In 2018, I wrote a blog post titled My Humongous Audacious Dream. We had yet to even move on to the property that now makes up ArteSumapaz. Now, we've hosted well over 150 artists and volunteers, have completed several construction projects, have participated in local community events, and are just …
Amy Sillman
Dear Jackie, I guess you didn’t know this but me and Abstraction broke up!!!!! Last summer!!!! Well, I mean, I’ve been feeling like kind of confused for a long time, like years. I’m friends with all of A’s friends and stuff, and I think A’s really cool and I totally learned a LOT from A—but you …
For painters the studio is the Prison House, and paints are the fluids that circulate inside it. Alchemy’s lesson here is that everything actually takes place within the body. The insanity of the studio is that it is not architecture- it is not made of wood and cement- but it is nothing other …
https://ricdragon.com/2020/11/23/for-painters-the-studio-is-the-prison-house-and/
“What matters in painting is the _necessity_ of self-reference, it’s forbidden nature, and the many strange marks it leaves on the work. In Rembrandt’s self-portrait, his skin is paint, and the paint is his skin. Paint refers to itself, smearing over itself, sliding over itself, caressing itself- …
https://ricdragon.com/2020/11/20/what-matters-in-painting-is-the-necessity-of/
My 36-Year Retrospective
The last four people sharing lock-down with us here at ArteSumapaz have left, and I now have both an exhibition space (el Granero) and the massive studio. Several years ago, I packed up all of my work that had been in the upstate New York studio, and shipped them to Bogota. I realized recently that …
Fragmentos
Really delighted to be a part of the musical project of Felipe Durán, in creating new music for the video about Doris Salcedo's Fragmentos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGGOfjZwbFs …
Evenly bounded
The belief here: livesare ruled by energies, that an empty seatcan retain an essence of its occupantsmalevolent, benevolent. A found knifecasually taken; even a stray cat may tiptoe betweengods and the transient; messages. In the wind,words that bring life or finality,bring love or heartbreak. …
Talk at Studio Kura
In march 2019, I spent the month at Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan, in an artists residency. During that month, I made two large pieces using ink on hemp paper, collaging the drawing together as I worked. During the exhibition, I was asked to make some comments, which are below. So in …
artspotting: Jonas Mekas, Diary, March 28, 2018 …min. 3.20“… in these times of bigness, spectacles, 100 million dollar movie productions, I want to speak for the small invisible acts of human spirit, so subtle, so small and fragile that they fail when brought out under the clean lights. I want to …
https://ricdragon.com/2019/02/10/jonas-mekas-diary-march-28-2018-min-320/