Nick here.
Over the past few months, our group has enjoyed good fortune. The Miami Stuckists are now set to run a group show this Saturday at the Grace Cafe and Galleries, and we are now also featured in several newspapers and periodicals throughout South Florida. Not excluded from this list is City Link Metromix, whose arts and culture writer, Colleen Dougherty, was kind enough to contact me for an interview. The full story is provided here:
http://southflorida.metromix.com/arts-culture/essay_photo_gallery/meet-the-stuckists/1373013/content
On that note, I would like to present my counter-arguments to some critiques made on the subject.
1. On the subject of 'ready-mades' (i.e. Emin's My Bed):
As ridiculous as it may seem, many of today's conceptual artists have stolen the spotlight in the art world with their renditions of the ready-made, a market commodity, while the painters and the other labor-intensive media artists are compelled to sacrifice large amounts of time and energy in order to complete a work, many times without the promise of success. In that fact lies a great deal of injustice.
Whereas the painter is engaged in a constant struggle to achieve a spiritual bond and a kind of self-actualization through his or her own work, the conceptual artist (in this case Emin) is engaged in a constant struggle to decide where in relation to the bed the discarded condom wrapper should be placed.
Getting to the point however, the severe underlying problem with this approach to art is that the soul of a conceptual artist (or any artist, for that matter) cannot truly receive nourishment or gratification from real-world objects. Painting, on the other hand, is a completely ritualistic and mystical practice which holds steady to a rhythm. The heartbeat of the painter can be felt as the viewer glances over the piece, with an orchestra of line, color, form, and composition working in unison to perform a visual symphony.
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