3 More Sculptural Paintings

Wack-a-doodle

Another Wall Sculpture

Wall Sculpture

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Caladan Gallery acceptance!

Just found out that my work was accepted into the next online exhibit at the Caladan Gallery. The exhibit call seemed appropriate for my work, so I thought I would give it a whirl.

From the gallery director:
What comes to mind immediately regarding “Gesture, Action, and Expression” is the tradition of Expressionism in Western art. Part of the territory includes, of course, the Abstract Expressionists, as well as the German Expressionists, and a whole army of “subsets”. In 2009, fledgling art form though it is, the introduction of technology as an art tool has expanded the notion of expressionism into realms previously unknown…this is not to say that the more traditional representations are not included in this exhibition, not to mention those that are derived from emotional experience. They are; but we have a balance between tradition and new inspiration, which manifests in a unique way through various models of the interpretation and application of gesture. The work chosen for this exhibition is a survey of this.

The dates for the on-line posting of this exhibition will be July 15 – August 14, 2009. After that, the exhibition will be available for viewing as an archive for a number of months.

This was my first time submitting work to an online venue, and I was inspired to do so by my artist friend Sand T whose work was on the Caladan site in May.

The Artist's Guide

On my quest to do better marketing, I have been exploring all sorts of avenues. Visiting Joanne Mattera's blog the other day, she suggested "The Artist's Guide" by Jackie Battenfield. I got it used on Amazon and it just arrived yesterday. I am very impressed so far... there are so many of these kinds of books out there, but this one is very current with lots of web references. I agree with so much of what she says. I love page 75 where she discusses readiness to show.

And I discovered Edward Winkleman's blog which has tons of links to many other art-related blogs that took me away from my studio for about 2 hours!!

Another brush with famous artists

Oh yeah, another one of my favorite stories from the 70's ... I hitchhiked with David Byrne to NYC with another friend from RISD. (See two posts ago- my other brush with famous artist Deborah Kass.)

And I once was at a dinner party with Ravi Shankar.

Details, details

These are closeups of the new sculptures... it is kind of hard to see the dimensional quality and also the paint quality on the larger images.

I have been sanding the acrylic to give the surface a nice matte finish and also to allow the base colors to come through.

The Seventies, and my brush with famous artists

I am in the process of preparing to do PR for my upcoming solo show at the Bromfield Gallery in November, and have been spending way too much time this morning getting sucked into blog-reading while I am supposed to be researching writers who might be interested in my work.

While blog-surfing, I discovered a couple of must-reads: Joanne Mattera's blog is witty, literate, and super-interesting, and she features shows she has seen in New York that she likes.

I went to art school at Carnegie Mellon in the 1970s. Who knew that the girl next to me painting those big expressionist hearts was Deborah Kass, now pretty famous NY artist? You have to read this article she wrote about feminism and art in the '70s, in her article in the Brooklyn Rail. As far as I know, she is one of the very few of us who moved to NY and made a real name for herself.

In the article, she discusses the male dominated art school faculties and the whole "painting is dead" mentality of the time. But she also says that the 70s were a time when women artists were actually perceived as a on a par with their male counterparts, having lots of visibility and forging new territory.

Greenie with yellow legs