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David Lynch: New Paintings
08.18.2009
02:26 pm
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From David Ng in the LAT‘s Culture Monster:

Not many big-name movie directors deserve to be called artists.  Among those who do, few take the label as seriously as David Lynch.  The director of “Mulholland Dr.” and “Blue Velvet” has avidly pursued painting, photography and sculpture in between his idiosyncratic film projects.  Starting Sept. 12, the master of weirdness will exhibit some of his recent works in the solo gallery show “David Lynch: New Paintings” at Griffin in Santa Monica.  The show, which is being presented in collaboration with the James Corcoran Gallery, will be Lynch’s first solo exhibition in L.A. in more than a decade, according to Griffin.

Lynch will present a series of his “monumental” (or large-scale) paintings, said the gallery.  The only work available for preview is “Crucifixtion” (2008-09), a mixed-media on canvas painting that is 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide (pictured).  The director has had a lengthy relationship with James Corcoran Gallery, which organized solo shows of his work in 1987, 1989 and 1993. This will be the director’s first show at Griffin.  “New Painting” is scheduled to run through Dec. 12.

Well, I’m definitely looking forward to this one!  As much as I admire David Lynch the filmmaker, he’s notoriously unforthcoming with explanations as to what his films mean.  That’s fine by me—even preferable. 

But when it comes to describing his own process as an artist, Lynch has been as generous as he’s been expansive.  There are many clips out there detailing what Lynch does to “catch the big fish,” and its relationship to transcendental mediation.   One of the more lucid ones follows below.

 
From the BBC: Scene By Scene Clip With David Lynch
  
The Griffin Presents David Lynch: New Paintings

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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08.18.2009
02:26 pm
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David Lynch, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soul
07.28.2009
10:46 am
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Director David Lynch worked up a number of images in his patented surrealistic style for a book to accompany the new album by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (featuring an A-list team of additional collaborators like The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, Suzanne Vega, Frank Black, James Mercer (The Shins), and Julian Casablancas).

But there’s a bit of a catch: the limited edition packaging for the album comes with no music. That’s right, all you get is a blank CD with the message “For Legal Reasons enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will” stamped across it. The reason for this is that EMI would sue Danger Mouse were he to release the CD properly (he’s been in this situation before, obviously, with “The Grey Album”).

The idea, if you haven’t figured it out already, is to download the music wherever you might find it (I just found nearly 5000 results leading you right to it on the various torrent trackers) to burn to the enclosed blank CD.

Our friends at Dazed and Confused spoke to Lynch about the collaboration:

Dazed: Do you approach painting and photography in the same way as you would creating a scene for one of your films?

David Lynch: Yeah, exactly. If an idea comes for furniture, you will see a table in your brain. You will see what it’s made of and the shape of it, and if that idea is something you love, then you go into the wood shop and start making that table. If you get an idea for a painting and you’re all fired up about it then you go right into the painting studio and start working on those. Making a film is just a longer process, but when you’re in love you don’t care how long it takes to make something.

Dark Night of the Soul official website

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.28.2009
10:46 am
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