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So I am writing up an article for ArtScene on an artist who was once a teacher of mine. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I did feel a bit of special insight into his process as an artist having seen the way he conducted a class.
Right after artwalk we left LA for two days in beautiful downtown Bakersfield, where I was the Eminent Speaker at Bakersfield College. I gave two talks to groups of 150 and 90 in attendance respectively. Most were students, some had no idea of what a gallery or a museum was, others were “digging my message” as people came up after the talk and wanted my autograph – that was weird. I signed some copies of Coagula for people and then we went out for Basque cuisine. the food up there was great. The drive was easy. And I saw a bar with the name The Silver Fox and had to get a picture of my greying locks with it. Being 42 feels fine…