Artist Paul Laffoley named Guggenheim Fellow

Posted by David Pescovitz, April 20, 2009 10:41 AM | permalink

Visionary artist Paul Laffoley, whose psychotronic work is informed by fringe science, the occult, cyborganic architecture, eccentric engineering, and forgotten histories, has been awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Creative Arts. Congratulations, Paul! This has been a long time coming. Seen above, "Geochronmechane: The Time Machine from the Earth" (1990), Paul Laffoley (Kent Gallery), Paul Laffoley (Guggenheim) (Thanks, Richard Metzger!)

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#1 posted by Nalepa, April 20, 2009 12:12 PM

Yes!!!

Paul is one of our greatest living artistic treasures, it is so wonderful to see him getting the recognition he truly deserves.

Congratulations Paul!

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#2 posted by Anonymous, April 20, 2009 1:49 PM

The museum I work at exhibited him in a show a few years ago, his work is even better in person when you can get a sense of the scale he works in. Congrats Paul!

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#3 posted by Anonymous, April 20, 2009 1:54 PM

Laffolley's work reminds me of another visionary that came before him, Walter Russell. I've always wondered if Laffolley's style was partially inspired by Russell's scientific drawings:

http://www.philosophy.org/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=77&catid=3

Most of these were completed in the 1920's.

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#4 posted by minTphresh, April 20, 2009 2:27 PM

one of my favorite living american artists! his work just boggles the mind. congrats, paul! bigtime.

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#5 posted by Anonymous, April 21, 2009 12:09 AM

Paul is Nikola Tesla, reincarnated!

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#6 posted by Rooney, April 21, 2009 7:10 AM

Wow, great stuff. I'd never heard of him until now.

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