Author: Elion Zoo
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Five New Albums (Yes, Really)
Time to celebrate!!! I did something that breaks every marketing rule in the book: I just released five albums with zero fanfare. Why? Because waiting to build the “perfect” launch was getting in the way of the music itself. So I said screw it—the work is done, and it deserves to be heard. Now. What’s…
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Showing Up for the Joy of Your Artistry
Here’s some advice I often share with advanced art students — it’s about a common problem we artists face, of caring too much about what others think about our art… I used to care a lot about what other people thought of my art. This made me miserable. I would think was my work good…
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Supporting Nature with Art & Music: Earth/Percent
I’ve become a contributing artist with Earth/Percent ( https://www.earthpercent.org/ ) Nature and its incredible variety, ferocity, calmness and beauty are primary sources of inspiration for my art and music — and over the years, as I’ve learned more and more about the outdoors, the more I’ve also learned that all of our acts of creativity…
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All That Glitters: Bennington Museum exhibit
Bennington Museum ‘All that glitters’ exhibit announcement, Nov24-Dec31
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Unconnected Yet lives on in Lorne, Australia
Recently the show Unconnected Yet was in India. Now, this amazing group show is traveling to Lorne in Victoria, Australia. I’m delighted to have artwork in the exhibit. Here’s the show info! Unconnected Yet – Lorne Exhibition: 16 December 2023 – 7 January 2024Opening: Friday 15th December, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Lorne Community Connect2 Otway…
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Does the artwork help create a better place in the world? How would you know?
Do the efforts and resources needed to make art, and the resulting artworks, help create a better place in the world? Here’s four core values for contemporary art that will help measure the ways in which art can make the world a better place.
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Reflecting Ecologies: Panel Discussion Notes 2023
From the exhibit “Reflecting Ecologies” at Gallery 51, 2023. We had a panel discussion featuring all six artists in the show, moderated by journalist-author Kate Abbott. Notes from G. Scheckler… Two main points about art and ecology:
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Art and the Idea of Nature as Changing Processes in Time
Time and how we conceive of it has a long history, and is both universal as well as deeply cultural. This essay outlines some of the main points from an artist’s view.
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Timepieces Art Materials and Media
How might the artist’s materials relate to the artwork’s meanings and methods? For artwork about nature, and from an ecological perspective, the artist’s choice of materials can be borne of sustainable or ‘circular economy’ methods and approaches. In the Timepieces series, the specific art media relate to visual effects, art histories, and various types of…
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Hey if there’s no such thing as nothing or silence, then is it also true that there’s no such thing as something or noise, such that rather than fixed things or their absences we mostly experience varying forces and processes rising and falling away at all times?
“That is a very good question. I should not want to spoil it with an answer.” John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 1959
Gregory Scheckler 