From: Baird, Darryl (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 09/03/02-04:17:51 PM Z
It sure sounds like post-modern thinking to me -- combining
engineering, art, and history all into a new (personal) synthesis.
Great post, Marcie. I hope you would join us more often. ;-}
-Darryl
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> From: Marcie Greer
> Reply To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2002 5:01 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Thanks for all the great issues .. rambling on
>
> Just having the time to devote to art doesn't mean you are going to
> find
> the path easy. I spent about 10 years as an undergrad bouncing
> around,
> finally graduated, worked and painted, then had to just work. Went
> back
> to school in electrical engineering, worked again. Then I quit my
> computer job about 4 years ago to really get back into art. It's
> taken a
> lot to hammer it all back into shape and to incorporate all those
> years
> of experience into some kind of reasonable package. After graduating
> I
> started down the academic path, but after life intervened most of
> what I
> thought was valid back then just doesn't cut it any more. I wanted
> to
> push my work over into the new era... the old stuff just seemed to
> much
> like regurgitated art history. My husband and I spent an afternoon
> at
> the Carnegie art museum in Pittsburgh and it was a revelation for me
> in
> many ways. At a certain point, after saying "hi" to all my old
> buddies
> in the pre-1960's galleries, we wandered on over to the past 40
> years. I
> started looking at the dates and thinking about the generations the
> various artists belonged to... my grandparents, my parents, my own,
> my
> son's. Also, the question of what is it that defines the current
> age?
> The generation including Beuys et all with the kind of war-time
> nastiness, on into pop and so forth, through the weird sex thing
> early
> in the 70's, then suddenly a change I hadn't noticed, where a
> certain
> order and cleanliness emerges with the artists born after c. 1953.
> Then
> representative artists of my husband's age group start ordering and
> sorting. One disappointment was not being able to see any of my
> son's
> peers... we kind of got up to a little neon but that was from the
> old
> guys. So what's going on now? That's really the question I'm
> struggling
> with. I look in ArtNews and Art Forum and see the same old stuff
> that
> was in there when I started college in 1972. Good heavens that was
> 30
> years ago! You know, I kind of feel like the guy on the commercial:
> where are all the flying cars? My grandmother was a big influence on
> me
> and she was a fan of weird inventions and science fiction... I am so
> excited to be living in an age of such potential, where science and
> art
> can finally meet... much like architecture and engineering produced
> the
> skyscraper. So, the bottom line here is that I am now inside this
> struggle and I can't make the same old pictures anymore. It's
> exhilarating, but boy it makes you crazy... it's a kind of bizarre
> free-falling.
>
> Just a view from another side of the coin.
>
> Marcie
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