The premise: We think that there are as many exciting and original artists in the Midwest, the Southwest, the Deep South and the High Plains as there are on any coast, metropolitan area, or anywhere—there’s just a little more elbow room between us out here. And so our next thought: what if we use this Internet as a way to build up a little more feeling of community?
You can help us believe in the excitement. The comment section is open. Discussion is encouraged! You don’t have to write a dissertation. You don’t have to like everything or agree all the time. The idea is that some dialogue–even, or especially, some respectful disagreement–makes us all better off.
Thanks for looking!!!!!
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MW Capacity is a blog. It is (mostly) about contemporary painters who are living/working/showing in the midwest. Chris Lowrance and Sam King edit it. Our intention is for this blog to serve as a helpful resource for people who like paintings and also use the internet.
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If your work shows up on our blog, and you don’t want it to be here, just let us know and we’ll take it off. Don’t know why you’d want that, but we’ll accommodate if that’s how you really feel.
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Contact: mwcapacity@gmail.com
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Feel free to copy and paste the images below into your own site, or to print them out and display prominently, in a public place (with said place’s permission, of course).
Thanks for putting the site up and for including photos of Jane Barrow’s show.
In following art jobs all across the country, the one thing I noticed is that pound-for-pound, talent is talent, no matter where you find it.
Is that a real Morandi? I mean minus the background?
Yeah, I believe so. As real as the internet. The background is a Frank Stella.
Wow. It looks so colorful. Thanks.
Great Blog! So happy to see another from the midwest and I look forward to following it and linking it to my own.
Kathy
Cincinnati Art Snob
You know, I think the Morandi looks so colorful because it’s actually on a grey background. That is, we think of his work as so grey, but next to a more straight grey, you can see that in fact his greys are not so grey.
thanks for intriducing me to so many great artists, not sure how else i would have been exposed to them!
Just stumbled upon your blog as I was searching for images by Gordon Cook. Wow, what a great source of info this is for painters, thank you.
Very nice!
Greetings from Louisville, ky USA. Just discovered this blog. Great stuff!
Great blog – not sure what ‘no-coasters’ means in this context ?
Interesting enough, I just saw that there’s a t-shirt chain based in Des Moines Iowa that is using that same phrase.
Your blog showed up in a search I did for Barnaby Furnas, who is painting on-site at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis starting this week. Love the content and your mission statement. Intend to read it all…
Nice. I’ve just come across this site, I’m excited to wade through some older post.