Artist's Identity

Demonstrate who you are.
Or think you could be.
All artists struggle with this issue,
so try a piece using any medium, from traditional
paint on canvas to found metal scraps and cardboard.
How complex are you?
What does this mean to your art and plastic expression?
Maybe you feel that the individuation concept is false, and life is about the specie...however you feel try and find a way to express and even illustrate your idea.
All John Murray classes week of Sept. 26, 2010

John Murray classes week of Sept 20, 2010

Monday Acrylic and Oil Workshop: we have a model... a female model, please bring paint, canvas and charcoal/fixative.

Monday (p.m.)Postmodern Assemblage: painters are allowed to paint in this class and i will work with you as well as experimental sculptors for whom the class was designed...please bring card board and plaster as well as paint to attempt a non-objective assemblage.

Wednesday Supercharged Painting (am): please bring paint and canvas to try a deconstructed painting of objects in the studio.

Wednesday (p.m.) Supercharged painting: we have a female model...please bring paint, charcoal and canvas.

Last class of summer 2010, Sept.1

We have a model, let's see how far we can push the idea

of the nude female.

Matisse did in 1907.

See you wed. john.

Painting is dead?

This week let's try a mask image for painting's corpse.
see you wed at 4:30. -john.

August 18 2010 assignment

This week i'd like to try working 2 canvases at once.

Use one as a self portrait and the other as your palette.

see you on Wed. john.

New poem new picture

Say it's 1952

in the midwest

That's a year and place

for you

you're a brickshithouse

from without

rectangular grey

Within

inside only a

darkredorchid

The last of these was

reported

in Lawrence Kansas

Which this ain't

this is Africa

"ooh man, afuckin'

honkey...there's nowhere

to go without these

muthafuckers without

without white...

A bird from the grass

strobes off

crackin' the railside

chamomile scent

limeposts wave, too

Early August

This is the time of Summer when i first notice the season change to come. Sure it's still high season, but early in the morning and late at night i can feel the turn to come.

The cam that turns the weather is of course the same planetary movement around the Sun, but in my world everything is personal and will be until i die, so the weather and season changes effect me and influence my attitude toward my work and existence.

i'm in a show in Fort Point Channel that opens next Thursday August 12 at 12 Farnsworth St.

at 7pm. see you there?--john.