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Carel Weight: An English Visual Artist

Domestic Scene , 1960 Anger , 1955 Battersea Park Tragedy Carel Weight Country Lane The World We Live In , 1970-73 Fury Tense Girl Thoughts of the Girls Daisy in the Garden The Silence , 1965 Mick Rooney, Portrait of Carel Weight * All image rights to respective copyright holders. Images will be removed at owners' request.

Brendan Behan

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.   Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.   I am a daylight atheist.   I am a drinker with writing problems.   I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.   I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.   I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.   It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.   New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.   The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper wi...

A Painting In Progress: July 17-24

I II III Steelville , 2011, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 inches.

Time Again @ The Sculpture Center in Long Island City

Troy Brauntuch, Stamps , 1975-2007 Troy Brauntuch, Stamps (detail) Richard Aldrich, Zig-Zag Cubism , 2011 Rachel Harrison, Avatar , 2010 Charline von Heyl, Untitled , 2011 Steve Roden, proxmities no. 2 , 2010 Elad Lassry, (l to r) Laminated Structure (For Him) , Laminated Structure (For Her and Him) , 2009 Rosemarie Trockel, Mars , 2006 Matthew Buckingham, Image of Absalon to be Projected Until it Vanishes , 2001 Rosalind Nashashibi, This Quality , 2010 Richard Aldrich, Angie Adams/Franz Kline , 2010-2011 Emily Roysdon, Untitled (David Wojnarowicz Project) , 2001- 2007 Emily Roysdon, Untitled (David Wojnarowicz Project) , 2001- 2007 Steve Roden, ear is for sees (line and and horns) , 2007 Blinky Palermo, Projektion (Projection) , 1971