They Ran (So Far Away), 2022
They Ran (So Far Away): A New Painting in The Realities Series /
In Which the Artist Slips Molchat Doma Into the Conversation /
Need a sweet 80s playlist. I have some suggestions for you (like and follow one of these!). My short, 5-song Ultra 80s playlists can be found here. The companion playlist to my novel, Your Silent Face, can be found here.
Also, for you Joy Division and New Order fans, check out Molchat Doma here:
“Molchat Doma is a Belarusian dark wave/post-punk band from Minsk, formed in 2017. Their current lineup consists of Egor Shkutko, Roman Komogortsev, and Pavel Kozlov. Their style is influenced by 1980s Russian rock music and has been described as post-punk, new wave, synth-pop, and cold wave.” Wikipedia
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Molchat Doma
Situation(s) on Yupo paper /
It’s been ages since I tried to work on Yupo. The last time—roughly 2007—I got a couple of good ones, but not many. Situation(s) is a continuation of The Realities Project. The new frontier is clearly just as much deep innerspace as it is deep outerspace, in my opinion, but it has been for some time now, hunh?
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Situation(s), 2022
In Which the Artist Promotes Three Books of Flint or Set in Flint /
There are three fairly recent books out these days that are about the city of Flint, Michigan, or set in Flint, Michigan. I’m talking about my 80s-coming-of-age and ode-to-new wave music novel, Your Silent Face, which came out in paperback in 2021, Kelsey Ronan’s new release, Chevy in the Hole, and Gordon Young’s memoir, Tear-Down: Memoir of a Vanishing City. All three of us grew up in Flint. All three of us have our own complicated relationship with this Midwestern factory town that has had its American struggles. Why not bundle all three?
#flintmichigan #flintstories #novel #memoir #comingofage #80s #newwavemusic #flintwatercrisis #rustbelt #saturdayvibes #selfpromotion #yoursilentface #joydivison #lovelansing #yoursilentfacetimlane #gordonyoung
In Which the Artist Invokes Early Cure /
Three Imaginary Boys, 2022. Spray paint, gouache, colored pencil on paper. 8”x8”.
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In Which the Artist Invokes Guns N' Roses /
I love working on patterned papers #inlovewithplaid. Another piece in The Realities Project series.
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Weird Science /
Weird Science borrows its name from a song of the same name by Oingo Boingo. This small painting is a continuation of the series, The Reality Project. As I think about and work through this series, with its variations, I am reading The Hidden Reality, by Brian Greene. The thoughts, the painting, the reading are all running parallel to each other. Separate, they never touch, and yet, something happens.
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Weird Science, 2022
In Which the Artist Writes Now is the 80s Shot Out of A Sawed-Off Shotgun /
If you are interested in art history, and the evolution of popular culture, then The Warhol Diaries on Netflix is a must see. And it doesn’t matter if you aren’t a Warhol fan because the series is an interwoven fabric of so much more than Warhol-phobia-mania. The series encapsulates the art, the politics, the phenomenon of a decade that is one of the most important singular moments in the history of American art (culture). It also gets at Andy Warhol, the person, as opposed to Warhol the personality (which is a layer of Warhol that I was delighted to add to what I know of him). The AI recreation of his voice is a wonderful touch, too. The series is an illuminating, tender and insightful love story. There is no denying that Warhol (flawed like anybody) had insight. I look around at so much of today and think, “Now is the 80s shot out of a sawed-off shotgun.” Many of today’s movements have been germinating for a long time. The culture politics are out of the closet, now—out of the back rooms—out of double barrels, scattered like buckshot. What have segments of generations younger than Gen Xer’s like me learned? Time and quality of life is perhaps more important than the cult of work; love is love; identity is; diversity, equity and inclusion make the culture stronger, happier, healthier. This of course is me reflecting my beliefs and politics through what I see occurring. The Mills and Zs, who rightfully do not like to be labeled, fill me with hope, like the 80s once did, despite its political leaders.
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Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait With Skull,” 1977, photograph