Stephen  wish i could be there, but the last set of haptics on your  
blog are really fine. The range of the things seems to be expanding, &  
you certainly made me wish I could have een there for that reading....

Keep it going.

Doug
On 10-Apr-09, at 5:22 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:

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> The First 100 Days of Obama
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> One-Day Exhibition
> Wednesday, April 29, 11am-8pm
> Opening Reception,
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> Steven Wolf Fine Arts will mark day 100 of the Barack Obama
> administration with a one-day show of drawings by the artist and poet
> Stephen Vincent and their publication in a book titled The First 100
> Days of Obama.
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> Vincent is making one abstract, black and white
> ink drawing of the same size each day for the first 100 days of the
> Obama administration as part of a series he calls haptics, a word that
> describes how the body sensually responds to and interprets stimuli
> from the outside world. Each drawing is captioned with the date,
> location and a brief description of the goings-on around the artist at
> the time of the drawing.
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> At approximately 10 x 7 inches, the drawings are close variations on  
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> randomness tangles with predictability, abstraction with the faint  
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> of a figure or symbol as they take their flat, pillow form. Like a
> diary of meditations, they form a partial record of Vincent’s thoughts
> and movements on those days, and offer a stark contrast to the  
> political machinations
> taking place in Washington even as they temporally mirror them.  
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> in a grid at the gallery, the drawings will cover 588 square feet of
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> The show aspires to a nutty ceremonial numerology in
> which the diurnal drawing process, the publication of the book and the
> target day all harmonically converge. In order for Vincent to remain
> true to the one-a-day drawing schedule and still make that deadline  
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> gallery will have to run a relay race with its digital publisher who
> must turn around the final design, printing, binding and shipping in
> under 24 hours—the frenetic busywork another mirror of the activity in
> Washington. The first 25 copies of the book will arrive in the gallery
> with 99 images and one blank page. To draw the project to a close
> Vincent will work all day in the gallery to create a unique work on
> page 100 of these volumes. The remaining 75 books will be printed a  
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> changing political landscape and for Vincent to read from texts he
> created at the time he made the drawings: one day he was on a bench  
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> dogs, trolleys and ambulances in the background; another day he was
> switching channels from Keith Olberman’s Countdown to NBA basketball;
> and on yet another he was recalling the night sky over Mercy Hot
> Springs near Firebaugh,
> miles away from the world of politics. Vincent is as likely to seek  
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> silence as he is music when he works and the ordinary as often as the
> unusual. At time these modest drawings bob alongside the rushing
> political change in Washington like a tiny buoy marking a small
> personal craft; at other times their zen-master repititiousness
> underscores perhaps a deeper social and political reality that while
> the details in Washington change the soap opera stays the same.
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> Steven Wolf Fine Arts
> 49 Geary Street, Suite 411
> San Francisco, CA 94108
> 415-263-3677
> www.stevenwolffinearts.co
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Douglas Barbour
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