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Anyone who knows me knows I've never been one to revel in the past. I'm the last one to cast a misty-eyed glance back at the "good old days". In my experience the people who take this angle are usually the ones who weren't there. Whatever mistakes, false starts and missed opportunities I've had the pleasure of having, I was wherever I was for better or worse.

This blog is not meant to romanticize any choices I made or any particular era. It's simply a place where I share stories and take stock of where I've been as a way to figure out where I might want to go next. I'll celebrate some people along the way, some of them you'll know or know of, others will be new to you. I'm glad to have known every one of them.

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March 21, 2012

OREGON PAINTING SOCIETY AT TATE MODERN PORTLAND 2010

This is a video of the art collective I founded with some dear friends of mine in Portland called Oregon Painting Society.

In this video we can be seen at the Tate Modern’s 10th Anniversary celebration in 2010. We were invited to London by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and the curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni to be a part of their No Soul for sale event in the museum’s Turbine Hall.

The festival drew 90,000 visitors and I’d estimate we met most of them. It was a beyond fun introducing OPS’s vibe to so many awesome people from every corner of the planet…not that a sphere can really have corners…more like fractal edges or…you get the idea.

I consider it one of the greatest privileges of my “career” (ha!) in art and music to have landed in a group like OPS. They are seriously the best. 

Video by Brenna Murphy (?)

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11:45am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zl8DhvILTpmD
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Filed under: Maurizio Cattelan Oregon Painting Society Tate Modern brenna murphy cecilia alemani massimiliano gioni London Portland art brenna murphy barbara kinzle birch cooper 
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