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New York is Where it’s At

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, art school, collection, exhibits, figurative, Miscellaneous, MOMA, monotype, museum, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 4, 2010 by Tom Bennett

I am reminded every so often how lucky I am to live and work in this city. The center of everything, and certainly art. I work half the time in a building a block away from MOMA, a few blocks from the 57th St. galleries and across the street from Christie’s, just to name a few. Christie’s, for example is really one of the only places you can see a revolving show of the greatest art the public will rarely, if ever see. It’s the great auction house for incredible private collections from around the world.
I just had a two-person show down in Philadelphia at Tyler School of Art, but
I’m now back drawing to pay the bills. At any rate, I thought I’d post some more New York subway indi-gesteral drawings:

11/2/10

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08/06/10

10/29/10-c

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Sketch from a Dream: A Modernist Ladder

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, MOMA, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on August 19, 2010 by Tom Bennett

Working constantly, no time to make art; squeezed this monotype out the other night as an interpretation of a dream of Tiller’s: “Last night’s dream – I climbed Martin Puryear’s ladder into the infinite and never came back.”
I just saw some of Puryear’s work last week at Moma. I like the choices he makes with materials and treatment.

This has some problems with design elements and particularly marks. I’ll try again in a few days.

T.B.

Puryear's Ladder 1

Study From a Dream: Puryear’s Ladder, 2010, monotype, 17″ x 11″

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Like Any of My Shit is that Important: Matisse, Monotypes and Moma

Posted in Art, art on paper, collection, current events, events, exhibits, figurative, homage, mixed media, MOMA, monotype, museum, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2010 by Tom Bennett

I ran over to MOMA ( the Museum of Modern Art, for all those neophytes) the other night and zipped right in with a membership card through the thousands of tourists and what seems like -every friday night at MOMA- a holiday weekend at JFK. I visited a great show from their Contemporary collection, and a mind-blowingly large retrospective of Henri Matisse. Among the intense range of his paintings and drawings from his years in Paris, Morocco and Nice were some monotypes which he obsessively did for several months in 1914. He made 70 that year, 10% of his lifetime total. The simple, rich, heavy, flat yet deep black with contours drawn to reveal stark white lines against said black were powerfully elegant.

I came home and played around with the black that I had drifted away from. Here is a figure I made using tools like a screwdriver, pencil, knife and razor blade. I’m also including a related but tonally very different image, one from a series made with india ink, pencil and letraset ink on paper.

neverland 2
Neverland 2, 2008,monotype, 14″ x 10″

neverland
Neverland 1, 2008, mixed media, ink, pencil, 11″ x 8″

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I Proclaim This To Be Weird

Posted in Art, MOMA on May 4, 2009 by jdhastings

And of course all my proclamations are legally binding (Editor’s Note: This is only actually true in The Republic of Liberia).

Anyways, looking for a hip new club to go to on a Monday Night?  Look no further than New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which will have a DJ spining at tonight’s weekly Monday Night event, when the museum stays open 3 hours later than usual.

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Paging Tom Brown- Destiny Calling on Line 1…

Posted in Art, Links, Miscellaneous, MOMA, news with tags , , , , , , on April 3, 2009 by jdhastings

Close friend of d’Arte Board, Tom Brown, who could be said to be stepfather to the site due to his pioneering work in the field of Myspace Group Moderation, has long been a fan of two things: Photoshop Trickeration and Chess.

Well now the two have been somewhat combined into Competetive Photoshopping.

(Yeah they call it tennis, but it could just as well be chess, unless you choose to wear a headband. Which you should probably wear at all times anyways, whether playing chess, jazzercizing or taking a nap after eating a bunch of pork ribs.)

I just learned of this thanks to the Museum of Modern Art’s Twitter Feed.

You can view today’s match LIVE at this website or via their own twitter feed.

This still doesn’t replace my idea of a Competitive Painting League where artists have to contend with their opponents playing active defense, trying to disrupt their attempts to accomplish their goals, but it’s a step in the right direction. I’m all for it.

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Live Hard, Create Compulsively, Die Young

Posted in abstract, Art, current events, Links, Martin Kippenberger, Miscellaneous, mixed media, MOMA, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , on February 27, 2009 by Tom Bennett

I first discovered Martin Kippenberger’s work in London at the Tate Modern a few years ago. I responded to his energized use of various mediums and his sense of dark humor, particularly in his paintings. Apparently he was a crazy-ass mess. He died of liver failure back around the time I first saw his work.

MOMA presents a big retrospective which I will see. Who wants to go? The Times has a review by Holland Cotter: Martin Kippenberger

Tom Bennett

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