quoted: Abstraction is extravagance: To be a Thing, Cosmic Selfevidence, Standards of Expression, Formalities Of Self.

a conversation with the artist. dood did the cover of issue 3.

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not sure if this would be quite as good if it's the first terence koh i've encountered. but it's not. as i've gone thru almost every link on his site. he is now one of my favorite artists.

damien hirst can kiss his ass.

admittedly i'm becoming quite fascinated with terence koh.

this is mesmerizing.

try and see if you can look away. you can't. well i can't.

terence koh vs. gerhard richter.

the rest of the site can be very nsfw, but loaded with occasional brilliance.

Quoted: NEW YORK—Richard Tuttle has trodden the most independent of paths since he first came to public attention in the mid-1960s. Geometrical shapes cut from white paper and pasted to a wall, strange curving patterns made from wire, cutouts of unstretched dyed canvas, short pieces of rope nailed to a wall—these were only some of his early ways of working. They were not to everyone’s taste. When Tuttle had his first major retrospective, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975, Hilton Kramer infamously savaged it in the New York Times: “In Mr. Tuttle’s work, less is unmistakably less. It is, indeed, remorselessly and irredeemably less. It establishes new standards of lessness.”

this guy is my hero. i have the fortune to meet him at mca last fall. the man is as humble as his work. and just as profound.