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MAX KING CAP
LOS ANGELES, CA
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MFA,
1987
University
of Chicago
1989
Residency Staatliche
Akademie der Bildenden Kunst
Karlsruhe, FRG
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Free
will demands autonomy, utopia obedience. Still, we irresistibly indulge
hope of the former and fantasy of the latter while dismissing their
irreconcilability.
The injury we invite that evinces our living emotions, the pain we
inflict to demonstrate we are of consequence, those words that impel us
that we will never utter; all are evidence that we are unfit to
recognize, and fearful to tell, the truth. All artworks worthy of
consideration are purposing toward the same realization; confession.
The moment art attempts philosophy (crudely drawn) or science (sadly
naive) it is an admission of failure. Narrative is our touchstone,
hermetic or lavish, and the only artistic strategy capable of
uncloaking ourselves to us. It is the visual equivalent of revealed
religion.
We are mercurial characters dependant upon our audience; we desire to
win praise, lure the unwitting, garner sympathy, or the dozen different
façades we mount in order to account ourselves finer than we
know ourselves to be. Art making is but one of those façades. We
baptize ourselves in its swift historical river but are so intoxicated
by its waters we are unable distinguish ecstasy from foundering–but as
William Blake noted with humorously tragic clarity, "If the fool would
persist in his folly he would become wise."
Utopia’s derivation is "no place". Our free will is a sham for we are
hardwired toward farce. The artist is a part, not apart, and no amount
of earnest haste can distance noble flesh from its verso of corrupted
meat. So we balance, head swiveling, divulging each side's secrets to
the other.
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Full Of Spiders, 2007
Oil,
acrylic , ink on paper, 60x40
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Dissolve Like Show, 2006
Oil,
acrylic , ink on paper, 60x40
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All To Reign, 2007
Oil,
acrylic , ink on paper, 60x40
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It's Bitter Perfume,
2007
Oil,
acrylic , ink on paper, 60x40
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Here We Are, 2007
Oil,
acrylic , ink on paper, 60x40
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The Glassy Sea, 2007
Oil,
acrylic , ink on paper, 60x40
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