Monday, January 18, 2016

David Bowie, Visual Artist



New York Times article by Roslyn Sulcasjan, January 14, 2016

"LONDON — One day in the early 1990s, Karen Wright, then editor of the British magazine Modern Painters, received a phone call asking if David Bowie could come to dinner with her editorial board. “We arranged to meet at the Groucho Club” in London, Ms. Wright said in a telephone interview. “When I arrived, he was looking at a Picasso catalog, and we immediately began to talk about the images, and then quickly chose a cover for my next magazine.” Mr. Bowie joined the board, and over the next few years he interviewed numerous art world figures, including Balthus, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel.


During this same period, Mr. Bowie was fervently creating his own art, producing hundreds of paintings, chalk and charcoal drawings, collages of computer-generated images and sculptural objects that began to find their way into auctions and exhibitions.
Composer, pop icon, designer, movie star, fashion inspiration, conduit for the avant-garde — Mr. Bowie was all that, and a visual artist and collector, too, who at this particular moment in his life gave as much attention to painting, drawing and sculpture as he did to his music...." For the rest, go to the article.

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