tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84373617496114013952024-03-04T23:53:38.738-06:00mark horst : studio notesMark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-41920403265315105862020-12-01T17:02:00.004-06:002020-12-01T17:02:35.954-06:00soft body: thoughts about the white<p> When I first imagined the "soft body" sculpture, I was thinking it should be painted. My thoughts ran from orange to gunship gray. </p><p>The resin we used to create the pieces was white and when I saw the figures in white, I liked the way they recalled Greek and Roman marble sculpture--which, of course, tended to idealize the human figure. I realize that the Romans painted their pieces, but we know them in their blinding whiteness. And some white supremacists have claimed them as examples of racial superiority.</p><p>So I liked the idea of keeping my work, which is specifically devoted to the idea that the body is fragile and destined for the dust, white. At one level, it's a commentary on the idea that the ideal body is a strong body. Maybe too, it says something about a white body being the ideal body.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNywH_04BTmnKQLWPJA9vvFUOi4ltBXEWFCFjs9XHZXZ8IfBYIOOgKDA_iwxok2-oy6KQyYYgSRX63h6NZ-HYMKiT7fKIZyAh9OHxvhFcRZXJrgOtr9rfNJlXXp6UK6yCBSd2Sk06sMph9/s1280/IMG_8960.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="924" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNywH_04BTmnKQLWPJA9vvFUOi4ltBXEWFCFjs9XHZXZ8IfBYIOOgKDA_iwxok2-oy6KQyYYgSRX63h6NZ-HYMKiT7fKIZyAh9OHxvhFcRZXJrgOtr9rfNJlXXp6UK6yCBSd2Sk06sMph9/w693-h924/IMG_8960.jpeg" width="693" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-63917767911495284442020-12-01T16:24:00.006-06:002020-12-01T16:29:29.443-06:00maple seed sculpture<p> I just learned that the City of Albuquerque is purchasing this small sculpture for their collection. Thank you to the Art's Board and Dan Fuller and Matthew Carter.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpg4fT5ZvfCEne2VDgXddUH3ThXhQoXYQSyLk-RaGhG0QvibS4EGHO1__sSaWXp57-yDml1Y_U7CQnMSL4M8hB-X7MBhpA0B6wZd0sbp2p2oGuE-3Kj4rSPC_g4VKPxXXYFu3OcegWn1B/s2048/_DSC0199.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="865" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpg4fT5ZvfCEne2VDgXddUH3ThXhQoXYQSyLk-RaGhG0QvibS4EGHO1__sSaWXp57-yDml1Y_U7CQnMSL4M8hB-X7MBhpA0B6wZd0sbp2p2oGuE-3Kj4rSPC_g4VKPxXXYFu3OcegWn1B/w692-h865/_DSC0199.jpg" width="692" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-83684408304027372612020-12-01T16:14:00.008-06:002020-12-01T16:46:11.124-06:00the figure in large scale sculpture<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoofJGVf8RVG8NDK7ayC_ZQ6L0qGwGknHDeaO7UYSBk1ra-gbYdIDItHSmb7_LoCgxB-N-AlPFkMSGrVkmD3hA17ilBMpqFXHOgO4vbdFNWOUzfDy640Q-4d6JbVmtRsEAX0xhyphenhyphen6kk3wkH/s2158/Screen+Shot+2020-08-14+at+7.59.40+PM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2158" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoofJGVf8RVG8NDK7ayC_ZQ6L0qGwGknHDeaO7UYSBk1ra-gbYdIDItHSmb7_LoCgxB-N-AlPFkMSGrVkmD3hA17ilBMpqFXHOgO4vbdFNWOUzfDy640Q-4d6JbVmtRsEAX0xhyphenhyphen6kk3wkH/w717-h357/Screen+Shot+2020-08-14+at+7.59.40+PM.png" width="717" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I've been eager to create some large scale figurative work. So far I haven't been able to see it through. For now I just have models I've been working on. Here is one I'm especially fond of.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-83420554924758683102020-12-01T15:57:00.000-06:002020-12-01T15:57:00.322-06:00leaf sculpture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKWiEO6c3rSMkDc-pI2WE0G3vBkzZ1d0BxydZh-Q38ue6csODC_pIUT830kxSXu3ifGfPL-mTQqPckIqjmErgn8mw-EukjQa3Aw0FC5pM4FQL-HwdLbU9zGOP_CZWrhr3r_b4Su2HYlzu/s2048/TowerRoad-9591sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKWiEO6c3rSMkDc-pI2WE0G3vBkzZ1d0BxydZh-Q38ue6csODC_pIUT830kxSXu3ifGfPL-mTQqPckIqjmErgn8mw-EukjQa3Aw0FC5pM4FQL-HwdLbU9zGOP_CZWrhr3r_b4Su2HYlzu/s16000/TowerRoad-9591sm.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For this sculpture I worked with the veins in a leaf to make a skeleton like image. The piece was installed on Tower Road just north of the Denver Airport.</p><p><a href="https://markhorststudio.com/leaf-sculpture-tower-road">https://markhorststudio.com/leaf-sculpture-tower-road</a><br /></p>Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-9968732565581945602020-12-01T15:50:00.004-06:002020-12-01T15:50:33.876-06:00soft body: getting into the act<p>This is Sparky doing what seems right and me doing the same thing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedpmpLYYhABCgkjKJ71_jTqt27T7wtS-08aW4P-UcBTiKz3tLMjNKQAewfIpo31rh9rBWP4z49bZbIVBYcztb44Ck3Dt6iLrNHFcMJVj-CCWtucORsUPhBd_JWdrV_U1OcKEq4rU3fa6n/s1264/IMG_4412-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="947" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedpmpLYYhABCgkjKJ71_jTqt27T7wtS-08aW4P-UcBTiKz3tLMjNKQAewfIpo31rh9rBWP4z49bZbIVBYcztb44Ck3Dt6iLrNHFcMJVj-CCWtucORsUPhBd_JWdrV_U1OcKEq4rU3fa6n/w480-h640/IMG_4412-scaled.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqyyn67teu6aGGfGb8waJt4qNl58AAhi5hGYxD0GOjgc1EDSlFPgwIs7tqA-lEkchnu1RHyQFKqBVkyO8CIPuiXwrKuquHVtPvJrxjBJoCbSrp0gXaWTJ-FLmVQFJM7ao9MNkCNYMH7uqP/s2048/IMG_4852.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqyyn67teu6aGGfGb8waJt4qNl58AAhi5hGYxD0GOjgc1EDSlFPgwIs7tqA-lEkchnu1RHyQFKqBVkyO8CIPuiXwrKuquHVtPvJrxjBJoCbSrp0gXaWTJ-FLmVQFJM7ao9MNkCNYMH7uqP/w480-h640/IMG_4852.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-78532315177021846952020-12-01T15:44:00.008-06:002020-12-01T15:59:14.900-06:00soft body--some process photos<p><a href="https://annahorstfilm.com/" target="_blank">Anna Horst</a> collaborated with me on this project and I couldn't have done it without her! She also made the film which I think came out beautifully.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCguAV4MMBpBWxx01lPrER-1-YyfT1b29HcAVLSIw6EXtLkzfp0F7vq5DpM2gcLPphEU33ZQL0ojV8FSyhU-hXL2_eerIfDQjnqe7Mzy1TfbBDxdZXIe5mGCUcm7IxqvY7_LXZySoLCd7z/s2048/IMG_8633.HEIC" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCguAV4MMBpBWxx01lPrER-1-YyfT1b29HcAVLSIw6EXtLkzfp0F7vq5DpM2gcLPphEU33ZQL0ojV8FSyhU-hXL2_eerIfDQjnqe7Mzy1TfbBDxdZXIe5mGCUcm7IxqvY7_LXZySoLCd7z/w640-h480/IMG_8633.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAHMAWByqVz1qYWRkTUGJi7pFwOkdETqTEAG3O9nIyRSxpmunK8XK24RPfT8PwuE5Gz9JDnEbTmx72w6q4Z1fluhefhXcOWBvp1VuqqpaBpEQ5VGUzI55KpV6-qN2ZJB-lrhLW-jPTfCO/s2048/IMG_8629.HEIC" style="clear: left; 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So I was happy to see some of these shadows playing across the faces in the late November light.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTykjamZxBz9x8fYEJRYq0NYhYLYd7whI9gMzFCVDkT1mh7iV5PtrA3LNAwvnvexoopUfWZhLuTfWSnaUPfvNF9fE_j9oFNIaQ2Sb5UF-29alL_PjkCxfVQlujPmJmf1VgmOLSbVK54Qk/s1280/IMG_9141.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTykjamZxBz9x8fYEJRYq0NYhYLYd7whI9gMzFCVDkT1mh7iV5PtrA3LNAwvnvexoopUfWZhLuTfWSnaUPfvNF9fE_j9oFNIaQ2Sb5UF-29alL_PjkCxfVQlujPmJmf1VgmOLSbVK54Qk/s16000/IMG_9141.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfikGo6BlTCfO6VDNNTiQGoCmIYxQKTU_gHxGSj59iEOgiaMks654VNNnsHLkxuwxoThxKIiNHYUwCP9dzzz19dcbidKvo9hUzfTRjZ5xJfvsfKe-sAMG7lnF_oYmUn_Fj7k2sY4mJ_6-F/s1280/IMG_9137.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfikGo6BlTCfO6VDNNTiQGoCmIYxQKTU_gHxGSj59iEOgiaMks654VNNnsHLkxuwxoThxKIiNHYUwCP9dzzz19dcbidKvo9hUzfTRjZ5xJfvsfKe-sAMG7lnF_oYmUn_Fj7k2sY4mJ_6-F/s16000/IMG_9137.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZMOeK_B_88KEmH3OThFbwXLzQ17Vmy5ySNy296JjTRBjb56mAE5XyUTs-FogL26vlgNtuasj9uP8lLC_7GsZOZZWM2bSJVnYVLBVsSIPBatRd9zhG6I3WafAyTJwAXaSg_m1Mfb6HFQG/s1280/IMG_9135.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1280" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZMOeK_B_88KEmH3OThFbwXLzQ17Vmy5ySNy296JjTRBjb56mAE5XyUTs-FogL26vlgNtuasj9uP8lLC_7GsZOZZWM2bSJVnYVLBVsSIPBatRd9zhG6I3WafAyTJwAXaSg_m1Mfb6HFQG/w640-h458/IMG_9135.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoddtCulsDu_EU-S5jBYypaXeRAs3NnVwHhU2solqXoxwQnNGC6Wd3UYOmTFw1AZFxEDjZ9L-b1mYpDy405ypEsSVR29BPjGJgWoRz5Cx53rrg8I7fBoBLAD_PAnLMYt1wqtsKPFdztmn/s1280/IMG_9134.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="915" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoddtCulsDu_EU-S5jBYypaXeRAs3NnVwHhU2solqXoxwQnNGC6Wd3UYOmTFw1AZFxEDjZ9L-b1mYpDy405ypEsSVR29BPjGJgWoRz5Cx53rrg8I7fBoBLAD_PAnLMYt1wqtsKPFdztmn/s16000/IMG_9134.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-85413801475779288082020-12-01T15:12:00.001-06:002020-12-01T16:04:38.174-06:00soft body<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This says something about why I've been so quiet the last two years. 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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-51405361632261610212018-09-04T15:38:00.002-05:002018-09-04T15:45:25.968-05:00Klassic International interview--the unexpurgated version--Donald Trump kidnaps children.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently did an interview with Klassic International. The published interview leaves out my comments about the difficulty of making art in the age of Donald Trump's presidency. So here's the whole thing:<br />
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<span class="s1">Name: MARK HORST<br />
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<span class="s1">College: Carleton College, Yale University</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>How would you define yourself as an artist?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’m a painter and more recently a sculptor. My art is a way of engaging the world, of paying attention.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What experience of your life would you say that is reflected in your works of art?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">My interest in the human body, and especially the male form, is a way of responding to the years during which I was ashamed of my own body and my sexuality. So painting the male figure has been a long and slow work of healing old wounds and acknowledging the gift of my own body. Doing this work has also opened my art practice to new things. For some time now, I’ve been fascinated with the silhouettes of trees. Why is that? I’m not sure. Maybe I come from a long line of windblown cottonwoods.<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>Why are you an artist, and when did you first become one?</b><br />
From the time I was young, drawing was a vehicle for my imagination. It felt good to me to make shapes with pencil and to copy illustrations I liked. When I was old enough—14—I built a potters wheel and a kiln and really devoted myself to learning the work of a potter. In college I worked at etching for a while. Eventually I gave it all up and decided it wasn’t practical. It wasn’t for another 20 years that I went back to figure drawing and eventually painting.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I am an artist because something in me isn’t satisfied with words and thoughts alone. I need t engage the world in a more primal, elemental way. Pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, oil paint, plasma cut steel—these are simple but powerful vehicles for probing and exposing something alive. They’re a way of hearing the pulse of life.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What art do you most identify with?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Truthfully I am a little disenchanted with art at the moment. It collects dust. It gets bought and sold for reasons that don’t have very much to do with what it is. It hangs on walls. Right now I’m most engaged by art that comes and goes and leaves no trace. And by art that creates a space to explore.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What themes do you pursue?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Its all just mud. But its never just mud. Where there’s life, the mud takes form and the light responds. And the world comes alive.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What inspires you to work? Where do you find inspiration?</b><br />
Today I’m not feeling inspired at all. As a citizen of the US, the insanity of our President and his panderers has become such an oppressive cloud that I am finding art making to be very difficult. I am haunted by cries of immigrant children torn from their parents arms. I am haunted by the treachery and the corruption and the small mindedness and the absolute horror of our abuse of powerless people and the fragile earth.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">When I am inspired it is because I’ve paid attention to something long enough—looked long enough and slowly enough or curiously enough to actually see something. Not just what I expect or want to see, but something surprisingly there. Something wonderfully there. Something to really love.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Would you tell us some things about yourself? Please include a few little known facts about you as well.</b><br />
My son works in Havana, Cuba. When I first visited him, I took some conga lessons. So now playing the congas is a morning meditation for me. Its so good to do something that you can’t do easily. And to make a project of it. And the drumming feels like it comes up out of the earth.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What are you trying to communicate with your art?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’m not. I don’t try to communicate anything. I try to pay attention.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What does “being creative” mean to you?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Being creative is about being alive. It means finding some way to crack through the sometimes hard shell of the world and find something worth treasuring, worth touching. To me its a form of intimacy with trees and bodies and people’s stories. Its a way of not accepting the capitalistic notion that everything depends on getting more and holding on to it. What a sad way to spend our time here.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Any shows, galleries, or publications where our readers can find your work?</b><br />
Just look at my website: www.markhorststudio.com</span></div>
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How do you cultivate a collector base?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I am very lazy in some ways. And I’ve been fortunate to work with galleries that have sold enough work to keep me going. So I haven’t put much energy into cultivating collectors.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Which is your most cherished piece?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Well today my favorite piece of work is a drawing I did of chicken feet when I was working in Oaxaca. I just lined up 20 chicken feet and painted them and their shadows. There’s quite a lot missing here. And it makes me think.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>If you had an exclusive collective exhibition with other artists work, who would you choose?</b><br />
Today, I would choose to project my work while a really good conguero gave a concert.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I’m actually grateful for the opportunity to do some large murals and sculpture—and these projects are often funded by some government entity. The chance to do this kind of work has taken a lot of pressure off gallery sales for me, so I don’t know it its right, but I’m grateful for it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What famous artists have influenced you, and how?</b> </span></div>
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<span class="s1">When I was a boy, my parents had a lot of cheap, faded reproductions of Rembrandt paintings around. I loved them or maybe I should say I felt loved by them. So his work has always appealed to me and maybe fed my career long love of shadows and light. Marlene Dumas set me free in a way, through her use of contemporary media as source material and her messy drippy drawings. Oddly, I love Robert Irwin and his minimalist installations. Kengo Kuma’s achitecture makes me think of the spaces around me in new ways.<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>You seem to be very aware of the history of works. Where do you see films, photo exhibitions, art perfomances today?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Albuquerque has a great latin-fed music scene. Some of my favorite music shows up at bars here. But I miss lots of good stuff. My wife drags me to many great Bollywood openings here. Visual art is all around, but some of the best exhibitions I’ve seen recently have been in Havana.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What do you see as the strengths of your pieces, visually or conceptually?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Oh god, don’t make me talk about my work. Isn’t that your job? The pieces of mine I like the most are probably the most simple or clean. Pieces I have around because no one wants to buy them. Silhouettes of complex forms have an irrational hold on me. Paint scraped with a squeegee makes my heart sing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Does it feel alive? There’s a religious tradition that holds that looking at the dead is disrespectful and that they should therefore be covered. I ask myself, is this thing alive or not? If not, either get rid of it or keep going.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I think every artist plays her own role. Some of us need to keep our distance from social issues and some of us find art to be the vehicle we need to engage specific causes. Some of us are given the work of protecting unnoticed and sacred things that societies tend to trample on. Some of us are given a particular gift that just need to shine. So lots of roles and plentiful, wide-ranging work.<br />
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<span class="s1">I have a persistent and beautiful memory of holding my daughter on my lap when she was two years old. I was sitting in a chair in the kitchen and the winter sun was streaming in so that I had to squint. She was playing and laughing but all could see was this bright light glistening and sparkling over her as she moved in front of me. Dang, you ask some personal questions!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What for you is the most enjoyable part of your art?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">My studio is in the old bakery of a former girls boarding school. It has these gorgeous tall windows that wrap around it. The opportunity to go into this beautiful room each morning and let my curiosity move me through the day is a great gift.<br />
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<span class="s1">Prizes: I don’t get them. Could you give me one?<br />
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<span class="s1">Art Fairs: painful.<br />
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<span class="s1">Museums: University of New Mexico. Albuquerque Museum, Tamarind Institute<br />
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<span class="s1">Cities: Acoma—the sky city—is my favorite place in the world.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Travels: Tamil Nadu. Kerala. Tiruvannamalai.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">For some reason I keep finding myself looking at Kengo Kuma and Tadao Ando.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I have another mural that I’m hoping someone will pay me to paint. I’ve been playing with lacy cut steel that I hope will get to be built. In the mean time I’m filling my studio with laser cut paper.</span></div>
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-15419760819304300142018-05-26T23:10:00.000-05:002018-05-26T23:10:04.024-05:00portraiture, old age and public art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm just thinking about how the new mural features this portrait of an elderly woman from the University Heights neighborhood. When I first started painting, I did several portraits of older people. I've always loved Tiepollo's etchings of old men and Rembrandt's astonishing portraits of the elderly. But the galleries I worked with could never do anything with this work of mine. Public art, when you have a chance to do it, seems like a good place to include the spectrum of human experience.</div>
Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-32496672909833036032018-05-26T22:52:00.004-05:002018-05-26T23:16:01.338-05:00the mural in process<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So often I find myself in love with the simple shapes that begin to suggest figuration, but leave so much to the eye. I wonder if there could be a mural that uses imagery that only goes this far?</div>
Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-65322692722327439322018-05-26T22:47:00.002-05:002018-05-26T22:47:21.578-05:00if it weren't for yogurt containers there would be no murals...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-24286748717030474262017-08-06T12:10:00.005-05:002017-08-06T12:10:56.703-05:00"ever I saw your face" interactive portrait installation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A video installation on Central Avenue in downtown Albuquerque. Using our phones we photograph willing subjects and project their digitally altered portraits onto unoccupied buildings.<br />
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Our digital manipulation of the photos allows us to give each portrait a kind of narrative arc: as we watch, images emerge out of the darkness and are consumed in light.<br />
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The rotating portraits not only create a visually compelling gallery of downtown’s diversity and richness, they invite us to see one another. In this way, the project functions as an antidote to fear. When we are afraid we tend to stop looking, stop making eye contact; we pull back; we look away. This installation encourages looking; it engages people. It nurtures a sense of community in which everyone has a place.<br />
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As if we are seeing our faces for the first time. <br />
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-23878136606102580242017-08-06T12:05:00.002-05:002017-08-06T12:05:29.594-05:00a little book on drawing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's a little <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Tricks-Contemporary-Drawing/dp/1452158789/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" target="_blank">book on drawing</a> that includes several of my drawings.<br />
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-29538979191175200172015-10-18T23:30:00.000-05:002016-09-13T11:28:30.514-05:00foodie lithography 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://tamarind.unm.edu/lithographs/view/2644-green-chile-with-shadow/artist-426-mark-horst" target="_blank">green chile on stone...</a></div>
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-82276922754939845582015-08-28T11:10:00.000-05:002015-08-28T11:10:15.046-05:00you must have a room...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen."<br />
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Joseph Campbell on having a “bliss station,“ in The Power of Myth [via <a href="http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/19465511044" target="_blank">Austin Kleon</a>]</div>
Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-30441060834313628552015-08-03T13:05:00.001-05:002015-08-03T13:05:35.746-05:00juried show--east end arts, August 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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so I don't enter too many of these painting competition things, but here's one I did.<br />
<a href="http://www.eastendarts.org/gallery/national-show-2015.html" target="_blank">4th National Juried Exhibition East End Arts</a></div>
Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-353744877690862552015-03-29T15:12:00.004-05:002015-03-30T08:46:54.069-05:00painting and photos--an argument with John Seed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently received the following call for submissions for an issue of "Poets and Artists" curated by John Seed, professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>The Canadian artist
and filmmaker Jack Chambers has defined Perceptualism in visual art as
involving “a profound reflection of primary sensory experience, not simply a
reproduction of it.” For my curated issue of Poets and Artists I am seeking
paintings that are true “perceptual paintings” which emanate from the senses.
In particular I hope to discover paintings that demonstrate the ways that
sensory experiences can be heightened and amplified in the painting process.
Please submit only works that have their beginnings in observation and which do
not rely on photos as references. Feel free – and even encouraged – to submit
works that show how emotion and imagination can alter perceptually based works.</b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I had a negative emotional reaction to John Seed’s
description of “perceptual painting”—which has something to do with my own
questions about using photos as a basis for my work. So I thought I might to
use what he says here to clarify some of the issues I have about the senses and
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1. Seed’s definition of a “true ‘perceptual painting’” as
one which “emanates from the senses” implies that paintings can be related to
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This seems true to me. Some paintings are not at all
interested in observation. Andy Warhol’s ‘figurative’ paintings do not reflect
a struggle to “see” Jackie Onassis or a can of soup, but rather to play with
her image and its associations in the popular culture.</div>
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2. Seed further suggests that he is interested in work that
“emanate[s] from” rather than “reproduce[s]” sensory experience. </div>
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Here he takes a further step and suggests, I think, that
among those paintings which seem to relate directly to sensory experience, some
merely “reproduce” a sensory experience. </div>
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Seed doesn’t explain this distinction, but what I imagine
he’s thinking here is the difference between an artist standing in front of a
model painting and the same artist standing in front of a photo of a model and
painting. And, if this is so, he’s also suggesting that the artist using a
photo is only “reproducing” a sensory experience.</div>
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3. Seed confirms this line of thought, when, at the end of
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please submit only
works that have their beginnings in observation and which do not rely on photos
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Here Seed’s distinction between direct sensory “observation”
and second hand sensory reproduction which “[relies] on photos” is made
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I find this view of painting from a photo to be completely
wrong and fundamentally insulting.</div>
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I work from photos:</div>
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a. because working from photos relieves me of the complex
emotional response I have to working in front of another person. Having a model
in the room with me actually obscures my ability to observe clearly and respond
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b. because working from photos allows me to observe details
of human expression and interaction which I simply cannot discern in the moment
of their occurrence. In this way photos allow me to have a very direct
experience of events which I could not experience without them.</div>
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c. because [and here I’m getting more vague] working from
photos allows me to observe without naming things. My immediate or “direct”
sensory experience is often the most superficial. My initial response to a
scene I wish to paint is to sort out “figure” and “ground” or “background” and
“foreground.” These sorts of distinctions are precisely what I often work to
overcome in my painting. The longer I work with an image the more connections I
begin to see between this eye and that corner of a chair or this flesh tone and
that shadow on the wall.</div>
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So to me the idea that we could distinguish between
paintings that “have their beginnings in observation” and those that “rely on
photos” is completely misguided and deeply spurious. The important question for
me as a painter is WHAT I want to observe and whether working from a photo is
the best way to explore that observation.</div>
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*I just have to note that the photo accompanying the call
shows John Seed standing with Caitlin Karolczak's beautiful painting "Between
my Chest" at the Center for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas—a work which
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-45727083620203196812015-02-12T09:34:00.002-06:002015-02-12T09:34:31.356-06:00catalogue link<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.blurb.com/books/5972764-the-artist-s-gaze-seeing-women-in-the-21st-century">http://www.blurb.com/books/5972764-the-artist-s-gaze-seeing-women-in-the-21st-century</a></div>
Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-21611380842352149792015-01-26T15:02:00.002-06:002015-01-26T15:02:39.348-06:00stylenochaser interview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><a href="http://www.stylenochaser.com/article/truthfully-seeing-the-world-with-mark-horst" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>stylenochaser.com/article/<wbr></wbr>truthfully-seeing-the-world-<wbr></wbr>with-mark-horst</a></div>
Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-11288626757368872922015-01-23T19:45:00.001-06:002020-07-20T20:59:03.820-05:00group show: the artist's gaze: seeing women in the 21st century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here's a link to American Art Collector's site for the show: "the artist's gaze: seeing women in the 21st century."<br />
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<a href="http://www.upcomingshowsonline.com/show/theartistgaze">http://www.upcomingshowsonline.com/show/theartistgaze</a><br />
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-35371093094082907362015-01-14T20:18:00.000-06:002015-01-14T20:18:23.551-06:00some words about the flesh...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.poetsandartists.com/news/2015/1/14/the-artists-gaze-mark-horst" target="_blank">poets and artists interview</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">here in this place, we flesh - 4. oil on canvas. 24 x 36"</td></tr>
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Mark Horsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10519062226569745578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437361749611401395.post-91129066053896272752014-12-10T09:57:00.000-06:002015-01-23T19:48:30.737-06:00john<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is a mural size portrait of a man I met near my studio at Healthcare for the Homeless. He's an artist and a vet. When I met him he was working on a painting of a sculpted block of ice.<br />
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The painting will be included in an exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum in January 2015.</div>
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