“There is some mysterious process at work here which I don’t even want to understand” Philip Guston Before we discuss and see our images today, two things: Philip Guston was a painter, not a photographer; the abstract photographic image on our homepage is from Bill Wishner...more of both as the blog today unfolds. First, Philip Guston who was a prolific painter and a muralist for the WPA. Hauser & Wurth Gallery in the ArtsDistrict has an extensive retrospective on Guston on display. Bill became aware of Guston's work while he and Kathy worked at City of Hope Medical Center in the 70's. On the grounds of the center was a synagogue in which was a mural by Guston that was in need of restoration and ready to be painted over...it was ultimately saved by a generous donor, restored and remains there to this very day. Today the synagogue is used as a visitor center. While the picture below is of the almost entire mural...the greatness is in the detail which I could not capture. Some of Guston's paintings and caricatures Richard Nixon are below His daughter wrote a biography entitled "Night Studio" Now a bit of our own works...first are several images by Cyndi the fist is from a Judy Chicago exhibit the second from a Halloween event at the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar Finally two contributions fro Bill...the first is an single image of telephone from an earlier time. The second is a before (on left) and after (on right) image derived from a wall image converted to abstract by a bit of computer wizardry
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