Lynch Night |
Exhibition Catalogue |
"It's one person acting and reacting with paint; it's a process that does not involve words." "What I'm trying to do with each canvas is create a situation in which the paint can be itself, which means letting go of any rationali-zation. It's important to let ideas blossom without too much judging or interference. The beauty of children is their ability to look at the world openly, without being bound by the intellect. Your intellect can hold back so many wonderful, fantastic things. Without logic or reason, there's always something else, some-thing unseen. The world is infinite rather than finite." "One of the reasons I prefer painting in black and white, or almost in black and white, is that if you have some shadow or darkness in the frame, then your mind can travel in there and dream. In general, color is a little too real. It's too close. It doesn't make you dream much. If everything is visible, and there's too much light, the thing is what it is, but it isn't any more than that." "I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful."
A Man with Ointment
Antenna with Figure
Antenna with Figure #2
Ant is, Ants are Somewhere
Blind Man's Experiment
Boise, Idaho
Box of Bees
Bug Yell
Bunch #1
Bunch #4
Bunch #5
Bunch #6
Bunch #7
Bunch #8
Dark Shapes Behind a Veil
Dog and Child near my House
Dr. Howl's Philosophy
Egg of Words
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
Heaven Plheng Hell
Hey Ho
Hot
Leaking
Memory of a Head
Mysterious Forest
Nihilistic Delusion
On a Windy Night a Lonely Figure Walks to Jumbo Klown's Room
One Two Three Four
Opening in Forest
Pop this one Fuck
Rat Meat Bird
Rock with Seven Eyes
Smoking Shapes #2
Soft Eclipse
Stage of Smoke and Wires
Stage with two Figures Dancing
The Garden
Trapeze #2
Three Figures on a Stage
Trees at Night
Yeah And She Had Red Lips Too
Words at Night
Wounded Man as a Tree Creating Bugs
"Well...if you said to me, 'Okay, we're either going down to Disneyland or we're going to see this abandoned factory,' there would be no choice. I'd be down there at the factory. I don't really know why. It just seems like such a great place to set a story" "I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste"
Nudes and Smoke
Industrial
Postmodern Mood Structures
Organic Phenomena Fish Kit
Bee Board
Clayhead with Cheese, Turkey and Ants
Furniture Coffee Table Espresso Table Floating Beam Table Steel Block Table "To my mind, most tables are too big and they're too high. They shrink the size of the room and eat into space and cause unpleasant mental activity."
"I don't want to appear like some all-round talent. Not at all. I just inevitably get involved with different things. I started out being a painter. And like many painters I was looking for a new challenge. Because it is not easy to make money with art. After all, just to build canvas stretchers, and stretch a canvas you get involved with a lot of tools. And one thing always leads to another: Pretty soon I was building things.
The Angriest Dog in the World "The memory of the anger is what does 'The Angriest Dog.' Not the actual anger anymore. It's sort of a bitter attitude toward life." "Yes, it is perverse because the humor in the strip is based on the sickness of people's pitiful state of unhappiness and misery. But it thrills me."
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