After Balthus

Balhtus' Andre Derain, 1936:



working on appropriating some of his compositions, like in an "after Balthus" way.

more soon...

it's on

Lately artists who don't paint have been enjoying taking subtle jabs at painting by saying to me "I wish I was a painter, it's just so easy", and "it only takes, like, 20 minutes to install your show", and "all you have to do is make it and people come and buy it from you".

I don't think young artists realize that they may be simply regurgitating the hackneyed rhetoric of an older generation of conceptual artists, and yeah, as a painter, it's getting old. And yeah, these conversattions provide fodder for a less demanding brain, they offer nothing fresh to the discourse, and totally ignore a huge chunk of new and interesting contemporary art, and also display a neglect for the possibilities of the tactile experience that art provides.

Painting Still Lively in the 21st Century, NY Times, March 26th, 2010


The Long Jump by Carl Lewis by Henry Taylor

First Year MFA show: Wednesday February 24th at Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley

Join us "first years" for our first year's show:

"Footnote"
First Year MFA Exhibition

Wednesday February 24th, 4pm - 7pm

Worth Ryder Gallery
Kroeber Hall
University of California at Berkeley



Seven Artists:
Narangkar Glover
Plinio Hernandez
Corrina Nicole
Merav Tzur
Chris Vargas
David Wallace
Sandi Yi

MG Window Display Project, at night

MG Gallery Window Display Project, complete

"shangri-la girl's school" at MG Gallerywill be up until January 30th, 2010

MG Window Display Project, January 16th - January 30th

MG Gallery Window Display Project, day one

I'm working on an installation this month at MG Gallery (in Oakland at 56th and Shattuck). For this project I installed sheetrock around the perimeters of the space and on it I'm doing a continuous drawing, sort of like a panorama.

The installation will be done on the 16th and will be viewable at night through the windows of the gallery space. We'll have an informal gathering there sometime while it's up - so stay tuned...

"Pocket Money" Gocco Print

pocket money, 2.5 x 3.5 inches, edition of 40

I've been increasingly interested in re-creating these things from childhood as artifacts, in a sense. Some of them are straight from memory. Some require a little research. For the pocket money print, I had to seek out images of the originals in order to get the details accurate, and I was able to track down a former classmate that preserved some of her old pocket money (a feat unto itself).

the scan of this print is a little off, and the pink in the actual print is a fluorescent pink, which was the closest gocco printing ink i could get my hands on.

Holiday Land

Had ourselves a good time these past few weekends:



Here we are at Blankspace Gallery's Holidayland, posing with Jason Byers' Babe the Blue Ox installation. What fun!

New Work, Fall 2009

After a rigorous and productive first semester of graduate school at UC Berkeley, I now have a chance to add some new work to my website.
Here are some highlights from the selected works:


G.N.F.C. Shangri-la: sickroom and lower field, 2009, 42 x 55 inches
©narangkar glover


G.N.F.C. Shangri-la: 52 stairs, 2009, 44 x 60 inches
©narangkar glover


G.N.F.C. Shangri-la: the caffe, 2009, 42 x 52 inches
©narangkar glover

These drawings were created from memories of my childhood boarding school in Mussoorie, India.

In Honor of Plaid Friday

Bedcover, 2009, oil on canvas, 9 x 9 inches
©Narangkar Glover

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Bata Chappals

These shoes, or chappals, painted from memory, were the bathroom sandals issued to us at my childhood school. My paintings, since I've beginning to work with memories, have been primarily greyscale. It's less out of the need to create nostalgia, but more out of the desire to inform mood through the values. In the initial stage of this painting (below), I simply used mars black and flake white ... >>



For the final painting (below) I've mixed my own black, and focused alot on the forms and edges. I'm pleased with the difference between using out-of-the-tube black versus my own mixture (of alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue and sap green). There's really no rules for black - if you get a good black that you like, use it!


Bata Chappals, 2009, 8" x 8", oil on canvas
©Narangkar Glover

9.12.09 - Awesome

the studio right now

The one on the left is Carry On and the one on the right is Shadowplay.

Upcoming Shows

September 12th, 2009:

It's Gonna Be Awesome
Solo Show of New Works

Blankspace Gallery
6608 San Pablo Ave, Oakland