I did not go to the opening of Out of this World @ PS 122 - http://www.artcal.net/event/view/6/3385  - I was out of town at the EMetrics Summit so I could not have gone, even if I wanted to - but I would have liked to have attended, none the less.

 

I’m going to try to make the show before it closes so I can write more about it - I like a personal connection to the work - but I like what I see so far.

“Amy Talluto uses landscape painting to explore new ways of representing space and form, and psychological content and color, to investigate the impact of nature, and natural space on the mind. She states, “I am interested in exploring the in-between states of painting - between flat shape and deep space, between abstraction and realism, between invented color and observed color, between chaos and harmony. These moments all come together to form a shifting landscape space where emotion and thought can mix with formal invention to create a new and surprising natural and mental world.” The paintings included in this show incorporate scenes that are ” sometimes bright, lush and flowering, or sometimes dissonant, murky and foreboding. Tree branches twist and writhe, color turns acidic, and sky flattens to meet form and then deepens back into space again. A shifting psychological mood pervades the group as a whole, moving between realms of magical fantasy, sparkling beauty, anxiety, and the sinister and mysterious.”

There’s another artist, Diane Carr. 

Here’s the info on Diane Carr:

“Diane Carr received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in New York at such locations as CUE Art Foundation, Gallery Korea, NurtureArt, Plus Ultra Gallery, AG Gallery, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, and the Dumbo Arts Center. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artists Space/Independent Project Grant and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Fund Grant. She was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.”

I’ll try to visit PS 122 this Saturday.

OK, she calls herself the “swamp witch” and she was my model for today. I tried resizing the images so they are easier to download to a broswer.

These were both charcol stick and oil pastelon paper.

Richard Diebenkorn painted Large Still Life in 1966 and I like this painting much more than the others in MOMA’s collection because it reminded me of Henri Matisse, and I think that’s a good thing, in this case.

For me, Large Still Life is totally satisfying as a painting, yet it has many abstract elements of color handling and texture that are much different than Matisse, even though the Large Still Life hearkens back to the French Painter. I kinda wonder what the paper near the foreground is …what does it have written on it? I guess we’ll never know.

Giorgio de Chirico’s The Song of Love is probably much more romantic in it’s name than what the painting represents.

The Song of Love is more of a mathematical formula, an enigma, or a cryptic dream - full of symbolism - what works for me best is the cloud peaking out from behind the plaster cast of a head. The hanging glove reminds me of “slap in the face” ….like….”take that“! The Ball….well, I’m not sure what it means in this painting and the image of the building tops - exquisite - it evokes feelings in me - like a reminder of something past.

Pierre Bonnard’s, The Bathroom, was painted in 1932 and is one of my favorite Bonnard paintings. When I got close up to the painting I saw a lot of detail in bursh work that is lost in the photo - not to worry - you can always go over to the MOMA and see the painting - it’s wonderful.

Well, I think that’s enough posting about MOMA’s collection tonight - I have more to post about this trip over the weekend.