Clinton King is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. We talk about his recent solo show Free Radical at Allouche Benias Gallery in Greece, and a residency at Fores Project in London over a bottle of rosé. Other topics include Jungian analysis, alchemy, working with shadow, introversion vs extroversion, abstraction as a universal and a way to communicate the unknowable, having breakthroughs, Clinton’s hypnotic meme video, connection and response, art as a living thing, dreaming of the new work, the vastness of the unconscious, putting obstacles in your own way, aging, death, and chain reactions, the balance of opposites, making an art out of transitions, working with liminal space, live tarot card readings!!, and why Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 is the best movie of all time.

https://www.clintonkingart.com/

https://allouchebenias.com/exhibitions/free-radical

http://www.foresproject.org/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/julie-curtiss-clinton-king-1788015

Cymatics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmsfuj1Rk9c

Judd / Marfa
https://chinati.org/

Fred Sandback
https://www.fredsandbackarchive.org/

John Dee's spirit mirror
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/john-dees-spirit-mirror#

Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BqnN72OlqA

Kubrick’s 2001 and the meaning of the monolith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSo6s_xrj4c