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Brian Dupont
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An artist making paintings out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.

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Great #JoanMitchell #painting show at @davidzwirner. These two ( at the beginning and end of the show) break out of a predominantly forest nocturne pallet of deep blues and greens with flashes of color that explode off her gestures.

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November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
From completed #painting to work in process. Not completely back to the drawing board, but fixing things that have bothered me as it sits around the studio and gets looked at more and more; it’s still not quite done.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I always enjoy the subtle eccentricities of Richard Rezak’s #sculpture; here are 2 small works exhibited as a part of Luhring Augustine’s “Sliced Tropics & Cosmic Dancers”

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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Running Arcs (For John Cage)” at @gagosian is somewhat the expected experience from a #RichardSerra, but it he experience with the #sculpture is still amazing.

Against Serra’s expressed wishes, the attached pics are in color.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Nice Halloween theme from the MTA this morning.
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Printer’s #Drawing, redrawn. My process when working in a series is to revisit themes and formal structures that generated earlier drawings.

ARCHIVE 14
Graphite, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#Drawing for a catalog; drawing as a different kind of archive and library.; The Illiad’s catalog of ships retrofit onto the meeting of whaling vessels in MobyDick.

ARCHIVE 13
Graphite, ink & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#Drawing for measures.

ARCHIVE 12
Ink, mixed media & collage on paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#Drawing for Ulysses; setting Latinate origins against the visual measure of metre (dactylic hexameter).

ARCHIVE 11
Charcoal, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Very pleased to have been a part of the #SeeStopRun publication of Christopher Wool’s sprawling downtown exhibition. This is a great publication that really captures a sense of the show.

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October 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Really liked the #CadyNoland framed works that didn’t seem like reprintings or fragments of previous works on aluminum, but then maybe I just didn’t identify the sources for these…

They do have a Christopher Wool vibe that I really like.

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October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#Drawing for #MobyDick

ARCHIVE 9
Ink, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
… here’s the original artwork!
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#Drawing for a printer & press. Rome Brothers published the first edition of Whitman’s Leaves ofGrass.

ARCHIVE 8
Graphite, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My favorite Steven Parrino work at Gagosian. “Disruption” 1981. It has an uncanny shift between the expectations of progression and media.

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October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Small #art as the distillation of practice. Very much enjoying the conceptual breadth of Steven Parrino’s work at Gagosian.
October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Some great Elizabeth Murray #painting in ‘Sliced Tropics & Cosmic Dancers‘ at Luhring Augustine.

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October 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#Drawing as scratching to find an open field. Returning to the Odyssey’s catalog of ships & Crates of Mallus’ exegesis of Homer.

ARCHIVE 7
Graphite, acrylic, mixed media & collage transfer on paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#Drawing for alliteration, depending on translation, combining The Odyssey and Moby Dick. T is for Tashtego, T is for “tell me…”

ARCHIVE 7
Graphite, acrylic & #MixedMedia on #paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Drawing as a mapping of the sections of narrative in the Odyssey.

ARCHIVE 6
Graphite, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#Drawing from a list; the Illiad’s catalog of ships transposed with the game from Moby Dick.

ARCHIVE 5
Graphite, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Depth study as part of a new #drawing series: Gesture to arrange notation of space, erasure as addition.

ARCHIVE 4
Pencil, acrylic and mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#Drawing based on measures of sound vs accumulation of mass: the Odyssey’s dactylic hexameter meter set on axis against the repetition (in translation) of the fist line “Sing to me…”

Archive 3
Ink, acrylic, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

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October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Continuing #drawing series; black and white as a way to focus on gesture, text & script.

ARCHIVE 2
Graphite, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New #drawing series thinking about fictions of literature, mythology, and material. Forcing myself to work in black & white, so the series relates to printing & film trying to introduce time as an element of visual process.

ARCHIVE 1
Pencil, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM