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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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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
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Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature – October 2023 Art Show
I’m excited to have my Timepieces works included in a show at Gallery 51, in North Adams, Massachusetts. A good review of the show can be found here: Reflecting Ecologies… relationships with nature. Here’s the curatorial description from the exhibit: Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature explores the intersections of contemporary artists, nature, and ecological thinking. Ecology…
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Timepieces: Artist’s Statement
A description of the Timepieces series of drawings, including discussion of materials, methods, cultural contexts, and approaches to change / transience in the artworks.
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Gesture Drawing: What is it?
The flexing and forming of marks into lines and tones becomes the art of drawing, which can be divided into several competing types of drawing methods: Many genres of drawing, such as life drawing from the nude figure, may combine several different methods of drawing into one artwork. So too might the quick, fast sketch…
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Art Theory without Jargon
Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, in painting and drawing when I was ‘coming of age’ as an artist, there were several dominant art theories routinely taught in art colleges: Formalism from the Bauhaus, Modernist Abstraction from contemporary America, and Postmodern Deconstructivism mainly from European intellectual traditions, as well as Contemporary Figuration, often taught based…
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