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ORGANITEXTURE: Recent Paintings & Mixed Media @ Align Gallery, July/August 2017 SHOW RUNS THROUGH AUGUST 10th, 2017 These pictures are all story pictures. They demand stories, but are never satisfied with the ones you give them. Like life, art is about mistakes, is about the messy business of differentiation and reunification, a thing ceaselessly making and unmaking itself. I've tried to grow an aesthetic as one might cultivate a a petroleum eating bacteria-by sinking lots of ships. The ship of myself. The ship of my ideas about the history of art. The ship of a small business, a counter culture, a network of communities, the ship of perfect loves I never let be good enough. I like to be unnerved by the process and the results of the process. To feel my withdrawing, to feel the thing pulling away from me, becoming it's own thing, maybe even it's own self (who can say that a piece of art is not a living being?). It's a strange thing, birthing pictures. I can fe...