{"id":290,"date":"2024-11-06T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:16:02","slug":"david-byrd-bad-jobs-can-produce-very-good-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/david-byrd-bad-jobs-can-produce-very-good-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrd: Bad jobs can produce very good pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/e6c77df485d7e614a60708da86efb8af_L.jpg\" alt=\"David Byrd: Bad jobs can produce very good pictures\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by David Byrd (1926 \u2013&nbsp;2013) coinciding with the release of Volume 1 of the late American artist\u2019s catalogue&nbsp;raisonn\u00e9.&nbsp;Occupying the third floor gallery, this presentation aims to illuminate the&nbsp;interconnections between Byrd\u2019s paintings, drawings, and assemblage sculptures, and&nbsp;provide a glimpse into his creative process. Special attention is paid to the portraits Byrd&nbsp;sketched on notepaper while on the job and painted years later, of the men and women&nbsp;at the Veterans\u2019 Affairs hospital in Montrose, NY, where he worked as an orderly from&nbsp;1958 \u2013 1988. The exhibition also includes paintings of the landscapes he passed on his&nbsp;daily commute to and from work, and scenes of small town life in Sidney Center where&nbsp;he would&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by David Byrd (1926 \u2013&nbsp;2013) coinciding with the release of Volume 1 of the late American artist\u2019s catalogue&nbsp;raisonn\u00e9.&nbsp;Occupying the third floor gallery, this presentation aims to illuminate the&nbsp;interconnections between Byrd\u2019s paintings, drawings, and assemblage sculptures, and&nbsp;provide a glimpse into his creative process. Special attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatlystudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}