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For Clark Filio

by Nick Scavo

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"For Clark Filio" is dedicated to the American painter Clark Filio.

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The piece appropriates the stylization of Morton Feldman’s compositions that are dedicated to painters—"For Philip Guston" and "Rothko Chapel" being perhaps the most well known—part of the New York School of composers’ impulse to often emphasize experimental music’s reciprocity with Abstract Expressionist Art. Unlike Feldman, the piece embarks from a dubious and wholly unclear relationship to painting as a medium. Instead, the piece is composed from a strong affinity to Filio’s subject matter and process: paintings from film stills and TV shows, Sandra Bullock in Bird Box, Frodo’s ashen face overlooking Mount Doom, Nightmare from Soul Caliber, Aribeth de Tylmarande from Neverwinter Nights, Jamie Lee Curtis in Blue Steel. Clark’s paintings use a precise technique clearly developed by someone who goes to the studio every day to make paintings. They gesturally capture a specific cultural moment as way of exaggerating and emphasizing the material medium of painting in a skilled, direct way. Simply put, and not unlike Feldman's compositions, Clark's various subjects throw us back to the material of painting.

Feldman, an extrovert entertainer who happily threw himself between sweeping generalizations, wild analogies and impudent paradoxes—something that his relationship to painting is clearly a part of—is perhaps the Frodo, the Jamie Lee Curtis, the Sandra Bullock of the piece. "For Clark Filio" identifies with this impulsive mood; and, in homage to Clark and his work, attempts to in its own way necromance Clark’s paintings in order to throw us into the material of music.

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released August 23, 2019

"For Clark Filio" was curated by Tabitha Piseno and performed live in the "MMXIX Summer Performance Series" hosted at Magenta Plains Gallery.

Cover photo is two paintings by Clark Filio installed at Magenta Plains Gallery for the performance of "For Clark Filio."

Mastered by Jack Callahan

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Nick James Scavo is a musician and writer based in New York City.

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