http://www.artlurker.com/2008/07/feature-the-collapse-in-painting-by-sally-oreilly/ A Miami based contemporary art newsletter / blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.artlurker.com/2008/07/feature-the-collapse-in-painting-by-sally-oreilly/comment-page-1/#comment-50 A.T. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:34:36 +0000 http://www.artlurker.com/?p=190#comment-50 Interesting, but I'm not sure I follow, much less agree with O'Reilly's thesis: {For those of us to whom the instantaneous bifurcation of the self into our authentic selves and a cool spectator does not come easy, a fall is more usually followed by embarrassment – the knee-jerk reaction to being overcome by gravity or the call of nature} and the implications to selfhood that she then attaches to Alexis Harding’s "Slump/Fear (orange/black)." In other words, I don't follow what she calls "this performative path." I also disagree that there's a clear distincion between "rethoric" and "events" when it comes to painting. Nice opportunity for disagreement, I guess. Interesting, but I’m not sure I follow, much less agree with O’Reilly’s thesis: {For those of us to whom the instantaneous bifurcation of the self into our authentic selves and a cool spectator does not come easy, a fall is more usually followed by embarrassment – the knee-jerk reaction to being overcome by gravity or the call of nature} and the implications to selfhood that she then attaches to Alexis Harding’s “Slump/Fear (orange/black).” In other words, I don’t follow what she calls “this performative path.” I also disagree that there’s a clear distincion between “rethoric” and “events” when it comes to painting. Nice opportunity for disagreement, I guess.

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