July 2008
The Archives
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Copies, Exchanges, progress
Orders…
I went down into storage and brought up more work that had been ordered in the last two weeks and moved them into my storage racks. I rearranged some of the acquisitions; we received many last week and the shelves are full. When I get a chance, I will have to start hanging some on [...]
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Collexhibition, Exchanges
Exchanges
[July 19, 2008] Today was billed an “exchange auction,” which was really just another way to get people into the space. Actually, at one point I did want to hold some kind of auction, hoping that at this point I would have an excess of copies. Instead, I have had plenty of orders to fulfill, [...]
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Thoughts, progress
Steps backward
[July 16, 2008] I brought in my digital prints and compared them to the orginals. They all look good, but in digitizing, the colors have changed slightly: all the prints are slightly more saturated and have a higher contrast than their sources. I supposed these are “better:” I think of those histogram curves on my [...]
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Thoughts, progress
Digital
[July 14, 2008] I spent the morning putting together all the sections of Ruscha’s “All the Buildings on the Sunset Strip.” There were 38 different scans to put together, for 9 sections that wll be glued together to make a 304″ inch book, unfolded. I have been thinking about how to get this printed for [...]
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progress
Finishes and starts
[July 11, 2008] I spent the morning finishing the Micahel Mazur painting. I worked with some of the paint and a dry brush to mimic pastel (the original is a pastel drawing), worked on the grass and the sandy area in front. Last, I painted in the wires coming off the telephone pole. There will [...]
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Exchanges, progress
Patience
[July 9, 2008] I arrived hoping to finish the Mazur painting today. First, I put together the stretcher bars, stretched and gessoed the canvas for the George Dugan self-portrait. I helped Andrew move selections from “Open Curating” down to storage, and bring more work up. A slight procrastination. We talked about the David Ahlsted paintings; [...]
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Collexhibition, Copies, Donations, Thoughts
History and Future
[July 3, 2008] There was a small reception tonight. When I arrived for it, there were two new donations: a sculpture by Bryan Thomas, and a photograph by Greg Halpern. A friend wanted to paint, so I put him to work. He worked on the copy of Annunziata’s copy of Benjamin Franklin. It was his [...]
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Copies, progress
Painting
[July 2, 2008] I decided to stay with painting, because I’ve found it takes time to get into its rhythm. I worked on the Lucas painting, but became frustrated with it–I had one of the moments when I wonder why I am doing this. The other time I sometimes think this is when I look [...]
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Donations, Exchanges
Visitors
[July 1, 2008] Today felt very busy, although in the end I didn’t feel like I got much copying done. Instead, I talked with a lot of people, which was great. When I arrived, I had several donations to process. Two from Chris Wildrick, who left them for me in Syracuse; a beautiful print of [...]
