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 [...]
Articles by Talking Pictures
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CNQ draws Matt Bollinger at Zurcher Gallery
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 [...]
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 [...]
the yoo-hoo call
sweet rider in Blue of harnessed senses fabric doused in a crystal pink falling whispering: portals never work a long line of canvases reaching out to meet with the silvery [...]