Meet painter John Kilduff. John is a man with a plan. For someone with a degree in contemporary art, he did the unthinkable; John displayed his paintings at a municipal art fair. He’s not an idiot, he chose Beverly Hills; ching ching. When OJ took over our airwaves 24/7 you could catch John, in his plein aire mode, sequestered among the media. Locals may recall the media’s massive presence down at Parker Center. Desperate for a story, reporters took to interviewing nattily attired John in front of his easel. John’s subject matter? satellite dishes.
Long before blogging, John used technology to get noticed. This video is from Kilduff’s long running cable series “Lets Paint TV” (part of his M.F.A. thesis at U.C.L.A.). His tenacity seems to be paying off. The man’s created a following. It’s not John’s first stint with cable television. In the mid 90′s I was the object of his reportage. He waited until I was completely inebriated to conduct the interview. He gave me a copy. It’s embarrassing. No…humiliating.
Inspiration: Stephs Sketches
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Title: Bird on a Wire
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You know, I’ve watched everything you’ve slapped up here but no way could I go 2 1/2 minutes on this one. Reminded me of Billy Mays.
Should we consider the lack of comments as a gauge to Pasadena Adjacent’s audiences’ disinterest? Have we turned our backs on the Eiffel Tower?
Perhaps waning interest is a good thing. We worry over here in the “adjacents” that Tash might go into sleuth mode and dig up that notorious cable interview.
I sort of forgot about the OJ series. All I can say is that there is not a right way to do this thing called art.
Best,
M. Paint
Fear not the creative, unless you like to be afraid.
Hey, I take a look at this. I’ll bet you’re familiar with the work.
http://greenwichvillagenydailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/11/keith-haring-on-carmine.html
It could have been worse. I could have said “Hey I takes a look at this.”
Fantastic, wonderful, good work: an artist hoisting the over filled yet unfulfilled expectations of the nation. Green screening the kitchen like a one man board meeting of the American audience, bowing to the frantic psyche of bourgeois self improvement, part of our ransacked and unfulfilled collective sensation.
If he could have blown himself at the same time…
Love & kisses,Walter Lab
I love painting too. great work.
Do the words “Sincere” and “Gimmick” belong to each other?
Wow. Just….
Wow.
John is the greatest painter ever. He’s got the fastest cut off response of anyone. Did you see him take on all those assholes who call into his show? He wants us to find the inner painter within.
peace and love R
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John: “there is not a right way to do this thing called art” I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for participating John
Paulette: Your blog is hilarious. So your a cousin of John’s?
AH:Although I’m familiar with Keith Herring I’d never seen that piece. Thanks for the link. He was part of the 80’s emerging graffiti/subway culture (East Village, Basquiat, Madonna). One of the crowned emergents “Kenny Scharf” did the cartoon paintings in the parking garage of the Pasadena Museum of California Art
Walter: You are so funny. Love and kisses to you. This is a classic Chef King Walter comment. It’s all so true
Hi Deepak: thanks. I know you love art. I really appreciated your post on the Indian Art expo
Shanna: Maybe Gimmick is a little strong. Strategy, process, performance? I’ve known John for years and he really is sincere. Thats his personality shinning through.
Laurie: John’s taking “the road less traveled” now try to keep up (winky)
Rachel: Welcome. “Ever” I don’t think he would make that claim. I am partial to “Bird on a Wire”. The silhouette of the cityscape looks like classic (end of life) Phillup Guston. The humor on the variation of birds was over the top genius. Vive La France salad boy!!
Talk about living on a treadmill. I’m exhausted now. Strangely, also hungry.
Margaret: how about a croissant? maybe a side of french fries?
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His call in audience seems to be a demented bunch. Still, its hard to walk away from, or should I say run?
Kilduff is the quintessential wrenazonz maan. A multi-tasker’s multi-tasker.
Is there somewhere where we can get some of that beautiful off your bean footage? Tash?
Okay. You won me over.
And I love the Plein Air Police Chase.
Purpose is everything, at least when done so well that it accomplishes ones desire, and triggers these emotions in others.
There are many forms of art. These treadmill paintings are applied arts, advertising. Thats their purpose, and none other can be found, though contempt types can find the most absurdly shallow meanings in dog poop, or cow splats. Ask my boy William Wray, an excellent cartoonist and illustrator, who also does creative art now, but knows the difference,. Art schools dont, as if they all get blended together, it is so much easier to sell degrees.
The photos are informative, but also this one lookng for order and patterns in the combination of nature and man, seeking god within it. On a minor level, but actually successful, and so creative art. Not fine art, which thinks it is creative, when truly only about mollifying their clients wants, the rich and self absorbed. Fine art refines things into nothingness so nothing disturbs the owner, but gives a sense of superiority and power of objects, to seemingly control life. Now thats truly an absurd “concept” and why contemporary artistes can never be trusted to qualify anything,. What have they ever done? Nothing, and thats what sells. Therapy, absurdist humor, childish self expression, and decorations.
But true creative art exists, when one seeks it. Finding order in chaos. meaning. Purpose. The enemies of contemporary art, of this Salon, just as that of the nineteenth century. And it is going down,. The age of excess is over.
But this above is some truly childish nonsense, all about the maker and viewers childhood, Grow up damnit, it is time to put aside childish things, we got work to do.
Time for Men and Women, in creative art, we are needed.
art colleges must be destroyed
They deceive and tangent those who are curious away from truth.
Again, Let me state: There is not a right way to do art! BTW, what’s wrong with being a kid? Heck us grown ups have screwed things up enough. Art is about the last place in society that allows freedom of expression. Please don’t try to control what is and what is not art!
As in a good joke, it’s important to know what a piece of art is referencing but if you have to explain it then, well, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..
As one of the largest collectors of M. Paint’s work outside of the US, I cordially invite y’all to va te faire enculer.
I’m lost in a lost world, and this isn’t helping…where are my potato chips!
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John: Did you see the segment where he looses his temper? funny stuff.
PJ: I love that “quintessential wrenazonz maan” and a bit winded too
Shanna: (the painting’s not bad either). For awhile Laurie had some plein aire painters visiting her site. This is how I discovered John had a following. They all seemed to kind of worship him. I like that.
Ronald: Welcome back. Hmmm, your endless passion reminds me of another “swimming against the tide” blogger-slash-artist. She too caused a furry of comments where ever she went. Eventually she went away.
PJ: Depends whose doing the explaining. It’s a wide valley between A to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Buck Turgid: Vive La France!
D: In the back seat of the car where you left them