http://talyne.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:23:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Q- Do you start your pictures with a plan or look in mind? A- I will sometimes start a picture thinking- What will happen if I work with 3 blues and another color, and maybe more or less of the other color than the combined blues.  And very often midway through ... http://talyne.org/wicked-fun/webb-school-knoxville-tennessee-studio-view/ "I paint very large pictures.  The reason I paint them is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human.  To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view with a reducing glass.  However, when I paint ... http://talyne.org/exhibitions/water-webb-school-knoxville-tennessee-2/ "Gesture is what my mark is.  Gesture must appear out of necessity, not habit.  I don't start with a color order but find the color as I go.  I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.  The whole business of how accidents are ... http://talyne.org/exhibitions/water-webb-school-knoxville-tennessee/ Installation view http://talyne.org/exhibitions/water-webb-school-knoxville-tennesse/ Painting is the only art form, except photography, which is without time.  Music takes time to listen to and ends, writing takes time and ends, movies end, ideas and even sculpture take time.  Painting does not.  It never ends, it is the only thing that is both continuous and still. ... http://talyne.org/exhibitions/water-solo-exhibition-webb-school-knoxville-tennessee/ At the same time that glass reveals, it conceals.  If one looks into a glass showcase one can have the illusion that the container is neutral, without apparent interest in the content of what it displays; or, conversely, the appearance of what is contained can be seen as a function ... http://talyne.org/public-projects/artstops/ fiberglass, varnish, pigment 8'x15' This piece was installed 85' underground in the old gypsum mines in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sliding the panels open one entered into the mine tunnels to view the Emerge exhibition.  The air temperature is roughly 58 degrees at all times and the sounds of the dripping water are ... http://talyne.org/public-projects/over-the-river-and-through-the-woods-2/ fiberglass, varnish, pigment and steel 8'x15' Research for this work was done in Northern Michigan on the Frey Foundation farm. I spent two summers exploring the woods, swamp, and orchards on this 900 acre farm.  I was interested in the internal and external experiences of tromping over fields and woods. I rediscovered ... http://talyne.org/public-projects/over-the-river-and-through-the-woods/ Abstract work carries with it an invitation to adventure- in the true sense of the word "adventure"...that is to say something not known, where it is really impossible to predict how things will go. http://talyne.org/wicked-fun/talyne-studio-view/ http://talyne.org/wicked-fun/vermont-studio-center-johnson-vermont-studio-view/