Status Via Proximity: My Selected Notes on Alco 60 Sheet Memo Pad:

EP: 1985=show
1991=married Rirkrit T.(critiqued my MFA art/taxi ride project)
2004=divorced
dealer=Gavin Brown(Rirkrits)
Show=Chelsea Hotel(me too)
lovers
Patty H.(not Hearst)
1st Retrospective(Richard Flood+Laura Hoptman)--why choose her?, now?, others?
Walker+NewMuseum(contemp./connections/status)
size, small, intimate, accessible
largest 20x24
Portraiture/Types/Styles/Uses/Trad. vs. Alt/Historical/Sitting/Role
Role of viewer/viewee(artist?=is this the same for artists using photos?)
3 Subject categories:
1. Celebrities(Kurt Cobain/Nirvana/Suicide)(Keith Richards/Rolling Stone)
Liam
2. Historical Figures(Ludwig of Bavaria/Marie Antoinette)
3. Friends/Lovers(Patty H./Max(son of Gavin B.))
Princess Kurt-owned by the Walker(dress/fem. discussion++)
15+-years
exercise w/adjectives
materials: oil, charcoal, watercolor, lithography
Illustration……
background texture=you call that a texture?
monotones/sepia effect=lushly romantic=who's defining romantic?
'kings & queens'
"princess Eliz. first radio address"
"Hotel 1966"(Johnny Lennon) w/cigarette in red(romaniticized/idealization)
"Rose..."=use of compliments
"Blue Liam"=awkward
"David Hockneys"=what a joke/ the worst in the show.(Hockney+Warhol/fame)
"Jarvis on Bed"+++
"Hockney"---
Exercise: evaluation(support or dispute)
Later works: composition---
color palette/open---
shapes---
"Lady w/Ermine/1489-9"
"After Leonardo"
Reworking other artists++
"Georgia O'Keefe after Stiglitz(high pose)++
Eugene Delacroix(1842)++
Marc=range of tones has "finisished feeling"/what defines finished?
“Matthew” 2008--gestural--(Egon Schiele feel)++
Detail builds later.
Placement of brush stroke.
Rirkrit age 3(end piece) vs. Ms.Obama(P.R!)=curatorial full circle/chronology/
Bandwagon
Cheekbones?? Structure.
Fashion industry?? Glam emaciated body/Health/girls in media/idol/roman.
Idealization of strong, artistic, romantic female(Frida) as role model.
More ephemera needed.
Marketing
Branding

Status via Proximity.(3 levels/individual/gallery/institutional/++social fabric)
1. Indi: allignments/marriage of convenience/gallery director(visible=credible?)press
2. Gallery; connections/Rirkrit/G.Brown/resume/(allign w/media/pop culture=visibility)
3. Institution: Curatorial/Museum status/contemp/cutting edge/shoulder rubbing/Placement/gatekeeping/ect.
(wouldn’t be same for Burnsville portrait show)
4. Social Fabric: embedded, American, fear factor, Blockbuster
My Blockbuster empl. portraits
Is it FALSE Status? Temporality.
panel question
© 2009 Pete Driessen