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Friday, November 20, 2009

Visual Art / Film Currently Hanging

Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM

David Lynch's paintings at the Santa Monica gallery Griffin. More images and an interview here. I asked myself, would anyone pay attention to these if they weren't by David Lynch? I think they would. At least some of them. See what you think.

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Lovre it

Posted by dnt trust me on November 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM

Wha? No love for Lynch? paintings as indelible as as hiz films? i'm reluctant to click on the links, for my next half hour is lost in visual

Posted by dnt trust me on November 20, 2009 at 4:17 PM

Lynch trained as a painter I believe, before taking up film.

Posted by michael strangeways

on November 20, 2009 at 4:27 PM

@3: Yep. He went to art school in Philadelphia -- which is where he was when he started Eraserhead.

Posted by Sweeney Agonistes on November 20, 2009 at 4:46 PM

that was creepy.

Posted by subwlf on November 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM

I'm gleeful at the images...and shocked by the scale. These are very large paintings, in which the painterly skills are writ even larger. I don't know why but I conceived them as miniatures (easier to do?) and when I saw how large they were, I gasped.

Significant works of art.

Posted by baconpussy on November 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM