The Quick & the Dead is inspired by Kazim Ali & Yoshikawa Masamichi among many others. Instead of solemn solid elegiac containers preserving content, it bursts at the seams in irrational exuberance. Empty, it wears its content on its sleeve – the texture & drawing of the surface. The ubiquity of the blue & white tradition is the launching pad, passing particularly through the rose terra cotta & pale blue majolica of Marseille.
2018, terra cotta with slip & glaze & rope
Silos, in pencil, began as the concluding series of three series. Taking a cue from Thomas Nozkowski, these drawings were made after, not as studies before, the more substantive artworks to which they are related, capturing shadows of the ceramics in the first two Silos series. The scribble depicts “shadows shimmering in the shade”, my paraphrase of a line in “The Gate of Horn” by L.S. Asekoff. I continued the series automatically. The thirty-three finished drawings, of which two are shown here, are extractions from the shadowy & automatic sketches. They foreshadow the blue drawings in The Quick & the Dead.
2017, graphite on paper
Sofía Bastidas curated the exhibition.
2018-2019, 100 West Corsicana, Corsicana, TX