“However, it will be a long time before he will break into the art world as I and my colleagues know it.” Painting as Therapyįor years, vodka and cocaine were constant companions. “Depending on his skill level, the paintings could be quite good,” Mr. “The transition doesn’t work because the public perception has been established.” Biden to actors like Sylvester Stallone or Michael York who tried to cross over but failed to achieve critical success. “Too much baggage,” he said, comparing Mr. Michael Kohn, who owns Los Angeles’ Kohn Gallery, wasn’t so sure. “There’s probably going to be a lot of curiosity,” she said.
Biden’s paintings, but she said she “loves the idea” of this unknown jumping in. “Probably both,” said the collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, the president of the Rudin Family Foundations and board member of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hammer Museum. Will the Biden name turn the art world off, or make it more interested? He has no formal training as an artist, but he said that he has sketched off and on since age 7, and that he wasn’t dabbling: “It’s something I’ve taken seriously for a long time but hasn’t necessarily been for public consumption.” Biden could have a challenge convincing the public that the word “artist” belongs in his CV, coming after his careers as a lawyer, lobbyist and director of private equity firms. Normally, the art world is a fine place to make the right friends, attend the right parties, a venue more forgiving than Washington, D.C. Biden is still setting his sights on exhibiting his work. Phillips said this week that she is no longer advising him, but Mr. Biden did not sign with a gallery, and Ms.
A longtime Biden family friend, she hosted a star-studded fund-raiser for the former vice president last November at the Pacific Palisades home she shares with Rick Lynch, a partner in an entertainment marketing firm. She’s a video producer who ran a management company with clients including Quentin Tarantino and Darren Aronofsky.
Biden set out late last year to find gallery representation with the help of Lanette Phillips, who is not a typical artist’s agent. (He also has a tattoo of New York’s Finger Lakes region on his back, because his mother grew up there.) “It’s very abstract, sometimes very dark,” Ms. Biden tattooed the Hebrew word “shalom” - for peace - on his left bicep, giving the couple matching tattoos. Cohen, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child, is a South African-born filmmaker in her early 30s who lived in Israel for several years. “I don’t even notice it, but Melissa hates it.” His fingers and forearms were paint stained, blacks and reds deep under his nails, flecks on his jeans and boots, something his wife, Melissa Cohen, whom he married in May after a weeklong courtship, can’t stand. He blows the ink with a metal straw - it is fast-drying and “has a natural progression, and you have to be really focused in order to be able to alter it to your own imagination,” he said. He said it can take 14 layers of alcohol ink for the material to adhere to the nearly indestructible Japanese Yupo paper he uses as his canvasses. Buried in layers of ink were twisting faces and organs, warm yellows to melancholy blues and angry reds - morphing shapes within shapes. “Right now a lot of Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Sound & Fury,’” he said during a reporter’s visit last fall.Īfter the break, he goes back to work, always drawing from memory, never models. At midday, “I have a rough idea of a finished product, I take a break” and blast country music. In the early mornings, he paints in silence in a studio with a TV that does not get cable news. “Look at that,” he said, craning his neck. “See that red barn?” He pointed at a farmhouse perched on the next mountain top - it belongs to the artist David Hockney, he said - then focused on four red-tailed hawks rising on pockets of hot air, a technique called thermal soaring. From the edge of the sloping property - it was leased for $12,000 a month starting last June 15, according to the homeowner - he has a view onto the San Fernando Valley below: Burbank and Universal Studios to the east, the 405 freeway to the west.
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