The Challenges Female Artists Face Mid-Career. A good long read about why it’s so exhausting to participate in the art world. Especially if you are a woman. “Being an artist now is…almost 50 percent celebrity-ness and charm, and in order to get past that, you have to have really strong work,” said Fox. “Men’s charm, Read the full post…
“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars–on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.” -Robert Frost Landscapes of the mind are these drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal in an exhibit called The Beautiful Brain, most recently Read the full post…
If you were to force me to pick just one artist to call my favorite the clear winner would be Kiki Smith. Kiki Smith and the Pursuit of Beauty in a Notably Unbeautiful Age. Her persistence and humility for the win. I’ve always admired her ability to not let the work become ham-fisted narratives. “For Read the full post…
It’s a week where there has been much examination locally of what it is to live here as an artist with no actual art coverage. If a tree falls is there even any one left to get wood chips out of the situation? Yet most of us live a life where we are lucky to Read the full post…
Just back from the little museum that could, Cascadia located in Edmonds. An absolutely gorgeous photography exhibit is currently the main attraction, showcasing the work by photographer Soichi Sunami who I had not heard of before stepping foot into the show today. The exhibit is appropriately titled Invocation of Beauty, The Life and Photography of Soichi Sunami. Cascadia focuses Read the full post…
Visiting art galleries is usually a means to inspiration for me and today was a good one in Georgetown. I wasn’t going to miss the closing of Kim Van Someren’s exhibit and artist talk at Bridge Productions and I’m really glad I made it there. Kim’s discussion was facilitated by her friend and fellow artist Read the full post…
[27-year old Nauman’s contortions…..] A continued meditation on Bruce Nauman while it is still in my head. Waking up with my coffee and reading the handful of articles on Nauman this morning gave me pause. The coverage is in support of the current retrospective of his work up at The Museum of Modern Art right Read the full post…
Kim Van Someren exhibit at Bridge Productions. I laughingly told Sharon my one sentence review of the show is: “this is totally my jam”. I’m in awe of Kim’s markmaking and how she has created a little world from various shaped and patterned forms, which I detect some humor folded in there. More clues to Read the full post…
I’ve had the good fortune of seeing the vast majority of artists whose work I admire in person with one exception. I’ve been wanting to see the work of Karin Mamma Andersson for a long time. I decided to stop by the new Nordic Museum as I had an appointment in Ballard and realized the museum Read the full post…
I’ve been hard on myself this week, watching myself spiral around the studio but finding ways to procrastinate. I finally sorted long languishing tools yesterday and took a very full car load to Value Village. Things I couldn’t tell what they were, things I would never use. I am waiting I think. And this morning Read the full post…
To me, in my head poetry and painting are doing the same job. On Sneaking Poetry in…. My Flaming Hamster Wheel of Panic About Publicly Discussing Poetry in This Respected Forum, NEKO CASE “I think the fear began in about fifth grade. Right off the top they said poetry was supposed to have “form.” Even Read the full post…
I don’t know what this thing is that Chantal Joffe is sitting on, but I need one. (from a Guardian article about UK artists and their studios).
There was a point once where I really thought my life was going to be just like this. No really. This is a condensed version of a film called The Reality of Karel Appel from 1962. Starring of course the Dutch artist name Karel Appel. If you can’t tolerate most of it at least scoot forward Read the full post…
As noted in Charles Pierce LeWarne’s book Utopias in Puget Sound 1885 – 1915, in 1898 the little burg of Edison, WA became the National Headquarters of The Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth, with the BCC hoping to establish a socialist colony. It was a short lived but hopeful measure with membership rising to 3,558 Read the full post…
JS: There is a confidence and singularity that characterizes your path, especially your choice of subject matter. How have you been able to maintain this? LD: Well, you are always influenced by the people around you. How do you find out who you are if it isn’t from other people? But painting may be the only thing Read the full post…
Every-time A Plane Leaves, They Take Some More With Them (For Ben) Charcoal on Paper, 22″ x 34″, 8/8/2018
My sister, brother-in-law and nephew are currently on a whirl wind Europe tour-of-duty. When I read this I loved it so much I asked (my sister) Donna if I could post her experience….also because Carsten Höller. We saw a lot of Renaissance art today, so it made sense to balance it by participating in a Read the full post…
Grace Rosario Perkins has an painting exhibit up currently at The Alice Gallery. Every time I see a painting show I like I will post about it immediately. I wish I had taken better photos, the installation of these abstractions hug the walls and take over some of the flooring. I always appreciate someone working Read the full post…
All art fairs are overwhelming, this one is no exception (Seattle Art Fair). 1 Room across the expansive Century Link parking lot gets my vote for the best stop of the evening. Seattle Art Fair runs August 2 – 5 at Century Link Field. Friday, August 3,11:00am – 8:00pm Saturday, August 4,11:00am – 7:00pm Read the full post…
I’m backlogged on my thoughts from my recent Portland trip but through no small irony, the two artists I went to Portland to see a week ago are found together again in at Bellingham’s Whatcom Museum. When I found out there was another Diebenkorn show in the vicinity I made the two hour trek north as Read the full post…
Back from a day trip to Portland to catch up on art. A decade ago I could do this without batting an eye but my much older person today is feeling the effects of driving a car for hours. It was worth it though. I got to see some good art, caught up with friends Read the full post…
Season’s Summer show is all drawings and they are gorgeous. I’m always about the drawing, so this is a special treat. I stopped by the opening this this afternoon to see this beautifully curated crop of work. Bonus points, meeting the very gracious Robyn O’Neil. She kindly signed my Perspectives 150: Robyn O’Neil catalog along Read the full post…
It’s Friday, finally the end of a very long stretch of employment work. I don’t know why this is resonating today. Carsten Höller, One Minute of Doubt (loop) Carsten Höller used money from the exhibition budget to buy an old car, a Mercedes station wagon. He had the car covered with stickers that read “The Read the full post…
Robert Yoder’s Season Gallery has its Summer 2018 Exhibit opening this Sunday called Fiery Rain and Movies, Cooling Sun. Here’s the clincher, artist Robyn O’Neil is not only in the show, she’ll be visiting Seattle to celebrate her new work. She of the gorgeously bleak and unsettling drawings who also is hilarious to boot, as Read the full post…
Again I circle back to that original query I have in mind as an ongoing thesis here. What keeps someone’s hat in the game? I went down to visit the ever articulate and generous Sharon Arnold today for a one day event at her Bridge Productions. The three artists share the walls today are Emily Read the full post…
I always think to Diane Arbus when I consider the American flag. Maybe due to the era of when they were taken they seem more authentic to me. Maybe the earnestness in the portraits gets to me. Yes thinking about the flag today when our political landscape is changing rapidly. This one by photographer Read the full post…
When I ran into Doug Parry a few weeks ago he highly recommended a visit to studio e to see Ken Kelly’s latest show. Kelly is a long surviving/practicing artist in the Seattle art world. The show and the space did not disappoint. Strictly drawing and painting exhibits seem to be a rare occurrence and Read the full post…
Here’s possibly my favorite explanation about the what of painting. From the recently published Amy Sillman the All-Over. Excerpt from: Interview with Amy Sillman, Fabian Schöneich, December 2016 AS: Yes, people are always asking what paintings mean− I responded by staging a joke*. I don’t really think you can understand a painting by reading about Read the full post…
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