Post-Collegiate Haze: On Losing Your Identity and Other Things

Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy delivered a fantastic PMMNLS lecture last Monday, and we wanted to make sure that everyone had the chance to experience her presentation. Read on and piece together the YouTube references of a talented artist and curator’s mind.
– Frank Stella , 1972 / This is the year I was born.

– Pictorial energy and control, young ideas about art.
– Learning to see from my mother
– Mom’s paintings, the seagull
– Painting on the walls in margarine
– Me on a rock, befriending the inanimate
– Learning to feel from my Father
– My Dad makes his first sculpture after going to DIA Beacon, declares he is a minimalist.
– His exclamation inside of a Sera ” This is like the universe”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogo vs. Jesus Christ
– My parent’s bookshelf, Future Shock, Radical Child Rearing, e.e. cummings
– Cement Turtles
– Mrs. Epstien’s house, The Kimono and the Foot
– Willem De Kooning and the Art Gang
– Peter Schjeldahl, Why Artists Make the Worst Students, 1998
-Ted Morgan plays Husker Du Land Speed Record on vinyl, Joe Sheer throws a great dinner party, Mary Lum and the obsessive mark + never date male painters
– College work

– Moving to Portland 1995
– Swallow Press / Topher Sinkinson
– Kristy Edmunds thinks she is being stalked
– How Billboards Help Us 1998 – 2001
– Lessons in Urban Education, posters and publications
– Counter Canvas, PICA
– First day at PICA, William Pope L. hot dog smell
– My desk, it’s a mess
– Close Encounters, the mashed potato moment

– “This is means something, this is important”
– 2005 anthropomorphic blobs
– Getting cancer
– The studio goes dark
– Blobs move out of the landscape and onto the pedestal
– What do we expect? (from artists) Raymond Pettibon’s PICA Lecture
– Debunking myths
– Small things for art fairs
– Yellow never sells
– Artist Statements suck and Jerry Saltz on Facebook
– Matthew Day Jackson
– Jorg and T.C pull a tree from the river on Jet Ski’s
– Marina Abramovic / An artists place is in the world not in the studio
– Larry Bamburg 100% Simulating Daylight
– What do we expect? (from curators, institutions, dealers ) Marcia Tucker
– Hitler finds out that Jeffery Deitch is the new director of LAMOCA

– Falling in love with a building WHS
– A building for people
– Laying down to look at art
– New Work
– Cement turtle = paper sculptures
– Bookshelf = blacked out newspapers
– Kimono = gesture
– Eliot Gould
– Storm Tharp + Kristy Edmunds embrace
– Relationships between artists and curators
– Ronnie Bass, metaphysics, fear, punk music
– YouTube brain synapse

– The end.
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