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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: August 2015

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015. FLUSHING THE EFFIGIES DOWN THE CLOGGED AND FETID DRAIN. It's easy for the tepid to be idolatrous. For the moderately talented and the under-ambitious deferring to another's achievements is as easy as breathing. The pale appeal of third-party genius is a coward's escutcheon against failure. For all his gifts, my good friend David Schoffman lacks the most vital one. Nowhere is his surrender more evident than in his groundless veneration of the Los Angeles artist Dahlia Danton.

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: SEA CHANGE

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. If life were a bluefin tuna, then my good friend David Schoffman has just swallowed his last taste of Otoro. Found on the very underside of the fish, the otoro. Is like a waterbed - fatty and soft almost to the point of falling apart - but when it reaches your palate it melts in your mouth like butter. The juicy part of David's life will soon be a thing of the past so he's living the moment hard and fast as if he were on borrowed time. Another option is that of the recluse - the ...

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: PENTIMENTO

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Thursday, July 02, 2015. One could be excused if, after meeting my good friend David Schoffman for the first time, one is left with the impression that he is somewhat disengaged. He specializes in what is called here in France the "purgatory of pleasantries" - the felicitous nods, sympathetic grunts and the occasional ' oh that's interestings'. That serve to lubricate our superficial intercourse. The unfortunate fact is that only place he truly feels at peace is in his dim, cavernous, Culver City studio.

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: HE CAN'T TELL HIS LEFT FROM HIS RIGHT

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Wednesday, April 01, 2015. HE CAN'T TELL HIS LEFT FROM HIS RIGHT. For as long as I've known him, my dear friend David Schoffman has never made an important decision that he didn't later regret. Forever looking over his shoulder and neurotically questioning the purity of his intentions, David is the classic dialectical ditherer. Like the time he went to Germany to take part in the now infamous Suntanned: Painting in Los Angeles. He also soiled himself in the process and. For nearly two years afterwards he.

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: January 2015

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Monday, January 26, 2015. PLAYING POKER WITH POLITICS. To call my dear friend David Schoffman ignominiously mercenary would be to expend way too much syllabic energy in expressing the patently obvious. With the pluck of the doomed, David's je-m'en-foutisme. In the face of what others might call "ethical challenges" is rather impressive. A recent trip to North Korea will serve as a case in point. Anyway, while in Pyongyang. During a festive moment of inebriated intimacy he offered his hosts. That if given...

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: February 2015

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Tuesday, February 03, 2015. WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? What are details to some are consequential to others. Small yet puissant components can trigger in the specialist insights inaccessible to the casual glancer who glides distractedly and cheerfully moves on. My fine comrade David Schoffman is precisely the kind of annoying pedant who plants himself in front of works of art and ponders them interminably in a silent aura of elitist entitlement. The Body Is His Book #64. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: A SLIPPERY SLOPE

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Tuesday, June 02, 2015. Schoffman with Dahlia Danton, Geneva. That "if you can't fall in love in Paris then you might as well bicker in Geneva.". From Point de repère 1942. There was a time when my good friend David Schoffman and I shared everything. We shared a studio, a broken down Schwin 3-speed vélo, a winter coat, an umbrella, a transistor radio and a girl friend. The problem with sharing women was that it required more finesse than generosity and as such, was rarely worth the effort. There was an e...

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: SECTS CULTS AND ROCK N' ROLL

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Sunday, July 26, 2015. SECTS CULTS AND ROCK N' ROLL. It all started innocently enough. On the occasion of his 59th birthday my good friend David Schoffman received a gift certificate for four deep tissue geriatric massages from this Thai place around the corner from his studio. By the third he was in love. By the fourth he was consumed. There's a cruel, unconscious aspect to the creative enterprise. Artists in their hubris believe that all is allowed and that which is forbidden is ultimately forgiven.

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SCHOFFMAN: PAINTER by Currado Malaspina: EATING ONE'S OWN POISON

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Friday, July 31, 2015. EATING ONE'S OWN POISON. For all his worldly success, my good friend David Schoffman is a walking parody of propitious intent. He feigns the proper bearings of rectitude but when the curtain is drawn he's as phony as the day is long. I saw evidence of this recently when David was here making the final adjustments for a small scale sculptural installation at L'Institut des Mensonges. We were at dinner at Le Timbre with a couple belles mannequins Suedoise. I have to hand it to the gu...