{"id":1436,"date":"2010-01-08T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/01\/the_positive_note_-_two_paws_u\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:34:38","slug":"the_positive_note_-_two_paws_u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/the_positive_note_-_two_paws_u.html","title":{"rendered":"The positive note &#8211; two paws up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a positive note. As <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/interactives\/freshImpressionism\/jeffryMitchell.htm\">Jeffrey Mitchell<\/a>, both artist and bear, likes to say, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2009\/09\/30\/confidential-to-jeffry-mitchells-mother-your-son-is-a-frickin-genius&amp;view=comments\">Two paws up<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Seattle novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanevison.com\/\">Jonathan Evison<\/a> on an artist&#8217;s life, via <a href=\"http:\/\/haroldhollingsworth.blogspot.com\/\">Harold Hollingsworth<\/a>. They both identify with the Charlie Kaufman line from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0268126\/\"><i>Adaptation<\/i><\/a>, &#8220;You are what you love, not what loves you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zZkMPx7Otvo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zZkMPx7Otvo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/jeffry-mitchell\/Content?oid=2708929\"><br \/>Jeffry Mitchell<\/a>: In Seattle, he&#8217;s represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambachandrice.com\/\">Ambach &amp; Rice<\/a>, although you&#8217;d never know it from looking at the gallery&#8217;s Web site. Note to A&amp;R: artist list with images, please! It can&#8217;t be that hard, seeing as you represent only three people &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/12\/nothing-like-confidence-coded.html\">Grant Barnhart<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domesticfurniture.com\/\">Roy McMakin<\/a> and Mitchell.)<\/p>\n<p><\/object><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JeffryMitchelllpicklejr.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/JeffryMitchelllpicklejr.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"380\" width=\"465\" \/>Hollingsworth in 1967:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harold Hollingsworthkid.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/Harold%20Hollingsworthkid.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"313\" width=\"462\" \/>He still wears that hat or one suspiciously like it. What he does today, image <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/rabbitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/harold_hollingsworth_total.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/rabbitwrite.com\/rabbitlinks-5509\/&amp;usg=__i67KqUXhuu3EqMuCqjt-Sff02co=&amp;h=797&amp;w=1103&amp;sz=208&amp;hl=en&amp;start=3&amp;sig2=dbWJfxAqOwP-wwySUynwbQ&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=8DswRW_LBfOrRM:&amp;tbnh=108&amp;tbnw=150&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dharold%2Bhollingsworth%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rlz%3D1R1GGGL_en___US344%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1&amp;ei=WJRHS9m4F4SwMr236I8J\">via<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"haroldhollingsworthbig.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/haroldhollingsworthbig.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"363\" width=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a positive note. As Jeffrey Mitchell, both artist and bear, likes to say, &#8220;Two paws up.&#8221; Here&#8217;s Seattle novelist Jonathan Evison on an artist&#8217;s life, via Harold Hollingsworth. They both identify with the Charlie Kaufman line from Adaptation, &#8220;You are what you love, not what loves you.&#8221; &nbsp;Jeffry Mitchell: In Seattle, he&#8217;s represented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}