Feb 16, 2012
What do these three artists have in common? That as they became aged and aging artists they became much more interested in paint and its physicality, sometimes to the point of obscuring what they were depicting. See this article from Prospect Magazine entitled The Skin We Live In by Sebastian Smee. He says as follows: [...]
Feb 6, 2012
Avoid These Pay to Play Art Galleries & Venues Artists often find out about these offers through various forms of advertising, particularly mass emailings. The more agressive senders relentlessly bombard artists with emails and sometimes even contact them directly by phone. Costs to participate can range anywhere from under $100 to thousands of dollars, especially [...]
Sep 13, 2011
Nice, very nice, my work and the work of these other fine artists juried into Woman Made Gallery’s Bare Essentials Minimalism in the 21st Century, by Ingrid Fassbender. Note that I have made bold not only my name in the list but my fellow exhibitors in the “Marks In Time” group. We exhibit together as a three-fer, [...]
Sep 6, 2011
I want to dive into this one. Who is the greatest visual artist ever and why? I invite artists and thinkers to offer up their opinions on this. My nominee is Goya. It is a much overused trope, especially in this modern era of the artists’ statement, that art is about truth. Goya tells the [...]
Sep 3, 2011
I took myself to the Art Institute of Chicago the other day. I have a usual path that I take, prints and drawings, then American paintings, then the modern wing. This means that I walk past China, Japan and quickstep through South Asian art in the railroad bridge to get to what I am in [...]
Aug 25, 2011
I can honestly say that there’s a very real sense in which I have never not known about Helen Frankenthaler and her work. My mother was a great admirer of Helen’s art, returned from a vacation in New York gushing about what she had seen when I was still in grammar school. To my sorrow [...]
May 7, 2011
A stroll through the Neues Museum and the Pergamon in Berlin, April 2011. Berlin Museums
May 7, 2011
April in Paris at the L’Orangerie, what could be better? Monet Water Lilies Orangerie
Apr 3, 2011
Two of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of the world go largely unheralded, the flour mill powered by electricity and the washing machine also powered by electricity. No other inventions have done more to liberate women, with the possible exception of the birth control pill. And I might add, we’re not going back, [...]
