Scott Richter New Work at ELIZABETH HARRIS GALLERY

[eenkjet]

i am definitely challenging the outer limits in my studio. if you want want to challenge the outer limits of philosophy than be a philosopher or a poet. or you can drizzle your with art philosophy. just make sure that there is some actual ART for which to do your drizzling. this is tiresome. i gotta go work on my etched/polished aluminum over embossed mahogany pieces for a sanctuary....playing with paint is for kids and pretend weekend "artists".

[MrWowforever]

@eenkjet thanks for the chat:) Process Art is a well documented branch of Modernism that has 50 yrs (and continuing) of history. If your saying all these artists are 'pretend weekend artists' then.............. thanks

[MrWowforever]

Mr Richter strikes me as a professional. His work raises lots of issues to discuss. Pro or con. It is revealing that your generally dismissive and your last comment you posit yourself as the only 'real artist'. Kinda arrogant. NYC is tough:)

[eenkjet]

playing at the outer limits of what something is only leaves one to purposefully avoid the core and guts of what art can be. an artist can be as philosophical as he or she wants. but really. what do you objectively have? a piece of crap staring back at you in the end. let's stop ask "what" is art. damn. get in the studio and make something that challenges outer limits of human endeavor. instead of the outer limits of query.

it takes real talent and practice and tenure to do that.

[MrWowforever]

your first sentence contradicts your 8th. 'playing at the outer limits...' and 'get in the studio...challenge outer limits....'. All thoughts are conceptual. Philosophy is the nature of being. Art, as life, is philisophical by nature...it asks questions. Religion and tv provide 'answers'.

[eenkjet]

i couldn't possibly write a decent novel or design a building or design some amazing haute courture suit. so should i instead,... type gibberish! throw steel and glass in a pile! sew some unwearable idiotic garment! all as a commentary on the material and or element itself. only in the artworld is the bar so low. don't worry about the mall customer, or the gallery owner, or art history. the artworld has become the laughing stock of the serious professional creative.

[eenkjet]

what the hell! i came back to this thread to see what was up. let's say... if a person's works AT THIS POINT IN HISTORYYYY, is asking simplistic questions like..."what is art" or "what is paint" or "what is a wall?!",... it's not art. the mere notion of obsessing about the boundary or element is so exhausting. it ignores the responsibility to actual do something with actual substance. become real artists guys. REAL ART-ists. not theorists!

[MrWowforever]

the first question they ask art students is: What is Art? Then you spend the rest of your time trying to answer that question by making things that you hope are Art. The question is never answered. Its a philisophical carrot. Advertising is a lie as truth. Art is truth as a lie. Advertising is a laughing stock, Art is a place were 'artist guys' and girls can do what they need without the fuss of public and corporate intrusion. Art is never as literal or pandering as you seem to want it to be.

[MrWowforever]

then go. :)

[MrWowforever]

all books ARE about writing. all dances are about dance. etc.

[MrWowforever]

Some people are more sensitive to the possibilities of materials than you. They are called artists. :)

[MrWowforever]

thanks m kalm. very informative. nice work!

[HenhousetheRed]

These are lovely. Can you mention any other artists who are in the same boat as Scott Richter?

[gugagrinspum]

Yes, Rodrigo Andrade, a Brazilian artist.

[jahuyser]

Saying these paintings are only about paint is a big understatement. The content is infinitely richer than that. The formal decisions(i.e. the colors, weight, layering, shapes and actual method of application) are indicative of something much deeper. It seems that here in America there is an under appreciation for what is beneath the surface of formal decisions. There are motives for his decisions, whether conscious or not, that are responsible for each outcome. Allow yourself to "see" deeper.

[eenkjet]

i agree about the comment about painting that are about paint. if an alien life form came down and said, "show us your art"... and we said. "here! it's a painting about paint!" that alien would probably say... "yeah... er uhm.... do you have any art that is a little more... i don't know. i don't want to offend you. i mean your planet can have it's own opinion or whatever. but i kinda flew here all frozen for decades... was really wanting something a bit more art-ish."

[HenhousetheRed]

If aliens came to Earth to look at art (and might I say what lame aliens they would be if that's the only reason they've arrived) then they wouldn't be disappointed. They would be overwhelmed by art's history, diversity and relation to the humanity.

Material and process painting is just a single facet of a concept that has been reworked time and time and time again. It's just as "art-ish" as anything else you might see in a gallery today.

[MrWowforever]

Your anthropomorphic 'aliens' sound more like shoppers at a suburban mall looking for something 'art-ish'. They suck:)

[bobwilsonray]

Great video. I like these paintings as well as the work of Thorton Willis.

[apepumpkin08]

These paintings are so chunky. The texture and color are awesome. I would love to own a Scott Richter some day.

[hankjunior]

I wanna eat these painting's !

Thank's James

[candeaguilar]

nice man and very nice painting,, great show

[Robinschuinder]

great update! the seat of your bike man, ,,,,

[claureic]

Paintings about paint are never tiresome when they are made by a great colorist (just look at that deep blue at 2.49)...Thanks James for another great presentation.

[quenchedinlife]

paintings about paint are getting tiresome, his table paintings were better.

[MrWowforever]

ALL paintings are about paint.

[quenchedinlife]

@MrWowforever but good paintings have more to them than just the medium in which they were executed.

[MrWowforever]

only in your dead eyes philistine!

[quenchedinlife]

@MrWowforever, narr its just us brits expect a little more from a painting, probably the reason why we have a history of great painters like Bacon, Turner, Saville, Freud, Auerbach, ect.

[MrWowforever]

Nationalism is boring. I'm English. You do not speak for me. I like these paintings. Sorry I called u a philistine :)

[quenchedinlife]

@MrWowforever, yeah I hate nationalism too, but I like a lot of the painters from England, mostly from 20th and 21st century. I'm just dubious about paintings which are overly involved with the medium, and I'm not speaking for you, just myself.

[MrWowforever]

ok.......but how can a painting be 'overly involved' with the medium(paint)? One must 'involve' paint in making a painting. I think Carravagio is no more or less involved with paint than, say, Stella

[yellowfringe]

Nice work, especially "The Boys Club" paintings. I wonder, though, what these will look like in 25-50 years without stabilizing/restorative efforts.

[zoticus1]

Nice work!

Thx

[calebengler]

Vomit doormats.

[tiburon0406]

nice!!!