Kare San Sui Works

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MD1

untitled megalithic drawing #1

2009 · 12”x9” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“The deeper we go into ourselves, the more we are everybody”

(Richard Wilbur, paraphrasing Emerson)

MD2

untitled megalithic drawing #2

2009 · 12”x9” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“The deeper we go into ourselves, the more we are everybody”

(Richard Wilbur, paraphrasing Emerson)

MD3

untitled megalithic drawing #3

2009 · 18”x14” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“A writer is…his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.”

(V.S. Naipaul)

MD4

untitled megalithic drawing #4

2009 · 18”x14” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“art redeems ideas from abstraction, and submerges them in sensibility”

(Richard Wilbur)

KSS1

untitled kare san sui #1

2009 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“I will no longer paint the arrow/we see in the drop of water/trembling in the morning”

(Picasso)

KSS2

untitled kare san sui #2

2009 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“I work from within a structure and see what other possibilities there can be….”

(Robert Ryman)

KSS3

untitled kare san sui #3

2009 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“[with words or images] the dead are not separate from the living, each has one foot in the unknown”

(Merwin)

KSS4

untitled kare san sui #4

2009 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas board

“[writing] starts by presenting the salient features…(place, structure, landscape) and then, by way of further compression – poetry’s habit of mind – distilling the experience into feeling”

(Jane Miller/Beverly Pepper)

KSS5

untitled kare san sui #5

2009 · 9.5”x8” · acrylic & oil on wood

“Space is created solely by objects; it is between being and not being that one wants to copy.”

(Giacometti)

“There are no rules to tell us when a picture or statue is right.”

(Gombrich)

KSS6

untitled kare san sui #6 (Variant A per Motherwell)

2008 · 12”x9” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“truth is a property of symbolizations of reality, not reality itself”

(Motherwell)

KSS7

untitled kare san sui #7

2009 · 12”x9” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“Talk about painting…there’s no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can’t be said but are always the most important.”

(G. Richter)

KSS8

untitled kare san sui #8

2009 · 19.5”x17.75” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“the deeper we go into ourselves, the more we are everybody”

(Emerson)

KSS9

untitled kare san sui #9

2008/9 · 18”x14” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“ a poem is never finished, only abandoned”

(Paul Valéry)

KSS10

untitled kare san sui #10

2009 · 18”x14 · acrylic & oil on canvas

“What I’m looking for is a picture that dreams and imagines”

(Richard Prince)

KSS11

untitled kare san sui #11

2009 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“We must take a painting, as a kind of traditional stage: The curtain rises, we look, we wait, we receive, we understand.”

(Roland Barthes interpreting Twombly)

KSS12

untitled kare san sui #12 (Variant C per Motherwell)

2008 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“truth is not a property of reality…truth is a property of symbolizations of reality”

(Motherwell)

KSS13

untitled kare san sui #13

2010 · 36”x24 · acrylic on canvas

“desire exceeds the object”

(Lacan)

KSS14

untitled kare san sui #14

2010 · 72”x60” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“Art is about being curious. About knowing how things hold meaning – trying to make sense of oneself, one’s environment.”

(Kiki Smith)

KSS15

Kare-san-sui with four basic elements, Variant 1

2009 · 60”x48” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“I came to four basic elements I could identify. The material I would choose; my process for altering that material; the form that process would create; and how I presented it“

(Friedman)

KSS16

untitled kare san sui #15

2010 · 10”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“[Poetry is] another skill, as fine/As judging the set of milk for cheese,/A belief in the wisdom of a long view from one window”

(Ni Chuilleanain)

KSS17

untitled kare san sui #16

2009 · 10”x8” · acrylic on paper

“my effort is to get to the absolute essence; to make the painting look like it happened totally spontaneously”

(Motherwell)

KSS18

untitled (Monhegan 1)

2010 · 11”x15” · acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas

“Once you’ve seen this interesting thing, you have to find the words for it, and once you’ve made it satisfactorily vivid to yourself, you find it has an ideal dimension; it is related to some ideas taking form in the back of your mind.” “What poetry does with ideas is to redeem them from abstraction and submerge them in sensibility”.

(Richard Wilbur)

KSS19

untitled (Monhegan 2)

2010 · 11”x15 · acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas

“You don’t represent the object, you represent the effect of the object”

(Mallarmé per Motherwell)

KSS20

untitled (Monhegan 3)

2010 · 11”x15” · acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas

“All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people….Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense, every artist is abstract…a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference”

(Diebenkorn)

KSS21

untitled (Monhegan 4)

2010 · 11”x15” · acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas

“To tell a story, you have to – not falsify – but you have to assemble and disassemble. Memories are creative. To treat memory as a fact is nonsense. It’s inescapably fiction.”

(Aleksandar Hemon)

KSS22

untitled (Monhegan 5)

2010 · 18.5”x12” · acrylic, oil, canvas

“plastic creation is based upon the dualism of the two-dimensional and the three dimensional…” “the varied counterplay of push and pull”

(Hans Hofmann)

KSS23

untitled (Monhegan 6)

2010 · 10”x7” · acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas

“from the varied counterplay of push and pull, ….will plastic creation result”

(Hans Hofmann)

KSS24

untitled (Squam 1)

2010 · 10”x7” · acrylic on paper

“An idiot wind is blowing; the conscience dies”

(Weldon Kees, June 1940)

KSS25

untitled (Variant B per Motherwell)

2008 · 8”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“truth is a property of symbolizations of reality, not reality itself”

(Motherwell)

KSS26

untitled (Variant D per Motherwell)

2009 · 8”x8” · acrylic & oil on canvas

“truth is a property of symbolizations of reality, not reality itself”

(Motherwell)

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