Guy Richards Smit "Grossmalerman!"
Schroeder Romero & Shredder
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Guy Richards Smit satirically bends artistic authorship with new paintings and video in "Grossmalerman!" Thanks to Guy Richards Smit for the following text from Jonathan Grossmalerman, writing in defense of his portrayal in Grossmalerman!, Amagansett, April 2011:
"That a man, any man, be he a thundering genius or a mere citizen, might die never having had his own sitcom, seems to me, a terrible injustice.” Those were the last words of my father, Saul Grossmalerman, a strikingly sullen man with few ambitions, a habitual liar about boring things not worth lying about. What a piece of shit. In any case, this was one of the more interesting things he said and that it was uttered on his deathbed gave it a certain...approximation of gravitas. For what it’s worth, it has always been a burr on the tunic of my outrageous success. It was with that in mind that I, perhaps foolishly, gave permission to the painfully charismatic Guy Richards Smit when asked to use my name and paintings in his “sitcom,” a show ostensibly about me and my life. Let me state frankly: it is not. I have no daughter, my studio is not populated with lovably eccentric characters, I am not perennially sweaty and I enjoy a generous head of bouncy hair, often praised for its sexuality. I can’t stress this enough. I have hair! In the spirit of being a “good sport” I decided not to indulge my litigious impulses, even allowing the gallery to show some of the smaller paintings from my Cum series, a suite of paintings that celebrates the vibrant power of woman and her sexual organs, paintings that have remained unseen as they were dwarfed by the large white walls and cavernous space of the real Maximilian Bingeweary Gallery. Much has been written about their “ecstatic filth” and “Rabelaisian joy” but what will they say about GROSSMALERMAN!? About the thrilling tumult and rampant humanity of Smit’s “humor?” Will they thrill at the fact that finally someone has successfully produced an engaging and entertaining take on the visual artist? I expect so. And I, in turn, will be forever remembered as a two dimensional buffoon. There is no justice.
[Image: Guy Richards Smit "Grossmalerman!" (still of Liquor Call) (2011) Video 23 minutes Edition of 5]
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Schedule
from May 19, 2011 to June 25, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-19 from 18:00 to 20:00