I found a gallery online, it is physically located in Brooklyn (Williamsburg), I am going to go and check it out. Here is the website. The name of the place is Cinders Gallery.
I found them through Kevin Hooyman's website.
They have a lot of drawing and self-published books on their website, and that's the two things I like best! They also have a links section with links to other galleries, artists, bands, and random NYC stuff the people who run the gallery like and want to tell you about.
My new work:
Unstructured thoughts:
I have two more new, new drawings (newer then the one above), but they are waiting on some finishing touches. I made them with red acrylic on gray/blue paper, and I painted a second middle tone and some highlights into them with a pale gray blue and a whitish gray blue. The drawings are going to continue to play with the idea of living dead. In the sense that when Freud wrote about the uncanny, and said that something uncanny is something that you can't tell if it's dead or alive, that's why I like zombies. I like zombies because they are somewhere between living and dead, there is a strong zombie cultural context from movies and Halloween, and that context allows me to be as playful as I want when constructing the identity of my femme fatales (Zombie girls). A lot of room to be creative, and easy to find source material, mixed with an interesting contemporary context, and the ability to play with identity, all lead to an exciting mix for me when I am drawing these. I am also interested in Zen buddhism, and the lyrics from Tom Waits songs, and they enter into the mix somehow. I have been immersing myself in self-published books lately, and that is also entering into my aesthetic, and I think I am going to end up being a pretty major source for either publishing or distribution of small edition art books.
You can see more of my art on www.diamondinyourmind.com and www.lesoiseauparle.com
4 comments:
bill, have you heard of this space http://www.littlecakes.org/
shawn reed from iowa was always talking about showing some things there. it looks like it could be nice. it's also in new york. another thing, i must be off of dan's email list. i don't get the pretty pictures anymore. come on dan. i need it.
You're not off the list, this was a special requested installment.
I will check out the littlecakes page, I notice a Shawn Reed print in a magazine a couple of weeks ago, the one with the buffalos running with the man with a buffalo head on his shoulders. Might have been Artforum, not sure.
Bill Donovan!
I think it's been 5 years. Oh Iowa City, such magic.
Your new work looks great. I adore the uncanny drawing. 'make a painting for your parents' lives in our living room.
Keep in touch?
Christine
Christine,
Thanks for finding me again, I do not have your email... Email me at donovan.bill@gmail.com
I like knowing that the make a painting for your parents lives on :)
I love my How the Wild West was Fun felt drawing. I still laugh out loud when I think of the title.
Ok,
Bill
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