The Reflections exhibit brings together allover paintings with "Forgive Me" photographs revealing their common origins in non-hierarchal foundation beliefs. The allover paintings have no horizon, no compositional elements to focus…
We are undertaking a public art project to release resentment worldwide. To participate take a selfie holding a sign that says, "forgive me". Share the image on your favorite social…
Been messing about with fractal images the last two days in an attempt to improve the Soul Portraits. This is a fractal animation I created using Chaotica. I have…
How would you like to be present at the moment something brand new enters the world? That's where I am every day. No, I don't work in a hospital birthing…
When I was a wee boy I was praised for using the big toilet. Since then I have been making shit and seeking praise. Sometimes I wonder if I am…
I was weaned on abstract expressionism. I am smitten by the allover image. I have developed a method of plein air non representational allover style painting based on grave rubbings.…
Painting Depression This painting is unusual for me as it comes from a darker place than I am accustomed to recognizing. I started it after a meeting during which…
Picture your gift (painting, writing, cooking, surfing) as a white silk flag standing up behind you in the wind as you race through the meadow on your life's path. Now…
I used to be afraid of meat. Not just meat but the butchers shop. The butchers were all bloody and they stood up on a platform behind a formidable wall…
My function is focused on recognizing all the distractions I have created. Once recognized as distractions the beacon of love seems to shine brighter. The distractions become transparent before revealing…
SERENITY PARK The theme for this year's Second Life birthday celebration is taken from the Winston Churchill quote: "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." …
What will you do to stop that from happening? It seems the solution some have come up with is defensive architecture. Is this the way of the future? We can’t…
instead of writing songs and composing albums its easier to post on social media If we agree that great art comes from the friction within and then agree also…
The take-away from all this, perhaps, is that boredom itself can be a virtue. The rise in popularity of meditation and the $27bn yoga industry is an antidote to the…
Loving the creative insurgent podcasts. Today Cory Huff and Melissa Dinwiddie interviewed Stephen Goldsmith who calls himself an empathic essential animal, a change agent. He suggests we can engage the community…
Conceived as a metaphor from the game of chess, the artwork, Check, Checkmate, takes the global warming debate beyond partisan politics. It examines the role American media plays in…
It's true, I hear the song creation sings when I am fully involved. Fully involved in painting, cooking, driving, playing games, mowing the lawn. it doesn't matter which noble undertaking…
I started out independent but slowly I succumbed to the lure of international art stardom and began to see myself as an undiscovered genius. I patiently exposed myself to the…
the art itself doesn’t encourage thinking. Rather, it privileges emotional response — particularly the feeling of being impressed and awed — over understanding; in other words, passive consumption versus active.…
what is worthwhile art? --The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it. You see I…
With the arrest over the weekend of Art dealer Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz the noose is tightening for Pei-Shen Qian, the artist who created works in the style of some…
Besides deeply seated subconscious programming that I need to deal with there has been a long term love hate relationship with the gallery model. Yesterday, allowing myself to have a…
Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.…
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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.…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmh1n Talking about monumental visual art in a picture-free medium means, as The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik admits, that the odds of failure are quite high. How can you…
A final clue came from “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention” (1996), in which Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi acknowledges that, far from being an act of individual inspiration, what…
Unlike Iceland, where the government let misbehaving banks fail and talented kids became less interested in leaping into the cesspool of finance, in New York there has been no public…
Berkeley College: 255 Duffield Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201EXHIBITION DATES: October 1, 2013-December 27, 2013RECEIVING DATE: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:00am-2:00pmRECEPTION DATE: Saturday, October 5- 1:00pm-3:00pmREMOVAL DATE: December 26, 2013 11:00am-2:00pmExhibition…
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…
not realizing I was assimilating the photos of tree branches I painted this on the back of the Magik Shoe Collaborative piece
Step Two Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. http://www.artsanonymous.org/about-arts/twelve-steps/ Step Two Essay "Blocking out our Gifts and/or great parts of our life…
It's been a full year away from posting. A self imposed moratorium. I have reached the other side without soup or sorrow and am stronger because of it. I may…
The artist as gardener idea has been recently clarified by Brian Eno in this short talk at Serpentine Gallery. The concept is a basic difference in the way we see…
comments on Generation Blank We are living in a time of intense nostalgia (in an already nostalgic culture). Everything is about the "remix." People feel comfortable in this brave…
This is an idea which has been acting as a backdrop for the virtual work and is fostered by a lack of interest in the trading of art for money.…
Our Augmented Reality 3d model now available in Tahrir Square in Cairo, accompanied by the text, “It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world…
http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2011/01/oh-places-youll-go.htmlthe process vs product question as applied to older artists.See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/anrst
URL: http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2011/01/brice-marde...i get a nagging feeling that now he's just jerking off.See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/blxfu
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/us/politics/13obama-t... A way forward doesn't require denying the negative but focusing on the positive colors the discourse with respect and keeps the communication flowing. The loss of these wonderful…
http://www.twentyhood.com/2010/09/09/twentysomethings-cant-rea... I looked this up because some teachers were complaining about it recently. I guess I need to rethink some web design choices for the younger set. In the novel…
URL: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/nathan/gallery-op...Finally the promise of the internet is fulfilled. Well, close but no cigar. Despite the obvious lack of scale and texture resulting from jpeg viewing, we are used to…
URL: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/nathan/gallery-op...Finally the promise of the internet is fulfilledSee this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/blet4
