Life changing books of the year 2024
No Self, No Problem_ How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism by Chris Niebauer. Get The Picture - Bianca Bosker Blue Ruin - Hari Kunzru The Covenant of Water by…
No Self, No Problem_ How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism by Chris Niebauer. Get The Picture - Bianca Bosker Blue Ruin - Hari Kunzru The Covenant of Water by…
In the hopes of avoiding dead ends, I am making myself aware of various paths in my painting. Following a painting path is an exciting journey, and I still look…
I seem to have identified a seductive pattern in reviewing old paintings. Maybe I will pursue this strategy. It looks like a process of sorting and settling an initial energetic…
Don't thrust your candle of hope in to the winds of despair. This is what the pandemic taught me. among other things As long as I am obsessively immersing myself…
Source: Art as Therapy Most works of art do not present us with radically strange and unexpected ideas: rather, they lend life to truths that had become cliches. Their…
Light shines. It doesn't try to move whatever is causing shadow. It certainly doesn't draw it closer causing more shadow. Light shines. it does its best to shine wherever it…
Perfection clouded by perception is how I can best describe the images I have been creating lately. I am talking about the broken mandala the twisted kalidescope. What goes on?…
Imagine an army of the smartest, most compassionate, free thinking, capable individuals duped in to an existence of competition amongst themselves for a ridiculously rare opportunity. All the while serving…
They’re all about sports, but that doesn’t mean the 2016 Rio Olympics have no room for art. Source: We Gave Medals to the Best Art at the Rio Olympics
One minute I was in love and the next minute that love was gone. What happened to my love? What happened to my perception? I am talking about the painting…
The Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs is also hosting the 99 bucks arts sales show. I have three small paintings at this event. 99 Bucks & Up Annual Fundraiser for…
Art is a cornerstone of moneyed society in New York, with pieces regularly selling for millions of dollars. But most artists rarely see any of this bounty, making it harder…
slippery but seductive slippery but seductive narratives. Source: Night at the museum: Turner winner Elizabeth Price on breaking the glass cabinet | Art and design | The Guardian
Had a great time at the Artists Council Exhibit: Artistic Expressions of the Coachella Valley at University of California, Riverside | Palm Desert Center. The show was well attended and…
The tricky thing happens when the audience begins expecting a product — the artist can thrive and grow only when people expect a process. The market model is predicated on…
Sunday I performed my songs at the Open Mic once again. On the drive in I began to feel nervous and that didn't pass until ten minutes after my performance. …
why we’re so drawn to adding this aesthetic aspect to digital images. The writer Nathan Jurgenson talks about this as an attempt to create a “nostalgia for the present”: it…
Art stripped itself of so many enriching things and reduced itself to such a stark mirror of this age that now it struggles to find a more intellectually and emotionally…
Frustrated with painting but not wanting to be left behind, he said, “I wanted to change.” Art, he wrote, had become "too coded, too much talking.” He longed for a…
I attended a function for artists at the Palm Springs Art Museum yesterday. It was a critique sponsored by the Artists Council and put on in our very own space…
I am searching for order in chaos. I create the chaos, a few gestural expressions, and then step back and ask what is required to balance it. A series of…
There’s a painting by Ray of Fra Angelico’s fresco of the “Annunciation” as seen from the bottom of the maroon-carpeted stairs in the Convent of San Marcos in Florence. By…
I have built myself an Artist cage with my interpretation and subsequent conformation to the term Artist. In 1993 I was working as a sheet metal worker, Sign Division, in…
non-representational art and the important role intentionality plays in how we ascribe value to artworks via ArtSlant - You Can’t Ape It: Art Outsiders Can Tell the Difference Between Abstract…
There are passages in the mottled walls that glow, while other parts are in shadow. Mazur can evoke the multiform paintings of Mark Rothko without sinking into parody. And then…
Between 1881 – 1884, about 15,000 Chinese laborers from the southern Province of Guangdong were hired to build the most treacherous part of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.…
A harrowing period of drug dependency had been interrupted by physical, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion. I found help in the rooms of this building. I began to awaken to the…