Miss Connections

http://vimeo.com/36116772

MAMA Art Gallery

Art Gallery



Lesean Bowe

USA

Single Mother: The Hand that Rocks the World



Spotlight Artists: Augustus John

"LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Augustus John, one of the most celebrated British artists of the early 20th century. Regarded as an outstanding painter and draughtsman, he was a leading portraitist of his day and his lifestyle epitomized that of the bohemian artist. The display of portraits of the artist drawn from the Gallery’s Collection includes photographs by Alvin Coburn, Howard Coster, Bill Brandt, Yousuf Karsh, Norman Parkinson, Ida Kar and Cecil Beaton. Charting his early career, relationships, his fascination with Romany culture, and his success and reputation as an artist the display will also include pivotal figures from his life including Dorelia McNeill, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Talitha Pol. Associated with the New English Art Club and the Camden Town Group he remained largely independent from artistic trends and movements and his sitters included many of his most distinguished contemporaries such as George Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence. "

 Art Knowledge News Feb 2012

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/11_08_2011_23_37_46_augustus_john_a_life_in_portraits.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Aggie Zed artist

Aggie Zed: Keepers Keep from John Reynolds & Lee Donaldson on Vimeo.

Artist: Bill Smith

sweetgum leaf and stag beetle (high voltage arc propulsion) from widicus on Vimeo.


Artist: Bill Smith

Van Gogh inspired

base image painted on canvas board

Working with the Very Special Arts Program/I can do that has been a very powerful and heartfelt teaching experience. This is the base for a Van Gogh inspired class collage project that we will begin working on tomorrow.



student working on class project



Students worked on this piece off and on for several weeks adding small found objects and art treasures. The completed canvas was displayed at the end of session community show in January 2012.



Completed group project by students grades 1st-2nd in the Very Special Arts Program Jan 2012



Vixen Vintage: Willard Asylum Suitcases



photo by John Crispin

 Vixen Vintage: Willard Asylum Suitcases

Very interesting post opening a door to the past,
provides two links to the Willard Asylum Suitcase
project.

Portrait by Arcimboldo

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/arcimboldoinfo.shtm

Work in progress

First paint blob drawing. What will it become?

How To Clay and Bead projects

http://http//desiredcreations.com/howTo_Desk.htm

great site for clay and bead how to projects.

Step by step directions and photos

Book sculptures artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_AG7XuX-U&feature=related

Book sculptures artist Su Blackwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp5Zv-wDgtQ&feature=related

The Nightmares of Beksinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyboDY6orGI&feature=related

artist Zdzislaw Beksinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4l1077U0Gw&feature=related

Beautiful and bleak images-
The drawings of the Polish painter Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929-2005).

Stained Glass artist Judith Schaechter

Extra Virgin the stained glass work of artist Judith Schaechter...

She borrows freely from art historical sources such as nineteeth century fairy-tale illustrations, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and Surrealism, as well as popular culture sources such as comics, circus posters, and folklore.

Regarding working in stained glass-

Speech Balloon by Judith Schaechter

"I guess the most appealing thing for me is the tedium factor. I don't have too many worthy and profound ideas, so each piece needs to take a certain amount of time. This keeps my hands busy and in sync with my head. "  JS






View youtube video for a more complete overview of her work

also on line article of interest

http://missioncreep.com/schaechter/index.html

and her blog

http://judithschaechterglass.blogspot.com/

Artist Adela Leibowitz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LXKWBHUis&NR=1

Artist Julie Heffernan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK90EKw9iRo&feature=related

Her paintings have been described as "downright haunting," "enchanting but eerie" and having an "offbeat punch." And while Julie Heffernan of Art and Design agrees, she says she never strives for those results.


"Haunting and enchanting and eerie are wonderful words for getting a sense of how my paintings affect other people," she said, "but I don't drive or steer the work to any particular outcome. For me, it's about tracking these pictures in my head that I derive out of a process called image streaming."
View youtube for complete interview

Yinka Shonibare mixed media artist

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/shonibare-mbe-museum-contemporary-art/1890


Yinka Shonibare MBE is a non-pareil master of the sleight of hand. He has a way of extracting “what everybody knows” – our disregard of the disenfranchised, our vacuous obsessions, our acquiescence, our heedless longings for both temporary fixes and oblivion – and succeeds in personifying its quintessence, foiling us with his sumptuous, visual splendors.

Janne Parvianen painter with light

Janne Parviainen has created a personal painting technique that reflects the urban and technology centered life of today. His most common subjects are city environments and nature landscapes.

http://www.wix.com/jannepaint/jannepaint#!page-5

I'm still not sure how she does this, it's not a photoshop or computer effect.

Artist of interest Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz (1947-2000)

Robert Schwartz provides a portal into a world of emerging gay culture and social upheaval of the 1960s, seeking to expose truths about the human condition by depicting people involved in curious behaviors set in a world of his own invention.
 He painted detailed cross sections of a world where characters move about in the ironic overlaps of incongruous realities. With an intricacy often compared to that of medieval miniatures, each of Schwartz’s paradoxical narratives is expertly composed in a space rarely exceeding 10 inches wide—inviting close examination of his intriguing, yet revealing social scenarios. 
http://www.babcockgalleries.com/node/robert-schwartz/3913

Artist
Lori Nix
Photographer/surrealist
interesting approach to the world.

"I am interested in depicting danger and disaster, but I temper this with a touch of humor."



"I have been building dioramas and photographing the results since the early 1990s. As I'm working through various bodies of work, from Accidentally Kansas, Lost and now The City, my fabrication skills have improved and my subject matter has become more complex. "


http://www.lorinix.net/my8x10life/

the art of Jerome Witkin painter

http://suart.syr.edu/witkin/artist.php

French artist Marc Giai-Miniet mini rooms

http://www.marc-giai-miniet.com/page19.html







From the artist's website:
The "boxes" have appeared relatively late in my work as a painter, as a natural and necessary, and have become an integral part, his double play. As a reminiscence of my desire to teenage drama, and perhaps even the deepest yet my memories, of childhood games pitched battles between miniature electric trains and installed under the table in the family dining room . These "boxes" at the beginning of their manufacture in the years 92 - 93, repeated the themes of my paintings: the brainwashing scene, visit the mummies, agitation transfusions and various larvae

Alan Wolfson Urban cut aways

Notes from the Artist:

"I wanted to build a piece that resembled a core sample of a city street. As though you took a street, dug it up, and lifted it straight off the earth. "Canal St. Cross-Section" is a combination of five major pieces built into one box. There's a street scene on the top with a subway entrance on the corner. Looking down into the subway entrance, you are led to the two subterranean levels of the piece, both of which have intersecting cross views visible through the small windows on the sides of the piece."



http://www.alanwolfson.net/canal_st_cross_section.htm

 

Brian Dettmer Book artist

http://briandettmer.com/

Wagnalls Wheel, 2010, Altered Set of Encyclopedias, 9" x 20-1/2" x 20-1/2" - Image Courtesy of the Artist and Toomey Tourell Fine Art

Explanation of Process (from the artist's site)


"In this work I begin with an existing book and seal its edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. I cut into the surface of the book and dissect through it from the front. I work with knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each layer while cutting around ideas and images of interest. Nothing inside the books is relocated or implanted, only removed. Images and ideas are revealed to expose alternate histories and memories. My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception."
Brian Dettmer

interview with artist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jk9pHPPJbA&feature=related

Oreo and butter cameo

http://jgklausner.com/work/

Underwater sculptures

http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/gallery/latest-works.html

Moving Canvas

Special show at the Roundhouse...Curtain Call 360 degree theater experience
with live perfomances by a variety of artists.


http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/ron-arads-curtain-call/events/mat-collishaw


Mat Collishaw's film Sordid Earth with a live soundtrack from 20 Brazilian drummers

Sand painting

http://youtu.be/518XP8prwZo


Sand Art video

Street Art by Joshua Allen Harris

http://youtu.be/PH6xCT2aTSo

Garbage Bags and Subway Air make beautiful art...

It's All Treasure: On the Road to Love

It's All Treasure: On the Road to Love: "This month at Gingersnap Creations it's all about 'Steam punk Style' and for this weeks theme its 'On the road'. I love the mix of Victorian..."

Take a look at this blog for inspiring collage ideas and great visuals.

Jerry Uelsmann American Photographer

The first critical retrospective of American photographer Jerry Uelsmann’s work opened at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida on June 14, 2011. Uelsmann, known for his iconic, surreal style and his innovative composite printing techniques, has spent more than 50 years challenging and advocating for the acceptance of photography as an experimental art form. The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts features 89 works from every phase of the artist’s wide-ranging career, including a selection of rare pieces that have never before been on public view. Additional works from the artist’s collection are on view only during this leg of the exhibition, open through September 11th.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/04_07_2011_23_41_12_harn_museum_of_art_presents_a_retrospective_of_jerry_uelsmanns_photography.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Hundertwasser 699 The houses are hanging below the woods (meadows), 1971.

The time is ripe for a renaissance of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, for a comprehensive tribute to this innovative artist and ecological visionary. This biographic and thematic exhibition spotlights significant junctures in his life and work which, taken together, convey an overall impression of Hundertwasser as a person and as an artist and serve as signposts to the intellectual and artistic cosmos of an original thinker and pioneer – a peacemaker between human beings and nature, who placed his art and his life in the service of the green path.

Hundertwasser 695 Come and walk with me - Double talk, 1970.

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http://www.kunsthauswien.com/en/exhibitions/current

Bio and image info
http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/galleries/hundertwasser/index.htm

Stan VanDerBeek Film Artist

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/10/137709813/stan-vanderbeek-film-on-the-cutting-edge?sc=fb&cc=fp

Stan VanDerBeek is a legendary name in the history of experimental film. A restless adventurer who began making experimental animated films in the 1950s, VanDerBeek filmed happenings, designed windows for Tiffany's and worked with John Cage and Claes Oldenburg.

He also explored the artistic possibilities of new technologies of his time: video, computers, even the fax machine. He was artist-in-residence at Bell Labs and at NASA.

Now, a survey of VanDerBeek's work is on display at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston

Waste Land A film about art and garbage

http://laughingsquid.com/waste-land-making-art-in-the-worlds-largest-garbage-dump/worlds-largest-garbage-dump/


Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

Art Box Project Feb-April 2011

Outside the Box artist challenge
Shawn Baldwin


808 Lincoln Way
Auburn, CA 95603
(530) 885-5670
PlacerArts.org




This is the original wooden box all artists were given to transform




added base coat and stage




cardboard waves for my little theater




tissue paper, paint and glue for texture and color



Old cake plate made a beautiful moon with just a few additions

trying out a few elements, setting the stage



the finished product







Sophie Taeuber-Arp Avant-Garde Pathways

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009_10_20_21_40_51_museo_picasso_malaga_opens_sophie_taeuber_arp_retrospective.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29


Sophie Taeuber-Arp belonged to a generation of socially-committed women who were anxious to transcend the limits traditionally imposed on women. Daughters of the “new women” of the 19th century, who had helped to initiate the feminist and suffragette movements, these independent women almost all came from the upper and middle classes and had pursued advanced studies. Their influence on the cultural scene in the 1920s and 1930s was considerable. They played an essential role in the artistic and literary production of their time and brought forth a new vision of the world driven by their staunch desire to challenge the established order.

The exhibition that the Museo Picasso Málaga is devoting to Sophie Taeuber-Arp, from October 19, 2009 to January 24, 2010, will demonstrate the highly modern and radical duality that was at the heart of her work. Like a dance sequence, it is a journey through the artist’s work, with over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture.

Cardiff and Miller art team of interest

The Carnie,

combines the artists’ interests in spectacle, narrative, and sculptural sound. A small children’s’ carousel is activated by a start button. It grinds slowly up to speed, while lights and music emanate from the structure and moving shadows are cast onto the walls. The musical source is deconstruced and relocated throughout the structure of the carousel so that the movement of the sound occurs horizontally as well as vertically. The results transform the carnival ride into a layered and evocative encounter.

CARDIFF & MILLER

Materials: Moving carousel with synchronized audio and light
Dimensions: 10 feet diameter, 15 feet high
Duration: 3:25 Minutes
 
http://www.cardiffmiller.com/news_full.html

October Update

Here is Meredith's piece finished after it went home with her.

Adapting/Surving became...Phase IV

Natalie's additions/changes to Suzi's piece...