{"id":9993,"date":"2012-01-30T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:33:04","slug":"im-jealous-of-ed-loftus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/im-jealous-of-ed-loftus\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of ed loftus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/edloftus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9994\" title=\"edloftus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/edloftus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"3919\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographs? Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Found photo collage? Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Graphite drawings? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>What?! <em>Yes<\/em>, it&#8217;s true. California based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackhanley.com\/artist.php?artist=17\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Loftus<\/a>, and his trusty pencil <em>amaze<\/em> me. There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/30\/arts\/design\/ed-loftus-an-oakland-artist-whose-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-has-its-advantages.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">great article<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> about him last December. Apparently he has struggled with OCD since childhood, but if there&#8217;s a silver lining&#8230; it&#8217;s his unbelievable artwork. According to that article <em>&#8220;&#8230;the works are rendered in painstaking detail \u2014 partly a result of the disorder \u2014 and a single piece can take up to five months to complete. In the last three years, Mr. Loftus has produced 10 works.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Slow, and probably painful, but what an amazing result.<\/p>\n<p><em>{I found the work of Ed Loftus at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackhanley.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hanley Gallery, NY<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs? Nope. Found photo collage? Nope. Graphite drawings? Yes. What?! Yes, it&#8217;s true. California based artist Ed Loftus, and his trusty pencil amaze me. There was a great article in The New York Times about him last December. Apparently he has struggled with OCD since childhood, but if there&#8217;s a silver lining&#8230; it&#8217;s his unbelievable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10024,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}