November 6, 1976: Ron Martin
Before he started showing slides of his work, Ron Martin showed a film someone had made of him making a black painting. It seemed important to him for us to know how many gallons of paint he used. It took about 15 minutes to pour and spread about 6 gallons of black Liquitex acrylic paint around with a squeejee. Richard Billingsworth commented, much to everyone’s glee and Ron Martin’s embarrassment, that he thought Ron making a painting was a lot like sex: it seemed like quite a bit of time went into the preparation, the event was relatively quick, and then there was a lot of clean up after.
