Adding this for posterity. A week ago I had a terrific conversation with Sharon Butler whose interview embraced many topics both bittersweet and laugh inducing. Here is the archived link for the podcast and below are the discussion topics as seen on the Two Coats Conversations site: EPISODE SUMMARY Recorded on June 1, 2022 / Read the full post…
Here is the list of books on my Poets Vs. Painters wall that I discussed today with Sharon Butler on her Two Coats Conversation podcast. Painters: Lisa Yuskavage – catalogue Christopher Grimes Gallery, 1996 Amy Sillman – Visiting Artist, zine, undated, probably 2005 Susan Rothenberg – Paintings 1998 – 2002 catalogue, Sperone Westwater, 2002 Amy Read the full post…
I like the site The Creative Independent, usually a lot of good food thought in the realm of “just keep at it”. Today’s interview with Richard Kern started out that way and I like this quote: We’re going to take some pictures later. We have something to do today. We’re going to have fun. We Read the full post…
Doireann ni Ghriofa. I can not pronounce the authors name, nor many of the words in this book, but I absorbed it and loved it. An imaginative autobiography and one I didn’t realize was somewhat non-fiction until chapter 3 when I was compelled to ask: who is this woman? That is where you find it Read the full post…
February. It’s been a hard time to get out and recharge with a nice museum or gallery show. Snow storms. Variants causing subsequent closings, and just downright winter blues which seem to enforce stay-at-home measures with a heating pad versus getting out and about. Last Friday though, I made a pit stop at the Lyman Read the full post…
While I was at work yesterday, my husband in an attempt to be cheeky sent me an article from the NY Times titled The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70 : Sex can drop off in our final decades. But for those who keep going, it can be the best of their lives. It’s Read the full post…
During that week that spans Christmas and New Years I found myself enmeshed in Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter. Amazon reminds me that “You purchased this item on June 27, 2018“, yet it took me until now to start and voraciously read. The book tells of the Read the full post…
It wasn’t my intent, by any means to start 2022 here with Danica Phelps, but here I am again. Why do I find my way to her at the start of each year? I was looking for a poem for a friend but then I thought of resolutions, and then gratitude and then wait a Read the full post…
Ken Friedman: 92 Events Through January 16 The show I enjoyed the most this December is a roomful of proclaimed activities, framed. The Lyman Allyn Museum always dedicates its ground floor room closes to its entrance to a local artist. Friedman was born in New London, Connecticut in 1949 thus the show. Friedman joined Fluxus Read the full post…
I keep unknowingly gravitating to Katherine Bradford’s work. This fall, on a very brief visit to Maine I was at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, viewing a new acquisitions exhibit and came across her painting Fear of Dark which transfixed me. It captured perfectly a single feeling, a snapshot that welled up in me, Read the full post…
It was one of those stormy New England days that knocks you sideways I traveled across The Gold Star bridge to Groton’s von Schlippe Gallery (UConn at Avery Point) gallery to get a much needed pick me up. Color Cure is indeed that, an exhibit consisting of bold abstract color, a group show consisting of Read the full post…
Well not really, but “getting the blog back together” is the plan. It is my sincerest hope I come back here more often. We promised ourselves we’d retool the website this summer, with a deadline of Labor Day, and here I am squeaking in by the skin of my teeth: artwork finally updated, and a Read the full post…
A brief note, as people frequently ask me what the name of the site means. Originally it was a prank on my friend who was working at the Online Journalism Review back in the late 90s and had launched his now long gone blog dangerous monkey. I’ve had this site since February 2000, when I Read the full post…
Good Government, 1984 Oil on linen 101 1/4 × 136 1/4 in 257.2 × 346.1 cm What a perfect title for the past week of baloney in Washington D.C. I’ve have a postcard of this work in my studio since first seeing it in probably 1993. I never tire of looking at Terry Winters work, Read the full post…
A moment to think about a new year and gratitude through the eyes of Danica Phelps various gratitude drawings. About the project from the Danica Phelps Projects website: I started this project in the Spring of 2016 while I was listening to stories of refugees from Syria while working in the studio. I felt the Read the full post…
Posting here from our little engine that could Lyman Allyn Art Museum here in New London, CT. Starting a whole new world. Thanks for being here.
The newly curated Museum of Modern Art in New York, which I visited over a week ago lives up to the hype, it is spectacular . It did my heart good to see so many people engaged in art. I was particularly touched by this group of school kids piled up in front of Faith Read the full post…
Here’s the part of life I’ve never figured out how to manage. How do you keep the pie pieces all intact? When life goes of the rails and the pie bursts into a million pieces, what do you do? I looked at my calendar and haven’t had a moment since late April to think. Adding Read the full post…
A nice visit to the Webster’s Woods , part of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center which I hadn’t been to since 2004. Glad to see it is still actively in existence.
I find myself surveying below, the most gorgeous flight I’ve ever been on. Following the sun over the tops of our glaciers, flyovers of so many small bodies of water. The phase God’s Country enters my thoughts again. Looking down, as we crawl south down the coast you think, will this be here in 10 Read the full post…
From the press release for the show at Shift Studio (Sept 2005)* What started as an inside joke – a single doodle of a vest worn religiously by an art school professor – turned into a full blown, year long examination of the idealized hangovers of the art world, all represented simply through the singular Read the full post…
Bill Work A good long time ago a spent a couple of years making drawings, paintings and sculptures as a method of softly poking fun at a professor I had a CWU (Country Western U) and then using the work as a device to think about the whole dynamic of the pupil/teacher relationship and how Read the full post…
Woodland Reverie: The Art of Helen Loggie and graphite tree drawings by artist Donna Leavitt. I always feel so centered upon entering the exhibit rooms in this museum. Here are the drawing and etching exhibits you personally complain are absent in most places. That the artists being showcased are local and most likely an under Read the full post…
Things you can get mad at yourself about. I used to have a Dawn Cerney t-shirt but then it became too small and now it is gone. I bought it at the Henry Art Gallery when they used to have a shop, so now it additionally would have been an souvenir of times gone by. Read the full post…
Tiny Tortures oil enamel and oil on canvas 72″ x 60″ 11/87 Thinking a lot lately of when I first fell in love with painting and gathering up my heroes from that time. I’m certain Matisse’s The Red Studio was a heavy influence here. Also thinking about trying to find the beauty in the everyday, Read the full post…
I am not terribly acquainted with you Mr. W. S. Merwin, but now that you have passed I hold you up as a life to strive for through your gracious poetry and ecological stewardship. This profile on the PBS site is worth a read. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was raised in the Read the full post…
War Hawks (Ken’s Dream) charcoal and pastel on paper 1984 (Drawing with Ken Cory) This past December, in some effort of tidying up messes I digitized 35 years of 35mm slides. It’s an ongoing organizational shamble but also a pile of joy. Lots of imagery I haven’t thought about for a long time. There is Read the full post…
Here’s one I wish I could get on a plane to go see, Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks. NYTimes Review by Roberta Smith. At the age of 88 Johns is still producing remarkable work. In 2014, the “Regrets” series (2012-14) had its debut at the Museum of Modern Art. The title comes from a rubber Read the full post…
A bittersweet visit to both G. Gibson Gallery and James Harris Gallery to the joint exhibit In Tandem with Fay Jones and Robert C. Jones. Bittersweet mainly as it is a goodbye to local painter Robert C. Jones who passed away this last December. Both galleries were a joy to visit since I hadn’t seen Read the full post…
with Terrence Malick’s movies. Just watched Tree of Life and now want to see the rest of his work. This started not long ago with Days of Heaven, which is magnificent. As is the lovely Sam Shepard seen above. More soon. On the cinematography of Days of Heaven (1978)] “With Néstor Almendros, we decided to Read the full post…
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