Gabriel Laderman, Resident Artist Lecture 1971

Gabriel Laderman gives a lecture at Skowhegan talking about his painting practice. Laderman is interested in the idea of paintings being quiet and imbued with a sense of calm, logic, and order. Laderman is not interested in using painting as a tool of therapy, or creating paintings in a state of anger. Instead, Laderman is interested in ideas of schemas and making representations through invention. Laderman tells the participants to engage with as much visual culture as they can, and then when they do this, they have the chance to appreciate many different kinds of paintings. When this appreciation happens, it can change people so they can look at the world differently and think differently about themselves. Laderman ends his lecture by telling the participants that if a painting is a complete world that is different from the world they would normally experience, then that world has to change.