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Studio Visit
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
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 [...]
Jackson Pollock, 1951
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 [...]
A Work in Progress (Summer 2009)
This is a summer with no particular goal in mind, other than EXPLORATION. Try new things, fail a lot, and look for a kernel of something interesting in my exploration. So far, stencils and spray paint have worked their way into a few drawings…and I’m drawing outside the lines. Any ideas?
First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?
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 [...]
Buffalo Nickel
The Buffalo nickel was the object of inspiration for my first animal drawing in 2006. I had a cherished Buffalo nickel for a time, as a child, otherwise can’t really explain why I decided to draw the image on a particular day. And, for it to lead to the development of an entire series is [...]
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