CHARLES CLOUGH CLUFFFALO: SPRING 2O17

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1 CHARLES CLOUGH CLUFFFALO: SPRING 2O17

2 I established the Clufffalo Institute in 2012 to manage my archive and collection and to promote and administer the Clufffalo Painting Workshop at the Roycroft in East Aurora, New York. Clufffalo: Spring 2017 has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Here are the painters, states of the painting and mono-print take-aways made in The Print Shop at The Roycroft in the Spring of ISBN: Charles Clough 2017 Cover: Clufffalo: Spring 2017, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches

3 There are three kinds of Clufffaloes: Seasons, made by all who wish to participate, only at the Roycroft in East Aurora, New York; Places, such as Clufffalo: Hamburg commissioned by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Erie County PublicArt initiative, painted by 150 participants and hanging in the Hamburg, New York Public Library; and Numbers, painted by me alone. The Clufffalo Painting Workshop at the Roycroft began on September 21st, Since then, and including the subject of this book, seven Seasons paintings have been completed by 288 participants in 124 sessions. I provide the space of the workshop, tools and materials, my time and encouragement and freedom, such as it is limited by gravity, viscosity and drying time, for the participants to engage the experience. Through the course of each season the layers of paint accrue and the participants paint their take-aways and be within a transformative creative moment. At the end of the season I grind and polish the painting, with grits from 40 to 12,000 to finish the painting in a manner that fulfills my aesthetic. The Workshop is a further development of my structure of intentionality (the phrase occurred to me many years ago but only recently, having searched, found a reference to John R. Searle, 1983, Intentionality ), that I describe as the photographic epic of a painter as a film or a ghost. This is intuitively anchored in the true, the good and the beautiful. Most of my aspirations have been realized in terms of being an artist and participating in extending the family. After more than forty-five years in the field I ve seen increasing interest in contemporary art accompanied by art that represents a grandiosity that runs counter to my taste. Thus the scale and parameters of production of the Seasons are modest and set in the upstate New York town in which I came to understand myself as an artist. Time is marked by the hands of the participants. The documentation of the Workshop process is made into books, like this one, as a contribution to art history. The project includes whoever wants to participate, so please make an appointment to paint and share the news of this cultural experiment. Although only one session can happen per day, the project is always on. This book follows a format of the participant(s), their state of Clufffalo: Spring 2017 and then their take-away paintings. A separate publication presents stereo photos of details of the process and is available at Charles Clough, 7/5/2017

4 Sybil Baumwell 4

5 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 First State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 5

6 2017_03_30_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 6

7 Jill, Sean and Corrine Favata 7

8 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Second State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 8

9 2017_04_08_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 9

10 2017_04_08_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 10

11 2017_04_08_03, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 11

12 Tina Dillman 12

13 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Third State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 13

14 2017_04_10_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 14

15 Louis Clough 15

16 Vincent Clough 16

17 Veronica Clough 17

18 Meredith LeVee Clough 18

19 Edward Clough 19

20 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Fourth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 20

21 2017_04_18_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 21

22 2017_04_18_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 22

23 2017_04_18_03, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 23

24 2017_04_18_04, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 24

25 2017_04_18_05, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 25

26 Kate Prince 26

27 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Fifth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 27

28 2017_04_21_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 28

29 John Massier 29

30 Rebecca WIng 30

31 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Sixth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 31

32 2017_04_23_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 32

33 2017_04_23_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 33

34 Yvonne Stoklosa 34

35 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Seventh State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches,

36 2017_04_27_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 36

37 Christy Hartung 37

38 Chan Jing Yee 38

39 Jee Wei 39

40 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Eighth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches,

41 2017_05_17_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 41

42 2017_05_17_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 42

43 2017_05_20_03, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 43

44 Nayana Pratt 44

45 Meera Desai 45

46 Karen Gifford 46

47 John Pratt 47

48 Tammy Pratt 48

49 Rajesh Desai 49

50 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Ninth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 50

51 2017_05_20_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 51

52 2017_05_20_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 52

53 2017_05_20_03, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 53

54 2017_05_20_04, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 54

55 2017_05_20_05, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 55

56 2017_05_20_06, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches, with John Pratt 56

57 Rebecca Hyde 57

58 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Tenth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 58

59 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Tenth State (detail), 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 59

60 Scott Propeack 60

61 Anthony Bannon 61

62 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Eleventh State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 62

63 2017_05_26_01,, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 63

64 2017_05_26_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 64

65 Mila Tunkey 65

66 Serene Tunkey 66

67 Elaine Chow 67

68 Mike Tunkey 68

69 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Twelfth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 69

70 2017_05_28_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 70

71 2017_05_28_02, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 71

72 2017_05_28_03, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 72

73 2017_05_28_04, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 10 x 8 inches 73

74 Gillian Coykendall 74

75 Clufffalo: Spring 2O17 Thirteenth State, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 32 x 44 inches 75

76 2017_06_11_01, 2017, latex on expanded pvc, 8 x 10 inches 76

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