Originally published on Successful-Blog.com on July 9, 2012 The Games Artists Play In his earlier days, the artist Chuck Close was a painter of gestural abstractions. After a personal crisis, he decided to take photographs, and square inch by square inch, make a large painting of the …
Art
Admire! Admire! Admire!
A version of this post first appeared in Successful-Blog.com, June 2012 At first, when people are studying to become visual artists they work very hard at getting their hands to respond accurately to what they see. Over time there is a shift as the artist chooses to emphasize, edit, and curate – …
Opening
When musicians, actors, dancers, and even writers have their big events - when we fête them for their new piece, cd or book, there is usually some activity going on like a performance - and then a bit of a party. But when artists come out of their studios to show their work, we have openings. And …
Bifurcations
When I was invited to show my work at ASK, I had been sitting in the gallery where I'll be showing. After the invitation, I regarded the room. It has several beautiful walls. The window wall won't be so good for hanging paintings, but the other three are superb, although one is now... bifurcated - …
Winter Salon: Gallery & Invited Artists – At Denise Bibro Gallery
The invites are in (and going out) for the Winter Salon: Gallery & Invited Artists One of my monotypes is going to be included! Â Other artists include: Sarah K. Bean Christa Blatchford Nora Chavooshian Sara Crisp Lisa Dinhofer Sydney DrumRuth EpsteinCamilla Fallon Iona …
Anthony Frost
My Pal Adrian Frost brought his brother, Anthony Frost - but I was out. Anthony left a beautiful catalog of recent work. http://www.beauxartslondon.co.uk/AF-pic-index.html …
Art as religion
Instead of First Holy Communion, instead of a Bar Mitzvah, there should be a solo show. Instead of wafers and wine, its wine and cheese. I cherish the sensibility of art as religion, but maybe not at all in the religious sense. Just that in art we have our cosmogeny, our way of …