Rebecca Sailor Sack

at Seraphin Gallery

Moonsault, 2009

You think you have seen it all. New things - they are either too small for you or you have done it. What's left for you are your memories. Then suddenly you catch a breeze. Your sails are full of wind. You are making a 180 degrees turn and moving to a new direction. You are creating new things, but you use your previous experience as a frame. That takes your game to a new level. The new burst of  creativity makes new memories and builds new experiences to draw from and to remember later.

Shinro Ohtake

at Take Ninagawa (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Time Memory 1, 2012

Time is frozen in memory. Time is preserved in small pieces - photos, movies, letters, diaries.The fossil time is used as building blocks for our memories.We polish those blocks as if they were from granite and we cover the floor, walls and ceiling with them in our temple of our experience. But it is not granite. It has been scratched. It has graffiti. It is missing some pieces, so it was patched with some imagination and rationalization. Our magnificent temple of experience can crumble any time.

Charles Biederman

Charles Biederman at Menconi and Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC (The Armory Show 2012)

Untitled, 1935

This is the birth of a great idea.It is started to crystallize seemingly from thin air (the blue figure in the left center).  But actually you are filling the empty carcass of the idea with your previous experience, common sense and logic (lower greenish gray part of the painting). And the second source of inspiration is your passion, your feelings. The idea is changing forms, it is flexible as you progress with your thinking. You have your doubts whether it is something worthy(the waves from the center to the lower right corner). Now you are pretty advanced in developing the idea, so you are starting to think about a real implementation(the rectangles with black border).

Mindy Shapero

Mindy Shapero at Marianne Boesky Gallery (The Armory Show 2012)

Mosaic Drawing Circle Vision(Black, Blue, Silver, and Gold), 2010

 The circles are people. Some of them are real persons, some of them are fictional. Some of them are alive, some of them are dead. But all of them influence other people. The lines are relationships. They can extend the radius where the forces of influence work. The small dots are impulses of influence. They are some deeds that you do for people you don't even know, but you know they would appreciate what you have done for them.The circle is a symbol of time. So a person(circle) is a container for time, for the experience that the person had. And all of these are just threads in a great textile, called History.

Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker at Pierogi

Coumpound, Blue Haze, 2010

Time is eating our memories(the black strains with yellow border). There is stuff that happened to us, but we don't remember it.Things that we do remember are good, nice things. And we behaved our best. And if we didn't, we rationalized the behavior, so it would look like that in those circumstances it was the best possible outcome(the lower right corner). The reality as we perceive it is very distorted. At the end, the only thing is left to a person is the experience he collected throughout the lifetime. And nobody wants to collect the bad things.

Julia Goldman

Julia Goldman at American Contemporary

Scraps 4b, 2008

This is memories of a summer vacation. Sunny days. Lazy warm days on the beach. Water. Waves. And then come nights - parties, drinking, flirt (green blue figure in the bottom right corner). The nights are a little bit embarrassing, now when you grew older. But the experience is good. Sometimes, you think you should repeat it.

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse at Galerie Nachst st.Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

If you look closer, you will see that those diagonal-almost-vertical lines consists of several layers of paint.This is your life experience. The lines represent events, people and things that happened in your life.Some were small, some were bigger, some occurred several times and some never happened (well those you can't see, they remained unpainted :). This experience helps you to get the meaning (the foreground swirls) from current events(the white lines) - to connect the dots and to start a new layer of experience on your life painting.