By Rob Rhee on April 25, 2013
Between New York City and Marfa, TX on a road trip with much planned in between, I can only recall there being kudzu and the sound of watchful front seat experiences bracketing my pressing in and out of upright sleep. With the cold plane of the window saddling a flat spot on my head I rocked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "interesting", Aspect Blindness, Biography, Chinati, Donald Judd, duck-rabbit, Historic House Museums, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, judgment, justification, Kudzu, Le Baiser/the Kiss, Marfa, Mies Van de Rohe, Minimalism, Ray Monk, Rosalind Krauss, Sianne Ngai, strange attractor, The Farnsworth House, the Pythia, Thomas Hart Benton, Wittgenstein |
By Rob Rhee on December 6, 2012
Today I dropped off my to be sandblasted, primed, and powder coated (sprayed with a colored, dry polymer that is baked on at 390 degrees Fahrenheit). The powder coating is necessary to protect the steel from rusting. Rust, amorphous in color, texture, and pattern, has been my nemesis lately. I’ve been noticing it on train [...]
Posted in Still Life, Studio | Tagged Hannah Arendt, Jessica Stockholder, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Shiller |