Faucet Repair

7 April 2025

In my studio looking at a possibly resolved painting that I'm calling Bag for now. Started from seeing a plastic bag on the street in Camberwell as an inviting void. I like how Yena described the piece's core contrast as “filling in versus filling out”—that feels true. Think it is also about solidity coexisting with thinness and transparency and warm against cool; the little asteroid shape is darting into the cold dark space from the angle that the sun fell on the bag. Like Lying in bed, there's something about concealment and enclosure too, the expansive view of the optically small. And its composition feels like it wiggles within the container of the canvas without being overly aware of its edges. Kind of looks like a uvula too.

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Teachers

Joe Brainard, Aubrey Levinthal, Co Westerik, Brenda Goodman, Merlin James, Piero, George Tooker, Brett Whiteley, Catherine Murphy is in the house, Paula Rego, Morris Graves, Sargent, Lois Dodd, Alex Katz, Wilhelm Sasnal, Paul Cadmus, Raymond Saunders, Thomas Hart Benton, Inka Essenhigh, Philip Pearlstein, Hannah Höch, Frank Moore, Frida Kahlo, Chronis Botsoglou, Sibylle Ruppert, Henry Taylor, Sophie Calle, Carroll Dunham, Ruba Nadar, Daumier, Carol Rhodes, Serge Charchoune, Robin F. Williams, Jack Whitten, Jessie Homer French, James Castle, Jasper Johns, Nyoman Masriadi, Toby Rainbird, Rosemarie Trockel, Degas, Ingres is in the house, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Munch, Rita Fernández, Grant Wood, Scarlett Budden, Leonor Fini, Tristan Unrau, Justin John Greene, Seth Becker, Eric Fischl, Luchita Hurtado, Jennifer Packer, Lisa Yuskavage, Noah Davis, Nicholas Bierk, Freud, Todd Bienvenu, Katherine Bradford, Sigmar Polke, Georgia O’Keeffe, Forrest Bess, Gabe Duarte, Goya, Ray Johnson, Ivan Seal, Kerry James Marshall, Nicole Eisenman, Gareth Cadwallader, Georg Scholz, Ana Mendieta, Jared Buckhiester, Christian Rex van Minnen, Dash Snow, Anya Rosen, Matthew Wong, Wayne Thiebaud, Jane Dickson, Richter, Andrew Cranston, Raina Seung Eun Jung, Neo Rauch, Paul Landacre, Alice Neel, Clarence Holbrook Carter, David Hammons, Mamma Andersson, Matt Bollinger, Shannon Cartier Lucy, Adrian Morris, Robert Pollard, Peter Blume, Charles Blackman, Ken Price, Peter Doig, Vija Celmins, Matthew Gilbert, Josef Albers, Eric Timothy Carlson, Jay DeFeo, Dylan Vandenhoeck, Judith Leyster is in the house yeah, Ken Kiff, Duchamp, Graham Sutherland, Hockney, Velázquez, Jonathan Tignor, Antoni Tàpies, Leroy Winter, Shel Silverstein, Tschabalala Self, Max Ernst, Hopper, Clara Nulty, Lee Lozano, Martin Wong, Jack Hilton, Guston, Leonardo, Marisol, Enrico David, Gregory Gillespie, Cézanne, Pyke Koch, Peeter Allik, Samantha Jackson, Kent O’Connor, Joel Seow, Heide Fasnacht, Ben Shahn, Brett Bigbee, Haley Josephs, Félix Vallotton…