Brian Eno

Posting about Doug Wheeler made me think about other artists who work in the realm of creating experience that I find to be a cousin of formalist painting. Most of us know this Brit from his musical oeuvre. What he says about his brand of empty formalism is right on, and we share a modality where some artist license/control is measured against chance as an actual tool.

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Anne Russinof

Anne is probably the closest thing I’ve seen to true #minimalistart lately- each painting reduces the painters action to a sparse series of marks. As someone who loves the concept of #onetake from #hiphop, I’m intrigued by the audacity and confidence. Amazing and sublime. More

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Lygia Clark

Lygia is getting a well deserved revisiting. I think would have shared a lot with the Neo-Concrete movement: “Neo-Concrete artists sought to create a multi-sensorial space which caused the spectator to feel more acutely their own body and existence.”

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