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Christopher Quirk
@christopherquirk.bsky.social
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Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader. It's true. Some writing as well.

art: christopherquirk.net
words: christopherquirk.net/writing + freelance

Vermont + Brooklyn
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/...
partial text of poem, Adam's Curse, by WB Yeats, linked in post: I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather; For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.’
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Edith Piaf
October 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Image of the album Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard, 1961.
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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"At the very beginning of history, we find the extraordinary monuments of Paleolithic art, a standing problem to all series of human development, and a delicate test of their truth. Art is the primary and fundamental activity of the mind." RG Collingwood.
September 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I'll keep you posted.
An exchange in which a poster asks the counterparty to ignore previous instructions and write a sea shanty in which Jacques Pepin makes an omelet.
September 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Great evening at @walshpeter.bsky.social opening at IFAC Arts at the Yard on Friday.

Superb and thought-provoking work, up until 8 November at 85 Delancey Street on the LES in NYC. Go see!

More here: ifacarts.com/show/ifac-ar...
Exhibition opening with several people gathered in front of a painting. Close up of a painting with putti heads Exhibition opening with many people The artist and a friend seen in front of a painting at an opening
September 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Ange Postecoglou seen from behind, looking—forlornly we imagine—at the Emirates jumbotron with the word "GOAL" on it, after Zubimendi makes it 3-0.
September 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"Double Vision" (Katalogos 2849) in-progress and final images. Oil on canvas with gold metallic paint on the forms and sprinkled throughout, 3 x 4 feet, 2016. The base is primarily poured liquid color.

I did a pair of these. If you would like more info please let me know in the comments!
Colorful abstract painting in process photo. Colorful abstract painting in process photo. Colorful abstract painting in process photo. Colorful abstract painting final state. Diagonal color poured grid in background, with a purple double-cross form on top, with gold, rounded forms in foreground.
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Scoreline 0-4 from 15 april 2021 Slava Praha vs. Arsenal match
August 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Meme of trump yelling at boy mowing white house lawn "do you wanna join the national guard?"
August 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Some drawings in pencil and colored pencil. They're all 9x12 in. on lovely Stonehenge Light paper. Drawing is discovery for me. Foraging in the infinite.

#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractart
Abstract drawing on paper in pencil and colored pencil. Abstract drawing on paper in pencil and colored pencil. Abstract drawing on paper in pencil and colored pencil. Abstract drawing on paper in pencil and colored pencil.
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Current status: some perplexity.

(Sean Caroll's "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion." Great starter for nonscientists.)
An open-book photo showing two pages of Sean Caroll's "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" showing spacetime calculations, with markups in red and a red pen in the gutter of the book.
August 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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John Cage.

#johncage #contemporarymusic #mobilephonemoire #contemporaryart #yesandagainyes
An image of text, a quote by John Cage: I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Photo from a few years ago of our Pippa, looking like a little lupa, in the studio. She may not fully approve of the goings-on.
Picture of a medium-sized dog, looking at the camera, in an artist's studio.
August 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Quick vid from recent open studio. Paintings are (first) 6 ft x 5 ft and (second) 5 ft x 4 ft, oil on canvas, from my current In Medias Res series. Drawings are studies for paintings in the series.

There's some background on the series in my recent newsletter:
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August 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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15 states of the painting of Swerve (Katalogos 3026). Painting is 3 x 4 ft., oil on canvas. Worked on this for probably several months on and off.

Drop a note in comments below if you are interested in more info.
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#johnvonneumann #mathematics #maniac #benjaminlabatut #mobilephonemoire
Quote from John von Neumann, mathematician: In mathematics, you don't understand things, you just get used to them."
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I love paper as it's a fast surface and easy to mix with drawing. I've put pencils through 2 canvases of late. Not fun.

Untitled (Katalogos 2842), 22 x 30 in. Acrylic, metallic acrylic, and pencil on paper, 2015.

#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractpainting
Abstract painting with pink, black, green, brown, and silver, with drawing in pencil.
August 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Back to the rack: Another from a group of acrylic paintings on paper with warm colors/ landscape tones/drawing.

Untitled (Katalogos 2841), 22 x 30 in. Acrylic, metallic acrylic, and pencil on paper, 2015.

#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractpainting
Colorful abstract painting with reds, orange, green, brown, and silver, with drawing in pencil.
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Back to the rack: From a series of acrylic paintings on paper featuring hot colors and landscape tones, with drawing.

Untitled (Katalogos 2840), 22 x 30 in. Acrylic, metallic acrylic, and pencil on paper, 2015.

#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractpainting
Colorful abstract painting with reds, orange, green, brown, and grey, with drawing in pencil.
August 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Large paintings from Dona Nelson's phenomenal show at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia last year. Dona also had a recent show at Thomas Erben in NYC.

Many of the paintings were two-sided, mounted on metal braces in the middle of the gallery.

#abstractpainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting
Large, colorful abstract painting in a freestanding metal brace. Large, colorful abstract painting in a freestanding metal brace. Large, colorful abstract painting in a freestanding metal brace. Large, colorful abstract painting in a freestanding metal brace.
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Back to the rack. This one is from 2013, untitled (Katalogos 2723), acrylic and pencil on paper, 22 x 30 in.
Image of a painting on paper with two green and multicolored forms, side by side, with drawing.
August 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Still image from “Solaris” by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972) Man in hallway of space station, half dressed. Still image from “Solaris” by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972) Woman looking in mirror. Still image from “Solaris” by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972) Roiling fluid of a planet. Still image from “Solaris” by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972) Debris-strewn corridor of space station with two men.
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Still image from The Wire's "taking notes on a criminal conspiracy" scene.
August 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

If we're talking this weekend, A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956) and Not Reconciled (Straub + Huillet, 1965)
Movie photo for the film "A Man Escaped" Movie photo for the film "Not Reconciled"
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM