Millree Hughes
24 Involuntary Paintings from Around the World
By PAUL LASTER, SEPT. 2015
Involuntary Painting is a Facebook Group formed by artist Millree Hughes and poet, artist and musician Paul Conneally. The group asks the question: “With all the changes in Contemporary Art over the last 100 years what (out there, in the world) could be mistaken for a painting?”
Over the past year the group as expanded its Facebook presence to nearly 2000 members and images with the hashtag #involuntarypainting are popping up on other social media sites, including Instagram and Twitter, with hundreds of digital photographs being posted weekly worldwide.
We took a look at the Involuntary Paintings from the past week and selected 24 of our favorites by two-dozen different artists. WM
Janice Caswell
Pat Whitcomb Yancovitz
Judy Rhee
Natalia Sacasa
Jeff McLennan
Andrea Evans
Boz Warnock
Liz Vaughn
Saul Ostrow
Blandine Campion
Negar Ahkami
Mark Kostabi
Sarah Davis
Roman Turovsky
Simone Allard
Tinsley Perky
Michelle Mackey
Brad Melamed
Simon Paris
Colin Goodwin
JoAnne Lobotsky
Deborah Post Radovsky
Paul Conneally
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, independent curator, artist and lecturer. He is a New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editor at Whitehot and artBahrain. He was the founding editor of Artkrush.com and Artspace.com and art editor of Flavorpill.com and Russell Simmons's OneWorld Magazine; started TheDailyBeast.com's art section; and worked as a photojournalist for Artnet.com and Art in America. He is a frequent contributor to Time Out New York, New York Observer, Modern Painters, ArtPulse and ArtInfo.com.
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