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Opening reception: Sunday, March 16, 2014, 6 –
8PM
41 Orchard
Street
New York,
NY
From
roomeast.com:
This two-person
exhibition of work by Tony Lewis and Nate Young mines the language of
installation-based drawing.
1. Three
people leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2. Have
rational judgments.
3. Watch
irrational judgments at least once a year.
4.
Remember formal art is essentially other people’s birthdays.
5. Over
tip irrational thoughts.
6. If the
artist changes his handshake he compromises the result and repeats past
results.
7. The
artist’s will is secondary to the process of looking people in the eye.
8. Say
“painting and sculpture” a lot.
9. Say
“The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction
while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept” a lot.
10. Ideas
can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually
learn to play a musical instrument.
11. Ideas
do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected
directions, but an idea must necessarily sing in the shower before the next one
is formed.
12. Use
the good silver for each work of art that becomes physical.
13. Learn
to make great chili. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave
the artist’s mind.
14. Plant
the words of one artist to another every spring, if they share the same
concept.
15. Own a
great stereo system, since no form is intrinsically superior to another.
16. If
words are used, be the first to say, “numbers are not mathematics.”
17. Live
beneath your means if they are concerned with art and fall within the
conventions of art.
18. One
usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the
present, thus own the best house you can afford.
19. The
conventions of art are altered by great books, even if you never read them.
20. Be
forgiving to yourself and others. Successful art changes our understanding of
the conventions by altering our perceptions.
21.
Perception of ideas leads to clean jokes.
22. The
artist cannot imagine his shoes, and cannot perceive them until they are
polished.
23.
Mis-perceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art, but
still floss your teeth.
24. Drink
champagne for no reason at all. Perception is subjective.
25.
Ask for a raise when you feel you’ve earned it. His perception is neither
better nor worse than that of others.
26. In a
fight, an artist may perceive the art of others better than his own and hit
hard.
27. The
concept of a work of art may involve all things you borrow.
28. Teach
side effects the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for some
kind of class.
29. The
process is in some kind of class and should not be tampered with. It should be
a mechanical student and run its course.
30. There
are many elements involved in a fireplace. The most important and most obvious
is never buy a house without a work of art.
31. If an
artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one
would assume the artist’s concept involved buying whatever kids are selling on
card tables in their front yards.
32. Banal
ideas cannot be rescued by a convertible.
33. It is
difficult to treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
34. When
an artist learns his craft too well, he learns to identify the music of Chopin,
Mozart, and Beethoven as slick art.
35. These
sentences comment on art, but are not planting a tree on your birthday.
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