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Christopher Quirk

Some thoughts on Robert Irwin’s “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue³”

On a nasty February day in 2007, I headed out to Chelsea to see Robert Irwin’s installation, “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue³” at…

Dec 13, 2023

Some thoughts on Robert Irwin’s “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue³”

Dec 13, 2023

Gratitude

I never met Jean-François Lyotard, though I would have loved to. A friend of mine studied with him at the graduate program at UC Irvine and…

May 13, 2022

Gratitude

May 13, 2022

Flights and Perchings

Paul Cézanne was trying to tell us something.

Jul 28, 2021

Flights and Perchings

Jul 28, 2021

The Creative Faculty

One day a few years ago I was “watching” myself paint and recall a moment when my hand was suspended over my palette table for a moment…

Jun 15, 2021

The Creative Faculty

Jun 15, 2021

Vade Mecum

You can take it with you

Oct 19, 2020

Vade Mecum

Oct 19, 2020

The Meaning of Meaning

What is meaning in art, and who creates it?

Oct 5, 2020

The Meaning of Meaning

Oct 5, 2020

Doubt

In art and creation

Oct 1, 2020

Doubt

Oct 1, 2020

Stuart Davis: Socko, Boffo

A closer look at an often underappreciated 20th century painter

Sep 24, 2016

Stuart Davis: Socko, Boffo

Sep 24, 2016

Passage

The nurse was on the phone. My mother’s temperature had spiked, a bad sign. Her cancer had metastasized broadly, but she had been…

Nov 24, 2015

Passage

Nov 24, 2015

Ed Clark: Body and Mind

The late paintings of a singular artist

Mar 14, 2014

Ed Clark: Body and Mind

Mar 14, 2014

Christopher Quirk

Christopher Quirk

Artist. Somewhere between chaos and koan. Notes on current art and inspiring miscellany. Artwork at christopherquirk.net.

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