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Posted on Monday, May 30, 2011 3:22 PM
I've added a few more images on myGallerypage, including some slightly older paintings. It occurred to me that, if this blog mentions a progression or change in my painting, I should try to give some visual reference for that statement. Check it out! Is there a unified vision and voice through the collage poems, visual poems, photographs, abstract collages and paintings? And here's a trick question: how about a unified vision and voice when the text-only work is included in the equation? |
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Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:29 AM
This is the piece on the wall in my painting studio. I call itThe Big Problem, though I don't expect that will be its permanent title. You can't tell, especially not from this photograph, but the painting is 64 x 72". It's not the biggest painting I've done, by any means--but it's currently my most problematic large oil painting. That's why it's calledThe Big Problem.
This is a cautionary tale, really. I'll give the moral of the story before I even start telling the story itself: the moral is "know thyself. |
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Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:16 AM
The incomparable Richard Fox strikes again! Here's a great sound piece reworking a poem from Robert McDonald's Adopt-A-Poem proj.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:51 AM
I have always loved looking at artists' and scientists' diaries, journals, letters, notes and similar ephemera. I've also always loved the "behind-the-scenes" glimpses of the working life of these folks--the grainy photos of artists' studios, the chaise in the garden, random companion animals, the porch swing, the kitchen table loaded with bread crusts and drawings, the glinting glassware in a laboratory, the pensive profile posed alongside the tools of the trade and half-done projects. |
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Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2011 9:19 AM
Lately we've been paying a lot of attention to the community supported arts movement, which offers a much more workable, practical, equitable and sustainable model for living and working as an artist than the previous models have. "Community supported arts" is a model based on the community-supported agriculture movement (co-ops; farms supported by "subscriptions" from community members) with which it shares initials. In both cases, the system benefits everyone involved--the "subscribers," the artists (or farmers), the community at large. |
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Posted on Friday, May 06, 2011 11:03 AM
I am grateful for all the visitors--you all are completely awesome! Check out the three photos just added to the Gallery!
Here is something different: Video poems are an area of poetic exploration I am just getting into and am still working out their place in my practice. They're fun to do, though, and as I develop them they might help me solve the problem of how to "read" my current work (as in poetry readings). When I appear in front of an audience to deliver a spoken version of the texts I make, I occasionally have to choose work that isn't totally. |
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Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:12 AM
Well, I feel all Grand-Opening shiny! Thanks to all those who have visited. It's very exciting around here!
Some tidbits to share: My poetic collaborator Robert McDonald has posted some of my contributions to his "Adopt/Abandon-A-Poem" project on his fascinating blog, The Lives of the Spiders. Bookmark him--his blog is a treat, full of wonderful poems and great writing challenges to get you rolling!
Also, some additional work of mine was just published in the online journal Otoliths |
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Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 8:17 AM
Yesterday, R. and I went on a whim to check out ArtChicago. One thing that struck me (for various reasons) was the gallery booth for Corbett vs. Dempsey. I have not been actively seeking galleries at this point, though I am interested in gallery representation as one part of my "balanced diet" of living as an artist. That is to say, galleries are not my only option, and I don't view them as the pinnacle of...whatever. But I do recognize that many other people see them that way, and having gallery representation does present several practical advantages in addition to the conceptual ones. |
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