Kudos, Stephen! I second Doug's motion. You can be justly proud! Wonderful,
Sheila
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> 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....
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> Keep it going.
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> Doug
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>> Stephen Vincent, in progress still with Obama, haptics et al at
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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>> Stephen Vincent
>> The First 100 Days of Obama
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>> One-Day Exhibition
>> Wednesday, April 29, 11am-8pm
>> Opening Reception,
>> 6-8pm
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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 a
>> theme;
>> randomness tangles with predictability, abstraction with the faint hint
>> 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. Mounted
>> in a grid at the gallery, the drawings will cover 588 square feet of
>> wall space.
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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 the
>> 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 few
>> days later with the full set of 100 reproductions.
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>> The opening
>> will offer Vincent and guests the opportunity to reflect on the
>> 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 at
>> Dolores Park,
>> 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 out
>> 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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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> The covers of this book are too far apart.
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> Ambrose Bierce
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