man crush: blinky palermo

Blinky Palermo at his exhibition

"Palermo. Bilder und Zeichungen"

Galerie Priedrich + Dahlem

Munich

1966

I had never heard of

Blinky Palermo

until I stumbled into a room of his paintings at

 Dia Beacon 

years ago.

It was love at first sight.

I wanted to start painting right then and there.

I didn't start for probably

for 4 of 5 years 

after that,

but Blinky was always with me....

"Portrait of Palermo"

1973

(With "Untitled (9Wvz 110)" in the background)

Photo: Tim Rautert

Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke and Palermo

at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf

1965

Photo: Ute Klophause

Joseph Beuys

"Für Blinky"

1980

(detail)

"Untitled (Wvz 133)"

1970

One of my paintings from 2009.

My goal was to paint 100 small paintings using the scraps

of plywood that the Lumber Store next door would

put out with the trash every Wednesday.

I'm not sure what number I am currently on,

but it is nearing 

my goal 

of 

100.

They are very time consuming,

so it has taken quite some time.

Detail

"Untitled (Rot-Rosa) (Wvz 49)"

(detail)

1966

Another one from last year.

They are all untitled.

The titles will either be their number,

the date,

or the name of the "celebrity who was getting the most coverage on 

TMZ 

the week the painting was finished.

I haven't decided....

All I know is there will be a lot of Lindsay's....

(detail)

"Rot/Gelb (Wvz 82)"

"Blau/Grün (Wvz 83)

1968

"Untitled (Wvz 54)"

1967

In front of 

"Neue Abstraktion"

1965

Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Blinky and Gerhard Richter

in front of Galerie Heiner Friedrich

Cologne

1967

Blinky is second from left.

Galerie Heiner Friedrich

Cologne

1972

Photo: Tim Rautert

Palermo standing next to one of his 

"Wandmalerei"

(Wall paintings)

1971

Photo: Jürgen Wesseler

Blinky working on one of his wandmalerei.

Galerie Heiner Friedrich

Cologne

1971

Blinky painting

"Blau/Gelb/Weiss/Rot"

at the "STRATEGY: GET ARTS" exhibition

Edinburgh College of Art

1970

Photo: Monika Baumgarti

"Coney Island II (Wvz 179)"

1975

"to the people of NYC"

in Palermos's studio

Düsseldorf

1977

"to the people of NYC"

1976

View of the installation at Dia Center for the Arts

New York

1987

Blinky Palermo

"Untitled"

1970

(detail)

Photographed by Gerhard Richter in front of

Richter's "Wolke".

Gerhard Richter

Bust of Palermo from

"Zwei Skulpturen für einen Raum von Palermo"

1971

Blinky Palermo

1943-1977

RIP

barbara hepworth is a cutie!

Barbara Hepworth

as a cutie.

1906

"At My Studio,

7 The Mall, Hampstead"

1920s

"In Paris with Henry Moore and Edna Ginesi"

1920s

"My Carving with Ben's Painting"

(Ben Nicholson)

1930s

(What are those sculptures in the back?)

"With 'Kneeling Figure'"

1930s

"Self-Photogram, 1932"

Catalog Cover

1933

"My sculpture, a Ben Painting

and a Calder mobile"

1930s

"Forms and Hollows"

Plaster

1930s

"My studio, 7 The Mall, Hampstead"

1930s

"Large with Small Forms"

1934

"'Abstract and Concrete' Exhibition 

at the Lefevre Gallery 

with works by Ben, Mondrian and myself"

"Cast of my left hand by my right hand"

1940s

"My newly acquired Trewyn Studio"

1940s

Maquette for 

"The Unknown Political Prisoner"

1953

Barbara Hepworth

1958

"Trewyn Studio, January 1959"

"Carving yard at the Trewyn Studio"\

1960s

(See her peepin' out the window?)

"The new studio"

1961

"My new studio March 1961"

"In my studio, May 1964"

'The marble yard in my studio"

1960s

"In the workshop with 'Corinthos'"

1960s

"Marble and tools in the stoneyard, 

Trewyn Studio"

1950s

"Carving 'Fugue ll'"

1950s

"In Trewyn Studio garden Spring 1973"

Barbara Hepworth

1902-1975

RIP

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