Daniel Sturgis is head of BA Painting at Camberwell. He showed just one of his own paintings
and then went on to talk about the culture of painting, negotiating a position, resurgence of 1970s painters, and some curating projects he's been involved in. Chris has summed up the lecture here; my own take is to follow up some of the leads (and get lost in following up leads from those leads...) So I'll mention just a few of the exhibitions and artists mentioned in the lecture.
High Times Hard Times: New York painting 1967-75, a 2006 exhibition
was "a saber-waving, opinion-altering show, for the simple if thrilling reason that it posits an art-historical missing link. It’s composed entirely of abstract work made by painters who were born too late to be Pop artists or hard-core Minimalists, and who then tried to take the medium to less structured and splashy, more intuitive and experimental shores" - or so it says here (and you can see many of the works in it).
Before the end: the last painting show (2004) showed the final painting made by conceptual artists - before they went all conceptual (in the 1960s), entered the realm of ideas, and stopped painting. Those were the days when painting was dead - remember?
Now a list of names of painters, some from the 70s and some born in the 70s (or later):
Martin Barre (considered the precursor of minimal art in France) -
Bob Law (love those minimalist landscapes!) -
Jacob Kassay ("silver deposit" paintings) -
Finally a thought: Every a mark is made has a history (that some people know about) and will be a quotation of that history.
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