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Gulley Jimson & John Bratby & Jean-Michel Basquiat & Charlie Chan & Wyoming Slab
If you want to be an artist and you’re in midnight quarantine, you are required to become acquainted with "Gulley Jimson" and British painter John...
San Francisco, 1961
In the early 1960s, I lived communally with other young SFAI artists in the Primalon Roller Rink, above Tree’s Pool Hall on Filmore Street.
Wallpaper Statement part 1
I woke up one morning in 2002 with a ripe stream-of-consciousness Artist Statement burning in my brain, and it wanted to come out – right now. My...
Wallpaper Statement part 2
The first painting I painted, a couple of years before I had thoughts of becoming a real painter, was a bleeding half of a cantaloupe on a...
Wallpaper Statement part 3
In painting, I had discovered a "profession" that suited my dependencies. That is to say, if I became an artist, it was partly because it fitted my...
Wallpaper Statement part 4
I drove east in 1962, having been invited to the Yale-Norfolk School of Music and Art as a grantee. The crits I got there were incomprehensible.
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ILLUSIONS ARE REAL
Choose a work by this modern master.“Let five decades of work stand upon its character as upon a foundation; and let the artist’s process in these series reflect the many and fanciful additaments and ornaments that create and intensify the illusion of the real.”
– Ronald Davis, 2013
