Ivan Illich‘s work turns on two related concepts. One is of our need to dwell, to inhabit a home, to have a place. The other is our need for conviviality. We cannot exist in isolation. We are vulnerable and part of everything as everything is part of us.
oil on canvas, 11 x 14
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum holds an annual Winter Members’ Show. I’ve entered this painting, Right Here!
This painting is available for purchase, priced at $385. The show will be up from November 10 – January 8, 2012.
In Stephens’ & Swan’s biography, deKooning,
(Milton) Resnick said,
“There’s a dimension that we don’t understand. In other words, if you have a landscape or an interior you have space. You can deal with it in terms of image or what-not. But you can’t really understand what paint is doing. Paint is doing something that you ask it to do in order to get the nose on somebody’s face. The paint also does something that isn’t the nose on the face. What it does is fascinating. It’s a new geography.”
