Tax day. yes – just completed my taxes today and mailed them. This is the second year filing a schedule C (profit or loss from business) and the second profitable year. It is an extrememly gorgeous day, and instead of writing this I’m going for a walk.
Author: John Otter
visual artist - abstraction, drawing, painting, printmaking.
Studied printmaking, painting, and drawing at the New York Studio Program and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Scripps Art Society Presents:
Contemporary Figurative Painting
a presentation by John Otter
Thursday, March 25th 2004, 7pm
Scripps College • Claremont, Ca.
Humanities Auditorium
digital presentation including works by
Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, Annika Connor, and more.
This event is free and open to the public.
Three new paintings almost complete. Preparing a talk on contemporary figurative painting, March 25th, so I have some time. It’ll be a powerpoint presentation with images of works by Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, Annika Connor, Eric Fischl, and more. I think two of the concepts I’ll push is temperature (within and outside) the work (i.e. a “hot” new artist vs. cold modern abstraction) and I’d love to incorporate viscosity. Heat & Viscosity in Contemporary Figurative Painting? There’s an opening at the Claremont Graduate University tonight (and every tuesday) think I’ll stop by for a couple free beers before heading to the polling place to vote. I wish I could make up things to vote on. I’m not even sure how I’m registered. I used to be a card carrying Republican – but it was only to throw the numbers off. I might be undeclared now. After voting I’ll lock myself in my studio until I pass out… I haven’t done that in a long time, there’s something very rewarding about working yourself to the point of exhaustion – I mean if its something you truly want to do.
wow. I almost forgot about this blog… I recently resumed painting, after about a month of not painting, which was quite painful. Its like hanging out with a good friend you haven’t seen in a long time. Currently four of my paintings are on MTV’s the Real World San Diego… they’re hung in the house. I was never really a big fan of the show, but it turns out to be quite fascinating from a media manipulative way – the editing and all, who’s in charge?
Last night, in New York, the exhibition “Imagine Nation” opened, and I was (unfortunately) trapped on the other side of the continent… tonight I’ll wait for a call from Annika (the curator) to see how it all went.
John Otter 