The nytimes has an article on Austin legend Daniel Johnston, famous for his music and art, particularly his “hi how are you” frog on the side of what is now “Baja Fresh” on Guadalupe. His work will soon be shown at the Whitney Biennial in NYC.
At the center of all this frenzy is Mr. Johnston, 45, who seems almost completely oblivious to it. Asked recently what he thought of the Clementine Gallery and its owners — Abby Messitte and Elizabeth Burke, two successful dealers who traveled to Waller (population 2,032) last September to meet him — he said: “I have no idea. I’ve never heard of them.”
Asked if he hoped to travel to New York to see his work at the Whitney, he shook his head resolutely: “I’m not in any condition to go overseas. It would wipe me out.”
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In fact, his father now buys nearly all his drawings. “I’ll make a batch of drawings and I’ll sell them to him,” he explained, “and then we go to the dollar store and I buy my supply of Diet Coke with the money that he gives me for the drawings.”
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