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http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/molly-zuckerman-hartung-in-painter-painter/
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung discusses her work in a new video produced by the Walker Art Center on the occasion of the exhibition Painter Painter at the Walker, on view through October 27, 2013.
Zuckerman-Hartung comments: "Deconstructed painting would be the best possible term for it. That implies how it's operating for me and how I'm thinking about it. It's hard to stay within the rectangle and so it's always this getting outside of it and then getting back into it again, is part of the pressure for me, and I like that pressure. I'm pressing myself up against a lot of walls, that would be the intellectual foundation, if you will - watching the bottom fall out from every critical position I try to take."
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http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2013/painter-painter-reframing-medium
Julie Caniglia interviews Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, co-curators of the exhibition Painter Painter at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, on view from February 2–October 27, 2013.
Crosby comments that there is "something about the resolute materiality of painting that continues to attract artists. These are objects that follow deeply subjective and individual ways of thinking, as expressed through specific materials. In this show you will see works that are stained, collaged, sprayed, cut up, stitched, assembled, glued, smeared, rubbed, and so on— some works are years in the making. Painting offers a frame for contact with this very physical presence. It’s a vivid contrast with our daily routine, where we experience so many images by using a cursor, linking to them, altering them, navigating away from them. Painting resists this kind of experience. A lot of artists today embrace that notion to an extreme. They go where the materials take them, not where the history of painting tells them to go. "
