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Studio Visit

January 26, 2010

A couple of recent works are currently in Studio Visit magazine. Studio Visit only goes out to museums, galleries and collector’s, so editions are not widely available. Studio Visit is a sister publication of New American Painting’s. This volume is a collection of work chosen by Ian Berry of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art [...]

Guernica Drawing Project

December 22, 2009

For our final in-class project, I had the students each take a section of Picasso’s great 1937 painting, Guernica, and draw it using charcoal. We then put them all together to form the large reproduction of the masterpiece. Throughout the quarter, we investigated many artists and styles, including DeKooning, Dali, and Chuck Close to gain [...]

Philip Guston: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973

November 21, 2009

Looks like a very interesting show of Philip Guston’s post-Abstract Expressionist work at the McKee Gallery in NYC:
PRESS RELEASE
Although the MCKEE GALLERY has mounted many PHILIP GUSTON shows over the last 35 years, it has never exhibited the small oil panels together as a group. The early figurative acrylic panels were begun in 1968, [...]

Jackson Pollock, 1951

October 12, 2009

I first saw this scene in the movie, ‘The New York School’. It was one of those movies I watched over and over again in the library screening rooms at Moorhead State. All of the artist banter and Abstract Expressionist one-liner’s are priceless. It was here that I first heard Pollock’s famous retort to Hans [...]

Anne Greenwood at Pendleton Center for the Arts

July 14, 2009

A friend and former classmate at Moorhead State University, Anne Greenwood, opens a show at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on July 17, 2009. Her recent work titled, ‘Winter Count’, features embroidered pictographs of stunning originality. In her artists’ statement, Anne says that the work is deeply autobiographical and connected to her background as [...]

First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?

March 18, 2009

A recent New Yorker article gives a great overview of the current state of our understanding of cave art, remarkable stuff:
After a visit to Lascaux, in the Dordogne, which was discovered in 1940, Picasso reportedly said to his guide, “They’ve invented everything.” What those first artists invented was a language of signs for which there [...]

Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

February 27, 2009

Now that I’ve opened the pandora’s box of music, it’s going to be hard to stop. All of the Miles Davis fans know of this one, but if you haven’t discovered this yet…here you go. In this promo to the film, listen to the background music, that’s Miles. The soundtrack is fabulous, that is, if [...]

Leonard Baskin Work

January 2, 2009

Stumbled upon this print by Leonard Baskin, always looking for parallels to what I am working on, I guess.