PENCIL PAPER:
My Talk with Brian Cronin
Artists 08.20.08
"Brian Cronin: 25 Years and Change"
Retrospective 1983--2008
Casa da Cerca, Center for Contemporary Art
Lisbon, Portugal
(On view through August 30, 2008)
"Going Over Home: Photographs by Fred Woodward"
401 Projects
401 West Street (at Charles Street), NYC
(On view through August 24, 2008)
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Brian Cronin came up to my office at 4 Times Square late last February--dapper as always--asking if we could do a little interview to be used in the catalog that would accompany an upcoming retrospective in Lisbon of his illustration career.
I borrowed a recorder and a couple of cassettes, and we talked until I ran out of tape.
He was in the very early stages of working toward a fine-art show (also to be shown in Lisbon this October). We talked about the source of his creativity, his early and present influences (Glaser and Bergman), art versus commerce, growing up in a Dublin bed & breakfast, starting over at age 50, racing the clock, and that elusive thing called joy.
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