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an abstract painting that hangs at an unlevel angle. The top is predominately ochre with a rosy stripe with white polka dots running horizontally across the piece. The lower half is dark browns with a horizontal band of alternating white and black rectangles.
Acrylic on masonite, with an irregular hanging hole, 6″ x 6″

Christopher Albert is an artist whose work doesn’t sit in any intersections of this theory and that that investigation. Rather, the work is just as likely to trip off the curb as it is to jay walk from this side to the other in its meandering. When he gets to it, he draws, glues things together, paints, and concocts ideas that he’ll be lucky to get around to executing one day.

In a recent dream in which I had a studio that was an oversized, three sided cube, like an art fair booth festooned with (done?, in progress?) works on the walls, floor and stacked on any surfaces in the space, Josh Smith and Rachel Harrison were extracting pieces and using them as a base for their own work. The implication was that they were able to see and operationalize the elements they saw push them to a higher level while I appreciated the pieces for their potential but could not impose a clear imperative to drive the work forward. Interesting and confounding.

Dreams. Am I rite?