Brian Dupont

Measures of oceanic zones by depth, erased. Unit notation by KM. Zones (script): photic, dysphotic, aphotic.

Depth study as part of a new #drawing series: Gesture to arrange notation of space, erasure as addition.

ARCHIVE 4
Pencil, acrylic and mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection, 1991 © 2016 Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Circle In and Out of a Polygon 2 by Robert Mangold, 1973
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137905

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

Great quote from a great long-read comic about + against AI art

Script, truncated and repeated at top edge. “Sing to…” Dactylic hexameter (incomplete) measure runs in vertical register on the left side.

#Drawing based on measures of sound vs accumulation of mass: the Odyssey’s dactylic hexameter meter set on axis against the repetition (in translation) of the fist line “Sing to me…”

Archive 3
Ink, acrylic, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

#art

Drawing, horizontal text: ULYSSES; script, erasure by area. 2.631; stencil, broken distribution. Odysseus’s place in the Iliad’s catalog of ships.

Continuing #drawing series; black and white as a way to focus on gesture, text & script.

ARCHIVE 2
Graphite, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

It has turned out that community building is vastly undervalued, but the sheer work involved is daunting, not sexy & you don’t get to hang out galleries. It’s also largely anonymous, which goes against usual artist-style branding…

Where did all the “Social Practice” artists go?

Painting in grisaille. Text in descending registers at different scale: FRAME/ SECOND. Sprocket holes measure the margins

New #drawing series thinking about fictions of literature, mythology, and material. Forcing myself to work in black & white, so the series relates to printing & film trying to introduce time as an element of visual process.

ARCHIVE 1
Pencil, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

Similar with artists who've had rigorous crit sessions; it's probably similar across people training in creative fields. Figuring out how to define your work when there is no "right" answer mush change you.

Are the CRa digital (Articheck)? Each notation should have a corresponding detail photo. You could do an entire installation or suite of prints.

so good, especially these reframing moves:
- Instead of “Why am I procrastinating?” ask, “What am I protecting myself from?”
- Instead of “How can I write more?” ask, “What would make this feel safer?”
- Instead of “Why can’t I just get it done?” ask, “What do I need to feel supported right now?”

RH Quaytman monograph titled “Book” - Front cover.

RH Quaytman monograph titled “Book” - spine with title.

When the art book you ordered 2+ years ago finally shows up out of the blue and unannounced!

That's probably another deep-dive (or just regular topic) I'd like to hear about: works that are marginalized by genre labels and don't reach the audience they deserve.

Although maybe that applies to all of Sci-Fi and fantasy...

I've been wondering what it would take for her work to be more well known and adapted. Prejudice is an obvious answer, but I also wonder if some of it wearing the "YA" tag hurts it.

Nnedi Okorafor's works are fantastic. Her focus on African stories, that don't privilege a white male superhero type protagonist in a Western-European setting is very refreshing and opens up genre to whole continents being ignored.

“May-October, 2024” Oil on linen 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches

May-October, 2024 Oil on linen 21 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches Proper left edge showing color variations and texture in shades of green, and underpainting/ pentimento.

“An Evening in March, 2025” Oil on linen 29 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches

“An Evening in March, 2025” Oil on linen 291/2 x 25 5/8 inches Proper left edge showing raw linen and a scraped/ impastoed surface.

#JohnZurier new #painting at @peterblumgallery. There’s an interesting sense of weight in the paint & gesture for these. Giving a subtle nod to Philip Guston and Raoul De Keyser.

a typewritten note that reads: all forms of resistance are ethical under occupation

My original inclination was to focus on handwriting and script as a way to generate abstract imagery and organizations of space, but they became a darker meditation on a possible future, advancing like storm clouds across the ocean.

It expanded into other literary sources found in Antoni Tàpies memoir ‘Fragments for an Autobiography’, written under a fascist dictatorship.

The Prologue drawings are group from the summer and fall of 2024 that started as an exploration of Moby Dick and Melville’s classification of whales and took further inspiration from 19th century bookbinding and modern oceanographic measures...

That thing as an #artist where you start updating your website with new work, and realize that you never actually completed the last update.

www.briandupont.org/prologue

23 drawings (which means mixed media, epoxy, and collage paintings on paper) completed last summer.

I don’t think the new range of trucks and SUVs are the answer, though. I was really happy to see Nissan release the Titan (sort of a favorite of mine), but the Dodge Caravaggio was a failure, so I guess that’s the end of that.

Spotted a Honda Oddyssey double parked & it made me think about how inappropriately cars are named. Do you really want to link your product to Odysseus’ 10-year journey? That was not a good trip (and it was supposed to be a short one, too). I guess at least they didn’t name it after Theseus…

Mary Shelley created Sci-fic

DOUBLE ESSEX Mixed media on paper 11.25” x 17.25” 2nd state (corrected)

DOUBLE ESSEX Mixed media on paper 11.25” x 17.25” 1st state (let’s be honest the SEX in ESSEX is popping way too much, to the point of distraction)

As an abstract artist, little is worse than you have to adjust your painting because the likeness of a figure or portrait jumps out of the surface… using text leads to the same thing when the fragment of a word (and he name of a ship) jumps off the page on its own…

Areas of color stain but to solid material on paper. Text in vertical register (descending); ESSEX. Letterforms doubled and mirrored.

Experiments with a different kind of paper; rough, absorbent cotton rag that fights any attempt at a clean line or delineation of area.

ESSEX 1
Mixed media on paper
17 1/4” x 11 1/4”

As always, the difference between #drawing & #painting on paper is subsumed into process.

The Family Guy meme from the turban episode. Peter sitting in a car. There's a chart that says OK not OK. The OK side is white. And not OK side is brown

The Supreme Court really said

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...