Arnold Fern (1958 - 1997), painter
Arnold Fern's work @ The Body
'How to Be Alive', a remembrance of Arnold Fern
Camp Tales: The Art of Arnold Fern and Mark Lida
Joe Brainard (1942 - 1994), poet & visual artist
Joe Brainard Website
Joe Brainard remembered @ The Academy of American Poets
Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Rob Padgett
Joe Brainard: A Retrospective
Joe Brainard Festschrift @ Jacket Magazine
Steve Abbott (1943 - 1992), writer
Steve Abbott Website
mp3s: Steve Abbott's daughter reads two of his poems
Steve Abbott's novel The Lizard Club
Steve Abbott's resting place
John Bernd (1953 - 1988), performance artist
John Bernd @ The Estate Project
Jennifer Dunning on John Bernd's 'Lost and Found'
David Gere remembers John Bernd
Tim Dlugos (1950 - 1990), poet
Tim Dlugos @ Wikipedia
Tim Dlugos's poem 'G9'
The books of Tim Dlugos
Terence Winch remembers Tim Dlugos
Tony Greene (? - 1991), visual artist
'Artists who die, at least the ones with gallery representation and some art market success, have a chance at establishing a 'posthumous' market if a dedicated dealer or designated loved one attempts to scale that demanding slope. The estates of less seasoned artists, such as Tony Greene, the California painter who showed promising work in several exhibitions in the late eighties and early nineties at Feature Gallery in New York, have a much tougher time of it, competing, so to speak with still emerging, living artists whose art production continues to flourish. While some of his paintings are harbored in the prominent California collection of Peter and Eileen Norton (as part of their foundation, the Norton Family Office), Greene's work has all but disappeared from the art world's radar screen. "Even given that Norton association, neither you nor I have seen that work around," says Richard Hawkins, a California artist and friend of the late painter.' -- Judd Tully, Artery
Tony Greene's work at The Estate Project
* choose 'insight browser then search for Tony Greene
Exhausted Autumn, a book for and by Tony Greene
Donald Britton (1951 - 1994), poet
Reginald Shepherd remembers Donald Britton w/ three DB poems
Donald Britton's 'The Dark Side of Disneyland'
Bo Huston (1960 - 1993), writer
A fan's remembrance of Bo Huston
On Bo Huston's novel The Dream Life
Bo Huston's books
Larry Stanton (1950 - 1984), painter
Larry Stanton Website
Writings on LS by David Hockney, Henry Geldzhahler, a. o.
Larry Stanton's book
Howard Brookner (1955 - 1989), filmmaker
Howard Brookner (r.) w/ his partner/writer Brad Gooch in the early 80s
New York Times Obituary
Filmography
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4 comments:
Yeah, I’m a huge Mountain Goats fans. I got into them a few years back when I heard a single of theirs played on John Peel. First it was John Darnielle’s voice that kept me listening to the song, but once I started getting the albums, it was his lyrics that kept me there. Seriously, he writes these words that sound like they were created to go next to each other – in some ways it sounds like they’ve just fallen out of him so easily, but if you were to try and replicate his style it would be impossible. Smart guy. He’s obsessed with finding beautiful moments in dark places, too, which is something admirable, and well, special, I guess. Their most recent album - Heretic Pride - was the only album I could bring myself to listen to in the immediate aftermath of my mom’s death. Dunno why. His songs just make me glad to be alive sometimes. I think I remember somebody describing his voice as being like “the cool side of a pillow”, too. Amazing live show, to boot. So yeah, that’s me + The Mountain Goats. Heh.
Actually you can listen to the song I put on my DID list here: http://hypem.com/track/668687/
If you give it a listen, let me know what you think. It’s part of a story inspired by some old friends (who have since died that he used to take meth with). The part where he sings “If anybody comes to see me – tell them they just missed me by a minute/If anybody comes into our room while we’re asleep – I hope they incinerate everybody in it” is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking; to these ears, anyway.
Today’s post is very touching, Dennis. I think Judd Tully’s remembrance of Tony Greene makes an important point about the necessity of the friends of dead artists keeping their memory and work alive; something this blog has been doing triumphantly – through this place I’ve already heard of Joe Brainard, Tim Dlugos, and Bo Huston. I’ve got their books on my shelf – so you’re definitely doing your part Dennis, for which I’m sure they’d be deeply appreciative. It was a real pleasure seeing Brainard’s work up close at the Palais De Tokyo’s Third Mind exhibition while Misa and I were in Paris last year.
OK, well I’m glad you accepted the novel buddy add. Where I’m up to so far with my novel: At the moment I’m working on a couple of chapters that involve the boy who is the main character of the novel taking acid. I’m finding writing about drugs, and trying to get the trip across in writing pretty touch. I’m kinda enjoying trying to work my way through the problems though. I guess it’s so easy to write bad drug writing (not that the book is about that at all – this is just a very short segment – it’s a million miles away from being a book about drugs). The most impressive rendering of the effects of drugs in writing that I’ve come across recently is in Lawrence Braithwaite’s Wigger. The whole chemical haze of that book is so perfectly done that I couldn’t help but be drawn to think directly about my own experiences on acid while I was reading it. So I’ve been trying to take that apart for some hints. A lot of the tricks he seems to use are visual – like the disrupted layout of the words on the actual page that the reader holds in their hand – like something is physically spilling from the ideas of the text, you know? Punctuation, back slashes, apostrophes, all over the place. I’m experimenting with trying to use some of that stuff at the moment, but I think Braithwaite’s works a lot better because he uses that style as a constant throughout the book. With mine, because I haven’t, I’m worried about the couple of chapters about the acid trip just seeming at best out of sync with the rest of the novel leading up to that point, or at worst just gimmicky and schlocky. But yeah – I’m trying to work out how to get the idea of an acid trip across in the most effective way I can without disrupting the previous structure of the book too much. I guess that’s the inherent nature of trying to get something so above and away from language nailed down with words. Anyways, I thought I’d share that with my new novel buddy, in the hope that maybe you find that quandary interesting in some way?
I re-emailed the poetry mss your way. Thanks, dude.
obviously that should read "pretty tough", not pretty "touch". Shit, you can tell I haven't had enough coffee today.
This is great! Oh hey, I posted a blog entry on my website minorprogression about a new French film called "I Dreamt Under Water" and I've been talking to the director, Hormoz a bit cause he got wind of the entry... anyway, is he on your radar? If not, you should check him out... he's really great but I guess having some problems in France getting his work out?? I'm still not fully understanding why but yeah, are you into him at all? xoxo
Hey, Dennis!
really great to 'hear' your voice so to speak...
Anyway yes, don't wish to make a sombre day darker but although I'm snapping out of it now, the mood has been black, black, black for a while...
Not too much to say about it but another split with A basically and the prospects aren't good. And I confess to being an expert wallower in loss and separation. But I'm trying to keep communicating openly with her even though it's been uber weird and upsetting, so hopefully things
will work out for the best one way or another.
Melancholia's really slowed things down for two months in the studio as well which somewhat sucks as work is my main way of keeping spirits up
at the best of times.
BUT - am basically ok... there's really good stuff going on too... the work was going well and it hasn't died, am tutoring one day a week at
a really good art school and enjoying the dialogue with students, published some art writing on a friends work, am starting a new collaborative
project devoted to works on paper called A4 Editions...
And it's fantastically cheering to be in this ever brilliant space.
Jax's day did come at the right moment as I've just started listening to my records again after 8 weeks of only being able to bear baroque harpsichord music and stuff (actually that was kind of good...)
How about you? I'm so out of touch - I hope all your projects are going well. I do remember reading Yuri got his visa renewed as well which is beyond great. Are you still at the same apartment and
everything and enjoying Paris as much as ever - I remember you saying you'd be moving again at some point?
I agree with Thomas M that today's post,, as well as commemorating the devastation wreaked by AIDs, seems very poignant on the task of keeping work alive posthumously by less established or unknown artists. Wow - three painters up there, none of whom I was aware of - I'm glad I am now.
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