John Murray classes week of March 5, 2012

The 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Looks really good as reviewed by Roberta Smith in the Fri. March 2 New York Times.
Werner Herzog, the obsessive German filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman's documentary, "Boxing Gym" and the work of the eccentric painter, Forrest Bess, as presented by the great postmodern sculptor Robert Gober (check his work online). I'm going down to Manhattan for this one!
Bess was an isolated and identity-obsessed artist who lived and worked on the Gulf coast of Texas and painted motifs that came to him in dreams and tried to bring out the woman in himself by acts of self-surgery that turned him into a semi-hermaphrodite. His dream-inspired paintings are strong and beautiful objects that reflect a deep painterly love of materials.
Next week try working from your dreams with an emphasis on painterly materiality in confict with content. The Biennial close on May 27.
see you next week, john.