Death to Ear of Van Gogh

All John Murray classes week of March 15 and 22nd.

Try and finish all projects (currently 3-part repetition piece.

If finished try to write a poem about something powerful that happened in your life and incorporate that idea or language into a painting. here's mine:

CaR CRaSH July, 1959

When i picked it up

In Dearborn

From grinning Ford guy late

Afternoon

Top down gassed it east

No thought of sleep only sun

Set flow to night Poconos GW

Bridge 125th Street

Large black man peering

Down at white kid in new

White-on-white T'bird

Then sun-hammered head on

Mass Turnpike

Entered a room of dreams

Stars, stars, glass, glass... STARS!

Came to beneath car gas fumes

Permeating oily grass/glass pebbles

How can i fix this thing?

Some bodyshop tradeschool/kid/friend

To bring such a folded mess to

Now?

Hurt but not dead that day.

Someday, though.

The Biennial 2010

All John Murray classes week of March 1, 2010.
This week the only suggested assignment is to follow this link: www.nytimes.com/design/thebiennial and read the fabulous (?) account that today's NY Times has printed to lead its art section.
i would consider traveling to New york and seeing the show as a class/group if anyone is willing to help set up such a trip.
see you Mon/Wed. john.

John Murray classes week of Feb 22, 2010.

Supercharged Painting (Wed. am)and Oil &Acrylic Workshop (Mon.) am:

The assignment this week is to develop a painted object/painting/sculptural/piece using sculpture armature wire. It can be wall hanging and closer to painting or fully sculptural (in the round).

Supercharged Painting Wed.pm:

Due to weather cancellation last week, this section is still working on color glazing for previous weeks gel drawings. Please bring oil/and or acrylic

paint and whatever mediums you have for this class.

Postmodern Graphic Assemblage:

This is the week we will cast our blocks, please bring a small bag of plaster of paris and a sketch/plan of where you would like to go with the final assemblage.

Thank you, john.

Postmodern Graphic Assemblage:

Saw this show last night at Howard Yezerski Gallery.
i've known John Goodman, one of the artists shown, for many years. John's work looked immature and a little too easy, sort of a cool kid having fun with a camera.
In fairness to John, the work is from his 20's and is some of his earliest attempts at street documentation.
Jerry Berndt's pictures seemed to record the area with a journalist's eye and while occasionally strong, seemed more suited for a newspaper piece than a gallery show.
Roswell Angier is the artist here.
i was amazed at the clarity and empathy he brought to his subjects.
Each picture was an exquisite document of the life and moment captured. One of the beauties of great photography is its ability to both enshrine and sacrifice its subject to the viewer. i left this show with Mr. Angier's pictures glowing in my mind like fine tough jewels.