Abstract paintings of Will Dockery

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>>>> Savageduck wrote:
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>>>>> Pollock is much maligned.
>>>>> Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
>>>>> imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
>>>>> intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
>>>>> was unique.
>>>>
>>>> As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to
>>>> like Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will
>>>> appears to think the art is in the dribble.
>>>>
>>>> dmh
>>>
>>>
>>> well, now-
>>> what have we here?
>>> houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
>>> of altering the posters name.
>>>
>>> (a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)
>>>
>> Or a tell-tale sign that you can't follow a thread (even if you move your
>> lips).
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>> Rob
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> neither can you.
>
> i already called "muckery" as a "save."

As a "save"? Of course you did. AND you had your fingers crossed.

And things will be better when you get to big school.
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> i screwed up the word prima donna in the other
> thread, dickweed.
>
I think screwing up words could be your particular forte. A promising
Duckling indeed.

Rob

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"Dale Houstman" wrote:
> Savageduck wrote:
>
> > Pollock is much maligned.
> > Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
> > imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
> > intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
> > was unique.
>
> As we have seen with Dockery's paintings:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Thanks for the comments, and for having a look.

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"msifg" wrote:
> "Will Dockery" wrote:
> > "msifg" wrote:
> >>"Will Dockery" wrote:
>
> >> >> I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings,
which
> >> >> > some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever
> > reasons you prefer.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,
watercolor
> >> >> > and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>>
>> http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>>
> >> >> > Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most
welcome.
> >> >>
> >> >> cool!

<snipped for brevity>

> >> > This unsent post I just found in my "Drafts" section, from last year,
of
> >> > another old-time artist friend of mine, you might enjoy, as well:
> >> >
> >> > Here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been highly
influenced by Aborigine art and culture...
> >> >
> >> > The art of Dan Barfield:
> >
> > <snip for brevity>
> >
> >> > http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php
> >> >
> >> > The Dream:
> >> > http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php
> >> >
> >> > The Reality:
> >> > http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery2.php
> >>
> >> my dad is very old and has never been interested
> >> in sharing his art but with close friends and family.
> >>
> >> we try to get him to go online like some of his
> >> art friends. however, he really doesn't feel
> >> like his work merits that kind of exposure.
> >>
> >> i think it does. however, i'm far from an expert.
> >
> > Hope you can convince him to put some out for the world, though.
> >
> >> that dan barfeild stuff is abstract.
> >> however, my dads stuff is more like yours.
> >> the barfield stuff is pretty and phantasmagorical
> >> in an otherworldly kind of way. it kept taking
> >> me to the astral plane. that's some of my
> >> favorite stuff. people who paint like
> >> that usually don't get much exposure.
> >> that's what makes it "art."
> >>
> >> i'm not big on discussing paints and techniques
> >> but i love sharing ideas like you just did.
> >> my dad just offloaded a few paintings on to
> >> me as gifts. at some point, i'll scan them
> >> onto a webpage dedicated to him. i really
> >> don't know what's going to happen to all of
> >> his stuff when he goes. he's got hundreds
> >> laying around the house.
> >
> > Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping
tom
> > thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:
> >
> > ----
> > Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
> > July 13, 1997
> > Section: LOCAL
> > Edition: FIRST
> > Page: B1
> >
> > HOW GROSS THY ART
> > Tim Chitwood
> >
> > Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
> >
> > The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an
old
> > house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
> > That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork
made
> > of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a
body
> > to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
looked like a body to Danny W****.
> >
> > Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house
July
> > 2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks
in
> > places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****
Drive
> > and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery
lets
> > friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work
there.
> >
> > Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
> > "Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
> > hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among
other
> > stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
> > someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and
sternum atop decayed matter.
> >
> > That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
> > room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he
froze. Then he ran.
> >
> > He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
> > which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
want to know.
> >
> > M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a
call on
> > his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
> > just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she
just
> > said they didn't need the police coming there.
> >
> > This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't
call
> > the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will
had
> > a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
> >
> > She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
> > wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing
the art), but the police needn't be bothered.
> >
> > M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
> > needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
> >
> > Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the
police.
> >
> > The next day, someone called the police.
> >
> > About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
> > door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
> > oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was
such a
> > weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
> >
> > That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.
> >
> > Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he
thought
> > he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from
a
> > Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone
directory was involved; I called.)
> >
> > The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window.
That's
> > difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
> >
> > The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be
frightened,
> > because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
> > moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the
time.
> > The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the
house once.
> >
> > Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would
remember that,'' he says.
> >
> > Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
> > neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned
now,
> > they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
> >
> > Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought
they saw a dead body.
> >
> > But didn't.
> > ----
> >
> > Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard
a
> > word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.
>
> that's one hell of a story, Will.
>
> thanks for sharing.

That was a great time period where the area was just bursting with great
artists and poets, which looked like it would expand... poetry readings were
"in" around here for a while, 1995-1999 or so, there was even a city-wide
"best of" in music, arts, poetry, the Perky Awards which I took in 1998:

http://www.fototime.com/{030189BB-B6FD-45B8-ACDF-8F90760C28FB}/picture.JPG

As the Bush era unfolded, coincidentally much of that kind of ground down,
people drifted apart, and I began working more and more with rock and blues
music, and deal in that crowd more now. There's still poetry readings here,
but the venue lack "spark" for me, in a quiet-zone, no smoking, at the
public library... gone for now are the poetry nights in the smoky bars,
although every now and then a poet will drift through and read at the open
mic. Poetry is absorbed into the music, which is actually where it began
back around the dawn of time, anyhow.

Speaking of the music... I'm running late for the Sunday show, the archives
of which I hope to be arranging to archive online soon... so more on this
interesting historical stuff later, including a Hammes Retrospective.

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In article , Will Dockery says...
>
>I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
>some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
>prefer.
>
>These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
>and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>
>http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>
>Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

this is most interesting. i spent several summers, whenst in college, working
for a professional house painter. of course he used these huge sail-sheet drop
clothes to protect the floors and furniture from dripping and spilling paint.

his sail-sheet drop clothes had more artistic worth than these things you posted
here.

as for your drawings? what a criminal waste of bandwidth. only a delusional fool
would have posted those embarrassments. the sadness that is you is sometimes
really hard to watch.


most sincerely,

GodBuilt


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"msifg" wrote:
>"Will Dockery" wrote:
>
> >> I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings,
> > which
> >> some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
>
> >> These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,
> > watercolor
> >> and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>
> >> http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

<snip for brevity>

> > Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
> > thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:
>
> > ----
> > Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
> > July 13, 1997
> > Section: LOCAL
> > Edition: FIRST
> > Page: B1
>
> > HOW GROSS THY ART
> > Tim Chitwood
>
> > Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
>
> > The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
> > house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
> > That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork
> > made
> > of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a
> > body
> > to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
> > looked like a body to Danny W****.
>
> > Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house
> > July 2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
> > places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
> > and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
> > friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.
>
> > Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
> > "Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
> > hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
> > stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
> > someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.
>
> > That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
> > room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze. Then he ran.
>
> > He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
> > which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
> > want to know.
>
> > M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
> > his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
> > just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.
>
> > This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
> > the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will
> > had
> > a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
>
> > She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
> > wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the
> > art), but the police needn't be bothered.
>
> > M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
> > needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
>
> > Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.
>
> > The next day, someone called the police.
>
> > About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
> > door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
> > oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such
> > a weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
>
> > That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
> > perturbed. She blamed Danny.
>
> > Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
> > he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
> > Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone directory was involved; I called.)
>
> > The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window.
> > That's difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
>
> > The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
> > because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
> > moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
> > The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house once.
>
> > Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.
>
> > Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
> > neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
>
> > Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought they saw a dead body.
>
> > But didn't.
> > ----
>
> > Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.
>
> that's one hell of a story, Will.
>
> thanks for sharing.

I just discovered last night that the story was picked up and used for
one of those joke book paperbacks a few years ago... I never knew,
since I never read those:

http://tinyurl.com/barfield

and

http://tinyurl.com/barfield2

What's the Number for 911?: America's Wackiest 911 Calls
By Leland Gregory
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000
ISBN 0740700324, 9780740700323

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In article , Meat Plow says...
>
>On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"
> wrote:
>
>>I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
>>some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
>>prefer.
>>
>>These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
>>and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>>
>>http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>>
>>Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
>
>Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.

when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.

two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.

and in a way he did.

you give him too much credit!!!

most sincerely,

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"Meat Plow" wrote in message

> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"
> wrote:
>
>>I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
>>some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons
>>you
>>prefer.
>>
>>These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
>>and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>>
>>http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>>
>>Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
>
> Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.


that ain't all paint
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"msifg" wrote:
> "George Dance" wrote:
>
> Maybe Dale wants a new name for himself. I'll work on that. So far the
> best I have is "Pale Hammesimitation", but that's a bit lengthy. I'll
> try some recursions.
>
> > see, i've got some luck.
>
> *hoseman works for me.
>
> heh

Whatever happened to "Drayton August Malvershon"?

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In article , Meat Plow says...
>
>On 10 Feb 2009 10:28:37 -0800, On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
> wrote:
>
>>In article , Meat Plow says...
>>>
>>>On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
>>>>some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
>>>>prefer.
>>>>
>>>>These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
>>>>and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>>>>
>>>>Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
>>>
>>>Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.
>>
>>don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.
>>
>>dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
>>got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
>>it.
>>
>>when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
>>canvas.
>>
>>two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
>>that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
>>
>>and in a way he did.
>>
>>you give him too much credit!!!
>>
>>most sincerely,
>>
>>GodBuilt
>
>Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
>idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
>Will.

hey, i don't hate the crackerking. i feel sorry for him. i think he's a sad
creature and he's led a pretty wasted life. i think he pathetically believes all
his activities actually make him someone important when he's more than likely
the source of derision, embarrassment and ridicule among most people in his
life. i think he illegally takes government assistance while at the same time
collects a wage he doesn't pay taxes on, using resources other, more needy
people could be using, but i don't hate him.

you can't really hate his crackerness, you can only feel sorry for him.

most sincerely,

GodBuilt


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Meat Plow says...
>"Will Dockery" wrote:
>
> >>I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
> >>some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
>
> >>These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
> >>and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>
> >>http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>
> >>Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
>
> >Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

The style's called "Action Painting":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_painting

"...Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a
style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed
or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.[1]
The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting
itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its
artist...'

This part's good:

"...According to Harold Rosenberg the canvas was 'an arena in which to
act' [...] it was the physicality of the paintings' clotted and oil-
caked surfaces that was the key to understanding them as documents of
the artists' existential struggle [...] Rosenberg's critique shifted
the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished
painting being only the physical manifestation, a kind of residue, of
the actual work of art, which was in the act or process of the
painting's creation [...] Over the next two decades, Rosenberg's
redefinition of art as an act rather than an object, as a process
rather than a product, was influential, and laid the foundation for a
number of major art movements, from Happenings and Fluxus to
Conceptual, Performance art, Installation art and Earth Art..."

Anyway, thanks for having a look and commenting.

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On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built wrote:
>"Will Dockery" wrote:
>
>>I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
>>some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
>
>>These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
>>and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:
>
>>http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
>
>>Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
>
> dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
> got drunk,

Actually, it was the combined fumes of all the paints, solvents and
melted plastics, but close enough.

and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.
> when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the canvas.
> two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
> that he could pass the mess up as something he created. and in a way he did.

Amazingly, that's exactly how it happened!

A "charming" collection of work, as Dale Houseman would proclaim, if
he had created it.

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Video by Doug Cole
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