Any Carnegie Mellon art students (and possibly others) may remember Lowry Burgess as an extremely interesting and inspiring professor. I had never seen his work before this week, though. Much of it is very esoteric, including things like burying holograms in the desert in Afghanistan (and also, strangely enough, combining the blood of 33 artists, including James, with a bunch of other stuff and taking it to the top of the tallest mountain in Greece) but apparently he also paints. On Friday we went to an opening of at the Carnegie Museum for four paintings that he has been working on for decades. These things were enormous--so big that he painted them sideways and never saw them upright until they were installed in the museum. Anyway, i liked them a lot. The press photos don't do them justice, but here is one image, and there are more at the Carnegie Museum website.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Lowry Burgess
Any Carnegie Mellon art students (and possibly others) may remember Lowry Burgess as an extremely interesting and inspiring professor. I had never seen his work before this week, though. Much of it is very esoteric, including things like burying holograms in the desert in Afghanistan (and also, strangely enough, combining the blood of 33 artists, including James, with a bunch of other stuff and taking it to the top of the tallest mountain in Greece) but apparently he also paints. On Friday we went to an opening of at the Carnegie Museum for four paintings that he has been working on for decades. These things were enormous--so big that he painted them sideways and never saw them upright until they were installed in the museum. Anyway, i liked them a lot. The press photos don't do them justice, but here is one image, and there are more at the Carnegie Museum website.
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So neat to see - I'd never seen a Lowry painting either.
ReplyDeleteI heard on the radio the other day that they made a movie about Steven Kurtz's crazy adventures.