Buzz Spector
Buzz Spector is an artist and writer living in the Hudson Valley.
The image conglomerations in the paintings of the late Los Angeles artist Carole Caroompas foreshadow current mashup culture, both in terms of their play of signifiers and identities and the methods Caroompas deployed to make them.
The occasion of Anne Wilson’s one-day workshop, “Close Looking,” brought me to the second floor of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) on Tuesday, November 5th. For my part, thinking about Election Day and its consequences threatened to overwhelm the centered-on-self attentiveness the artist asked of ten participants.
There’s a substantial history of books and articles documenting the several phases in the campaign by artists for the right to live and work in loft spaces. A more intimate history is brought forth in photographer and filmmaker Joshua Charow’s documentation of the lives of artists in live/work spaces protected, since 1982, by Article 7-C of the New York Multiple Dwelling Law, better known as the “Loft Law.”
