… … … Repair. Prepare. Take care. Be there. … … … … … Drawings (Season’s Greetings) by Akram.
© 2017 Don Yorty. All rights reserved.
© 2017 Don Yorty. All rights reserved.
… … … Repair. Prepare. Take care. Be there. … … … … … Drawings (Season’s Greetings) by Akram.
© 2017 Don Yorty. All rights reserved.
… I found a photo of Charles Burchfield working in and experiencing the snow. No gloves, no scarf, no ear muffs; he seems oblivious to the cold. Often when I’ve worked in the cold, I’m not cold, especially when cutting … Continue reading
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… I was talking to Joanne Wang the other day and mentioned how much I enjoyed seeing her show last year in October. “That was in August,” she informed me. I wondered about my memory, but I don’t think of … Continue reading
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… Perhaps some of these paintings are not of the autumn, but the end of summer or the beginning of winter—yet each suggests by its colors the metamorphic season, here arranged chronologically from 1915 – 1965. Enjoy. … … … … Continue reading
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… Neddi Heller had a show in Brooklyn at the GAIA Gallery called Shipping Muse in November 2015, a show inspired by drawings she did down at the Brooklyn waterfront. She asked me if I would participate in a poetry … Continue reading
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… The masks are from Oaxaca, Mexico. I collected them over the years. The song is Grito written by Alvaro Carillo and sung by Dueto Pinotepa, all from Oaxaca. … https://vimeo.com/31395690 … I love Oaxaca. One day I would like … Continue reading
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… I can’t imagine anyone not liking Ching Ho Cheng’s psychedelic paintings. They are exciting and capture the hallucinogenic times of the late 60s and the early 70s when vision was everything, and in your face, and now. Henry Geldzahler … Continue reading
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… I attended (and recorded) the panel discussion of Bernadette Mayer’s Memory, a work of art she did in July 1971 that included shooting a roll of film everyday and writing everyday as well recording what was going on around … Continue reading
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… I have some happy news. On October 2, new paintings by Robert Rhodes will be featured at Radiance, 9 West Grant Street, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They are night paintings and will be up for the autumn including fourteen oils … Continue reading
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… I met the artist Ching Ho Cheng through my friend Patricia Kelly when we moved to New York City in 1979. Patti and Ching had met in Paris years before. He was always a gentle task-master who’d want to … Continue reading
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… Patricia Kelly and I moved from Philadelphia to Manhattan in August 1979. We stayed with our friend Marcia in a huge space she shared with several others near Houston and the Bowery. Marcia, at the time a lunchtime waitress, … Continue reading
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… I am going to post a series of photos taken during the 1980s by my friend and fellow East Village resident, Don Trammel. This is the first of the series. Don put the Vimeo together and all of the … Continue reading