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I got stationed at Travis AFB right after Tech. School. It’s this large base in northern California, north of San Francisco. From day one I was unhappy. When I was in the Base Exchange one weekend, I bought this really nice 35mm camera because this guy I knew in Tech. School got one. I’ve always…

Reasonabilist Statement If there isn’t a title card, the piece is untitled and the artist’s name appears on the piece. If there isn’t an artist, or a title card, then you don’t exist. That poignant moment when the piece fell from your pedestal and crashed to the floor. No more piece, just pieces – we…

. . . Because I Want To Be Terry Durst. I am a white heterosexual male Leonard said it best A feathered, egg-laying animal on a high voltage wire A paranoid white heterosexual male I have sexual encounters all night Next to my wife Rolling over into it Afraid of detection I’m a completely paranoid…

ISOLATIONIST ART GALLERY REVIEW 1992 contributors Wayne Draznin Tom Stevens Steven B. Smith Craig Robertson Joan Deveany Kenyette Adrine-Robinson Terry Durst Beth Wolfe Mikel Mahoney Isolationist Art Gallery Promotes work by artists unaffected by influence outside of themselves. Now accepting proposals for the 1992 season. Seeking artists working on the cutting edge of avant-garde isolationism.…

MAMA Art Movement Presented by White Wall of Sound Organized by Jim Clinefelter November 8 – December 22, 1991 with the Politically Incorrect Poetry Reading Man, this will be a tough one. I have no idea of who read at the MAMA show night, apart from Charlotte Pressler. Who were the others?…. probably folks Charlotte…

Mark Alexander – Sculpture August 23 – October 27, 1991 I live in an old, brick house, two story. Wood and steel lean against the outside buildings and weather. Some of the materials make their way into the shop. The shop is where the tools are. The kitchen, where i perk the coffee, is next…

The idea of a black velvet show started, as I remember it, in a drunken conversation at Sindy’s bar.  It turned out that a surprising number of people actually owned a piece of black velvet art. In a later conversation with Jean, we talked about me actually organizing such a thing. I tentatively said maybe…

Slug or Burden

Me and Jean’s Gallery by Terry Durst If I liked sports I would use the “if you build it, they will come” analogy, but I hate sports – I absolutely detest sports, and religion too – all kinds of sports and all religion – I detest them all! But enough about me. In 1990 Jean…

Alternative Spaces Craig Robertson: art of a trickster by Amy Sparks Cleveland Edition February 21-27 1991 There are several ironies in playing the art game in Cleveland.  It requires playing by rules that no one has bothered to write down, or I suspect, have been encrusted in oil and encaustic and are in a vault…