9/3 John Funderburg

I don't know I feel about Stopa's talk. Certainly I found it entertaining, I always enjoy when an artist talks art history, because I feel they give a different lineage of thoughts. I do love Dana Schutz and Neo Rauch and their rise certainly means narrative works are in good standing, but it's just not what interests me as an artist. But I think comes a problem when trying to rope the contemporary with the historical, and if we are allowed to be informal in these responses I'd like to add a link to a video essayist that I continue to come back to. https://youtu.be/ZAv5EKvRrco In this he proposes that we are currently detached from the academic narrative. With the help of the internet, all cultures now interact through a network. Simultaneously blending ideas across a spectrum and across the world. Anyone, for good or bad, can be a 'thought-leader' if they are persuasive enough. Fake news, etc. It seems that a lot of people effectively ignore the parts of history that are inconvenient for them. They connect their own dots through history. When faced with this I find solace in the zen. Not entirely devoid of content like Rothko or Pollock, but something quiet and meditative. Thus sunset, empty street, parking lot etc. Maybe I want my work to be a retreat from this complexity. Haha. Is it possible to have a meditative scene built in a framework of complexity?

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