Victoria Reynolds
Archive for January, 2008
Victoria Reynolds
Posted in Painting, tagged Las Vegas, LVAM, meat, Victoria Reynolds on January 31, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Kimberly Trowbridge
Posted in Painting, tagged Indiana University, Kimberly Trowbridge, Seattle, University of Washington on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kimberly Trowbridge
not so far off topic after all…
Posted in Painting, tagged Armin Muhsam, Art, Colorado, Denver, Northwest Missouri, Painting, Sarah McKenzie on January 28, 2008 | Comments Off
Sarah McKenzie
and Armin Muhsam
Yesterday we watched a lecture by James Howard Kunstler, The Tragedy of Suburbia. Scroll down and click the link to watch if you haven’t yet. Just as an addendum, here are just a couple of no-coast painters probably already thinking about the issues raised in Kunstler’s talk (or already looking around and saying, “What [...]
A little off-topic, but…(James Howard Kunstler)
Posted in Not Painting, tagged city planning, design, entertainment, james howard kunstler, suburbia, technology, TED on January 27, 2008 | 47 Comments »
This ought to be required viewing for any midwest-based landscape painter.
Dan Gratz
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Bloomington, Dan Gratz, Drawing, Drawings Made On An Etch A Sketch, Etch A Sketch, Indiana, Kansas City, Missouri, Painting on January 26, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Kansas City-based artist Dan Gratz is showing his Etch A Sketch drawings at KC’s Syringe Gallery. You can watch a movie of Dan making these drawings on his website (look at that: he works general to specific!). Here is a link.
“Peopled Paintings”
Posted in Painting, tagged Andrew Winship, Annie Wedler, Art, Art Exhibit, Christopher Lowrance, Columbia, Jennifer Meanley, Josh Crow, Melanie Lowrance, Missouri, Painting, Peopled Paintings, Robert McCann, Steve Budington, University of Missouri on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I put together a show at the University of Missouri’s Bingham Gallery, focusing on a few younger painters working different takes on figurative painting. I’m in the show, too, so full disclosure, I’m biased. I just like these paintings, but here’s why: Most of the painters in the show are dealing with the history of [...]
Gordon Cook
Posted in Not Painting, Painting, tagged Chicago, Gordon Cook, San Francisco on January 24, 2008 | 45 Comments »
Gordon Cook
Julie Mehretu
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art Links, East Lansing, Julie Mehretu, Kansas City, Michigan, Missouri, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Painting, Tapping Currents on January 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Really digging on a page at the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s website. You zoom in on Julie Mehretu’s Dispersion (above) and drag the viewer window around to check out all the sweet details. No jpeg is ever going to really reveal Mehretu’s layered and mysterious surfaces, but it’s neat nonetheless–a video game for painting nerds. Mehretu’s apparently working in East Lansing, [...]