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Friday, August 14, 2009

Visual Art Hanging Forever? (In Secret?)

Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM

If you are even slightly a hedonist, Richard Jackson's painting in SAM's Target Practice is pretty much everything you could ever want from paint.

Below is its swoopy, goopy self from afar, shot by Manitoba Museum of Find Art on Flickr. You can't even slightly appreciate how viscous it is, but imagine.

There's a chance that this huge work could stay at SAM.

But since it was made directly on the wall, how would that work?

The museum would have to build a false wall in front of it, curator Michael Darling explained to me.

SAM would have a giant painting hidden inside its walls, available to be uncovered whenever the museum wanted to uncover it.

Will it happen? Darling is advocating for it.

"It would be nice for sure and we are looking into the possibility," Darling emailed. "I have had some 'irons in the fire' for a while now, but not sure how it will play out."

In this video you can see the California artist at work at SAM, and here's my review of Target Practice, which closes September 7.

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That is cool! Are those canvasses turned to the wall, or are they boxes of some sort?

Posted by merry on August 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Vancouver has a collector that is installing 2 of Richard Jackson Wall painings, permanently with secondary walls.............it would be criminal to destroy this work.

Posted by robert on August 15, 2009 at 7:11 AM

merry: They're canvases turned to the wall!

Posted by Jen Graves on August 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM