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Wrestling your way to drawing

Post from Rob Matthews Nice post on the smiling wrestler. Thought you might be interested in another collision of wrestling and art. Here are some quick ink drawings I made in grad school. They’re part of a larger group of about 40 drawings. Rob Matthews, Wrestler 2 They were made at a time when I could barely muster the concentration to spend more than 8 hours on a painting or more than 15 minutes on a small ink drawing. My how times have changed. Anyway, I would take photos off of World Wrestling Federation videos that I got from Blockbuster ... More » »

Guston, de Chirico, and della Francesca, too

Post by Rob Matthews Hey. Cool about the Guston show. I like him a ton even though my work wouldn’t suggest it anymore. I figured out a long time ago the best way to appreciate Guston is that everyone should stop trying to make work like his. His work gets played off as the epitome of “honesty” due to its rawness but I think that’s just Guston’s honesty- not everyone else’s. Some painters get confused in that regard. Philip Guston, retrospective image Artistic honesty comes in all shapes and sizes right? The KKK hood shape is present in his AbEx ... More » »

Weekly Update (1) – Et in Arcadia, excellence

This week’s Weekly has my review of Arcadia’s Works on Paper exhibit. Here’s the art page and below is the copy with more pictures. As usual, there’s more pix at flickr and here’s Libby’s post on the show. Arcadia FireThe tiny out-of-the-way gallery hosts the “it” show of the season. Installation shot. As usual the pairings are great, as here, with Judith Schaechter’s print “Child Bride” who is vomiting flowers, echoed with the pile of black bird confetti on the floor by Gabriel Martinez. Nils Orth’s untitled magical alien photo portraits stare like visitors from another dimension. Arcadia University‘s Biennial ... More » »

Sit up straight, stop frowning

Birch Bark Ass, by Matt Fisher A show of paintings and drawings of modest size at UArts Gallery 817 (upstairs from Rosenwald-Wolf) is definitely worth attention. The show called “Posture and Expression” was curated by artist Rob Matthews. The title lets you know right off the bat that the show has some lessons to teach; it also lets you know that this show reflects some of Matthews’ own art-making concerns. It’s old-fashioned didacticism made me think of all the injunctions from my mother to sit up straight and stop frowning. I still slouch and I still frown. Can’t help it. ... More » »