Have started setting up andresclements.com to hold my art portfolio/catalogue. I think I’m reasonably happy with the artist statement I’ve put together. Initial responses seem positive although, even some of the most inteligent and highly educated people for whom I have much respect and shown it to seem to battle with understanding some of the words. I’m not too phased by that (just yet) given that (A) you don’t necessarily have to understand the finest technical details of something to appreciate it, (B) I think its accurate, and (C) I’re rework it into other versions at a later stage. For now my objective was to articulate my vision for my art practice and in that I think we’ve succeeded. A copy of the current text is posted here
Also set this blog up and put together a preliminary about page tonight
Not getting all my freelance work done, will have to push some serious extra hours and strict time management this coming week.
I was looking through art sites this morning and stumbled across some of the work of Stephen Cone Weeks. I so wish I could see the drawings on glass in real space.
I’m trying to explore, or investigate abstraction in contemporary art, have been for a while though preliminary grasps in e.g. Rhisome didn’t offer very much of substance. I’ll soon hit the academic journals more systematically, and think I’ve seen some individuals on an art group in LinkedIn that might be able to point me in the right direction.
As if I’m not stretched enough as things stand, there’s a big part of me that wants to start working on a visual art mini-dissertation in paralel to the MBA research dissertation. Given the inductive angle-of-attack I’m taking, both could use the same philosophical points of departure, even the same research methodology… interesting, perhaps I’m just a little too creative for my own good health, sometimes.
