you finally get to see my paintings

[danschank]

ok... i know you all thought this would never happen, but last night i finally got my new digital camera up and running, and documented my work. so now, like a good nerd, i'm posting it on my blog. i don't want to say too much, other than:
1. all of these are small

Comments

keep it coming!

[ironchefpinoy]

hey meng! congrats on the body of work.

your color palette has shifted since i last saw your work years and years ago. those older ones were monochrome or tone on tone...whereas these are much more playful in spite of their favoring dark backgrounds.

it's great to see new stuff...always liked your work respected your mind...

Re: keep it coming!

[danschank]

it's funny that you mention the color, because-- having just completed two firey red paintings-- i think the next one is gonna be in a more toned-down, "prettier" palate. though something about the jet black sky that's in all of them kinda changes the color in and of itself. the dark skies aren't going anywhere!

thanks for the goodwill, and you should post some new stuff (if you're still making it) too, when you get a chance!

[murdermystery]

these are sincerely rad and fun. and i am an "art person" so theoretically I should be able to say more than "neat!" but you know, i have to worry about that enough in the classroom ;)

also, i think i like the scruff-- for some reason i think it makes you look significantly different than pics i've seen of you sans facial hair-ness.

neat!

[danschank]

yeah, with school, it becomes tough to maintain that crit sorta mentality. i'm not sure how that would transfer to lj... probably start a lot of drama (not necessarily here, but in general). anyway, glad you liked them... especially since i know you're more into 2-d type art than a lot of the other film nerds i chat with around here.

as for scruff-- the problem with me and scruff is that i have the wimpiest, patchiest beard ever, and when i let myself get prickly, it looks like i'm growing a goatee because no hair grows on the sides of my cheeks. and i don't want to look like i'm growing a goatee anyway, but to make matters worse, i could only grow one of those really bad, prickly, ethan hawke goatees even if i tried. so usually i shave pretty regularly.

[itsolivia]

Dan, you are so talented and I already knew that but I am really glad you are sharing these with the rest of the world. I only got to see your work in beginning drawing stages; sooooo happy to see finished pieces!!

xoxo

[danschank]

thanks d00d.

i'm probably gonna shoot images of those drawing-era pieces soon, so you can get a sense of where they ended up, i guess. one of them is one you've seen in progress many moons ago. it's a shame you were here during an extremely unproductive artmaking era of my life, actually. but onward and upward! that's what these here internets are for...

[purloinedcoin]

thanks so much for sharing these. They are nothing short of incredible. I'm a few thousand miles away from you, so I wouldn't have the pleasure of seeing these up close unless you come through with the selling bit -- in which case, I would have to match the miles between us with dollars. I guess I could've summed all this up with "wow", but...well, y'know...

[danschank]

thanks. your comments are always endearingly idiosyncratic.

[danschank]

thanks. and yeah, i think i would probably love portland (except the rain), but i won't be travelling that far anytime soon, unfortunately.

i think i tend to like film in a more all encompassing sort of way, i guess. plus, i find it easier to think through things when they have a narrative structure (for better or worse), so i think i'm more articulate when it comes to film. plus, i get really crabby about painting sometimes. way worse than i do with film or books or music. but i'm moving beyond all that, hopefully.

i was gonna say i hadn't heard of chico, and then i tried to add it to my greencine request list, only to find that i already had requested it. so yes, i have heard of it, but i forgot about it, so thanks for reminding me! it does indeed look pretty awesome/up my alley.

[danschank]

yeah, but my crabbiness was spurring reactionary disillusionment, unfortunately.

fortunately, in our post-post-modern art-making erea, i think the phobia surrounding narrative is fading away. especially since a lot of video/installation work (or anything time-based, really) brings it up anyway. but also, there are some narrative based painters that are doing very well. laylah ali comes to mind, for example.

and i like arthur danto a lot too. i should read more by him. i had the good fortune a few years back to listen to a lecture he gave in the early nineties on a cassette tape! i used to read him more when i still subsribed to the nation, which i should maybe renew.

the taboo surrounding non-narrative filmmaking is, unfortunately, as strong as ever though, huh?