Larry Poons: "Pollock in 1780"

Larry Poons in Conversation with Karen Wilkin. The following interview was produced in collaboration with MediaCombo to complement "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975," an exhibition organized by the AFA. Recorded in New York in 2007, this interview-divided into eight episodes-features painter Larry Poons in a rare conversation with the exhibition's guest curator, Karen Wilkin.

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These were wonderful. This is the first time I've been exposed to Larry Poons commenting on his art. One painting of his--called Cutting Water--was in my college art history textbook in the late 1970s, and although it was photographed in black and white, the impression it made has never left me.

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What a brilliant, natural conversationalist! I love his work aside from the thrown paintings, which feel too simplistically achieved. The rest of his work, though, is brilliant, so maybe I'll warm up to them eventually as well.