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Photographer Renate Ponsold Motherwell Dies at 87
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On a summer morning in Provincetown, the door of Joerg Dressler’s Pleasant Street studio is wide open, easing the boundary between the controlled calm inside and the rhythms of pedestrians crossing between Commercial and Bradford streets. Light pours into the space through skylights. Dressler’s paint tubes are neatly ordered by color, and the wooden floor, splattered with paint, traces Dressler’s history here where he has been painting since 2001.
The paintings on the walls span changes in his career, including an early atmospheric oil, a landscape with a three-dimensional mountain-like form, and several paintings in a style for which he is perhaps most known, in which realistic snippets of landscapes — often sourced from photographs Dressler takes while traveling — float in hard-edged abstract spaces, interrupted with splotches of color.
On one wall is a new body of work he will be showing at Alden Gallery. He started the paintings in Miami, where he lives in the winter, but his inspiration is more local.
“I wanted to bring in the experience of Provincetown but without the expected things,” he says. “But I think I lost track of that.” There are elements of the world right outside his door in these paintings, particularly in the imagery of water and male bodies on display
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Motherwell termed this process “relational structures.” He told me that he first learned this procedure from the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Although Whitehead had just retired from Harvard when the young student from California arrived, Motherwell attended his emeritus lectures at Wellesley College. Of all Motherwell’s references to philosophy, writings by Whitehead may be the most frequent. At the time I was at the studio, the artist had seven books by Whitehead in his library, four of which were acquired when he was at Harvard. Whitehead once wrote, “Importance generates interest. Interest leads to discrimination. In this way the two factors stimulate each other.” Motherwell related to me, “Whitehead led me to understand a self-contained system of internal relations. This is how I could start as an abstract artist.” During the months that I was at the studio, I rarely saw Motherwell without a book in his hand. He was both a deep reader and in his own words “browsed” literature for ideas that informed and complemented his artistic vision.
For Motherwell, relational structures were, in his words “the relations between elements–rhythm, spatial interval, format, extension, liquidity, light, intensity of hue, and so forth.” He continued: “When a painting is not feeling