Tal R @ Gerhardsen Gerner
Banana Beach
May 15–August 24, 2012
“…paintings which hang on walls, naturally.
Though, at the moment, a week before the show opens, this isn’t strictly true of my paintings. My
paintings are currently strewn around my studio. I suppose it is still true for paintings generally,
but who cares about paintings generally?
The paintings in this show were made with a projector. Caravaggio used to do this with a camera
obscura. I used a digital projector and painted directly from it. I didn’t bother drawing. I don’t
think Courbet used projection, or Manet.
I am a painter of light, so to speak. 4chan’s painter of light.
The show should really be called something like “The LORD makes the world empty, and makes
it waste, and turns it upside down.”
I shouldn’t say I didn’t bother drawing, like it’s a bother. I just decided that it wasn’t necessary in
this case, and why should I do something unnecessary?
The paintings have an infrastructure, the way a joke has a rhythm and logic to it. I’m terrible at
telling jokes. They work like inside jokes between one another – between the paintings in the
show. If you want in on the joke, the answers are pasted on the back. There’s no shame in not
wanting to do the work, or wanting to go about it backwards, or whatever else might motivate
you to want to know.
Of course, there are far more paintings in storage than those that hang on walls. Unless you
include all the paintings people have in their homes and workplaces, then I really couldn’t hazard
a guess.
Come to think of it, it’s also not totally accurate to say that these paintings are like in-jokes.
They’re about communicating with people with images and about loving your neighbor and what
it might mean to understand something that someone else loves. It’s about how insane it is to love
your neighbor. And they were painted between December and May, mostly.
Also, I guess there’s sometimes reason enough to do something unnecessary.”
Nolan Simon
Paintings
May 17 – June 17, 2012
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ALICE CHANNER, MARI EASTMAN, MARC HUNDLEY AND AMANDA ROSS-HO @ Cherry and Martin
May 12 - June 30, 2012
Natasza Niedziolka : Horton Gallery @ NADA Art Fair, Cologne : Apr 18 – Apr 22, 2012
