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Moving on

So nice to see large Event Horizons canvases up on white walls with good lighting at State of the Art. Wonderful opening, thoughtful review of show by Arthur Whitman http://thethinkingi.blogspot.com/2009/11/mink.html. I don't agree with his take on the large 'You Can't Win" canvases; for me the carving out of negative space was an integral part of the process, not a mistake. But he was right about the "lightness" of Hubble's Bubbles. Overall, it's rare to have thoughtful and comprehensive "readers", and a review becomes like a conversation. It's funny how once an approach has run its course, new directions open up. Current work much flatter, more free, while maintaining some of the pouring approaches of before. I don't think I could ever be like those painters who find one style that's commercially successful and stick with it for the rest of their lives; experimentation and growth is what makes this fun.