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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?
Here’s a big question for artists: do the efforts and resources needed to make art, and the resulting artworks, help create a better place in the world? How would we know if they did? What does it even mean to suggest ‘better’ or a ‘bettering’ of the world? Is it the artist’s role to better…
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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…