Inspiration: All images by
Jeremy Enecio
Work: Starting on "Bats" drawing.
Reading Response: Interview with Thomas Joshua Cooper
"They (people at his gallery) move the work into the appropriate contemporary art context with dignity. I can't do that and I don't think that it is my job. My business is to make pictures with enough authority and clarity to absolutely validate the procfess that the gallery engages in with their clients."
He's right. The modern art world (the individualistic, interpretive one) works in a gallery system, but it preceded the gallery system. Though galleries hold sway over what is shown, and consequently what even has the
possibility to be deemed good or bad by the public, that sway is only delivered by the power of modern art over the modern art viewer. Quality and integrity of concept, over pretense or format or avante garde-ness, is what drives things forward.
Galleries are nothing without art. But art is still art without galleries. Just sort of a fun revelation that quote lead to.
Work: Starting on "Bats" drawing.
Reading Response: Interview with Thomas Joshua Cooper
"They (people at his gallery) move the work into the appropriate contemporary art context with dignity. I can't do that and I don't think that it is my job. My business is to make pictures with enough authority and clarity to absolutely validate the procfess that the gallery engages in with their clients."
He's right. The modern art world (the individualistic, interpretive one) works in a gallery system, but it preceded the gallery system. Though galleries hold sway over what is shown, and consequently what even has the possibility to be deemed good or bad by the public, that sway is only delivered by the power of modern art over the modern art viewer. Quality and integrity of concept, over pretense or format or avante garde-ness, is what drives things forward.
Galleries are nothing without art. But art is still art without galleries. Just sort of a fun revelation that quote lead to.
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