N-O-E-L, L-O-U-G-H-L-I-N. NEIL WILLIAMS: It's been 40, 40-plus-year friendship. I think thatfor me, when she started doing the larger works and the color fields, I didn't feel the emotional connection that she had with them before. A woman said there was a box, there were 300 applications in them, and there were a dozen of them with Ph.Ds., and there was 12 in-house masters waiting for someone to roll over so that they couldyou know, it's so political, even in these community college systems. Salary in 2019. While many people do not always speak openly of their faith in God, they very naturally believe in God, and in times of crisis, their prayers and hopes ascend to God, Elder Andersen said. NEIL WILLIAMS: She liked looking more at images than reading. Was there a wheel? NEIL WILLIAMS: wasn't as finished, and it seemed driven by a need and a compulsion to keepto keep working, to keep building, to keep itkeep it big andso, I don't know if that helps answer that question. [Affirmative.] ", NEIL WILLIAMS: And then Viola would say, "The hardest part is the first hour in the studio, getting there and getting it generated, and warming up and getting to work. MIJA RIEDEL: When I look at the list of different galleries you've been affiliated with over 20 or 30 years, there are many galleries, [that included your work MR] in a group show here or a group show there. Washington, DC 20001, 300 Park Avenue South Suite 300 And he was very fascinated by them, them being clustered and so. Racing and Sports is a Registered Trademark. I mean, I get students that spend time with other people for two years and can't do a thing, and then in a matter of couple of quick sessions, they just blossom, and I love that. And so I don't know where it came fromhis Buffalo Soldier, you know, his Native American, Indian, or just his spirituality of knowing that he was there for a higher calling orbut really unique guy, real interesting. NEIL WILLIAMS: there. There is a memorial at Caulfield that lists the names of 873 Australian She used to make them. I used to love the little Scottsdale Museum Fairthat was nice for me, made it into a vacation. MIJA RIEDEL: [ -MR] Garth Clark suggested that the plates were a way that she worked with masslet me read this exact quote: "Volume just appeared in the junk pieces, volume retreats before mass, and as mass increases, volume diminishes in most of the work." You'll have a good life. NEIL WILLIAMS: It was elusive; it was not subtle. [Affirmative.] NEIL WILLIAMS: And it didn't make sense to me right away, but there's no reason why it alldrawing and painting color can't apply to a simple vessel. And then I realizedlet go of that and just realized by turning inside and making nice work, making good work, in a very, very small way, can do that. What's your diet? She was intoxicated by color and form, like one of theas any good art junkie could be. And I want to make a contribution. Access to the entire audio recording is restricted. But it should have something more than just being a painting or a sculpture. Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks during the campus devotional in the Marriott Center on the BYU campus in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. It always helps me visualize that there is that loving, just, merciful, all-knowing, perfect God and Savior and the Holy Spirit that love us and walking right along side us.. Is that correct? We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. This is not an easy path.". I'm. NEIL WILLIAMS: In the later ones, especially the reclining ones. She liked being around the school. Right. And he would talk about, "An ism," he said. And Viola would yell out of the side, "Art's about personal experience!" Three days a week? It was very liberating accepting that putting myself into a period or a point that it's, like good art should ask more questions than it answers. NEIL WILLIAMS: I don't knowwhere thatI didn't knowunderstand what that was about. They worked alone, and they were more isolationists. Ive seen so many people who go to wrong sources. Is there any tradition involved in bolstering the success of that intent? But I'm notI don't know. She's not a there's no excuses not to be successful, not to do your work. Andbut he was a mad cobbler because he was a shoeleather and shoe smith, and we'd call him the mad cobbler. NEIL WILLIAMS: Well, the people around Arts and Crafts there at the time. The second piece, you don't care what the outcome is. But the plates, yes, they wereshe saw them as paintings, and then again she saw thethe line did get blurred in a wonderful way because she was using some other elements in them later. So, that's a lot of the reason why her and I dropped off, too, after I left working for her. That's all I have to say." And then it came up and I said, "Oh, those are from Dorothy.". This site is maintained by Racing and Sports Pty Ltd (ABN 093 360 108) ("R&S"). But the pressure on those, I can't imagine some of them. WebThis is Aalto. I've tried to keep it simple so that I don't implode or get too far out there, but I've also tried to keep it logical so that it has some progression, not to an endpoint, because we don't want to do that. NEIL WILLIAMS: And, one of my bothers was creative, who passed away. I wasn'tit wasn't driven like Viola was, or so many other artists, you know. Was it. I said, "What is that?" Okay. And she was talking about it and trying to talk about samples of other students' work and Viola had a realshe was veryfragmented in her approach toand like I said, and I'll say again, at her memorial service, I said, "If we""If I don't"the first thing I had to say, "If I can't get through this, or I speak in incomplete sentences, it's because Viola did, too, and we used to love to fill infinish each other's sentences, and fill in the blanks." NEIL WILLIAMS: Otherwise we're isolated, lonely, horrific souls, NEIL WILLIAMS: but they were so always nervous about public aspect of it, if you'reI think an artist individual, and you're not really prone to drawing attention to yourself. Similarity in that it staysI stay engaged with it, and I'm not losing interest. 0000114923 00000 n NEIL WILLIAMS: That's ifso if they weren't just a pair of banal, NEIL WILLIAMS: things standing there with some splashes of color on them. I said, "You're kidding me?" And such a cacheit's funny because at this party I remember, Richard Shaw and Arneson and Manuel coming in, Neri coming in, and looking around the backyard, and they hadn't been there, and there was a period, there was this silence, looking around and I was standing and listening toI can't recall who said it. And then they'll bump somebody out and it's like, what happened to that person? NEIL WILLIAMS: I wasViola was just coming out ofViola was getting very pressed to get work out and around and she really needed help and, NEIL WILLIAMS: there wasn't anyone else near her that I saw or, I don't think that Charles saw, that could jump in there andfirst of all figure her out, what she wanted. [Laughs.]. NEIL WILLIAMS: And so shecollected a lot of ammo in that area. She would especially giggle and laugh if she was nervous, you know, nervous in company, or, nervous in front of a collector or nervous in front ofshe would giggle and laugh. I thought, from your C.V. that you had a couple solo shows with Dorothy in. Tanya Reid Obituary Death: Tanya Reid Cause Of Death, Cleverley Stone Obituary Death: Cleverley StoneCause Of Death. NEIL WILLIAMS: They'd tell you to grow up, and yetbut at the same timeit was empowering and working with clay. About your work? MIJA RIEDEL: It's interesting since we've talked briefly and we'll talk quite a bit more about this going back and forth between two and 3D. He said, "Cezanne's apples on the table have always done that for me. And they likethen there was this huddle. NEIL WILLIAMS: If you like the attention, if you like the advantages, great, but if it's at the cost of your life, or if it's at the cost of your work going soft or losing its edge, I mean all artists have ebbs and flows, right? There were some reallya lot of good moments. And Ralph Bacerra was there because he was Michael's instructor. NEIL WILLIAMS: And, she's got a great level of appreciation for arts, and she's been really, really good, reallyshe's tough though, too. Nothing. NEIL WILLIAMS: And they're all looking off indifferent directions with this vacant, yet intriguing look on their faces. He did some time forlet me see, just dealing in weed or something. He hasmany strengths, including creating big brand idea/concepts, crafting emotive brand stories that flow effortlessly and leading the development and ideation of advertising campaigns. NEIL WILLIAMS: There's a certainnot that I want to take anybody's breath awaybut there's a certainwhen you're making it even, there's a certain gasp or a certain vibrancy I think there. NEIL WILLIAMS: So we fired all the kilnsI fired all the kilns in the summers, they were gas kilns. [Laughs.] That's why he was able to amass such an amazing collection and important collection, and have such a profound impact in a positive way on so many artists. You know, [Pierre] Alechinsky and Yorin Appelle [ph]; Brian Oll [ph]; Gilais [ph], his favorite painter, just a magnificentI mean, all of the guys that really impacted American abstract painters, too. 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They can bebut then you can get guys in high school that can send kids, artists, students well off into significant careers. That scares me. NEIL WILLIAMS: Of course you do a lot ofin your studies oryou're going to work on flat pieces from now and then, but mostly all in the round. NEIL WILLIAMS: Absolutely, American artist. MIJA RIEDEL: Okay. I think it was a hand with a carrot mold piece, and then she wanted to do a whole figure in bronze, and paint it in alkyd oils and it justforit sat and she painted it for a while, and it was outdoors. It's like Viola would say, "Look down the street, it's just if you took away all the trees there would be no harmony." NEIL WILLIAMS: It's right across from the Veteran's Cemetery. You got to be making work you love to look at becauseand surround yourself with because you may have to." NEIL WILLIAMS: I remember when it showed up, it was all bright and it was a metal bronze thing and I mean, they were okay. MIJA RIEDEL: Did anybody ever corroborate that besides Charles? What do I do now? And I let her go, and I said "Well," and then she would go, "Oh, so I'm wondering if you could come and unload the kiln and put the Red Woman together so it could be seen." We thought he was going to have a stroke. And itand then something got softer about it, I thought. Andwriters, there are so many of them, there are so many good ones. I would say, "Yeah, all right Viola. NEIL WILLIAMS: So I didn't know it was even available, and they said, 'Oh yeah, they're encouraging it.' . And you're taking criticisms, like the great Woody Allen quote about when he didn't show up to receive the Oscar for Annie Hall, and they found him outside of a club. There was something about the big block of color, although there was good color change and wonderful painting in it. This information is provided for entertainment purposes only. There's a certain clarity that happens, or a certain subtle little discovery that seems to make a difference. NEIL WILLIAMS: So there is a key, there is a keyhole shape between them, especially in the black that was real important. He saysit was so bad, Mario was literally in his tent with a flashlight on his head so he could draw in the middle of the night to finish these assignments. And that's really a shame, and that's probably two-fold. NEIL WILLIAMS: And completely supportive, 110 percent. Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies. I mean, Betty Asher was wonderful, of course, the matriarch of west coast art, and Rena kept an eye on me and was always very generous and very helpful, especially if I needed to reach out and, "Rena, I have a few new pieces I would like to be able to get some more materials," and she would buy them and resell them. MIJA RIEDEL: Mm-hmm. Your childhood friend, finding him face down in his living room. NEIL WILLIAMS: But isn't that the case with so many great artists in history? I thought his move to the Gold Coast was based on [Affirmative.] NEIL WILLIAMS: And she started to eventually, but she thought, "Oh my gosh, they're going to go around me and sell," and so it was ironic because, 20-something years later, I would meet somebody like Sandy Besser in Santa Fe, who donated the work to the de Young Museum, or someone would say, " Oh gosh, I've been buying your work for 26 years." NEIL WILLIAMS: But, in this case there's no need to. So, MIJA RIEDEL: Well, clearly, you had an extraordinary facility early on with the material. And he built them, and they were the original administration buildings. It reads as one form. NEIL WILLIAMS: Well, it was always, like she saidagain coming out of the Crocker retrospectivewhich was our first major, like, together, helping her install pieces because there-she had stuff delivered there that I hadn't seen before, and was like, "Will you put all this stuff together?" NEIL WILLIAMS: and Marjorie, before she passed away, a few years agomy mother passed away nine, 10 years agoand Marjorie passed away just last year. NEIL WILLIAMS: Way, way far, pushing the envelope. 0000116887 00000 n We talked about him a little yesterday. So I don't know. Any agency would be lucky to have him. But, no need to die off young foryou can give your all for your work and still live to tell about it. So, those kinds of pressures to produce, pressures to create, they're a double-edged sword. Like even when I do production work, or picturing other pieces I'd like to explore. Or does it feel like a continuous line mostly? NEIL WILLIAMS: That'syeah that's just it. Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. MIJA RIEDEL: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I would certainly buy it as a reader but. Manuel Neri? MIJA RIEDEL: This is Mija Riedel with Neil Williams in the artist's home and studio in Auburn, CA on June 5, 2014 for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, card number one. I had no idea, so I raced down there and, "Yeah it's in a book, too." NEIL WILLIAMS: And it makes thethere's a certain way it it makes the work cleaner in a way. They got very pronounced. NEIL WILLIAMS: Approaching them as a painting. Probably the most profound influence there I can remember there was third grade? Does it matter that they go back that far, to childhood? kind elderly gentleman spent the whole week hanging these plates, and he would measure each one and try and hang it so that they looked spatially balanced. I'm part-time caregiver to him now. 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