Posted in Painting, tagged Eclecticism in Art, Jed Perl, Links, The New Republic on November 30, 2010| 7 Comments »
Jess, Figure 2, A Field of Pumpkins Grown for Seed: Translation #11, from the Nelson Atkins museum of art.
Great article by Jed Perl weighing out some conflicting values: the need for a diverse, eclectic production versus the need for rigorous standards for understanding that may necessarily have to be based on older, more limited ideals. Well worth reading.
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Delaware OH, Ed Valentine, Painting on November 24, 2010| 3 Comments »
Posted in Not Painting, Painting, Uncategorized, tagged Art, Chicago, Deb Sokolow, Painting, Western Exhbitions on November 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Andrew Park, Animation, Denis Dutton, TED on November 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Philosophy Prof. Denis Dutton on a Darwinian Theory of Beauty at Ted (with some cool animation by Andrew Park).
Posted in Painting on November 15, 2010| 3 Comments »
Ken Kewley will visit University of Arkansas Fort Smith and the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum (formerly the Fort Smith Art Center) for lectures and workshops. Lecture Friday, Nov 19, at 7pm, Gardner Lecture Hall, UAFS campus. More information here and here. Kewley was featured recently on Painting Perceptions and the Jerusalem Studio School blog.
Posted in Painting, tagged Archie Scott Gobber, Art, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City MO, Painting on November 12, 2010| 4 Comments »
Archie Scott Gobber: Super Power at Dolphin Gallery, November 12, 2010-January 8, 2011.
From the press release: “In his latest solo show, Archie Scott Gobber continues to skewer popular culture, from America itself, down to the individual citizen. He taps into the cultural anxieties resulting from current economic woes and political failings to examine contemporary social polarities.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Links on November 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Nathan Boyer’s “Mystery Talk” at Index Magazine.
Thomas Nozkowski at Brooklyn Rail (via everywhere by this point, but Two Coats of Paint specifically): “You mix it, beat it, and layer it. It is never pure and—a commonplace—it is always seen in context, changed and charged by its size, position, and relationships with other colors. It is slippery stuff, the most elusive part of painting. I like it best in excess, when it feels like it is about to go out of control.”
“Teaching Close Encounters” by Matthew Ballou over at Neoteric Art: “…skill and intuition are inseparable. Skill is not the tool of repressive patriarchal power structures, not an instance of intellectual gate-keeping designed to concentrate power or opportunity in one class or demographic. Certain skills may once have been used that way, and some may still find themselves bastardized to some degree, but this is not a state inherent to skills as such. Skills are, instead, democratic and cumulative; we inherit them from others and build on them ourselves.”
Some Timothy Callaghan over at Hello My Name Is Art.
Some recent profiles at Review Online: Warren Rosser and Julie Farstad.
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Artists, Drawing, Figurative Drawing, Figurative Painting, Kansas City, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Midwest Paint Group, Nudes, Painting on November 5, 2010| 1 Comment »
figure drawing by Stanley Lewis
Midwest Paint Group: The Figure at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Nov. 5, 2010-Jan. 28, 2011. The show features work by the Paint Group’s regulars as well as guests Stanley Lewis, George Rose, Wilbur Niewald, Martha Armstrong and others. (link is to Midwest Paint Group’s homepage, more works from the exhibition catalog can be seen in a PDF to be found there)
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Canada, Kim Dorland, Mike Weiss Gallery, Painting, Toronto ON on November 3, 2010| 32 Comments »
Posted in Not Painting, tagged silly games on November 3, 2010| 2 Comments »
In October of 2009, Sam linked to an NYTimes article about the art the Obamas had chosen to hang in the White House. It was a nice list: thoughtful, tasteful, maybe leaning a tad toward the genteel, but smart and nice to read about. Included were Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha, Morandi, Louis Nevelson and other. I’ve been thinking of late though, with the political scene changed as it is since then, that maybe I’d suggest some different art for those walls. Maybe something a little bolder…Ed Paschke, Mike Kelley, Robert Colescott…like that. I’m curious about you, too, what new additions to the collection would you like to see?
MW Capacity 