Should be doing one a week come summer months
Upcoming Beaumont Shiznit, ya hurd. from Gnarly Enterprises on Vimeo.
2009-04-13
2009-04-11
I am still working on stuff.
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"Undulation" 2009 Oil on Wood Currently showing at Javanaut on 39th St.
I have not updated my blog in a while. Oops. I have been very very busy. Tis the season. I have a show at Javanaut on 39th street right now, there was a great review on artkc365.com last week that I will copy and paste at the bottom of this post. Thank you Hannah for providing the space. I got re-hired for teaching another semester at UCM. Working hard on my thesis project. Had a couple video shoots around town. Check out the video from Artopia.
Pitch Artopia 2009 @ Screenland Kansas City. Shot and edited by Zac Eubank. skinlessproductions.blogspot.com
The Halo art auction is coming up so I have been working on a painting for that. Expect to see some pics and press on this coming up soon. I will leave you all with some photos of the process for a painting I am working on. Love you all. Happy Zombie Jesus Weekend!
Article featured on artkc365.com
Zac Eubank
7 a.m.-10 p.m.
JavaNaut Cafe
1615 W 39th St
Kansas City, MO
816.716.3657
Hours: 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m-8 p.m. Sunday
Runs through: April 30
Artist’s site: http://skinlessproductions.blogspot.com/
Need something to do today? Go to JavaNaut Cafe, order a mug of something hot and stimulating … and watch paint dry.
No, really.
When Zac Eubank says he’s putting new work in his show at Javanaut, he means new. It’s taken him a few extra days to get everything put up, because the oil paint on two pieces took longer to dry than he expected.
(Even though Eubank no longer has Skinless Productions Gallery, it’s still a marvel that he has time to create at all. He’s in a graduate program at Missouri-Kansas City, teaches at the University of Central Missouri and continues to operate a video production company.)
Not everything in the exhibition is hot off the easel, however. Eubank’s works, in oil and charcoal, are drawn from several series. The common thread: human beings, together and — by choice or chance — alone.
The majority of my work has to do with how we interact with each other and our surroundings, Eubank writes. I am heavily influenced by Italian Baroque paintings, Love, and Nature.
Two of those three elements combine in Seducing the Goblin King, today’s featured painting.
Eubank uses chiaroscuro, stark contrast between light and dark, to highlight the detail in the woman’s dress and make her figure almost three-dimensional. The position of her right hand is reminiscent of religious art — although in this context, it’s anything but. Her first and second fingers are extended, the others curled inward, a gesture that elevates seduction to the level of a sacred blessing. How much of herself is she putting into the benediction, though? The woman’s mask, and the smirk below it, suggest that the answer is “Not much.”
Another woman, this one obscuring her face with her hand, appears in a charcoal drawing from the same 2008 series as Seducing the Goblin King. That series, Eubank writes, explores an experience I had with a woman who felt it necessary to ironically free-fall into relations with me — but always keeping me at a distance and saving face.
Eubank doesn’t spare himself, either. In the self-portrait Fossil Fall, he appears shirtless, one hand over his face, with something black (oil, perhaps) streaming down his neck and chest.
This painting, he writes, is part of a series I am working on right now that has to do with our pollution of the environment. This one in particular is about my own detachment from nature.
As is often the case — and not only with artists — Eubank is his own worst critic. Because the paintings are from disparate series, and because not all of them were ready by last week’s hanging, he considers this show a hastily-organized hodgepodge.
It would be better, and more accurate, to think of it as a primer for those discovering Eubank’s art. Covering several stylistic and thematic bases gives people more chances to find an approach that resonates.
Whatever work touches you most, don’t touch it back. The paint might still be wet.
2009-03-23
Something to think about.....
As march is coming to an end I am constantly being reminded of the forever natural struggle of life and death. Spring always fills me with so much hope but reminds me that all things will eventually perish. Usually at this time of year I find myself at the David Lynch weekend talking about consciousness and the unified field. I disagree with almost everything they say at the event every year but find the ideas compelling none the less. Under the beliefs of Transcendental Meditation established by Maharishi they preach about us all sharing one unified consciousness that stretches across the cosmos. Rubbish I say. Fronting these cult like speeches is none other than Quantum physicist John Hagelin whose everyword condesends any inteligence you thought you might have, he says its a "Scientific Fact" (bullshit) that the universe is linked by consciousness, what many scientist believe to be an unexplainable dark matter is indeed our souls traveling through space and time, oh and they believe that TM can creat world peace. My negative tone aside I do think meditation is an important and very rewarding practise and that it is a great alternative to anti-anxiety medications. I am amazed though that such educated and delightfully creative brains are still sucked into this denial of death. I think we will try to come with any alternative other than our demise, if people were left with the only thought of death or being reincarnated as a cockroach they would probably be more comfortable excepting the latter. Why is this. What is it about our brains that makes death so hard to percieve. I for one welcome its idea, of course I don't want it to happen any time soon, but accepting it I feel makes each and every moment worth something. Not for some eternal reward but the reward of right now, the miraculous gift of being alive. Why should we need to be tricked into finding morality, happiness, hope? My life has felt much more rewarding from the day I accepted my fate. I could go on and on about this but I am going to do some more research on the psychology of the idea and get back to you. I am currently reading a book called "Conversations on Consciousness" A collection of interviews by journalist Susan Blackmore with the worlds leading brain specialists. I like this book because it is dealing with Consciousness from a scientific percpective instead of a dreamy utilitarian one.
Susan- "Do you think consciousness survives the death of the physical body?"
Patricia Churchland- "We do know that when a large number of neurons die, as in Alzheimer's disease, deficits in memory occur, cognition is impaired, personality changes, awareness of what other people are thinking and feeling, and awareness of time and place, are impaired. I see this as a kind of fading of many aspects of the self and its capacities, and one cannot but feel that the person one knew and loved is no longer there. All the evidence shows that the brain is necessary for functions associated with consciousness. I am not sure how consciousness could survive the death of the brain if it needs neurons to sustain it.
At a personal level, I should say that I feel more settled about death and dying having understood that it is the end, than I would if I were trying to nourish an unrealistic hope in some kind of heaven. When I was a child, a friend who was a native Indian once remarked to me that he felt sorry for Christians, as they labour under the delusion of a heaven, while he, in contrast, could prepare for finality, pass on the stories of the person's life, help them to die easily, and accept the finality for what it is. That struck me as sensible then, and it does so still."
Paul Churchland- "I agree. Consciousness is just one particularly sophisticated deminsion of biological life. When my biological life ends, so does my consciousness. I am more than content with this. The prospect of being conscious for an unending eternity is quite frankly appalling. When my time comes, let me sleep."
Here is an interview I did with David at the conference last March
Interview w/ David Lynch about creativity and consciousness! from Release TV on Vimeo.
Susan- "Do you think consciousness survives the death of the physical body?"
Patricia Churchland- "We do know that when a large number of neurons die, as in Alzheimer's disease, deficits in memory occur, cognition is impaired, personality changes, awareness of what other people are thinking and feeling, and awareness of time and place, are impaired. I see this as a kind of fading of many aspects of the self and its capacities, and one cannot but feel that the person one knew and loved is no longer there. All the evidence shows that the brain is necessary for functions associated with consciousness. I am not sure how consciousness could survive the death of the brain if it needs neurons to sustain it.
At a personal level, I should say that I feel more settled about death and dying having understood that it is the end, than I would if I were trying to nourish an unrealistic hope in some kind of heaven. When I was a child, a friend who was a native Indian once remarked to me that he felt sorry for Christians, as they labour under the delusion of a heaven, while he, in contrast, could prepare for finality, pass on the stories of the person's life, help them to die easily, and accept the finality for what it is. That struck me as sensible then, and it does so still."
Paul Churchland- "I agree. Consciousness is just one particularly sophisticated deminsion of biological life. When my biological life ends, so does my consciousness. I am more than content with this. The prospect of being conscious for an unending eternity is quite frankly appalling. When my time comes, let me sleep."
Here is an interview I did with David at the conference last March
Interview w/ David Lynch about creativity and consciousness! from Release TV on Vimeo.
2009-03-15
Dr. Sketchy's poses!
I wish that I could have done more of these but sadly the level of smoke in that place sent me running. It felt good to do live figure drawing again.
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2009-03-13
2009-03-12
Bad Picture Of New Art!
So I have been working for a while now on my "My Country Tis of Thee" series only to find out yesterday that I may be headed in the wrong direction with them. This series is for my graduate studies and I may have gone a little over the top with them. I agree with my critique rs that subtleties could work to my advantage but I felt that my series was to be about my perception of our current social political stereotypes from the eyes of well.....me. Dammit if they did not really get me thinking about it though. So I guess I will be restarting the series and now I have three 7 foot tall paintings that will just have to stand on there own. Here is a horrible pick of the one I am finishing up right now.
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