process

the calculator app

identify primitives

my kid could do that
(i'm not a parent)

different lengths
of silence or blank paper
or an unending scream

in put in put in
put in put in put
in put in put in
put in put in put
in put in put in

put out put out put
out put out put out
put out put out put
out put out put out
put out put out put

if it covers it's
wallpaper unless
it's paint

not so much mastery
but processing

more confounded furniture

i neon
you neon
she neons
he neons
we neon
they neon

adjust desire for perfection

spilling coffee

stop thinking things like
ocean cloud shark flower

street still life as
geometric abstraction
by way of minimal
process aesthetic

black outlines are easy

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