Sunday, August 11, 2024

Made in 1985

Bruce Cohen
Untitled
1985
oil on canvas
Orange County Museum of Art,
Costa Mesa, California

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Paddock Wood
1985
oil on linen
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Pat Durr
Yellow Sky
1985
acrylic on canvas
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario

Pascale-Antoine Hamet
Victory crossing the Ocean
1985
oil on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Tom Hopkins
Love and Fear
1985
oil on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Lucebert (Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk)
Vers un Monde Merveilleux
1985
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Stephen Livick
Kali Partially Painted
1985
gum bichromate print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Alen MacWeeney
Bridesmaid Dresses, Aran Islands
1985
C-print
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

William Bailey
Still Life, Hotel Locarno
1985
oil on canvas
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Roger Bason
Prince Hans Adam von und zu Liechtenstein
1985
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Nan Goldin
The Parents at a French Restaurant, Cambridge, Mass.
1985
C-print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Joan Jonas
Volcano Saga: Buried House
1985
C-print
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Robyn Stacey
Untitled
1985
C-print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Mimmo Paladino
Untitled
1985
limestone
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Pierre Dorion
Allegorical Self Portrait
1985
enamel on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Rosalind Solomon
What is Life
1985
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Sonnets from China

                                 XVIII

Chilled by the present, its gloom and its noise,
On waking we sigh for an ancient South,
A warm nude age of instinctive poise,
A taste of joy in an innocent mouth.

At night in our huts we dream of a part
In the balls of the Future: each ritual maze
Has a musical plan, and a musical heart
Can faultlessly follow its faultless ways.

We envy streams and houses that are sure,
But, doubtful, articled to error, we
Were never nude and calm as a great door,

And never will be faultless like our fountains:
We live in freedom by necessity,
A mountain people dwelling among mountains.

– W.H. Auden (1938)