Saw Chris Karcher and his son Friday at Walker Art Center. The boy is a fan. And it was fun to show them the exhibit. Chris had a drawing in the show a very fabulous old Artpolice piece in pen and ink from 1980. It is truely one of my great works of youthful Frankie Gaard. The painting is there too and it looks good but for me the drawing has a cathetic charge like bolt of inspirations.
The interview(on Bombblog) was published by Bomb Magazine and it's more harshly true than the Walker stuff which is shaped by different issues and agendas. This Bomb piece is more linear and more over the top. It's great it's available every little thing helps me find a crack I can squeeze through. I was thinking about Thucydides history how it was like a diary and I remember he died before the war was decided. And that's a measure of his history that what he saw and wrote was the best history but also the history of the losers vs. Sparta in the Peloponese(sp.?). ///////////////////////////////////////
This is nice shot my wife Pamela of a piece of my installation at Walker. It's difficult to image how large this thing is but the circular objects are LPs - Their maybe as many as 100 LPs in the installation and hundreds more CDs painted coated with gesso and acrylic paint. The work was put up over several days and grew in size quite a lot over the time of the installation. Second jpg photo by Pamela Gaard. The thing with these paintings on LPs I sort of knew they were fool-proof decor for the So-called Pony and Panty Paintings. Because the human interest factor and the sheer size of this lager multi-colored object made of various types and kids of art work. It's art made of art like art squared. And it's fun and sometimes art is not fun it's good for you but it's very dark and bleak and necrophilic. Dead artists never die and their art rarely gets better. It's fresh it gives you a little rush it makes you wonder how we got to this point , how it is that we must struggle so much just to have a venue a voice a view.