{"id":816,"date":"2010-11-07T01:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2010-11-07T01:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:56:56","slug":"new-york-year-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"New York Year One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gentle Reader: Please forgive the narcissism that is laced throughout this post, however due to the nature of the subject matter, it could hardly be anything less.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last year I left the DC area to live in New York, Brooklyn to be exact. This move was prompted during an upheaval of my personal life that, if I\u2019m able to look back with clarity, I should have foreseen. These are the things of life. It is now considered a \u201clearning experience\u201d. I\u2019m sure there are people who would have seen the whole thing as some kind of zen parable and shrugged it off with a statement about how the ninth \u201cOx Herding Picture*\u201d illustrates this (it does \u2013 but my head was too far up my ass to see that clearly then).<\/p>\n

I might seem a little bit out of sorts here \u2013 but that is really not the case. This year has been incredible in more ways than I can imagine. I\u2019ve developed friendships and relationships with artists and people I honestly admire and have met people whom I though you would only meet in places I never go to. I have been fortunate to develop a relationship with a gallery here in Chelsea (Blank Space) as well as a beginning one in two other galleries \u2013 Susan Maasch in Portland, Maine and Susan Calloway Fine Arts in Washington DC. I\u2019ll be having a solo show in DC late January.<\/p>\n

Even though the blog has been a bit neglected, my art practice has not. Over the last twelve months I\u2019ve made over 75 artworks \u2013 a few that I even like.<\/p>\n

Footnote<\/h3>\n

For those interested, here is the text that accompanies the 9th Ox Herding Picture.<\/p>\n

The Solitary Moon<\/h4>\n

Nowhere is the beast, and the oxherd is master of his time,
\nHe is a solitary cloud wafting lightly along the mountain peaks;
\nClapping his hands he sings joyfully in the moon-light,
\nBut remember a last wall is still left barring his homeward walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gentle Reader: Please forgive the narcissism that is laced throughout this post, however due to the nature of the subject matter, it could hardly be anything less. Last year I left the DC area to live in New York, Brooklyn to be exact. This move was prompted during an upheaval of my personal life that, if I\u2019m able to look back with clarity, I should have foreseen. These are the things of life. It is now considered a \u201clearning experience\u201d. I\u2019m sure there are people who would have seen the whole thing as some kind of zen parable and shrugged…<\/p>\n

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