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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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Visual Inspirations from Natural Patterns and Forces
The imagery that I work with comes almost entirely from observations of patterns in nature, some of which are very specific and others of which were more generalized for artistic reasons of expression, composition, and form. The imagery also comes from the ways in which I organize those observations as movements, improvised within the possibilities…
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