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…
Is the art world a lifestyle? This week the veil was finally lifted. There were instances heading toward this moment but I think it was this quote from an article…
A lifelong struggle to remain outside of the sphere of influence. The influence of drugs. The influence of sugar. The influence of social media. The influence of comfort. The influence…
During a short 6 week visit I managed to not only visit Art in New York City but I was able to make some of my own Art in New…
What you have chosen is a profound vocation of healing, and your stories and poems are as sacraments, as visible blessings. Be at the heart and soul of your time,…
Oehlen offers an insight into why digital pictorial mediums can be exciting—and certainly are triumphant in global visual culture—but still fail to sustain intellectual interest or to nourish the soul.…
Internet utopians believe the crowd is the future, and equate it with democracy. But all the evidence of history tells us crowds are dangerous, irrational and colossally unwise. Source: Down…
“To be an artist you need courage, and most people don’t think that,” says Ono. “It’s an age where people are only interested in entertainment. People are just entertained every…
I've been back in New York for a month now and have seen more art in the past month than in the last two years. A lot of times another…
Not much painting going on. I have been obsessed with animating imagery to accompany one of my songs. I finished the song video it and posted it online should you…
I believe the problem is rooted in the immediacy of today. In other words, the desire to obtain instant feedback and praise is strong in our age of instant information.…
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…
Researchers discovered “a significant improvement in psychological resilience” among those who participated in drawing and painting classes; they did not find it in the art-appreciation group. What’s more, the fMRI scans of the art-class…
Science Shows Art Can Do Incredible Things for Your Mind and Body.
Each painting has it's own personality. I've heard authors talk about a character developing a mind of it's own and having to follow the character they have created to it's…
Over the years I have developed a visual language. I don't always know what I am saying but I can tell when I have everything in place. A visual poetry…
“Let us not kid ourselves,” Professor Vladimir Nabokov reminds us. “Let us remember that literature is of no practical value whatsoever. ... ” But practical value isn’t the only kind…
It isn't always funny the path a painting takes but it's never boring. While on the subject of animated gifs the following was created for the exhibition "You Should Not Be…
With the new year comes a prompt to reflect and take inventory on habits and aims. Sometimes it seems like my habits control me and that's the easy way. Just…
The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People | Podio. Want to develop a better work routine? Discover how some of the world's greatest minds organized their days. Click image to…
If, BIG IF, I don’t live another year, my prayer for you, for the art world, is that creatives banish doubts about breakthroughs because if we can’t imagine Pollock or…
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…
Today, photography is the only art that seriously maintains this attention to the stuff that matters. via Photography is the art of our time | Art and design | The…
The reflections exhibition at the Mount San Jacinto College Art Gallery looks great. The reception was well attended and we ate all the cheese. A reporter from the Press Enterprise…
These paintings are allover paintings in that they are painted all over the surface of the canvas. There is no part of the painting more special than any other part.…
Take a picture of yourself holding a sign that says “Forgive Me”. How does that feel? Can you do it seriously or is it too uncomfortable? Can you now post…
The act of holding the Forgive me sign can lead to a posture of resignation. The space created by that posture is where grace goes. Witnessing that moment, whether in…