Bauwerke: New Paintings by Ed Lisieski
Ed Lisieski has new work hanging in town. Always something I want to go see, this small show has more questions than answers and points to a distinct shift in his public work.
Back to School
While my most recent forays in getting back to school collapsed in the convoluted pages of Bleak House, I'm ever hopeful.
Ed Lisieski’s New Work
... people live in these constructions but have been called away to some other pressing thing, a phone ringing, another unfinished chore. They're languid in a way that suburbs are, but in their roughness, hurried, like life most often is.
Road Trip: Crossing the Mason-Dixon
To see a room full of Catlin, as he intended, is a staggering treasure. Next to it, the modern trinkets with their self-obsessed artist statements and sleights of hand were rightly diminished. It took a couple hours for my blood pressure to return to normal. That, to me, is a decent art.
Ed Lisieski: House Painter
I've not actually seen Ed at work in his studio, but I used to sit next to him at work. He says inside these houses are pointy hats hanging on pegs in the foyers, and I would guess, J. Lo posters in the bedroom.
This blog started, as many do, to keep the friends up to date while I was traveling. In my case, a long bike ride across Europe and move from Seattle to Boston in 2004.
