1:07 PM: after revising my choice of paintings for the boulder museum show, i finally felt i was in the right space to continue work on ˆ2021 creek oil 5. i was going back and forth about leaving it the way it was, or doing more to fill the large areas of gray. BELOW are the before & after images. i have no doubt that this painting gained a lot by everything i just did. i’m going to leave it for now and see how i feel about it over the coming days.
12:35 pm: i had a really good sleep last night & arrived in my studio full of energy. the first thing i did was to switch out the watercolor/collages i had chosen for the exhibition at the boulder museum of contemporary art.
instead of what i posted yesterday, i chose the two you see below: watercolor/collage 12 and 2020 watercolor/collage 149. i trust my gut, and that’s what it prompted me to do today. i must say, i like the fact that both of these have a balance between realism and abstraction; both contain figures which, as john russell said in this 1982 ny times review of my solo show at fischbach gallery: tarlow’s paintings “make us wonder what his people get up to when they aren’t in the picture.” (fischbach was then located on 59th st. in nyc and no longer exists)
