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Repository 217: Hilma’s Project
After a transcontinental red eye from the West coast, I dropped my bags in the West Village and took the subway uptown. On twenty-eight hours of no sleep, I arrived at the Guggenheim to see the “Hilma af Klimt: Paintings for the Future” show. This was a pilgrimage, as a woman artist who knows 100 percent that we have not been given our due in the art world, that our natural creativity and depth of thinking have not been explored…
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Repository 124: Bon Mots | Joan Mitchell | Less Think, More Feel
“As soon as you start with all the blah blah blah you ruin a painting”. – Joan Mitchell, from the film ‘Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter”. Her abstraction reigns supreme in my imagination and myth of painting. Her painting methods were used as explorations as well as a form of burying. Respecting her allergic reaction to any serious dissection of her paintings, I will make this post short to simply say how very grateful I am for Joan…
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