Brookes, Mary, Jess, Amelia, oil on canvas but sometimes paper maybe?
"The Artist is Absent" was part of my solo show where I was available to paint portraits during spare days at Tribes Gallery. Sometimes these were commissions from community members that ended up with the subject, as with the first two, and other times it was persuading one of the collection of young, pretty, unpaid white girl art interns that collected around Steve to sit, as in the second two of these.
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Mainly using this to chost a #retrospective of my artwork from the last uh 3 decades. Occasionally new art and rechosts. Pretend I put some fun gifs here.
2011 oil on canvas 30x42in
So I did a solo show, "I Hate Art", at the gallery I managed as like, a reward for a couple years of curating there, and this is what full artistic license can look like. So that's probably a warning people have taken not to give me such freedom ever again. There were a lot of installations and interactives including a mirror I asked people to only write things they didn't like about me or the art on, and then painted this self portrait using that mirror. It is actually remarkably hard to get people to insult you consensually.
This is a big thing for me because I SAY I'd rather hear it straight but I've also been told people are afraid of how I'll respond to criticism, and I've just had to resign myself to that being their problem - and I personally am afraid of how people will react 99% of the time, or just don't respect them enough to want to be part of their potential growth, so I get it. Working with these ideas or in any kind of community is a luxury!
watching my older twitter mutuals drop their bluesky invite codes straight onto the twitter timeline
i think one of the interesting and important things the proliferation of the internet has shown us is that you can spend a literal decade Posting, acquiring some of the most advanced Postingbrains imaginable, without developing even the slightest sense for how online actually works
I don't know how anything works at all, as an old.
I have a spare bsky code though. We don't have messaging here yet, tho
2011 oil on canvas 32x36"
You would think that after making something that so totally failed technically at its concept (which is mostly a Spongebob quote?) I would maybe stop trying to do it but I did so much more stuff that was like this over the following years. I got a coworker to pose for it but unfortunately at this time I did not always know what I felt toward women was a crush and definitely not what to do about it, so we ended up dating the same shitty guy instead. I eventually painted over this with Sphinx.