One fellow artist i have gotten to know over the years is Freddy McCoo
He is leaving San Marc to go to Dallas which marks an end of an era here in san marc for him,
Freddy has been one of my best friends over the years , i first meet him over in Kismet, a local art/resturant,. they hung college art, nice walls,. well linda introduced him to me and we started chatting about whats art etc, he seem starved to have some contversations on art topics, an want to absorbe the local rhetoric by the college art crowds,.
He ended up getting involved in the San Marcos Fine Art center and moved down to hopkins street, he was living at Gary Job core for a while, (as a teacher)
his art has changed over the years from moody blues figures of musicians, trajic love seens, an dthe plight of living in the getto, to biblical cubists aligorys , now he has infused, all this into these more designly slick "issue" spun works, al evolving out of the massive mural project he made in Austin Carver center libery mural, after that project he designed space in more interesting fashion, an threw in a bit more pop elements,
One of the good things about Freddy is we would always aruge over art topics, his enthusaiam to argure over stufff or explore isssues is fun, we have a differt additude about whats a sucessful artist , and how to treat your work, (the whole serious vs casual) thing
Fredy was more serious, and it refected inthe theames he painted and how they were painted, i like thorton Dial or a Swearigen, i showed him ther wrok he was like
what the fuch that cann't paint!
, he is an old modernist type likes Picasso, MonteParis, Harlem Renisanses(sp) type of stuff ,Jaz &chess
his studio is overloaded with projects, and clean too, as clean as drek or ever serg!,
he is going to have an endeding BBQ , Ill get photos,
We also talked about politics alot too, interpitations of events, and exploring black vs white issues which are always fun,
