Artists "Review" Artists: Richard Schemmerer on Michael Konrad

The Artists "Review" Artists Project was launched on June 30, 2008.  Below is a "review" of Michael Konrad's work, Untitled, written by Richard Schemmerer.  Michael provided the second jpeg, an image of Twelve Untitled Drawings, as well as a brief response to Richard's "review."

Michael currently resides in Bronx, NY, and Richard lives in Vancouver, WA.

If you would like to participate in this project, please email me at jtkirkland [at] gmail [dot] com.

      
Untitled
mixed media (collaged paper, gouache, ink, joint compound, & wood putty) on paper mounted on board
11" x 11"
2008

The "Review"

I am inspired to see with a poets eye
to me the piece is a time machine it sucks me into its outline
and leads me back to a world of the past
I see elements, building blocks that create the back drop
to my projected story as I step forward into white
I carry the remands of memory with me and walk along the unpaved roads
the walls that speak volumes
the scribbles that captured a mood that has long past
like the smoke of an old fire
there is an imaginary window that opens my mind
to follow the grids that recall the structure of my childhood
there is a touch of gloom on the horizon
but also a promise of peace
it is the space before the decision is made
the moment when harmony studies chaos
before it has decided if its ready to dance

By Richard Schemmerer

 
Twelve untitled drawings
mixed media on paper mounted on panel
11" x 11" each
2008

The Response

Richard clearly picked up on the duality in the work, the harmony between tranquility and disturbance. I particularly like his description of the “space before the decision is made…when harmony studies chaos.” 

This particular drawing is part of a series of 12 similar square-format panels.  Although each panel is an individual work, I like the way they reinforce the architectural elements in the drawings when displayed as a grid.

Thanks for the poem!

By Michael Konrad

Previous "Reviews":
Pam Farrell on Ken Weathersby
Paula McCullough on Aric Calfee
Lee Gainer on Leigh Waldron-Taylor
Aric Calfee on Paula McCullough
Matthew Ballou on Heather Levy
Giovanni Garcia-Fenech on TJ Norris
TJ Norris on Giovanni Garcia-Fenech
Susan Tolbert on Mary Klein
Heather Levy on Gail Vollrath
Sharon Butler on Matthew Ballou
Mark L. Power on Steven Alexander
Steven Alexander on Mark L. Power
Molly Norris on M. Trigos
Ken Weathersby on Joseph Barbaccia
Sondra Arkin on Susan Tolbert
John M. Adams on Sharon Butler
Michael Paul Oman-Reagan on Brent Hallard
Daniel Mafe on Pam Farrell
Joanna Knox on John M. Adams
John Lucien Grillo on Joanna Knox
Brent Hallard on Lisa Klow
Joseph Barbaccia on John Lucien Grillo
M. Trigos on Michael Paul Oman-Reagan
Mary Klein on Imants Ozers

Comments

[todd]

This work reminds me of another New York artist, Moses Hoskins.