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…
Following a painting path
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…
Warped and nestled
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…
Art Grows, The Candle of Hope in the Winds of Despair
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…
Art as Therapy
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
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
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?…
so you wanna be an artist
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…
We Gave Medals to the Best Art at the Rio Olympics
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
In and out of love
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…
Stephen Beveridge with his painting "Hans and Dieter go fishing", at University of California Riverside Palm Desert in conjunction with the Palm Springs Art Museum Arist Council
Art Sales, Coming up Next
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…
artist in New York
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…
Night at the museum: Turner winner Elizabeth Price on breaking the glass cabinet | Art and design | The Guardian
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
Artists Council Exhibit
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…
Strung Out In Heaven: Amanda Palmer on Patronage vs. Commerce, Art as Non-Ownable Nourishment
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…
Dance like everyone is watching
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. …
The Rose-Washed Past: Ron Haviv’s ‘Lost Rolls’
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…
Why does contemporary art look so simple? | Jonathan Jones | The Guardian
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…
Mark Grotjahn’s Sign-Painting Breakthrough — Vulture
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…
when artists discuss art
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…
How to create chaos
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…
For the Love of Paint
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…
detail from a 4k video prepared for viewing using the Depict system. http://depict.com
Trapped in an Artist Cage
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 shittiness intentional?
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…
Sphere of Influence
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…
gestural abstract watercolor paintings
abstract watercolor paintings A series of small abstract watercolor paintings created in a flurry of action in the desert then removed to the beach to be painstakingly highlighted and refined. …
Art in New York City
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…
Art as a Form of Active Prayer and What Writers Really Labor For | Brain Pickings
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,…
The Contradictions of Albert Oehlen – The New Yorker
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.…
Down with Kickstarter! Where art is concerned, the crowd is an idiot | Art and design | The Guardian
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…
Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’ | Environment | The Guardian
“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…
16 x 16 print on canvas
what’s the inspiration for painting?
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…
Freedom song video
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…
oversharing
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.…
Art Outsiders Can Tell the Difference Between Abstract Art and Finger Paintings
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…
Study Finds Making Art May Keep Our Brains Healthy
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
Science Shows Art Can Do Incredible Things for Your Mind and Body.
The essence of the facet known as Ariel
Soul Portrait, Personal Mandala, Essence Portrait
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…
equal in love
Over the years I have developed and maintained deep seated beliefs regarding wealth. In an honest attempt to remain aligned with the poorest of my brothers I have condemned the…
Common Ground
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…
Slaves of the Internet, Unite! – NYTimes.com
“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…
How did I get here?
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…
detail of a work in progress
art cycle brotherhood
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
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…
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: A Prayer for the Art World
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…
Can I Be a Witness?
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…
Photography is the art of our time
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…
You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy? | Life and style | The Guardian
“Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one,…
An Appreciative Heart is Good Medicine – HeartMath
Emotions and the Heart As we experience feelings like anger, frustration, anxiety and insecurity, our heart rhythm patterns become more erratic. These erratic patterns are sent to the emotional centers…