By Geoff Edgers Geoff Edgers Reporter covering movies, museums, comedy, music and pop culture Email Bio Follow March 23 at 12:02 PM
Above left: “Roaring Seas,” an abstract paint pour on drum head by visual artist Mickey Hart, right. Mickey Hart, 75, is most famous for his drumming, namely as one half of “the rhythm kings” with the Grateful Dead. But about 20 years ago, Hart started to paint. He spoke just before his Saturday appearance at the Wentworth Gallery at Tysons Galleria, where his works are displayed, from Dead skulls on canvas to abstract paint pours on drum heads.A: It’s the rhythm, stupid. That’s it. The whole universe is based in rhythm, from 13.
Q: You came to this late in life and developed into a painter. But how often do you find yourself getting rid of a painting, or does a painting not work? A: The older I get, the more I understand the language of paints. The more I put away, I don’t let be seen. It’s hard to destroy them really, but they’re away where no one can see them. Hopefully forever. Especially if you’re in an improvisational type of mode. That’s how I function best. There’s a high rate of failure. I’m a 50 percent man myself. If I get 50 percent of what I’m going after, I feel like I’ve accomplished something.
I wonder if he is still using pulsars for drum beats. That was actually really cool.
See in Bristow and Charlotte!!!!
He is a Rhythm Devil
That’s just the LSD talking
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