Dushko Petrovich, Regionalism, Installation in Parque El Ejido, Quito, Ecuador, 2013 Steve Locke: It’s weird because I knew you before I knew your work. I think it was the Yvonne Rainer/Rob Storr talk at BU. Afterwards, we had a bit of a chat and you told me about PAPER MONUMENT and were sweet enough to send me a few… (read more)
SL: I rewatched The Fullness of Time (a Vimeo link to the film is here) the other night and I didn’t realize how much I needed to see it in light of contemporary events. Technologies have brought the state sponsored violence meted out to black people to a larger consciousness but seeing these images of black… (read more)
Steve Locke: When we were in grad school together you turned me on to the writings of Mira Schor. In those writings, I discovered a way of working that allowed me to investigate figuration at a time when that was actively discouraged. Also, because our interests in gender, depiction, and subjectivity have dovetailed over… (read more)
Steve Locke: I have been following your work since we met at Skowhegan 2009 (and I’m lucky enough to have one of your works on paper). I have always felt an affinity for your work not just because of the subject, but because of the qualities of the paintings themselves. You have a way of… (read more)
Steve Locke: I think you are making some very challenging and gorgeous paintings, they were a high point of the last DeCordova Biennial. The ones that Lexi Lee Sullivan chose for that show married a haptic and almost brutal paint handling to elegant and bravura drawing. The result was spell binding. Like Vija Celmins, you… (read more)
SL: I was a big fan of the work you had at the previous deCordova Biennial. That work, titled Any Color You Like, did something so immediate and captivating that I am still thinking about it. You hear a lot of talk about audience engagement and interactivity in contemporary art but in all honestly,… (read more)
SL: First off, congratulations again on Another Utopia at LaMontagne. I was looking forward to seeing new work from you. When I was at the gallery, I said to someone, “I knew this was going to be good, but I really didn’t expect it to be this good!” It’s always a treat to see your… (read more)
Steve Locke: The first works I had seen of yours were the Invisible Man series and I’ve seen a few of the fighting performances. They are quite brutal (I’m thinking especially of Bull in the Ring.) The sheer athleticism of those performances meshes uncomfortably with the raw physical fact of them. In watching your work, I… (read more)
SL: As I have watched your work over the years, I am truly stunned by your painterly invention and your use of material. With a complete embrace of differing and often competing painterly and artistic styles-from still life, to appropriation, to expressionist mark making-you consistently and surprisingly create complex painterly fictions based on what you… (read more)
SL: I was introduced to your work when we were participants together at Skowhegan in 2002. You did a pair of performances that were very difficult on the viewers and very hard, physically and emotionally on you. I had never really experienced that level of commitment in a performance and I was quite terrified and thrilled… (read more)