March at ROY

Agnes Burris | Andy Plank | Kaveri Raina

Other News:

* V.V. BUTTONS has a Facebook page.
* I have work in Jackie Little's Rooms to Let exhibition 231 21st Street.
* History of Ohio comics lecture by Caitlin McGurk, and in the Alive.
* Columbus Alive Mark Beyer exhibition preview, Beyer in the Dispatch. I'm speaking about Beyer's work on February 23rd at the OSU Urban Arts Space.

Peter Doig Lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Doig, Guest House 3, 2002. Part of the Prints and Drawings collection at AIC.

On May 3rd I saw Peter Doig deliver an outline of his artwork's development at the Art Institute of Chicago. I enjoyed it, so I am posting a recording of it. Besides streaming it above, you may download it here.

I found his demeanor agreeably low-key and his commentary thoughtful. I had been awake for 48 hours by the time his lecture in the darkened auditorium began - perhaps my memories of it aren't quite trustworthy. This is why I record things.

After the jump is a collection of flyers Doig has painted for StudioFilmClub, a weekly film series he hosts at his studio in Trinidad. The flyers are collected in the book Peter Doig: StudioFilmClub. I like them.

Candace Corbin: Selected Poems

Candace Corbin is a poet and artist who studies painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. She recently released her first zine of drawings and poetry at the Richmond Zine Fest. It includes some of the poems that follow. Contact Corbin at candacelcorbin@gmail.com.

RED SHEETS

I don’t have red
Bed sheets
Neither do you
Yours are green

Last night
I slept in red sheets
it was
cold out

I did not
wake up alone in
red sheets
I was warm

OCT. 31, 1978

I was forced to enroll in an internet class to keep my financial aid while I work an internship in Chicago that is the last requirement of my degree. The class has ridiculous assignments. This one was to write a story or narrative about a piece of artwork we had previously described. Here is what I rattled off,  A DEAR DIARY from On Kawara on OCT.31,1978. Why am I still in school? It is after "the jump" but I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Michael D. Hall's New Book on Emerson Burkhart

Michael D. Hall's new monograph published by Scala.

My last story for the Lantern is a preview of a book presentation by Michael D. Hall, the  Columbus Museum of Art's adjunct curator of folk art. Hall has spent the last ten years developing a book on Emerson Burkhart, an odd local/regional figure who didn't "fit" into the larger themes of the art world of his time. By all accounts he was flagrantly egotistical, arrogant, and stubborn. Also, a 20 year-old prostitute was the last person to talk to him before he fell into a coma and died in 1969. So, apparently, a personable gent. This info is a little annoying to know - I used to revel in Burkhart's paintings while in high school. He painted obnoxiously thick, something I was obsessed with at the time. His palette centered on hyper pastels, another tic I cultivated without regard for my teachers' eyesight. I stopped searching his work out when I stopped painting in oils but a recent visit to the Convention Center renewed my interest. His mural there, "Music," is really beautiful - though Hall and a few other commentators online seem to dismiss it as derivative - which it is - but so is his whole oeuvre. After all, he was a Columbus artist.

"Music" at the Convention Center. History of the piece here.

An MP3 of my interview with Hall here.
My story plus more of Burkhart's paintings after "the jump."