Apr 15, 2010 0
Laura Nyro : poverty train, LIVE
One of my favorite artists. One of the few live videos I’ve been able to find.
Aug 9, 2009 0
Let the unpacking begin!
This is what it looked like in my new studio last week. New images and progress report coming.
Mar 31, 2009 0
Life metaphor through artifacts. History, memory, family.
On Sunday March 29th I saw this tweet:
blipped the mail box. » link to Blipfoto
Life metaphor through artifacts.
The memories and voices of more than thirty seven years have arrived, been placed, and temporarily captured in this well shaped box. Words have been spoken by and to the inhabitants after being deposited and then removed from this container. The metaphor of give and take expressed in this artifact — history, memory, family.
I followed the link and found the image and this short story.
This is the mailbox that was on the house when I was two in 1974; the year my family moved in. It has been painted many different colors and later it was replaced with a more efficient model. I moved back into the house six years ago, when my parents moved away. I found the old mail box in the basement and promptly put it back up.
I am now thirty seven and this is my mailbox…
The beauty of this object and its stories made their way to me — from the current holder of the vessel who is destined to remember each time a new voice finds itself inside this container.
How sublime. A new drawing comes to mind.
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Tags: photo, mailbox, metaphor, 1974, culture, family
Mar 27, 2009 0
Bottled up trouble maker
6″X2 14″ diam.
Ink, graphite, white charcoal on handmade paper, glass milk bottle with attached rubber cork, sand.
Miss Ninety was supposed to be one of the 96 American Kids, but she was a troublemaker…so I bottled her.
– Len Cowgill
I’ve always been called a troublemaker so I had to give Miss Ninety a place at my blog. Len’s work is always creates a very emotional experience for me. Each drawing in his series stand alone and add to the whole in an unexpected way. Just imagining if someone had bottled me.
You can see more bottle drawings here.
You can buy his work here : tamarack art gallery
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Tags: lencowgill, drawing, bottle, containment, art
Mar 25, 2009 0
kukuli velarde: the path of a painter
The artist and one of her paintings.
The artist as one of her pieces
I actually posted this video at our heavybubble blog because it struck me so. Listening to Kukuli Velarde talk about herself and her path as a painter, then ceramic artist, and now painter again was quite a journey. Lots of artists have this kind of journey. Often as artists we experience these things and never talk to anyone about our journey in this way. Being behind the lens of a video camera with an interviewer who makes one comfortable enough to talk about the work in an open way.
Kukuli Velarde makes amazing work and she works through her feelings over time making pieces that express each and every second of internal process. In that process she confronts the issues that energize her work and bring us face to face with her internal questioning.
The work is powerful and frank. It uses many vocabularies to capture our attention. With all the intensity there is still a beauty and joy that allows you to embrace the art and want to keep it near you.
Use the link below to watch the video. I’ve also included her website.
links:
kukuli velarde: the path of a painter [video]
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Tags: culture, art, ceramics, colonization, women, painting, philadelphia, David Kessler, Kukuli Velarde
Nov 11, 2008 3
The beauty of a room
I was visiting some of my Flickr friends and found this wonderful photo of Jacob’s. I love watching the documentation of the physical environment that informs his work. This room, this chair, this painting, this photograph all are his.
It is a wonderful world.
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Tags: art, artist, studio, space, comfort
Nov 6, 2008 0
Keith Haring on context
I was wandering around reading about art on the web and found some very interesting thoughts by Keith Haring. It made me remember how he made art PUBLIC, as public as it could be. That was extremely energizing and all I could think about was art that wasn’t framed, or installed, or protected from the viewer, from the public.
Art is a very powerful thing — for the maker and those who experience it.
I kept seeing more and more of these black spaces, and I drew on them whenever I saw one. Because they were so fragile, people left them alone and respected them; they didn’t rub them out or try to mess them up. It gave them this other power. It was this chalk-white fragile thing in the middle of all this power and tension and violence that the subway was. People were completely enthralled.
– Keith Haring (1958 – 1990)
official site:
www.haring.com
film:
The Universe of Keith Haring
by Christina Clausen
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Tags: art, drawing, Keith Haring, very public art
Oct 23, 2008 0
inspirational movement : pam taggart
This is Pam Taggart. She is one of the most amazing artists I have ever known. She is a small woman whose ever expanding inner world explodes onto huge canvas after huge canvas.
We have been building mates and artist buddies for what seems like a lifetime. We worked together to create scommunity and professionalism. We ate ice cream cake together and she hid birthday gifts like easter eggs — giving me obscure clues for how to find them.
I will miss passing her studio doors and wondering what fantastic thing was taking place just out of sight.
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Tags: art, artist, inspiration, energy, philadelphia