Elliott Green
Interview with Catherine Murphy
From Tether 4, pages 54–70
Elliott: And about a motif you’ve returned to over and over—stacks, piles, and holes. What is it about that theme that has drawn your attention for such a long time?
Catherine: I think this is universal. I think that it’s almost Jungian. I think this is something our human psyches naturally like. I’ve been thinking about stacking things and piles of things for years and years 58 Studio Shelves, 2008, pencil on paper, 21 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches 59 and years, and when I looked at books—-there would always be that wood between the books—the shelf—and I didn’t like that wood. It was just never right, it was never right; then all of a sudden, it was like Ahhhhhhhh!
Image: Stacked, 2017, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches
Courtesy the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc. New York / Paris
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Tether 4 contains Salomo Friedlaender’s musings on the work of George Grosz; poems by noted German poet Durs Grünbein; a poem by English Modernist Joseph Gordon Macleod; Erik LaPrade’s look at the peculiar papier-mâché works of Otis Burger; Mark Ford’s translations of two episodes from the draft of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus; an interview between painters Elliott Green and Catherine Murphy; John Reid Currie’s melancholic poetry; Paul Grimstad exploring the number 42; early photographs by Diana MacKown; Kreg Hasegawa’s curious short story; Paul Maziar’s look at pastry chef portraits by Chaim Soutine and August Sander; Barry Schwabsky’s recounting of an experience with the Farnese Sarcophagus; a portfolio of Paula Wilson’s vibrant paintings; Erica Van Horne’s prose poems; John Yau, Carol Szymanski, and Siv Støldal's playful bee keeper costume collaboration; and Francis M. Naumann’s unraveling of the fantastically cryptic Dada poems by Walter Arensberg.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
32 color and 34 black and white images
Item Weight : 0.69 pounds
Paperback : 156 pages
ISBN: 978069219455351800
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2018)
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