ARTISTS
Dana Frankfort and Aaron Spangler
20 Jan, 2011 - 05 Mar, 2011
LaMontagne Gallery is pleased to present HI, an exhibition of new paintings by Dana Frankfort.
LaMontagne Gallery is also pleased to present A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann, an exhibition of new sculpture and rubbings by Aaron Spangler.
It is my privilege to serve as muse and glue for the exhibition "HI / A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann" by Dana Frankfort and Aaron Spangler. How did this unlikely collaboration come about? What circumstances might unite Dana, the New York Jew, with Aaron, the backwoods hillbilly? Through myself of course, the backwoods hillbilly NY Jew. But let's not dwell on geographical and religious roots like a couple of blind fascists, angry about the failure of our revolution. There is a more complex story here. The genesis of the works in this exhibition came about when I asked Dana if she might report my problems to her analyst as though they were her own, as I was looking for answers but did not have sufficient funds to engage in therapy. Dana agreed, and took notes during the sessions with the intent of returning these to me. However, the notes turned out to be of little use in solving my various relationship troubles and financial woes, as they were written in oil paint on canvas. Also, most of them were just little phrases which had nothing to do with what the therapist was saying, any more than the drawings on a pad next to the phone relates to a conversation which has taken place there.
From these "notes" I extrapolated some guesses, mostly musings as to what might have been said, which I related again over the phone to Aaron. Now if ever there was a man who lived by the dictum "No thought exists without a material support," it is this man. To better actualize my reportage, he promptly set them to music and sent them back to me in the form of an album of bluegrass music in the tradition of Uncle Dave Macon, an Appalachian mountaineer whose music we shared an admiration for. The songs were brilliant and we decided to shop the album to record producers. But Aaron insisted that it was not ready. In his typical Wagnerian fashion, Aaron produced a series of artworks, prints, and sculptures, one for each song on the record, and each corresponding to the stations of the cross. With a final piece to represent the record's totality. Look for the lavish box set with reproductions of the artworks in the exhibition on "What The..." Records in 2012.
LaMontagne Gallery is also pleased to present A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann, an exhibition of new sculpture and rubbings by Aaron Spangler.
It is my privilege to serve as muse and glue for the exhibition "HI / A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann" by Dana Frankfort and Aaron Spangler. How did this unlikely collaboration come about? What circumstances might unite Dana, the New York Jew, with Aaron, the backwoods hillbilly? Through myself of course, the backwoods hillbilly NY Jew. But let's not dwell on geographical and religious roots like a couple of blind fascists, angry about the failure of our revolution. There is a more complex story here. The genesis of the works in this exhibition came about when I asked Dana if she might report my problems to her analyst as though they were her own, as I was looking for answers but did not have sufficient funds to engage in therapy. Dana agreed, and took notes during the sessions with the intent of returning these to me. However, the notes turned out to be of little use in solving my various relationship troubles and financial woes, as they were written in oil paint on canvas. Also, most of them were just little phrases which had nothing to do with what the therapist was saying, any more than the drawings on a pad next to the phone relates to a conversation which has taken place there.
From these "notes" I extrapolated some guesses, mostly musings as to what might have been said, which I related again over the phone to Aaron. Now if ever there was a man who lived by the dictum "No thought exists without a material support," it is this man. To better actualize my reportage, he promptly set them to music and sent them back to me in the form of an album of bluegrass music in the tradition of Uncle Dave Macon, an Appalachian mountaineer whose music we shared an admiration for. The songs were brilliant and we decided to shop the album to record producers. But Aaron insisted that it was not ready. In his typical Wagnerian fashion, Aaron produced a series of artworks, prints, and sculptures, one for each song on the record, and each corresponding to the stations of the cross. With a final piece to represent the record's totality. Look for the lavish box set with reproductions of the artworks in the exhibition on "What The..." Records in 2012.
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LaMontagne Gallery is pleased to present HI, an exhibition of new paintings by Dana Frankfort.
LaMontagne Gallery is also pleased to present A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann, an exhibition of new sculpture and rubbings by Aaron Spangler.
It is my privilege to serve as muse and glue for the exhibition "HI / A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann" by Dana Frankfort and Aaron Spangler. How did this unlikely collaboration come about? What circumstances might unite Dana, the New York Jew, with Aaron, the backwoods hillbilly? Through myself of course, the backwoods hillbilly NY Jew. But let's not dwell on geographical and religious roots like a couple of blind fascists, angry about the failure of our revolution. There is a more complex story here. The genesis of the works in this exhibition came about when I asked Dana if she might report my problems to her analyst as though they were her own, as I was looking for answers but did not have sufficient funds to engage in therapy. Dana agreed, and took notes during the sessions with the intent of returning these to me. However, the notes turned out to be of little use in solving my various relationship troubles and financial woes, as they were written in oil paint on canvas. Also, most of them were just little phrases which had nothing to do with what the therapist was saying, any more than the drawings on a pad next to the phone relates to a conversation which has taken place there.
From these "notes" I extrapolated some guesses, mostly musings as to what might have been said, which I related again over the phone to Aaron. Now if ever there was a man who lived by the dictum "No thought exists without a material support," it is this man. To better actualize my reportage, he promptly set them to music and sent them back to me in the form of an album of bluegrass music in the tradition of Uncle Dave Macon, an Appalachian mountaineer whose music we shared an admiration for. The songs were brilliant and we decided to shop the album to record producers. But Aaron insisted that it was not ready. In his typical Wagnerian fashion, Aaron produced a series of artworks, prints, and sculptures, one for each song on the record, and each corresponding to the stations of the cross. With a final piece to represent the record's totality. Look for the lavish box set with reproductions of the artworks in the exhibition on "What The..." Records in 2012.
LaMontagne Gallery is also pleased to present A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann, an exhibition of new sculpture and rubbings by Aaron Spangler.
It is my privilege to serve as muse and glue for the exhibition "HI / A Simple Heart: Der Kleiner Mann" by Dana Frankfort and Aaron Spangler. How did this unlikely collaboration come about? What circumstances might unite Dana, the New York Jew, with Aaron, the backwoods hillbilly? Through myself of course, the backwoods hillbilly NY Jew. But let's not dwell on geographical and religious roots like a couple of blind fascists, angry about the failure of our revolution. There is a more complex story here. The genesis of the works in this exhibition came about when I asked Dana if she might report my problems to her analyst as though they were her own, as I was looking for answers but did not have sufficient funds to engage in therapy. Dana agreed, and took notes during the sessions with the intent of returning these to me. However, the notes turned out to be of little use in solving my various relationship troubles and financial woes, as they were written in oil paint on canvas. Also, most of them were just little phrases which had nothing to do with what the therapist was saying, any more than the drawings on a pad next to the phone relates to a conversation which has taken place there.
From these "notes" I extrapolated some guesses, mostly musings as to what might have been said, which I related again over the phone to Aaron. Now if ever there was a man who lived by the dictum "No thought exists without a material support," it is this man. To better actualize my reportage, he promptly set them to music and sent them back to me in the form of an album of bluegrass music in the tradition of Uncle Dave Macon, an Appalachian mountaineer whose music we shared an admiration for. The songs were brilliant and we decided to shop the album to record producers. But Aaron insisted that it was not ready. In his typical Wagnerian fashion, Aaron produced a series of artworks, prints, and sculptures, one for each song on the record, and each corresponding to the stations of the cross. With a final piece to represent the record's totality. Look for the lavish box set with reproductions of the artworks in the exhibition on "What The..." Records in 2012.
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