Der Defätist / The Defeatist
glottal stop
oh tungō what can you do glōtta? unsettling or unexplained a digital cat a billboard a lottery a shooting sex tool to be pilloried as spit of land as hook as light zone as back […]
Year: 2021
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Sketchbook #11: Ying Li
“Ducks’ Ditty” All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! From “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame (full poem here) The ducks don’t like it. They […]
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Sketchbook #10: Rachel Youens
If you only know Rachel Youen’s paintings of constructed, labyrinthian still lives, you might think she never goes outside. Not true. Dense forests, an aerial view of a bridge, and botanical studies are described in […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
days of joy ride
17 days to reach blue blank solstice soft & strong laughter of June bacteria call miss bliss quantum chestnut tree’s swell “dash” viral lights drum rotten (pump it up… you’ve got to pump it up) […]
What Meets the Eye
Painting Shows in the Lower East Side
LES Gallery tour last week left me dispirited. Post hiatus and after experiencing some but not all (thank god!) of the effects of the Covid Era, I want more. Most of the paintings seemed remote, […]
What Meets the Eye
Matt Bollinger’s American Tragedy
Bollinger’s paintings are animated by a combination of sharp edges and soft transitions, bright lights and dark shadows, and a contrast between silhouettes and delineated form that make the viewer’s eye focus and refocus. The […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
the loony plane
dream wise i stepped on zany wacky silly ecru colored plane loopy mistress took out a roller to paint it white silly cracker white bedlam white while i touched the crumpet of brooklyn […]
The Pencil Review
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
centimeters
watchword emil versus code emilia do not excel in fantasies of chromophilia mesh against father in Rahnsdorf, still Berlin they wanted bread they lost their heads & the carpenter’s rule refusal of an apple shooting […]
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John Berger / Mike Dibb “Ways of Seeing” Part I
John Berger and the documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb are populists. They believe that painting is for everyone. And so do I. The conundrum that every contemporary painter must struggle with is to keep that humanist […]