May 31, 2009
How to be an artist? Or more rather how not to be an artist? Yes, be afraid, be very afraid of being ridiculed, laughed at and questioned as to your sanity. Be afraid of being analyzed, asked questions like “have you stopped making the black paintings because you’re not depressed anymore?” Or, can you make [...]
Mar 14, 2009
Art & Fear from an artist’s perspective, not the viewer’s. I am reading Art & Fear: Observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland (1993, Image Continuum Press), which I picked up this morning at my local library. We artists are plagued by doubts and fears. These fears fall [...]
Nov 30, 2008
My studio mate Norbert Marszalek, a wonderful artist, and a thoughtful blogger with strong opinions, has a post “40 Years Old and Still Waiting to Emerge” in which he questions the definition of what is an emerging artist. I’m 60 years old and just emerging. Norbert references Malcolm Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker contrasting the lives [...]
