February 2010
14 posts
The Secret Emotional Life of Technology
“At a time when technological innovations spring up more and more quickly and no one leaves home without their cell phone, some sort of android future seems imminent. There is hope, however, as there are a few select innovators, like Australian artist Lynette Wallworth, who mine technology for its humanizing qualities, using gadgets to enhance real sensual experiences. As part of Sydney...
January 2010
36 posts
WatchShudder:
Esther Leslie has said that for Adorno “the shudder represents the very principle of life itself, barely findable today but sometimes emergent in the experience of art”. In their attempt to imitate life, artists have the potential to trigger in the viewer genuine experience which is denied by modern rational society.
Movie: Markus Vater ‘The Cave has been moved’ 2008, animation,...
The New Yorker Remembers Salinger →
WatchWilliam Kentridge creating video work Breathe.
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Give a Dream
Call for Artists: Dreams for Kids Deadline: February 26 Dreams for Kids Non profit invites artists to donate work for an art auction and opening to be held March 4th at Paolos Ristoronte in Georgetown. Donated original works will be displayed and auctioned during a one night event. This call is open to all artists from Northern Virginia working in wide variety of media, including ceramics, glass,...
The Art of Taxes
Apparently artists are so bad at taxes there are two different sessions being offered to educate them:
Taxes for Artists Wednesday, February 3rd 7pm, at Hamiltonian Gallery One of the biggest hurdles artists have wrestle with every single year is filing their taxes. Between choosing which Schedule to fill out, how many qualified deductions one can make, and deciding if ones studio practice is...
Underbelly
“Using a photograph as a guide, Adam “5100” Feibelman disects the image into multiple meticulously hand-cut stencils. Each stencil, an integral part of the whole, is distinguished by tone and shape, as per the original image. One by one, stencils are applied to a wood panel with spray paint in the manner of printmaking, a medium specific to the artist’s background and...
"Crazed Art Historians Formulate Hilarious Plot to... →
The Mona Lisa = Leonardo da Vinci self portrait.
Call Dan Brown, Robert Langdon should be on this.
Hello, Art World, It's Me, Neena
I’ve always been passionate about the arts. Ever since the first moment of discovery when putting crayon to paper allowed for a creation of whole worlds all my own, I’ve been looking at, making, working with, and writing about art. However as I progressed through various classes, schools, and programs I realized something important: my passion lay not in the creation of work, but in...
Disturbing Little Encounters →
Jennifer Doyle talks with for female artists from Mumbai. The work featured is alternatively disturbing, feminist, careful, beautiful, sentimental, uncomfortable and even slightly humorous despite being a direct result of grief.
Yes it’s made of hair.
Inside The Artist’s Studio: Adam De Boer →
I’m telling you this guy is blowing up big in DC. It helps that he’s young, cute, and talented.
But besides the superficial, the show Memory Meets Imagination Halfway has backbone. De Boer makes specific color choices and creates a cohesive series within his warm muted California/Spain inspired palette. Using friends and family as subject, the intimate compositions present multiple...
Upcoming at Studio Gallery
Suzanne Yurdin: Synthesis
February 3 - February 27, 2010
“Synthesis” is a collection of work featuring Italian landscapes and other work from the artist, in mixed media on both canvas and paper.
Also featuring:
Iwan Bagus: Oblivion
Trix Kuijper: Playing with Fear
First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): February 5, 6 - 8 pm...
Memory Meets Imagination Halfway
ADAM DE BOER January 15 - February 21 Opening Reception: January 15, 7-9pm Conversation with the Artist: February 21, 5pm Curated by Laura Roulet
Themes of social ritual and emerging sexuality are set against the luminous landscapes of Southern California and Mallorca, Spain in Adam de Boer’s new series of narrative paintings, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway. Evoking Vladimir Nabokov as...
Art Writing for the Masses
In DC especially we’re missing thoughtful provoking writing about art in a vernacular style accessible to anyone who enjoys the act of looking.
“Van Gogh’s Ear”
by Adam Gopnik
“On Christmas Eve, 1888, in the small Provençal town of Arles, the police found Vincent van Gogh in his bed, bleeding from the head, self-bandaged and semi-conscious. Hours earlier, the Dutchman had given...
Black Closing Reception SUNDAY
Black Artist of DC and the DC Arts Center Present BLACK Artists Talks/Closing Reception: Sunday, January 10, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
The show’s artists have captured the emotional impact of the joy, passion and spiritual response audiences experience to the blues, gospel, jazz and hip-hop. The energy, elegance, and spiritual nature of the black preacher, politician, academic, actor,...
Adjunct/Disjunct
Exhibition Dates: January 8 - February 20 First Friday Reception: Friday, January 8, 2010, 6-9PM
Live music by experimental trio Vodka and Donuts! Food and refreshments will be served $5 suggested donation
Striving to find balance between the daily grind and personal artistic pursuits, our featured adjunct professors labor in the trenches; dropping knowledge for the next generation of college...
Use Your Hands!
Once upon a time, graphic design, illustration, painting/drawing etc was a hands on profession. Not just anybody could do it. You had to be talented, skilled, and mess up several times before a you got a perfect final product. Anyone whose ever used watercolors knows erasing layers on photoshop is a dream in comparison with fixing/working with/or giving up on a piece.
Not being a graphic...
Goodnight Keith Moon →
“Unlike the original book, which was written for kids, this book has something for readers of all ages. For the grandparent, a nostalgic game of “find the Who reference”; for the parent, a sad reminder of how cool things used to be; and for the kid, tucked into bed listening to the most inappropriate bed time story ever, a lesson: old people are weird, alcohol kills, and, in...
“More of the Same: Confusion Over What Constitutes Art”
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“Only the art world could launch an awards ceremony recognizing professional excellence that left half the community wondering whether the gala itself was actually a work of art. Artist Rob Pruitt’s First Ever Annual Art Awards at the Guggenheim achieved this end earlier in the year: Even...
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"I think I was doomed to be a painter but I... →
Daniel Richter, “Halli Galli Polly,” 2004, oil on canvas, 32 x 102 3/4”
Songs of the Earth - Great and Small
EXHIBITION: January 6 - January 30, 2010 First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): January 8, 6 - 8 pm Meet the Artist Reception: January 9, 4 - 6 pm
Guest Show: Songs of the Earth - Great and Small Debbie Bankert, Roberta Bernstein, Neena Birch, Elizabeth W. Carter, Wendy Cortesi, Jill Hodgson, Vicki Malone, Donald B. Myer, Kappy Prosch,...
“What constitutes a “traumatizing” act?”
– “Usually it means doing something to the painting that runs the risk of possibly destroying it or ruining it. Like, Oh God, you shouldn’t do that! But usually it ends up being fairly liberating in some weird way. That big one over there was a whole other painting at one time that I eventually...
Up next: January arts by the Going Out Gurus →
Watchsee the artist’s website
“So take refuge in art. There may be no better place”
– Time, the Infinite Storyteller
A well thought-out and developed article about the presence of time, a metaphysical entity, in a visual world. Thought Roberta Smith takes us through various sorts of time at the MET, her categories make for interesting study in any gallery or museum. Progress,...