This guy is cool.

I came across Hollis Brown on Beautiful Decay and found this work to be quiet engaging. Now I have seen a number of 80’s reference art but this stuff is bitchin!! By the way this image is made out of permanent marker. Yeah permanent marker. I mean I question cleaver art sometime but this one rubs me the right way.

More Chuck Close

Chuck Close is in my blog again for another reason now. It is worth noting that while most Close interviews are pretty much all the same due to the way we makes himself so accessible to interviews. This one is different. He is covering a topic I can relate to too an extent and this is his difficulty with facial recognition. Apparently it is the bases for his work and I have never really known about this affliction or that it was something Close was grappling with for a long time. It is a really good interview on Radio Lab and worth checking out: Radio Lab

Ladies and Gentlemen Dennis Hopper

I have been familiar with Dennis Hoppers work as an actor with films such as Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, and Blue Velvet. I even liked him in Water World. For some strange reason I haven’t seen Apocalypse Now but will make an effort to check it out. And before I forget one of my personal favorite scenes in all of movie history was the one with Christopher Walken in True Romance. Audience if you have not seen this movie, go see it, if for nothing else but for that scene.

I had also heard of his interest in painting and photography but what I was not expecting in this interview what he had to offer as an art collector. Now I don’t know if it’s because I had always known him as Dennis Hopper the crazed actor but his knowledge of art history and what is more rare in my opinion is his experience in art collecting. This is very impressive. After all I can sit in a classroom and have a professor show me slides on the process of art in history or I can read it in a book. But to have to witness it in life, wow. He bought one of Warhol’s soup cans that he hand painted, hand painted!!! This is before it was a big deal which makes it a bigger deal. Needless to say totally geeked out when I heard this.

In any case here is the interview he did on Fresh Air: check it out