photo caption: GONE! BIG TROUBLE, nature morte, Santa Olaya, PR, June 2012.
(Chili Willy courtesy ML Jumpower, TAMU, TX - PAZ poster c/o N.Foss, Delmar, NY)
CANADA DRY
Richard Ford's most recent novel
reviewed by Lorrie Moore in
The New Yorker, May 21, 2012 [excerpt, BOOKS p. 72] There is a story about John Cheever that was once told at Yaddo (in Saratoga Springs, NY) by a young painter in residency there. She was sitting next to Cheever discussing upstate New York, and told him, "Last year I went to Cohoes to buy shoes with Hortense." "Oh, what a wonderful sentence!" he exclaimed. I went to Cohoes to buy shoes with Hortense! At which point the painter thanked her lucky stars that she wasn't a writer, since she had no idea what was remotely lovely about that sentence.
CANADA DRY
Richard Prince's paintings
reviewed by Roberta Smith in
The New York Times, September 28, 2007 [excerpt, ARTS p. 2] ...borscht belt jokes? They are a signature staple that runs rampant in the show, appearing on modernist monochromes, on fields of checks... These examples of a better class of humor are variously whole, fragmented, steeped in white or piled into colorful, nearly abstract patterns yet still retain their familiarity. The same jokes occur in different works, alternately writ big or little, sharp or fading, straight or rippled as if spoken by someone on a bender. MY FATHER WAS NEVER HOME, HE WAS ALWAYS DRINKING BOOZE. HE SAW A SIGN SAYING "DRINK CANADA DRY." SO HE WENT UP THERE.
From the painting: Canada dry, 1989, Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 56 x 48 inches, 142.2 x 121.9 cm
Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR
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