tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86184193907070500412024-03-13T19:14:12.353-07:00Artful Life By CathyContemporary Art, Reviews, Interviews,Creativity,Leading an Artful Life, by Cathy BreslawARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-83590387019381186642023-06-12T16:22:00.001-07:002023-06-12T16:22:19.634-07:00Art Is For Everybody at The Broad: Keith Haring's Art of the 80's Embraces Political, Social and Cultural IssuesKeith Haring: <b><i>Art is For Everybody</i></b> <div>The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA</div><div>Through October 8, 2023 </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Article by Cathy Breslaw </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-DSLxC57stP2mJDXrYirC2VapbyuhMQEtEkGe5fRNcShYI5XMbuW7oeAc5vyNsn794n0BRoG9onjCt7TFBJB3emcjPrK6MP_DkUAQPBRglelX39dSOC374nn-GWtgJcoBG7yYTlHyud25zH9zO1zllf2Bon54yBFCzzB84bj4jpqp92IJVDxLi2qHA/s4032/haring%2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-DSLxC57stP2mJDXrYirC2VapbyuhMQEtEkGe5fRNcShYI5XMbuW7oeAc5vyNsn794n0BRoG9onjCt7TFBJB3emcjPrK6MP_DkUAQPBRglelX39dSOC374nn-GWtgJcoBG7yYTlHyud25zH9zO1zllf2Bon54yBFCzzB84bj4jpqp92IJVDxLi2qHA/s320/haring%2010.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b>You don’t have to be an art aficionado to have noticed Keith Haring’s iconic images of the barking dog and radiant baby. His neon-like colors painted with kinetic imagery, line drawings and child-like comic-style figures have been reproduced on buttons, clothing, mugs, posters, and murals across the globe. Contrary to many artists, he was not afraid of mixing his work with consumerism as he sold his merchandise at his famous Pop Shop in SoHo. </div><div><br /></div><div>Haring’s is a story of a young man who at 20 years old moved to NYC to attend the School of Visual Arts and in the following ten years garnered worldwide recognition for his art, and then died of AIDS in 1990. Fresh out of art school, he began using white chalk to make quick temporary drawings in subway stations throughout the city. Rather than seek out the gallery and museum art world, Haring wanted his drawings to be seen by a mass audience. </div><div><br /></div><div>So, it is ironic yet fitting that The Broad has created Haring’s first ever museum exhibition <i>Art is For Everybody</i> featuring over 120 artworks of drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, installations, and archival materials. The Broad family are collectors of his work since 1982, and together with works from institutional and private collections, ephemera and documents provided by the Keith Haring Foundation, create an exhibition that is an impressive display of Haring’s work but also leads viewers to discover Haring’s personal world experience and what mattered to him during his short life. </div><div><br /></div><div>Themes of music, politics, sexuality, war, religion, and AIDS figured prominently as his pop and graffiti-like work grew out of the influence of street culture of the 1980s. While some of his imagery is composed of simple flat figures with lines indicating breakdancing and other upbeat activities, others could be incredibly dark, with images of blood dripping out of bodies and daggers piercing through hearts including a mix of skeletons, flying saucers, daggers, nooses, nails, blood, sex acts and more abstract shapes referring to calligraphy, hieroglyphics, and primitive forms. He has a clearly defined and recognizable pictorial language using mostly black lines to delineate shapes and forms within his works. Haring wanted his work directed to the audience without the lens of a gallery, and to shine a light on broad complex subjects of his generation including protesting apartheid in South Africa, raising awareness to the crack cocaine epidemic, nuclear disarmament and AIDS. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Broad show curated by Exhibitions Manager Sarah Loyer, spans 10 galleries. It includes representations from public art projects, public murals, subway drawings, and his love of music. In one immersive space, the backlit gallery is accompanied by a soundtrack of playlists made by the artist himself. Another gallery featured collaboration pieces by Haring and fellow artist LA II AKA Angel Ortiz as they worked together for six years during the 1980’s. Recreated in another gallery was Haring’s first major gallery show, with painted stripes in day-glo pink and orange on the gallery walls and in the center a mini Statue of Liberty. The range of Haring’s paintings also show an influence of African and Aboriginal art as well as an influence of pop-culture artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein.and Jean-Michel Basquiat. </div><div><br /></div><div>Toward the end of his life, Haring focused his work on the AIDS epidemic, painting murals for gay men’s health centers, posters and art for the activist group ACT UP. Though his career only spanned one decade, he created more than 50 public works, thousands of subway drawings, paintings, posters and murals. In one of his journal entries, Haring stated:
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. </div><div><br /></div><div>Haring’s legacy, thirty years later proves this out in his exhibition. The Broad show takes us back to the street scene and graffiti art of the 1980’s in New York City. Haring’s use of bold colors and strong cartoon-like iconic drawings together with universal themes, make his work both strongly memorable and easily accessible to all people.
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2809" data-original-width="2115" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghL4437lNvYS_ciPRxA0VMpNRYxoinwSwCZlAc3xFBXe-YCuCLYaPIHAUb7CdTW1JbrtkBCv_x7dDrPHveVFzui0npIgpuoJeMnIHGeYAYnmXWSgiAGS67y0ULJomsjfdLCRCeX7Dp59uuwjcfwfNWXFj_umD17-5fmY9fxDCWcaFMb5jRyilq6em62g/w301-h400/Emil%20Bisttram%20Oversoul%20%20oil%20on%20masonite%201941.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <b>Emil Bisttram <i>Oversoul </i>oil on masonite 1941</b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjM1d7F-FtwSxcDpLe2ng-iTZtV6QTphGYgckRuWlaEezZvI_qZy5Eb1IdO0NlqiYTZq_tGKui3OGB627lezHmaS-Ec67_OUZ9I4fqv90rw1g9COMnnespAfK2ubXT-UbPcJNOWaWkE0-NC8rzYpNg3T3roapn2LpA5c0r-XlM5VXnNVCp2o0p6HnhIkg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="936" height="740" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjM1d7F-FtwSxcDpLe2ng-iTZtV6QTphGYgckRuWlaEezZvI_qZy5Eb1IdO0NlqiYTZq_tGKui3OGB627lezHmaS-Ec67_OUZ9I4fqv90rw1g9COMnnespAfK2ubXT-UbPcJNOWaWkE0-NC8rzYpNg3T3roapn2LpA5c0r-XlM5VXnNVCp2o0p6HnhIkg=w542-h740" width="542" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kim Whanki, Jars and WOmen, 1951, private collection, Whanki Foundation-Whanki Museum.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSBoF6e0ZZoMjJiWFK2BgSy-Q4S3aHEiOy9s93eQ8Pb0dlOWi1YddjaKgyfXnSIOPUC5aifvGylYqyoRQiJyE0QVJ5Xe46gp8AqOM5YtVq-8tmgg8RrypzujgJitTyEx0ISCYjU5lRe9Fs3s3LMtuArxTfSYHVdsIC5AxmrRn491ArHqhQh3v7vK7Ww/s2100/M2019_232_3-20210715-Access.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1716" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSBoF6e0ZZoMjJiWFK2BgSy-Q4S3aHEiOy9s93eQ8Pb0dlOWi1YddjaKgyfXnSIOPUC5aifvGylYqyoRQiJyE0QVJ5Xe46gp8AqOM5YtVq-8tmgg8RrypzujgJitTyEx0ISCYjU5lRe9Fs3s3LMtuArxTfSYHVdsIC5AxmrRn491ArHqhQh3v7vK7Ww/w326-h400/M2019_232_3-20210715-Access.jpg" width="326" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Han Youngsoo, Near Savoy Hotel, Myeongdong, Seoul,1956, printed 2019, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> gift of Robin-Hwajin Yoon Kim, Han Youngsoo Foundation.</span><br /></span><p><br /></p></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-30334855858265818402022-04-26T14:27:00.000-07:002022-04-26T14:27:55.116-07:00Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse: Fashion Meets Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art <div class="separator" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLgIy2khkMv2tKa2kCek6c8aWepbO4ca7Hlzmsftc9DtaFisLhZVbHOQS-Y9AExiUZmZjnTliD0VwS6CGXQUn-wx3wpqSGAdtIUO3L2zrx33QkrbMQMF0CfiiAdaaYP3JPwKzpzIR-J2CV-AwqOj4R5qmCqvyaSDUgFw8nRlG14z2aDoPI1XqsWNu5A/s2100/M2019_399_2-M2018_278_17-2-28-20210413.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1910" data-original-width="2100" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLgIy2khkMv2tKa2kCek6c8aWepbO4ca7Hlzmsftc9DtaFisLhZVbHOQS-Y9AExiUZmZjnTliD0VwS6CGXQUn-wx3wpqSGAdtIUO3L2zrx33QkrbMQMF0CfiiAdaaYP3JPwKzpzIR-J2CV-AwqOj4R5qmCqvyaSDUgFw8nRlG14z2aDoPI1XqsWNu5A/w400-h364/M2019_399_2-M2018_278_17-2-28-20210413.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Alexander McQueen, Three Woman's Ensembles from the Deliverance collection, Spring/Summer 2004</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift from the collection of Regina J. Drucker</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbazeVkvmQwGQxdIMWO7dki_cjoPGb2Uf1iP48m37WgAoVpN_NherRHo6vFSaFLsnt3l1WHrGaMLfollptj8bcZF1GpuZm0Q9XO6avaJOoCS3UFB1K_BZ1orRoWwmRXl4jG1fkXQH-nvV0dxI08Ag9_E7FPvZRrNCJhhGKhkeZowi3RLPSbnkfCLuMYA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1052" height="686" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbazeVkvmQwGQxdIMWO7dki_cjoPGb2Uf1iP48m37WgAoVpN_NherRHo6vFSaFLsnt3l1WHrGaMLfollptj8bcZF1GpuZm0Q9XO6avaJOoCS3UFB1K_BZ1orRoWwmRXl4jG1fkXQH-nvV0dxI08Ag9_E7FPvZRrNCJhhGKhkeZowi3RLPSbnkfCLuMYA=w636-h686" width="636" /></span></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPAULpsG-7tN7yNa2PJ8QHi_yrWbrTaMhIqiDnAy7QgMDi6UyUJrDKMrb5C7wUY5o41qMvAawALA_v8cDENSR2tZRdUghuv_edQx1Wq-SonDMFhRFhz7AftN4hzHjIFnDJeB3YnTexCxeXk8p-fzy-JWSHPWb2BNMfK3aLmCCsSKCiFJCNbjoIYjEPw/s2100/59_72-20210107-Access.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1883" data-original-width="2100" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPAULpsG-7tN7yNa2PJ8QHi_yrWbrTaMhIqiDnAy7QgMDi6UyUJrDKMrb5C7wUY5o41qMvAawALA_v8cDENSR2tZRdUghuv_edQx1Wq-SonDMFhRFhz7AftN4hzHjIFnDJeB3YnTexCxeXk8p-fzy-JWSHPWb2BNMfK3aLmCCsSKCiFJCNbjoIYjEPw/w400-h359/59_72-20210107-Access.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Paul Cadmus, Coney Island, 1934, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Peter A. Paanakker, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Art c Jon F. Anderson, Estate of Paul Cadmus/Licensed by VAGA, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">New York, NY photo c Museum Associates/LACMA</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7mMrpx2a07yAqtFN9YGp2dGuSZiU4gYJeLlD_MWVCvKfcsGaJLUogR4eenKoEBR2HxnBcgvRfrpIx0ZZstOIXfqObtwd_uwRHUBXWqeyPX3zhmtiVUw2JrrFPob8Ybpo3Oqcncm-2rzWwiu41xHXCwd1ztM0bW-Zp7F8w8cMRFloxoiYq_PMpWi9iA/s2100/M2017_276_1-DL001-20180111.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1649" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7mMrpx2a07yAqtFN9YGp2dGuSZiU4gYJeLlD_MWVCvKfcsGaJLUogR4eenKoEBR2HxnBcgvRfrpIx0ZZstOIXfqObtwd_uwRHUBXWqeyPX3zhmtiVUw2JrrFPob8Ybpo3Oqcncm-2rzWwiu41xHXCwd1ztM0bW-Zp7F8w8cMRFloxoiYq_PMpWi9iA/w314-h400/M2017_276_1-DL001-20180111.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><br /><div><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Alexander McQueen, Woman's Dress and Harness from the Plato's Atlantis collection, Spring/Summer 2010,</span></div><div><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift from the Collection of Regina J. Drucker in memory of Juliana Cairone</span></div><div><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgJ8Md9LQ-pQ_P5E5h9b5z8hhZ9WcNub8eWqOiSEXJW4tlcMuXyr6v9M6fG2qA9y8JiqXde8oZFD6qps_MZTqHRJ-nwi1inolwZc8-10xMtKf-SXLR9FewwTyK9wrGp9YNtKPSXBPjGPvBcRef_IVLEwkI8x-PyqgErP8gqgUe-TKlZjY1SP1H-QqCQ/s2100/M2017_280_2-20210208-Access.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="985" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgJ8Md9LQ-pQ_P5E5h9b5z8hhZ9WcNub8eWqOiSEXJW4tlcMuXyr6v9M6fG2qA9y8JiqXde8oZFD6qps_MZTqHRJ-nwi1inolwZc8-10xMtKf-SXLR9FewwTyK9wrGp9YNtKPSXBPjGPvBcRef_IVLEwkI8x-PyqgErP8gqgUe-TKlZjY1SP1H-QqCQ/w301-h640/M2017_280_2-20210208-Access.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px;">Alexander McQueen, Woman’s Dress and Shoes from The Widows of Culloden collection, Fall/Winter 2006-07, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift from the Collection of Regina J. Drucker in honor of Joseph and Genevieve Venegas,</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYyFEhf0ptJgKmWThM6oEKJ_PAxZs5DyE0EPO_6Im08Xry_ZS-Gr2JGz3qtGyiDKc3R0I-pTkMg7XkfHYi__cuvQZ_Yni1BeEt-SA0CwjO9QYfXpyj6mQXNmRe8NDB5FZhjduhuCLJYCQb1gGZtEUwkpIRFtBOPCE5-EB2Jlg8RqqfN1JX30m5kBCFA/s2100/M48_1-20210107-Access%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1796" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYyFEhf0ptJgKmWThM6oEKJ_PAxZs5DyE0EPO_6Im08Xry_ZS-Gr2JGz3qtGyiDKc3R0I-pTkMg7XkfHYi__cuvQZ_Yni1BeEt-SA0CwjO9QYfXpyj6mQXNmRe8NDB5FZhjduhuCLJYCQb1gGZtEUwkpIRFtBOPCE5-EB2Jlg8RqqfN1JX30m5kBCFA/s320/M48_1-20210107-Access%20(1).jpg" width="274" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; text-align: left;">Frans Pourbus II, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #474747; text-align: left;">Portrait of Louis XIII, King of France as a Boy</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; text-align: left;">, c. 1616, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; text-align: left;">gift of Mr. and Mrs. William May Garland, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA</span></span><br /></span><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ57pvMgJD0kE1KRLTKR6Wg1x6lbttqV5k1FT_mAih1_N8ITj0QIqMEBJzwIhc4MjF8eJ55ymqnnJWF4ZQy_UOmwSTYHdZCJ3icsSB4-DhJIV3gZSXupvhQmRVkYA-K04G__zrwjcNZYvTWZpJ5Ero1ikWAbJJyj7-F2HDGNkIzQ8Sl7X7vu8h0Sgs5A/s2100/M2013_193_5-20210615-Access.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1366" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ57pvMgJD0kE1KRLTKR6Wg1x6lbttqV5k1FT_mAih1_N8ITj0QIqMEBJzwIhc4MjF8eJ55ymqnnJWF4ZQy_UOmwSTYHdZCJ3icsSB4-DhJIV3gZSXupvhQmRVkYA-K04G__zrwjcNZYvTWZpJ5Ero1ikWAbJJyj7-F2HDGNkIzQ8Sl7X7vu8h0Sgs5A/s320/M2013_193_5-20210615-Access.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Manuel Cipriano Gomes Mafra, Urn, c. 1865-87, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> gift of Barbara and </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Marty Frenkel, photo c Museum Associates/LACMA</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgJtpEv-VZpKX3SHALjekW5OveD5kFJ9wJreMVxhtCqMERcDojWFZ-u1HQicURqcGznbLWYTuFzv5Y7olX_a-rnPefFh-s_vxIRonZR7_RDlxz2Bf5rQYdnEjlYzTnX8gbzcuOS-SrRnfLPJpCifiWApexrwim6H_-0K0B4miV0SXdwR1pPEalsjHWQ/s2100/M2016_260_19a-b-DL002-20210520.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgJtpEv-VZpKX3SHALjekW5OveD5kFJ9wJreMVxhtCqMERcDojWFZ-u1HQicURqcGznbLWYTuFzv5Y7olX_a-rnPefFh-s_vxIRonZR7_RDlxz2Bf5rQYdnEjlYzTnX8gbzcuOS-SrRnfLPJpCifiWApexrwim6H_-0K0B4miV0SXdwR1pPEalsjHWQ/s320/M2016_260_19a-b-DL002-20210520.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span face="ArimoRegular, sans-serif" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #666666; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Alexander McQueen, Woman’s Dress (detail) from the Plato’s Atlantis collection, Spring/Summer 2010, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift from the Collection of Regina J. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sJagJb9m2eU/YVTCmruSOpI/AAAAAAAAV-8/mF8dWbjogxMuMFB1U3o9KcES8sOfbvWLACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/4..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="411" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sJagJb9m2eU/YVTCmruSOpI/AAAAAAAAV-8/mF8dWbjogxMuMFB1U3o9KcES8sOfbvWLACLcBGAsYHQ/w620-h411/4..jpg" width="620" /></a></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Aerial shot of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Academy Museum Foundation</span></b><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dawn Hudson, CEO of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences notes: <i><b>“The dream of building a museum dedicated to movies has been 90 years in the making for the Academy”.</b></i> Since 2012 when the Academy hired Renzo Piano Building Workshop as architects to build the museum, there have been collaborations of hundreds of leaders in the area of film, culture and education, non-profit specialists, scholars, curators, programmers, community builders, archivists, and Academy members. All have worked together to create the world’s premier movie museum in Los Angeles, the global center for moviemaking.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The 300,000 square foot museum campus features two buildings, a renovation and expansion of the May Company(built 1939), and a soaring glass spherical structure added to the north, featuring a terrace with broad views of the Hollywood Hills. Included in the buildings are theaters and exhibition spaces as well as a museum store offering film-related merchandise, and Oscars memorabilia designed exclusively for the store, and Fanny’s, a two story restaurant and café, named after Fanny Brice, the legendary theater and movie, vaudeville, and radio star of the 1920’s. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The seven-story museum includes a 30,000 square foot core exhibition space spanning three floors: <i>Stories of Cinema</i> offering celebratory, critical and personal perspectives on the impact of moviemaking past and present,a temporary exhibition of acclaimed filmmaker Hayao Miyazai, his first museum retrospective in North America in addition to Studio Ghibli. Other offerings are: <i>The Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection</i>, which are selections from the world’s foremost holdings of pre-cinematic optical toys and devices, <i>Backdrop: An Invisible Art </i>a double height installation that presents the painting of Mount Rushmore used in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (USA 1959), and <i>The Oscars Experience</i> an immersive simulation that lets viewers imaginatively step onto the stage of the Dolby Theater to accept an Academy Award. <i>The Academy Awards History Galleries </i>are in a circular gallery of 20 historic Oscar trophies and wins, moving into an historical walk-through from 1929 to the present, displaying the origins of the Oscars and the Academy, memorable wins and infamous snubs, Oscars fashion, and wraparound screens showcasing significant acceptance speeches. There is also the <i>Directors Inspiration Gallery </i>currently featuring the director Spike Lee’s personal collection of objects, considering his creative process and inspirations for his most iconic titles, the Story Gallery which includes screenplays and storyboards from seminal films, also highlighting the disciplines that brings a story to life – screenwriting, casting, make-up design, costume design, production and sound design, special effects, acting, directing, producing and more. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are a series of galleries dedicated to components of film artistry including a <i>Performance Gallery, Sound Gallery, </i>and <i>Identity Gallery. </i>And another gallery <i>Impact/Reflection </i>which explores how documentary and narrative film can ignite cultural change, structured around four social impact areas: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, labor relations and climate change. There are also the <i>Animation, Effects and Encounters Galleries,</i> each highlighting the history of animation, special visual effects and the artistry that brings the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy and horror to life, as well as a <i>Composer’s Inspiration Gallery</i>.
The museum will have a roster of movie screenings (including Oscar Sundays and Family Matinees) presented in its new 1000 seat David Gefen Theater and the 288 seat Ted Mann Theater. There will also be ongoing education and family programs taking place throughout the museum in exhibition galleries, theaters and the <i>Shirley Temple Education Studio</i> including: teen programs, family studio activities, and school tours.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is destined to become one of Los Angeles’s greatest treasures and destinations for entertainment, education and inspiration.
There are many grand opening festivities and offerings in October with ticket information all found on the museum webpages: https://www.academymuseum.org/
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_kfdMUbUMw/YVTDV8aqR3I/AAAAAAAAV_E/4wq8yxkvlvs89ZIkYEWJE7EIGIixnykXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="235" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_kfdMUbUMw/YVTDV8aqR3I/AAAAAAAAV_E/4wq8yxkvlvs89ZIkYEWJE7EIGIixnykXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w418-h235/3.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Film Still, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Judy Garland, Jack Haley in The Wizard of Oz (USA 1939)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VD_CO9oF8aE/YVTD3WTBy3I/AAAAAAAAV_M/lMXQUw6Oj200uHHw4jVLzNyOZj3R2BAqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1132/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1132" height="231" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VD_CO9oF8aE/YVTD3WTBy3I/AAAAAAAAV_M/lMXQUw6Oj200uHHw4jVLzNyOZj3R2BAqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w413-h231/9.jpg" width="413" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Film Still, My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki 1988 Studio Ghibli </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmzSydOt39g/YVTEWJUq-_I/AAAAAAAAV_U/18uZiEcYliwk-JByMuoOf1quZUdNdWq6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmzSydOt39g/YVTEWJUq-_I/AAAAAAAAV_U/18uZiEcYliwk-JByMuoOf1quZUdNdWq6wCLcBGAsYHQ/w398-h265/1.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich, scene from Shanghai Express, 1932 </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Film Still, Shanghai Express(USA 1939)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKOBIwxlyiI/YVTE2AT6MCI/AAAAAAAAV_c/J_Q2taQzueooacMmGQFI4M56yZKFODV5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKOBIwxlyiI/YVTE2AT6MCI/AAAAAAAAV_c/J_Q2taQzueooacMmGQFI4M56yZKFODV5wCLcBGAsYHQ/w404-h269/10.jpg" width="404" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "Bruce the Shark" Installation at the Academy of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles November 2020</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Credit: Photo by Todd Wawrychuk Academy Museum Foundation<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-6633384432191227692021-09-20T13:25:00.002-07:002021-09-20T13:25:57.222-07:00Star Trek:Exploring New Worlds Exhibition at Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles<b><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds </span></i></b><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">October 7 – February 20, 2022 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vxIiU9w-c1w/YUjtCveHPtI/AAAAAAAAV9A/rxHY7khS1aoRMA9usIAVrIQqu_TQOEBYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/TOS_Group_shot_bridge%2B%25281%2529.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1627" data-original-width="2048" height="377" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vxIiU9w-c1w/YUjtCveHPtI/AAAAAAAAV9A/rxHY7khS1aoRMA9usIAVrIQqu_TQOEBYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w475-h377/TOS_Group_shot_bridge%2B%25281%2529.tif" width="475" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="m_-5929954821429989330p3" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>™ and © 2021 CBS Studios, Inc. © 2021 Paramount Pictures Corp. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.</b></span></p><p class="m_-5929954821429989330p2" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><u></u> </b></span></p></div><br /></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>"To boldly go where no man has gone before."</i></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> If you are a Star Trek fan no doubt you have heard these words before. Famously spoken by Captain James T. Kirk, of the U.S.S. Enterprise, his words immediately came to mind while visiting Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds opening to the public at the Skirball Cultural Center October 7th. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> The exhibition organized by the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, includes a dizzying array of 100’s of artifacts and props, numerous scripts, conceptual artworks, set pieces and costumes spanning over 50 years since the original series aired between 1966-1969. Though the original series was cancelled, when it went into syndication in the 1970’s it prospered, building a huge audience. During the 1980’s the show’s creator, producer and writer Gene Roddenberry launched Star Trek: The Next Generation and several motion pictures and in 2009, a re-boot of the series followed. Enthusiasm for Star Trek fueled the success of comic books, cartoons, novels, action figures and other merchandise as well as Star Trek themed conventions attended by thousands at various venues around the world. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The exhibition highlights Star Trek themes of diversity, fellowship, friendship, forgiveness, equality and acceptance as well as portraying its’ continuing impact on culture, art and technology and how it led people to create and invent. The exhibit gives visitors the opportunity to see how the technology envisioned in the series has become real-life technology such as cellphones, tablets and virtual reality devices. Star Trek broke boundaries with its vision of cooperation and inclusion where humans and aliens work together for the common goal of exploring the galaxy.The show was set in a 23rd century world where interplanetary travel was an established fact and where divides of race, gender, and nationality didn’t exist, using alien cultures to comment on contemporary issues. And, Star Trek was one of the first American series to promote racial diversity and multiculturalism in both cast and themes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Whether it’s Captain Kirk’s original command chair and navigation console, Dr. Spock’s tunic worn by Leonard Nimoy,
a Borg costume, Uhura ‘s dress (worn by Nichelle Nichols), or Captain Picard’s uniform(worn by Patrick Stewart) visitors will be enthralled. Spaceship filming models of the U.S.S. Enterprise, U.S.S Excelsior, U.S.S. Phoenix, and Deep Space Nine space station are also on display. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Star Trek:Exploring New Worlds</i> is a fun, educational, thought-provoking and captivating experience for all ages.
</span></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-82621786512191793862021-07-02T11:42:00.005-07:002021-07-02T11:50:14.734-07:00Chinese Artist Ai Wei Wei Celebrates Global Activism in Lego Portrait Installation at the Skirball Cultural Center<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Trace </i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ai Wei Wei, Artist</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ai Wei Wei, Artist</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Through July 31st</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Article by Cathy Breslaw</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H3YVo8KZnZk/YN9eWkH06FI/AAAAAAAAVvI/Net9LAEQcuM8XNXy3K3AQV1PLwSRv1wLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1638/Wei%2Bwei%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="1638" height="392" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H3YVo8KZnZk/YN9eWkH06FI/AAAAAAAAVvI/Net9LAEQcuM8XNXy3K3AQV1PLwSRv1wLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w583-h392/Wei%2Bwei%2B1.jpg" width="583" /></a></div><i style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Trace </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Ai Wei Wei <i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>room installation legos 2014<br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><p></p><p>The installation <b><i>Trace</i></b> created by artist Ai Wei Wei includes 83 portraits of ordinary citizens imprisoned by their countries because of their outspoken social activism. Originally introduced in 2014 at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, the portraits are completely comprised of thousands of lego bricks, set within three white lego panels placed on the floor within the Skirball gallery space.</p><p>The creation of <b><i>Trace</i></b> was shaped by Wei Wei’s own experiences as a prisoner of the Chinese government. Having previously been beaten and censored for his activism and outspoken criticism of totalitarian regimes, in 2011 he was arrested and secretly detained for 81 days, during which he was interrogated and kept under constant surveillance, and then prohibited from traveling abroad until 2015. He conceived and planned <b><i>Trace</i></b> during this period. Wei Wei was inspired by his young son’s legos, as he saw them as a playful, accessible and mass produced material that has global familiarity and connection.</p><p>Political dissidents from twenty-three countries comprise the portraits including the United States, Laos, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, India, Russia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Eritrea, Gambia, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Cuba, Ethiopia, Egypt, Cameroon, Sudan, Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, China and Myanmar. While most of the names are unrecognizable to us in the United States, most are well known in their own countries and seen as advocates for human dignity and freedom of speech. Known here in the United States are portraits of Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning.</p><p>The layout of portraits on the floor draws the viewer directly to the faces depicted. Due to the hard-edged brightly colored lego shape, these portraits look pixelated and relate to what we might see in surveillance tapes. On the walls of the gallery space is a bold wallpaper designed by Wei Wei entitled <b><i>The Animal That Looks Like a Llama but Is Really an Alpaca. </i></b>At first glance, the pattern looks decorative, but looking closely, we see hidden iconography like handcuffs, surveillance cameras and alpacas—a mascot for freedom of expression in Chinese internet culture.</p><p>We may not know the activists included in the portraits, we can understand the hard fought value of freedom of speech and standing up for social justice in our own communities. The exhibition together with Wei Wei’s decades long commitment to free speech, is consistent with the Skirball Cultural Center’s mission which is inspired by Jewish values to build a more humane society. Wei Wei’s thought provoking installation brings awareness and may inspire conversations about social justice issues common to all countries around the globe.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m7AI-R_FFQc/YN9e7_cZcSI/AAAAAAAAVvQ/3E9Vqa6tQbYFHZurmDNUqRQu57Xv0Iw_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Wei%2BWei%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="337" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m7AI-R_FFQc/YN9e7_cZcSI/AAAAAAAAVvQ/3E9Vqa6tQbYFHZurmDNUqRQu57Xv0Iw_gCLcBGAsYHQ/w506-h337/Wei%2BWei%2B2.jpg" width="506" /></a></div> <b><i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Trace </span></i></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Ai Wei Wei (detail) room installation 2014</span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyCoLwABpXo/YN9e8cSF7YI/AAAAAAAAVvU/GACoSg4F7ZQVr0S8-VVy9LvwMBlDQqdAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/Wei%2BWei%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="381" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyCoLwABpXo/YN9e8cSF7YI/AAAAAAAAVvU/GACoSg4F7ZQVr0S8-VVy9LvwMBlDQqdAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w381-h381/Wei%2BWei%2B3.jpg" width="381" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>The Animal That Looks Like a Llama But Is Really an Alpaca </i></b> Ai Wei Wei wallpaper 2015</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /></span><p><br /></p></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-65345400042518761962021-06-10T10:11:00.000-07:002021-06-10T10:11:20.249-07:00Getty Center's Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA Exhibition Challenging Perspectives on Race<p><i><b>Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA</b></i></p><p>The Getty Center, Los Angeles</p><p>Through October 10, 2021</p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Article by Cathy Breslaw</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xL9AxLGnwaY/YMI-4L54zZI/AAAAAAAAVp0/MYi1WSJpHtYNRGa8vkvHqftnMou1vXSmgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Support%2BSystems.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="2000" height="1" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xL9AxLGnwaY/YMI-4L54zZI/AAAAAAAAVp0/MYi1WSJpHtYNRGa8vkvHqftnMou1vXSmgCLcBGAsYHQ/wInfinity-h1/Support%2BSystems.jpg" width="0" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfXGFQ19q8Y/YMI-_YxFjzI/AAAAAAAAVp4/sEg55gfMd7kGArXfYjcDFuS1uD13QcdUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Support%2BSystems.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="2000" height="355" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfXGFQ19q8Y/YMI-_YxFjzI/AAAAAAAAVp4/sEg55gfMd7kGArXfYjcDFuS1uD13QcdUQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h355/Support%2BSystems.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Support Systems</b></i>, 1984 Todd Gray American Mixed Media 81 1/2 x 89 in. © Todd Gray EX.2020.6.13</span><p></p><p>The <i><b>Getty Unshuttered</b></i> is a free photo-sharing app directed toward building a positive community for teens to develop and express their own visual language. What better way to motivate budding photographers than to experience the recently opened exhibition at the Getty Center’s photography gallery <b><i>Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA</i></b>. Independent curator Jill Moniz who launched the show is the first black woman to have guest curated a show at the Getty which highlights 35 acclaimed artists of color. Since 2017, Moniz has also showcased the work of young photographers to engage and encourage them in ways to re-imagine their communities, to inspire one other and promote social justice advocacy.</p><p>Through the medium of photography <i><b>Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA</b></i> educates viewers young and old with the history of race seen through the eyes of Black, Hispanic and Asian American artists. Often noted as ‘transformative photography’ these powerful images portray both the violent and the sublime in our culture past and present in the treatment of people of color. Artist Todd Gray whose photograph <i>Support Systems(1984) </i>is the featured image of the show depicting a large black and white set of 2 photos taped together and spray painted. The image, a strong black boxer hitting a tall city building is interpreted as a metaphor of black men fighting capitalism, white supremacy and asserting black identity. This was one of a series of images Gray hung around Exposition Park during the 1984 LA Olympics, taking the photographs out of the context of a museum to share with greater impact to the broader community.</p><p>Photographer Tony Gleaton was known for his African influence in the American West, in documenting Native American ranch hands and in following the African Diaspora and black slave trade routes. Gleaton toured Central and South America photographing descendants of slaves. Usually observed and represented as passive objects in photographs, Gleaton’s models in contrast, look directly into the camera gaining an intimacy with the viewer, emphasizing the model as active participant in creating the photos. Gleaton’s subjects were people mainly considered invisible to society, poor and out of the mainstream. He wanted to create beautiful portraits, images captured with honor and respect.</p><p>Another work in the gallery is a large blue cyanotype of an undersea composition by mixed media conceptual artist Andrea Chung, who is of both Chinese and Jamaican dissent. Her beautiful and peaceful underwater seascape is the result of her research of the transatlantic slave trade of Africans brought to the ‘new world’ mostly to the Caribbean Island nations and paying homage to the many lives lost in the middle of the ocean journey to America.</p><p><i>Gordon (2016)</i>, an 8 foot tall chromogenic print by Ken Gonzales -Day, whose work has focused on racialized violence, is a portrait of a young Latino man casually posed, hands in pockets and dressed in a sleeveless white t-shirt. The large scale format together with the man’s eyes staring into the eyes of the viewer presents a complex and intense expression. This image was part of Gonzales-Day’s portrait series <i>Memento Mori </i>where he would tell his models about lynchings that took place in California after which he would count to three and then take their pictures. The results were emotional portrayals of young men, not the stereotypical threats to the world who are often profiled, and as are often viewed by the general public.</p><p>Two circular photos by artist Carrie Mae Weems portray young black girls wearing dresses with flowers in their hair posed reclining in the grass. Weems positioned these girls in ways reminiscent of the work of white master painters like Monet or Manet, challenging viewers to see the beauty and grace of these girls as they would have seen other subjects. Rather than presenting black people as tools of labor and property, they are portrayed just as any other white photo subjects.</p><p><i><b>Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA</b></i> spotlights the importance of transformative photography – how a particular photographic visual language can influence us in meaningful ways and to build awareness of our own personal stereotypes. It also sensitizes us to think deeply about how we view people of color, class structures, our culture and how history has influenced our thinking.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mr5-KPMwHWw/YMJAMlEEUpI/AAAAAAAAVqE/fJrvycbQon8n8tptUp6rV2GDm_TNkdSygCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Gordon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1250" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mr5-KPMwHWw/YMJAMlEEUpI/AAAAAAAAVqE/fJrvycbQon8n8tptUp6rV2GDm_TNkdSygCLcBGAsYHQ/w250-h400/Gordon.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i><b>Gordon </b></i> 2016 Ken Gonzales-Day American Chromogenic print
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in.) </span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles © Ken Gonzales-Day
EX.2020.6.5</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J2uNNT1nTw8/YMJBb8PY2gI/AAAAAAAAVqM/E_QOWlFiq0EZty4ioEa0fzooSHEa4RmnACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Untitled%2BApril%2BBanks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1481" data-original-width="2000" height="296" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J2uNNT1nTw8/YMJBb8PY2gI/AAAAAAAAVqM/E_QOWlFiq0EZty4ioEa0fzooSHEa4RmnACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h296/Untitled%2BApril%2BBanks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="t1" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td class="td1" style="padding: 0px 5px;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Untitled </span></b></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">2016 April Banks American Chromogenic print Image: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.) </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"> Framed: (16 1/8 × 20 1/8 × 1in.) © April Banks EX.2020.6.1.4</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"> <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p></p></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-2791328699293949182021-02-04T09:12:00.000-08:002021-02-04T09:12:23.314-08:00Four Women Artists: Experiments in Stone at the Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoMuseum of Contemporary Art San Diego <div><br /><div><b>Experiments on Stone: Four Women Artists From The Tamarind Lithography Workshop </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Digital Exhibition Opens February 8, 2021 – Ongoing</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">article by Cathy Breslaw </span></i></b><div><br /></div><div> Many artists focus on mastering one medium throughout their art practices over their career lifetimes.
The digital exhibition <i><b>Experiments on Stone </b></i>takes visitors through the practices of four women artists who stepped out of their chosen mediums to experiment with lithographic prints at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop during the 1960’s. </div><div><br /></div><div> Lithography is a two-dimensional ink printing method on stone or metal and at Tamarind, artists experimented and collaborated with several different printers in the process of creating their works on paper. Founded by artist June Wayne in 1960, Tamarind was to be a place to restore the art of lithography which had dwindled during the 1950s due to economic issues. In the first decade of the workshop over two hundred artists were invited to train in this method and work with master printers. Many of them were women, and among them were well established twentieth century artists Annie Albers, Ruth Asawa, Gego and Louise Nevelson. </div><div><br /></div><div> Curated by Alana Hernandez, this exhibition emphasizes the lesser studied parts of these artists’ practices, and while each of the four artists investigated using differing lithographic methods, the works reveal a consistency of the core ideas each spent their art practices creating. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rTjb3OCvqJM/YBwkQFaR4sI/AAAAAAAAUaA/RQY9Gi33t_g2-FkTRTBjTX5r3zetn8hzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Albers_1964.109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rTjb3OCvqJM/YBwkQFaR4sI/AAAAAAAAUaA/RQY9Gi33t_g2-FkTRTBjTX5r3zetn8hzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h299/Albers_1964.109.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Anni Albers <i>Enmeshed I,1963 </i>Color Lithograph 20.25" x 27"</b><br />Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art <br />Gift of Mr./Mrs. Martin L. Gleich, San Diego, 1964.109<br />c) 2021 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> While Albers and Asawa shared a foundation in weaving, Nevelson and Gego followed inquiries into the use of line to create architectural forms and building. Albers was known for her use of vivid color relationships and patterning in weavings and textiles. She found that prints not only allowed her to create thread forms in a painterly way that loosely resembled weaving, they also sometimes incorporated using acid to produce splotched and cloudy grounds. The production of prints also gave Albers a practical way to show this two-dimensional work. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lq8phd-rpgM/YBwjjG-X6II/AAAAAAAAUZ4/hOYZzTL6kd4i7gwhW2qZbJBqKiXwV11lgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Asawa_1970.111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2028" data-original-width="2048" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lq8phd-rpgM/YBwjjG-X6II/AAAAAAAAUZ4/hOYZzTL6kd4i7gwhW2qZbJBqKiXwV11lgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h396/Asawa_1970.111.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruth Asawa </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Desert Plant (TAM.1460) </i><b>1965 Color Lithograph 18.5" x 18.5"</b><br />Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego<br />Gift of Mr./Mrs. Martin L. Gleich, San Diego, 1970.111<br />c) 2021 Estate of Ruth Asawa/ Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York<br /></span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Asawa used ‘line’ or ‘thread’ by working with wire to create delicate weavings of three-dimensional sculptural shapes and installations referencing natural forms. Many are suspended from ceilings. Asawa attended Tamarind in 1965 where she developed over fifty prints from themes of abstractions, portraits and flower studies. Her figurative works are intimate renderings of friends and family – some are created with free-flowing sketchy lines while others use ink and washes using thick pulpy paper. In <i><b>Desert Plant,</b></i> Asawa used sacred radial geometry of the natural world in warm colors composed of forms resembling branches. This work highlighted her experimentation with both color and form.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6AMwzj22vWM/YBwmdn4NgMI/AAAAAAAAUaM/Pfx2awlzqcM0TJQkjPkDRp5ajuh4SN5VgCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/1966%2BGego_1970.163.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="720" height="399" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6AMwzj22vWM/YBwmdn4NgMI/AAAAAAAAUaM/Pfx2awlzqcM0TJQkjPkDRp5ajuh4SN5VgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h399/1966%2BGego_1970.163.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Gego<i> Untitled (TAM.1845)</i>, 1966 Color Lithograph 22.25" x 22 1/8"</b><br />Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego<br />Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Gleich, San Diego 1970.163<br />c) Fundacion Gego<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Like Asawa, the artist Gego (born Gertrude Goldschmidt) used wire as her primary medium and also like Asawa, her practice focused on the ‘line’. In contrast, however, Gego used wire as a kind of drawing tool to create abstracted three-dimensional forms that reflected her background in architecture, making loosely formed grid-like structures that organically flowed in space. In her lithographs, in collaboration with several printers at Tamarind (in 1963, 1966), Gego explored the containment and expansiveness of two-dimensional space using drawn black thick and thin calligraphic lines, curvy and straight. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4PyDxyQixQc/YBwna1h1ApI/AAAAAAAAUaY/Oj3ZK1CnvachS0Ay8U9Zw0O1rOcnT3OhACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Nevelson_1964.96.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1399" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4PyDxyQixQc/YBwna1h1ApI/AAAAAAAAUaY/Oj3ZK1CnvachS0Ay8U9Zw0O1rOcnT3OhACLcBGAsYHQ/w274-h400/Nevelson_1964.96.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Louise Nevelson<i> Untitled, 1963 </i>Lithograph 34" x 23.5" <br />Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego<br />Gift of Mr./Mrs. Martin L. Gleich, San Diego, 1964.96<br />c) 2021 Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />When Nevelson attended the Tamarind Workshop, she had not previously experimented with lithographs. She was known for her sculptures - monumental wood wall pieces and outdoor sculptures constructed from found objects and fragmented items that she re-visioned into new artwork. For most of her career she used line drawings as a tool to create her sculptural works, just as the other three artists in this exhibition had done. With lithographs, Nevelson produced prints that referenced similar themes to those in her sculptures. She would draw and build with the use of objects like erasers, lace, cheesecloth, and torn fabrics pressed into mostly black, and occasionally dark blue and brick-red ink and then applied directly on to stone. These experimental ideas were then translated to various papers into prints. </div><div><br /></div><div>The digital exhibition displays seventy-eight prints which come from the museum’s collection, providing a snapshot of the Tamarind Workshop created during the 1960’s and to the prints by Albers, Asawa, Gego and Nevelson. Alongside these prints, viewers will see examples of their three-dimensional artworks coming from their primary art practices. Tamarind became a blueprint for new print shops with master printers that opened up in other locations and Tamarind itself moved to Albuquerque New Mexico in 1970 and remains affiliated with the University of New Mexico. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Experiments in Stone</i> </b>gives viewers a glimpse into four artists’ creative processes as they apply a willingness to make time from their established modes of art-making to experiment and ‘see what happens’.
</div></div><div><br /></div><br /></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-65298866900679632312020-09-21T11:00:00.000-07:002020-09-21T11:00:30.256-07:00Working In Isolation: Collaborations and Mentoring Neurodiverse Artists Brings New Direction and Inspiration to the Work of This Artist<p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">physically. We move forward quietly, with intention and faith in the process.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self - containment. </b></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>During the pandemic San Diego artist Amanda Saint Claire experiments with new mediums, new themes and a fruitful connection via collaborations, and mentoring to neurodiverse artists.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pre-Pandemic:</span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bbEf6dJ2pEo/X2fjZFchUuI/AAAAAAAASpE/5cP9QTKc9HMKWywXRMFIwvkbM6DWhlqhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Saint%2BClaire%252C%2BAquainted%2BWith%2Bthe%2BNight%252C%2B45%2Bx%2B65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1419" height="468" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bbEf6dJ2pEo/X2fjZFchUuI/AAAAAAAASpE/5cP9QTKc9HMKWywXRMFIwvkbM6DWhlqhQCLcBGAsYHQ/w325-h468/Saint%2BClaire%252C%2BAquainted%2BWith%2Bthe%2BNight%252C%2B45%2Bx%2B65.jpg" width="325" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"> <i> Acquainted With the Night </i> acrylic and oil 45" x 65" 2019<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During Pandemic:</span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rs_Osmi-drY/X2fibqlpzKI/AAAAAAAASos/GAHMVZhwAowMVU8FHznovaPf5f9OUzC7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Saint%2BClaire%252C%2BCensored%252C%2B36%2Bx%2B48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rs_Osmi-drY/X2fibqlpzKI/AAAAAAAASos/GAHMVZhwAowMVU8FHznovaPf5f9OUzC7gCLcBGAsYHQ/w321-h428/Saint%2BClaire%252C%2BCensored%252C%2B36%2Bx%2B48.jpg" width="321" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><b> <i>Censored </i> acrylic and oil 36" x 48" 2020</b></span><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EIMRoAORm-I/X2fibyX-uTI/AAAAAAAASow/m-JuuGV99zwpGkYJzX_hQNKNOiqyz741wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/SaintClaire%252C%2BCarrying%2BOn%252C%2B36%2Bx%2B48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="444" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EIMRoAORm-I/X2fibyX-uTI/AAAAAAAASow/m-JuuGV99zwpGkYJzX_hQNKNOiqyz741wCLcBGAsYHQ/w333-h444/SaintClaire%252C%2BCarrying%2BOn%252C%2B36%2Bx%2B48.jpg" width="333" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"> <i> Carrying On</i> oil and acrylic 36" x 48" 2020<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of your creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</span></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have always preferred to work in isolation but when the stay at home orders went into effect I spent the first week at home with my children trying to figure out what it all meant. Once it became clear that the situation would last longer I returned to the studio and completed a large commission that had been ordered in January and put the final touches on a body of work that was scheduled for a summer </span><span style="font-size: large;">show at Fresh Paint Gallery in La Jolla. Once the days turned to weeks and I delivered the commission I started working full time delivering groceries because I felt I had to be of service. I was in an emergency responder mode working 10 hours 7 days a week finding items people needed most. In addition to this, the situation in my own studio changed in June and I started subletting one of the rooms in my studio to neurodiverse emerging artist, Katie Flores. </span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was still not creating my own work however, and noticing the lack of balance, I decided to set up two new opportunities for myself to explore at the studio to peak my curiosity. I bought a large supply of acrylic paint and mediums (I am an oil painter) and I invited another artist to my large studio to work on my figure drawing. While I have worked with figures in the past, my primary concern is capturing emotional states so looking carefully at references was a new muscle to develop. Also, learning to accept the limitations of acrylic paint and embrace the good parts of the media was another challenge that kept me focused. I found both the media and the reference drawing challenging but I was very happy with the results of that effort and I'm sure I will continue to employ and develop those skills.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I became very focused on the repeating theme of women lifting up and loving other women. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I continued to throw myself into the role of Katie's mentor and our hours together increased due to the closure of all her other programs and I was able to</span><span style="font-size: large;"> watch her blossom with great delight while </span><span style="font-size: large;">continuing to work on my figures of women.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It wasn't until later that I realized that I was painting about myself and my work with Katie and my role as a mother to two teenage daughters and the need to unite against a patriarchal system that permeates all aspects of society, including the art world.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: medium;">2. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic?</span></b></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">I have a deep seated desire to seek justice for those whom society has disregarded. I think perhaps this started for me as child watching my deaf grandparents struggle to be treated with respect. I could hear the things people said about them when we were in public and it made me angry. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> This is likely why I went to Tulane Law and </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> became an attorney and practiced law, although I never went on to work with </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> human rights organizations because I wasn't truly aware of my motivations. I just felt angry and life had other plans for me once I married, moved to S.E. Asia and </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">had 3 children. </span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> When I shifted to being a full time artist in my mid-40's I felt like I was finally in my right skin, but </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">I struggled to find satisfaction to effect lasting change in the world. I </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">felt selfish and that </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> I was turning my back on humanity but it was all I felt I could do. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">I eventually came to understand that by creating a place of peace within I was contributing to peace in the world.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The gift of the pandemic has been the opportunity to work one on one with <span style="color: #222222;">a talented young woman, Katie Flores, </span><span style="color: #222222;"> who has a passion, work ethic, and talent </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">to become a professional artist but cannot do so on her own because of the limitations she has due to being diagnosed as Austistic as a young girl.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">I have discovered that I have a gift as a mentor.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> I can finally feel at ease as an artist creating opportunities for another</span><span style="color: #222222;"> artist that would otherwise be marginalized and excluded from fully participating in the world. I have introduced Katie to other artists and lined up shows for her and set up an e-commerce website.</span></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">The pandemic has given me the gift of marrying these two parts of myself and restoring peace within that I am taking right action to affect change in the world.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">3. What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises?</span></b></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">I can't say I had a challenge to my work because I have my own studio. The challenges were more mental, emotional, and physical. I just didn't feel right going to paint, outside of finishing projects. I felt I could be of more value delivering groceries and supplies to those unable to go out.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The biggest challenge was not seeing my friends and not having access to my gym and feeling guilty that my children were just sitting at home all the time.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> I had just established a fitness </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">routine at age 50 and was finally feeling that I had a nice work/life balance when the pandemic hit. I haven't been able to find good routines since.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The surprise was that I would return to school to finish my certification as an Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator during the pandemic and discover that I can finally feel like I am living in my truth by working towards justice as an artist working with neurodiverse artists. </span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Periods of darkness have always held truths for me to discover. I started painting and discovered I was an artist during a long period of depression and so it makes sense to me that another trying situation would reveal another truth to me. I look forward to a long and fruitful career collaborating with and mentoring other artists.</span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.amandasaintclaire.com&source=gmail&ust=1600728597127000&usg=AFQjCNFL-X-Xj-bHkKQDRwVg4XYnX1ADZA" href="http://www.amandasaintclaire.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.amandasaintclaire.com</a></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/amandasaintclaire/&source=gmail&ust=1600728597127000&usg=AFQjCNEZ8lJmi01tdq7SEHw84INTuXp7jw" href="https://www.instagram.com/amandasaintclaire/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/<wbr></wbr>amandasaintclaire/</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/amp_artistproject/&source=gmail&ust=1600728597127000&usg=AFQjCNGet7fFPUYmRClIs35Rc2HRJuwBIQ" href="https://www.instagram.com/amp_artistproject/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/amp_<wbr></wbr>artistproject/</a><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-st-claire-5809872a/&source=gmail&ust=1600728597127000&usg=AFQjCNHwJ4nvRfOxKTDgHnIVwDNLfmF9tQ" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-st-claire-5809872a/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr></wbr>amanda-st-claire-5809872a/</a></span><br /></p><p style="border: none; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 2px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; width: 22px;"><div aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Show trimmed content" class="ajR" data-tooltip="Show trimmed content" id=":tf" role="button" style="background-color: #e8eaed; border-radius: 5.5px; border: none; clear: both; line-height: 6px; outline: none; position: relative; width: 24px;" tabindex="0"><img class="ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") center center / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.54; width: 24px;" /></div></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-55110683879522171842020-09-08T16:56:00.001-07:002020-09-08T16:56:43.688-07:00Working In Isolation: Loss of His Father and Step-Father, This Artist Turned Grief Into Inspiration, Creating an Exhibition for Queer Artists <p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">physically. We move forward quietly, with intention and faith in the process.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self - containment. </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Los Angeles artist Ryan Henisey creates sculpture, installation and performance art. Having lost his father and step-father during the pandemic, he has turned his grief into inspiration and curated an exhibition called <i>Queer Isolation </i>at the TAG Gallery that runs through the end of October, 2020.</span></b></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Pre-Pandemic:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6RMLMxOfGs0/X1gJ9bhP9nI/AAAAAAAARy4/KeCXCh0PB580ndXyy87rXuvDfNPSf-GOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Henisey%2BInstallations.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6RMLMxOfGs0/X1gJ9bhP9nI/AAAAAAAARy4/KeCXCh0PB580ndXyy87rXuvDfNPSf-GOgCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h500/Henisey%2BInstallations.JPG" width="500" /></a></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">Are We Out of the Woods </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">hanging paper cut-outs of trees, papier mache hearts with wings 2019</span></span></h2><p></p><p><span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">During Pandemic:</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--WnWPN_5xOY/X1gTfVZkioI/AAAAAAAARzE/qO34f5FHU60jSFYzN7CLTLGuffv9N8sHACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Henisey%2BPerormance.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--WnWPN_5xOY/X1gTfVZkioI/AAAAAAAARzE/qO34f5FHU60jSFYzN7CLTLGuffv9N8sHACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h333/Henisey%2BPerormance.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><b>Henisey Talks About </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Performance in Interview </i></b> <b>Link: </b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/4Ww2Fas79k8&source=gmail&ust=1599691337227000&usg=AFQjCNFHqENrXN5dfZowy3ei4LiqT_a1lA" href="https://youtu.be/4Ww2Fas79k8" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/<wbr></wbr>4Ww2Fas79k8</a></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kD75cZptkQk/X1gVoXY7XXI/AAAAAAAARzQ/8Qyl-A-3fbIp8R1ePVn2QcLT8DM6MqKogCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/QUEER%2Bisolation_K%2BRyan%2BHenisey.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kD75cZptkQk/X1gVoXY7XXI/AAAAAAAARzQ/8Qyl-A-3fbIp8R1ePVn2QcLT8DM6MqKogCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h333/QUEER%2Bisolation_K%2BRyan%2BHenisey.JPG" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>QUEER Isolation </i></b> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Curated exhibition, TAG Gallery August - October 2020</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;">1) How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of you creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The pandemic has slowed me down. And that’s a great thing.</span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">In “regular” life, I‘d be operating at a mile a minute, balancing a career, the needs of an artist cooperative, my own practice, and life. All while zipping around in my little orange car.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">But with global shut downs, Stay Home orders in California, and increasing needs at the gallery, I’ve slowed my creative and exhibition goals to better fit the shifting world.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Creatively, I’d planned on debuting in China with a cohort of Los Angeles Art Association artists, exhibiting a solo show at TAG Gallery, and more. As those plans delayed, I decided to take time explore new ideas and focus on elevating the cooperatives gallery experience for both our artists and patrons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">This space has allowed me to focus on artwork outside of my normal practice. I’ve experimented with new materials—such as papier mache, plaster, and concrete.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">And rather than focusing on my own exhibition, I was inspired to make space for queer artists. QUEER isolation, was a small celebration of pride that displayed through August. The show is in my studio at TAG Gallery and features 20 different artists, from as far west as Honolulu, Hawaii to as far east as South Bend, Indiana. The display is extended through the end of October 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">It’s been a joy to see and experience the art of others, especially in this time where we are isolating and keeping distance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2) What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Oh my! So much, but everything that feels new is also an old friend.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">I’ve spent a lot of time on self reflecting, taking more than a handful of personality tests. Going into</p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">the pandemic, was a period of loss for me—both my father and step-father passed within a month of </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">each other, leaving the hollow places we all experience with grief. The personality tests were a way to </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">ground myself (and look out for those parts of myself then can be read negatively by others).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">In the refreshers, I was struck by how often my ruthless drive towards accomplishment was discussed. Across all of the tests, that thread of zeal was identified as important and set part of my personality.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">The amplification of our emotional states in isolation has certainly shown that ruthlessness to be true. </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">I tend to be unrelenting when pursuing a worthy goal.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">While that part of myself is not new—nor even new to me—the hyper awareness of it through grief </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">and isolation is something that has changed. I’m not likely to apologize for my zeal, but I will forewarn you of it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">3) What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">My biggest challenge in isolation was being “trapped” in the same room. Until July, I was on special assignment for work, responding specifically to Covid-19. The hours were long and the impact was</p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">quite stressful (both are atmospheres where I thrive). But the small spare room at home (half artist studio, half partner’s office) was much too small and confining for me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">I really missed the studio most. Though only slightly larger of a room, my work/show space in the</p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Loft at TAG Gallery is one of my favorite things. Having it closed from March to June was a loss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Conversely, I was able to put more hours in fine art creation and experimentation. So while it was</p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">a challenge to keep myself in a smaller space than I’d grown accustomed, it was nice to spend more time making.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; margin: 0in;"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;">Links</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">:</span></b></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; margin: 0in;"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></o:p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://kryanhenisey.com&source=gmail&ust=1599691337227000&usg=AFQjCNG23UL8EGvKHVKf-2OHI7pnLmsBlA" href="https://kryanhenisey.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://kryanhenisey.com</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Facebook: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/KRyanHenisey/&source=gmail&ust=1599691337227000&usg=AFQjCNEdOcOWmIeUjCHSpr4QaPMM1kcG8Q" href="https://www.facebook.com/KRyanHenisey/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>facebook.com/KRyanHenisey/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Instagram: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/kryanhenisey/&source=gmail&ust=1599691337227000&usg=AFQjCNHI32Uf7aBaqQOEvy-2wCX1shgAWA" href="https://www.instagram.com/kryanhenisey/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>instagram.com/kryanhenisey/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Twitter: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/kryanhenisey&source=gmail&ust=1599691337227000&usg=AFQjCNHnSaToyCb2F3C-48e4EKh6aht6GA" href="https://twitter.com/kryanhenisey" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>kryanhenisey</a></span></div></blockquote><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /></div><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-65641065380819358672020-09-01T15:52:00.001-07:002020-09-01T15:52:59.787-07:00Working In Isolation: Without Anticipation and Concern of a Public Exhibition, This Artist Feels Free to Create Unselfconsciously<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </span><span face="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">physically. We move forward quietly, with intention and faith in the process.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self - containment. </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">San Diego artist Susan Osborn has changed mediums from assemblage to painting and collage and is loving this new journey of experimentation during COVID.</span></i></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Pre-Pandemic:</span></i></b></div><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ne7SB7FYW0/X07LjPxoTkI/AAAAAAAARxY/yymbEhLpzrkbpBKk-ViRTJrEizInd7d9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Osborn.Duck%2BRoll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="963" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ne7SB7FYW0/X07LjPxoTkI/AAAAAAAARxY/yymbEhLpzrkbpBKk-ViRTJrEizInd7d9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Osborn.Duck%2BRoll.jpg" /></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><i> </i><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Duck Roll</i> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">found object assemblage </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">12” h x 6” w x 3</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">”d 2019</span></b><p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">During Pandemic:</span></i></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X6vaLIKECsM/X07MLJefAgI/AAAAAAAARxg/xo0ffHztElEOIYvC12GJAW_PHw--OECHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Osborn.Rain%252C%2BFlowers%252C%2BSunset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1685" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X6vaLIKECsM/X07MLJefAgI/AAAAAAAARxg/xo0ffHztElEOIYvC12GJAW_PHw--OECHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Osborn.Rain%252C%2BFlowers%252C%2BSunset.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;">Rain, Flowers, Sunset </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">paper and fabric collage, acrylic </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">28” h x 24” w x 3/4” d 2020</span></b><p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>1. How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of your creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">I have always used collage and mixed materials in my work. From 2007 until 2020, I was occasionally doing mixed-media collage painting but I was mostly creating assemblages. Yet more and more, I was feeling an urge to paint but needed to know more about the new painting materials before I could start. When thrift stores went on lock down and estate sales ended, I had no place to search for assemblage objects I needed. It was a perfect excuse to learn about the new acrylic paints and techniques from Golden Paint demonstrations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">I began experimenting on small panels and would enlarge the size a bit more with each new work. Then in I late February I read about an artist using fabric in her paintings with an emphasis on pattern. I realized that the patterns in fabric could dictate the theme of my work. I began to collage fabric pieces onto wood or canvas. </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">2. What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic?</span><o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><i> </i></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">As I painted more and more I realize how sensuous the materials are. Seeing colors mix and the smoothness of pushing a loaded paintbrush over a surface brings joy, surprise and excitement. My training is as a painter. I didn’t realize how much I have missed it and how much it is a part of me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">Lately, while I am creating, I am no longer concerned about what others see in my work. I am focused on creating while I see and work with wild abandon. This could be because I have no venue for exhibition for my work now that galleries, libraries and colleges are closed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">3. What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises?</span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">It is difficult because I lack inspiration from seeing art in galleries and museums. Seeing art in person gives me so many new ideas. I have turned now to my books and virtual exhibits which aren’t the same because they lack the color and space.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">I get saddened when other artists say they can’t work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">I miss the critique from other artists and studio visits that give me feedback on my work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">I miss not being able to get my work out where it can be seen. I am at high risk due to my asthma and feel threatened even going into a gallery with a mask. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;">I miss not being able to pick up work that was in three exhibits at libraries and college because of lockdown. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="Body" style="border: none; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">As things open up again, gradually, I wonder if my attitudes with change. Will I be enthused about promoting my artwork? Will I be happy because my artists friends begin working again and meeting me in my studio (or I in theirs) with great art critiques and ideas? Will I be inspired by seeing all the new work in galleries? Time will tell.</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gr5P_dHXJYE/X07OJOKt_tI/AAAAAAAARxs/R9ZENMfBgTQPuW-GOilX-I3B-IOiLyMOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1900/susanosborn2020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="1900" height="307" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gr5P_dHXJYE/X07OJOKt_tI/AAAAAAAARxs/R9ZENMfBgTQPuW-GOilX-I3B-IOiLyMOQCLcBGAsYHQ/w410-h307/susanosborn2020.JPG" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Susan Osborn in Studio 2020</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Susan J. Osborn</b></span></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Facebook: susan j osborn art</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Instagram: susanjosborn</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">www.osbornart.com</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></p>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-84945801752340315472020-08-31T06:35:00.001-07:002020-08-31T06:35:32.402-07:00Working In Isolation: Fear Intensifies For This Artist Throughout The Pandemic As Healing Comes with Creating Art<p> <b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">physically. We move forward quietly, with intention and faith in the process.</span></b></p><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self - containment. </b></div><div><span face="" style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>San Diego Artist Linda Litteral while having been busy with a combination of a residency and creating art in her studio, finds the isolation has intensified the negative psychological issues that ironically have been a source of creativity and healing.</i></b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Pre-pandemic:</b></p><p><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OElFPZBhWAw/X0wu9bGnNXI/AAAAAAAARwY/gPPR4PBR0GgFRr6byxIWGGELjVsxjN80QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1354/Armor%2Bpre%2Bpandeminc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="1018" height="512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OElFPZBhWAw/X0wu9bGnNXI/AAAAAAAARwY/gPPR4PBR0GgFRr6byxIWGGELjVsxjN80QCLcBGAsYHQ/w385-h512/Armor%2Bpre%2Bpandeminc.jpg" width="385" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Armor 11" x 12" x 19 " tall Porcelain 2015</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During Pandemic:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Pandemic Pots 4" dia x 9" tall approximate each separate vase and lid porcelain 2020</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nqEOFRXwgUA/X0w0B4Rw3gI/AAAAAAAARww/5A0hZAuv-XIrJUhjUe6RbrTMcUWQbdZEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s990/Linda%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bstudio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="672" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nqEOFRXwgUA/X0w0B4Rw3gI/AAAAAAAARww/5A0hZAuv-XIrJUhjUe6RbrTMcUWQbdZEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Linda%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bstudio.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> Linda In The Studio<br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">1)</span></i></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of you creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</span></i></b></p><p style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">My work tends to evolve slowly, the content of childhood sexual abuse, trauma, and feminist issues stays with everything I do. I was at a residency at Desert Dairy in the beginning of the pandemic and stayed for 2 weeks. The energy and beauty of the desert and looking out at Joshua Tree National Monument was wonderful. It gave me a quiet entrance into the pandemic. When I was back home and in my studio, I really did not want to paint and have been working primarily in clay. I do not think my work has changed much, it just continues its evolution. I started working on spirals and how to carve and draw them at the residency. They have always been in my work but, seem to be central for now. I am working on a 7 foot totem that will be the center of a labyrinth I designed that the Feminist Image Group is doing for Desert Dairy space. It gives the group something to look forward to and we will go out and construct it this fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="default" style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">2) What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">It has been a difficult time to stay focused and moving forward. The lack of control over what I can do is too closely related to my childhood lack of control as an incest survivor. PTSD has raised its ugly head. As an artist I have pushed to stay busy as it is the one thing, art making, that allows me some psychological peace. While I am making art it is calm and I have purpose that makes sense in the moment. I find I like not having to have all the deadlines and constrictions on studio time that we had before the pandemic. I am pretty good at being an introvert and spending time with myself in my art making capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">The creative process is an innate human characteristic. This time has solidified that understanding for me. If we continue to repress our children's creativity by defunding all the arts, and trivializing creativity's value, we will be building the world that the Republican Trump administration stands for. Lies, gluttony, greed, hatred, misogyny, bigotry, etc.... Creativity is a shining light to a better world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">3) What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">The biggest challenge has been staying focused and contending with the past. While I have been speaking with my therapist throughout, I miss the one on one in person aspect of healing. The biggest surprise has been the way I have isolated almost completely. I rarely talk to anyone and while I do miss people, I have not pushed to have a lot of contact with anyone. There is fear involved in going out into the world that seems to be based in past traumas, and amplified by the ongoing trauma of the pandemic. The challenge will be to integrate the healing to encompass past, present and future that we cannot know. Then to address the healing evolution with art work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">Linda Litteral<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">www.lindalitteral.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">www.healingartprocess.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">Instagram: @lindalitteralartist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">Facebook: @lindalitteral<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">Facebook: @lindalitteralartist</span><o:p></o:p></p></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-82852613780607002222020-08-28T13:09:00.002-07:002020-08-28T13:09:43.382-07:00Working In Isolation: How Prioritizing Family Challenged This Artist In Making Space for Art-Making<h4 style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></h4><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</span><br /></span></span></h3><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">Artist Ellen Deiter shares how the challenges of COVID forced her to alter her home life and art practice to accommodate the needs of her family while continuing to make space for art-making.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Pre-Pandemic:</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-twem5M1NePQ/X0lhsRlx8FI/AAAAAAAARvo/39VB_A2TR445tKed94zdSEl0ZA3KKra_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s482/Flower%2BPower%2B_%2BDieter.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-indent: -28.3333px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-twem5M1NePQ/X0lhsRlx8FI/AAAAAAAARvo/39VB_A2TR445tKed94zdSEl0ZA3KKra_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Flower%2BPower%2B_%2BDieter.jpeg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><br /> <b> <i>Flower Power </i> mixed media 36" x 36" 2020</b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">During Pandemic:</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rj-1wtIP_0s/X0liawHc8HI/AAAAAAAARv0/A12PCprfCJ8WQQoRl1yGaOzyLZ_Rvea_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s482/Fearless_Dieter.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rj-1wtIP_0s/X0liawHc8HI/AAAAAAAARv0/A12PCprfCJ8WQQoRl1yGaOzyLZ_Rvea_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Fearless_Dieter.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><i>Fearless </i> mixed media on canvas 36" x 36" 2020</b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; text-indent: -21.25pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZ-HaXAREH8/X0ljjyEjYyI/AAAAAAAARwA/XdvEKvg-xvkTo5Q1WZNppxQEA2QMwGc-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_9273.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="355" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZ-HaXAREH8/X0ljjyEjYyI/AAAAAAAARwA/XdvEKvg-xvkTo5Q1WZNppxQEA2QMwGc-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/IMG_9273.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: -21.25pt;">Ellen Dieter in Studio</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of you creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">When we were ordered to shelter-in-place, my practice changed drastically. With my daughter and grandsons living with me at the time, all of a sudden we were on top of each other. I normally worked during the day while they were at school and work. Now, I was helping them during the day, get on their zooms, make food, clean, etc….So, I had to adjust my practice to work at night when the house was quiet. At first, my work continued as always, but of course the ideas of what is happening get into ones head and out onto the canvases. I did a series on feeling lost at sea, my horse and rider series took on a new look with the rider wearing masks, and some small works dealt with social distancing. The before painting I show here with the three women expresses friendship and standing together, the shelter in place painting, with the singular person reflects on the actual times, with BLM included, which for me, I have always supported.</span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">2) What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic? </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">I am so amazed at how adaptive the human being is. How we can continue to put one foot in front of the other in the face of adversity. When we got the orders to shelter in place, when the schools closed, I thought, there is no way we will get through this. how will we get through this. But I soon realized that every day, I got up, got dressed, made my bed and did the next designated thing that needed to be done. I did what I needed to do to stay healthy and sane. We are not “through” this yet, so, I am continuing to do just that, one day at a time. I also realized that helping my daughter and grandsons is what kept me going.</span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">As for as what I learned about myself as an artist, I realized, well, actually already knew, I could just stay in my studio and paint. Before Covid, I would feel guilty if I didn’t go out in the day, and just stayed in my studio. So Covid gave me permission to do just that.</span><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"> 3) What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises?</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;">I don’t have many challenges working in isolation. Maybe the biggest surprise is how much I do enjoy working in isolation. That said, I do miss having coffee with other artists and talking in person. I miss my group yoga and dance. I belong to a womens' artist group, TWA, and I miss our in person gatherings. The lack of physical meeting is a big challenge and plays with my mental state. 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font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><br clear="ALL" /><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="Default" style="border: none; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-4953964137414066452020-08-27T15:47:00.000-07:002020-08-27T15:47:25.994-07:00Working In Isolation: This Artist Calls Her Practice During COVID 'An Introvert's Paradise'<div><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b>Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </b></i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</b></i></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span></b></i></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist Stacy Nixon works on her art practice in remote areas of California and New Mexico, so working in isolation is comfortable for her. As Nixon puts it: </span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Working in isolation is an introvert's paradise." </span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pre-Pandemic:</span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--RNO_NFq2M4/X0g0XBwU6gI/AAAAAAAARuc/lPWeWx3MTlMuvI7arbGcIBvQWWdnOGaBQCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/Nixon.MollisVox.jpeg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--RNO_NFq2M4/X0g0XBwU6gI/AAAAAAAARuc/lPWeWx3MTlMuvI7arbGcIBvQWWdnOGaBQCLcBGAsYHQ/w600-h600/Nixon.MollisVox.jpeg.jpeg" width="600" /></a></div><br /></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"> <b><i>Mollis Vox </i> Encaustic and Pigment on Panel 30 x 30 2019</b></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><b><br /></b></div><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">During Pandemic:</span></b></i></div><div><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-51GrdEs456Y/X0g0L-gNOuI/AAAAAAAARuY/Rpmiz0fhGhwPMYChcypR6i12-VX9h-xAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Horse%2Band%2BSnake%2BSigil%2B-%2BBlue%2BGrey%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="472" height="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-51GrdEs456Y/X0g0L-gNOuI/AAAAAAAARuY/Rpmiz0fhGhwPMYChcypR6i12-VX9h-xAgCLcBGAsYHQ/w590-h800/Horse%2Band%2BSnake%2BSigil%2B-%2BBlue%2BGrey%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" width="590" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> </span>Equine Standard <span style="font-style: normal;"> Encaustic Mixed Media on Paper with Gold Leaf 25 x 19 2020</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>1) How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of you creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</i></b></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I was fortunate enough to be wrapping up a residency program as things began to shut down in mid march. I feel like I’ve had a super extended 6 month residency, really. Pre-pandemic I was focused largely on textural detail in my work, knowing I wanted to incorporate figures but not clear on how they would come in or what their purpose was. During that residency I began to get a glimmer of what I would later develop at home during quarantine. Lots and lots of figures began showing up in the form of the animals that trot past my studio, people in interesting silhouettes against their surroundings and architectural bits and pieces. I feel like I began to unload some of the enormous swirling subconscious ideas we were all experiencing about our places in the world and in relation to each other. I also began working on large beautiful paper instead of boards as I had been. Being free to make LOTS of pieces during this time, without attachment, has been so freeing. I have nailed down a beautiful process that I am so happy with and a series I feel is truly cohesive because of the state of mind I was in when creating it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <b><i>2) What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic? </i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> This time has shown me how much I thrive on long periods of uninterrupted isolation. Different artists thrive on different ratios of solitude and stimulation- I think I have now figured out my ideal balance. I feel it is easier to hear what the work wants when its quiet for a long time. Also, knowing there is no hurry to complete anything or an expectation to get on with it is the best kind of freedom. It’s the introverts paradise. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i> 3) What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises? </i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For me the biggest challenge has been not being able to physically connect with people around making and showing art. Getting together with people who are making art themselves or are interested in what I have made adds such a special texture to life that just doesn’t translate to the virtual world. Talking about art while standing in front of it with someone is one of life's great pleasures- it lets our humanity peek out. And just like everyone else having shows cancelled or go virtual, has been disappointing. The thing I found most surprising is being able to let go of my dislike for technology. It is usually pretty intense. But I decided it's not all bad. I live out in the sticks in California and New Mexico, where attending a class on a whim or a guild meeting is a major undertaking- so zoom has been quite gratifying in that way. It's almost like being a fly on the wall, also an introverts paradise. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>https://stacynixonart.com</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>instagram: @artstac
</b></span></div>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-3672240281558491432020-08-20T11:51:00.000-07:002020-08-20T11:51:51.324-07:00Working In Isolation: San Diego Artist Highlights the Importance of Social Connection to Her Art Practice<p> </p><p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><i><b>Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </b></i></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><b>demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</b></i><i style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><b>he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </b></i><i style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><b>physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</b></i></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">San Diego artist Irene Abraham creates abstract paintings and drawings. Here, she talks about how isolation has motivated her to revisit her completed works and to "mend and revise" them as well as a push toward experimentation. She also discusses the importance of social connection to artist friends and ties to the art community as a whole.</span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pre-pandemic:</span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TtPXGPO6kGw/Xz6_6YPDGDI/AAAAAAAARsM/h2zB2tLoPT80Ox276fFmLomx3OuABonIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/Irene%2BAbraham_A%2BBrighter%2BDay-30x30_442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1000" height="508" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TtPXGPO6kGw/Xz6_6YPDGDI/AAAAAAAARsM/h2zB2tLoPT80Ox276fFmLomx3OuABonIgCLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h508/Irene%2BAbraham_A%2BBrighter%2BDay-30x30_442.jpg" title="A Brighter Day" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Brighter Day 30" x 30" mixed media 2020</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During Pandemic:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hypV7o3i8I8/Xz6_62emDZI/AAAAAAAARsQ/dAx5hdkeaSkKL1uAPIMM7DGDF010ggLyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Irene%2BAbraham_Intermission_16x20_470.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1661" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hypV7o3i8I8/Xz6_62emDZI/AAAAAAAARsQ/dAx5hdkeaSkKL1uAPIMM7DGDF010ggLyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Irene%2BAbraham_Intermission_16x20_470.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Intermission 16" x 20" mixed media 2020</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><i><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lv0vtsBXoz8/Xz7FP3EoJ2I/AAAAAAAARsg/AWIaZzS2A0885oJmVOLkqt_Wary6bptHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Irene%2Bat%2BWork%2B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lv0vtsBXoz8/Xz7FP3EoJ2I/AAAAAAAARsg/AWIaZzS2A0885oJmVOLkqt_Wary6bptHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Irene%2Bat%2BWork%2B.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></b></div><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Irene at Work in Studio</span></i></b><p></p><p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;">1) How has your work shifted during the pandemic? Has it been a change in the process of your creating art? The mediums you use? The themes or concepts you are thinking about?</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I work in my home studio, so being sequestered at home has not shifted where I do my work. While I am continuing with my main practice of painting and drawing, I have also been taking time to look through old sketch-books and re-organize my work space. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have also been taking old paintings and “mending” and revising them, or even totally covering them up and starting over. It is a glorious feeling when I get to the point where I think I have finally resolved a painting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since I have fewer outside events now, I have also been able to expand my art-making and do more experimentation with new techniques.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I have been doing a lot of sketching while on Zoom meetings and also trying out some sculpture projects using a 3-D printer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Certainly the political situation in combination with the pandemic has had at least a subliminal affect on the art I am producing. Maybe my unconscious use of darker hues in my painting “Intermission” reflects these concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2) What have you discovered about yourself as an artist during this pandemic?</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Making art is still very important to me and often exhilarating even under these constrained circumstances. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creating work is necessary to my sense of well-being. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, although I have always enjoyed working in isolation, I find that too much isolation can be enervating.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have had to seek out ways to contact other artists, even if it is just a phone call or Zoom meeting.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have realized how much artists depend on interaction with other artists for stimulation, feedback and encouragement.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;">3) <i>What have been your biggest challenges working in isolation? Surprises? <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A show I was supposed to curate with a colleague has been cancelled indefinitely. My disappointment at this not happening made me realize how much I enjoy projects like this to get artwork out in the world. With no more artist meetings, gallery openings or studio visits I’ve had to find other ways to connect to the greater art world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Luckily, we are living in that age of the internet so posting my work on various channels allows me to get a bit of feedback and cuts down on the feeling of artistic and social isolation. I also get to see my art friends’ work and have enjoyed visiting galleries and museums on-line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.ireneabraham.com" style="color: purple;">www.ireneabraham.com</a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">instagram:#ireneabrahamart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> #ireneabrahamstudio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.saatchiart.com/irene981&source=gmail&ust=1598035753825000&usg=AFQjCNEDgtTgYa-BJMRvVskuEiBuRzkwZg" href="https://www.saatchiart.com/irene981" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://www.saatchiart.com/<wbr></wbr>irene981</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></b></p>ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-2462280330561248412020-07-28T09:44:00.000-07:002020-07-28T09:44:05.021-07:00Working in Isolation: Oil Painter Artist Finds Freedom to Explore Mediums During Lockdown<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </b></i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span></b></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the lockdown I was unable to go to my studio which is a 10 minute drive from my home. I usually paint with oils and can be pretty messy, so having a separate dedicated work space is a necessity. I shut the studio down in March and took watercolors, drawing equipment, papers and sketchbooks home where I set up a small table work area. Focusing on drawing and watercolor proved to be liberating and informative. I was able to complete a watercolor painting or drawing in one session, as opposed to multiple layers/days of an oil painting. I also revisited images and notes from older sketchbooks and discovered new connections. The light and transparency in the watercolors have influenced my oil paintings, a direction I might not have taken so readily had it not been for the focus within limited parameters.</span></span><br />
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Working on a small scale made me consider mark making in the images more thoughtfully: it became a time of introspection and retrospection. The pandemic reinforced my interest in the environment and the importance of the human race reconciling with nature. I also discovered that making the effort to create, having that discipline, is very important to my state of mind! </div>
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Even though painting (for me) is a solitary activity, I found being isolated from fellow artists and not being able to visit a museum or gallery challenging on a professional level. Not being able to see family and friends living abroad has also been a huge challenge, and this motivated me to draw inspiration from places and landscapes that I miss. What surprised me was the freedom I found in the work process during lockdown and in the drawings/paintings themselves. I hope that sense of freedom continues; it was a positive step aside from my usual practice and I am grateful for that.<span style="color: #888888; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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Melanie Taylor: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://melaniectaylor.com/&source=gmail&ust=1596038746414000&usg=AFQjCNFFh1znnxKWBSkMUlQyepVzOKMAlA" href="https://melaniectaylor.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://melaniectaylor.com/</a></div>
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ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-57799949558556615722020-07-23T10:16:00.000-07:002020-07-23T10:16:33.857-07:00Working In Isolation: Multidisciplinary Artist Shares Thoughts on the Human Condition Living and Working in Kolkata India<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </b></i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span></b></i></div>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><b><i>Artist Suman Kabira is from Kolkata(previously known as Calcutta) India </i></b></span></h4><div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>He writes about his work:</i></b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The things I paint, or draw, originate from my everyday engagement with Reality. This is a Reality which, for me, is made of mundane happenings and uncanny images which penetrate into each other regularly, often unexpectedly, leaving me bewildered, yet fertile with images that keep appearing onto my works. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Born in a semi-urban area, very close to village, I had the fortune of getting in close contact with the rural area and nature– both spatially and psycho-spatially. Then I moved to Kolkata for my art education and since then, I’ve been into the entrails of this megapolis. Such a geographical binary, and the tension within, have contributed largely to my painterly imagination. In more ways than one. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For example, this has allowed me to perceive human bodies and nature in different settings, in different postures and hence, with different nuances. These figures recur in my works.. I keep them as they are, and at times I twist them, turn them and reduce them to the basic forms that defy the comfort of having them readily recognized as any familiar form. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In fact, I love to revel in the dangerous beauty of nature and binaries: Dream and reality, matter and void, light and darkness. I call them dangerous because they have the ability to slip into each other’s space rendering the so-called borderline in between deeply inane and superfluous.</div>
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For my art practice, I find inspiration from my the current happenings, my surroundings, people, and society where I live. As this pandemic creates new suffering, many new meanings for words like quarantine, lockdown, food rush, crisis, and social distancing come into my art practice which is mixed-up with my inner perspective. When it comes to the basic idea for working, it generally develops stage by stage. New elements, subjects, perspectives and the current human condition boldly changed my general views and dimensions for rethinking and reconnecting to my new visuals, and new subjects.<br />
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Honestly the pandemic has given me a chance to rethink my art practice, the subject I generally choose and also for the mediums and colors I use. The pandemic also shows me the other side of a dark situation. The social distancing, the restriction on free movement and quarantine all actually gave me feedback to connect with my inner sounds and inner imageries that have been added to my practice during this phase.
Also this pandemic has offered me a different pyschological zone for discovering a new perspective. It has given me time for assessment my past works and to give ample time to think about projects on the current pandemic situation. In India during this lockdown period a few more correlated things happened. From weather causing cyclones, to different social and political issues. These incidents certainly add another perspective to my regular practice.<br />
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Yes there have been a few big challenges I have faced. First, it has influenced my energy when I meet common people, observing my surroundings or visiting other artists studios, gallery exhibitions etc. Also when talking to people of different classes of society, talking about their lives , journeys, struggles or success, these experiences have given me new ground to build subjects for working. No doubt this pandemic phase creates obstacles to do this. Also in isolation it has been very difficult to collect my art materials, canvases or other items I use for my work from art materials stores. I basically avoid online shopping for art materials. Also this isolation gives me the great challenge of rethinking and reconnecting to my source of subjects.<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span></b></i></div>
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I have become incredibly productive. Being stuck at home I find myself painting all day, every day. It is a rare day that goes by that I’m not working in my tiny studio upstairs in my house. Without access to going out for inspiration or new paints or mediums, I started working with what I had at home. I came up with a technique that I have not seen anyone else in the world do. Maybe I’m just not able to find other examples of this type of work but I’ve looked hard and haven’t seen anything like it. I think I was just forced into being more creative by the lack of any creativity available outside the house. In addition to this new technique I also found myself doing abstracts which I’ve never done in my life. I have no idea where that came from. Maybe the forced isolation just pushed me to expand my boundaries. </div>
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I’ve discovered that I have so many ideas that I don’t know what to do with them. I will start five paintings at a time and they will be in various stages of completion. I write down ideas of paintings I want to do but then I end up starting something that’s not even on my list. So I’ve learned that even if I have a dry spell, which sometimes can happen, that the creative ideas are always somewhere inside me. I’ve also learned even more than previously that I don’t like to waste anything. I have frequently worked previously with paint skins but now I’m finding bits and pieces around the studio and I’m using those as well. </div>
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My biggest challenge is not being able to get my work in front of people. Because what I do is very three-dimensional and textural it doesn’t photograph as well as if you were to see it in person. There are no art shows to go to, I can’t visit galleries and talk to gallery owners, things like that. Also I have run out of canvases and I’ve had to use old paintings that I no longer like and I paint over them. I know I could order online but when I buy canvases I kind of like to go to the store and look at them in person and visualize what I want to do with them. It’s hard for me to buy them online. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My artworks over the years has had a very slow and gradual change. I have a low appetite to explore or add new motifs into my works. I like to explore/repeat motifs or similar motifs </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in my works and time during this Pandemic is no different. During the Pandemic I've been interested in </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">exploring cabinet spaces- to display or make artworks in relation to these furniture spaces; somehow all this is influenced by confinement inside my home for months now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've made a few works titled <i>Cabinet Views</i>, where I used photographs and a digital medium </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to create a dialogue with the inside of the cabinets and the objects in it. Sharing images </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the same, hoping to take these formative experiments to the next level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really liked the home-studio concept. During the pandemic I saw new possibilities of creating a dialogue with one’s immediate surrounding especially at home. During this time, more than creating artworks or final products, I enjoy reading about art, looking at art, contemplating art, writing about artworks, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the Pandemic I began working on lined writing paper, with motifs rendered as text in a pencil medium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can’t think of any challenges as such, but I miss my community art practice and the art room in London where I teach art to children. </span></div>
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ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-13911497081620647372020-06-23T11:47:00.004-07:002020-06-24T07:12:37.809-07:00Working in Isolation: One Artist in Mumbai India Explores Digital Media with Sketches and Paintings<div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7pt 27pt;">
<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </b></i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</b></i><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Never have we been more aware of isolation than time spent in this Corona Virus pandemic </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">environment. It is not our choice, but as artists we are familiar and in some ways ahead of the </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">game over our fellow citizens by our familiarity and relative comfort with the loneliness of self -containment. </span></b></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yashwant Dershmukh living in Mumbai </span><i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">India, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">shares his experience with making art during this distressing </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and complicated time. </span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div></div></span></div>
<div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7pt 27pt;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;">Dershmukh comments:</span></div><div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7pt 27pt;"><i style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><b>I believe the process of painting is constantly going on in an artist's mind. And somewhere at the back of the mind you always know that these situations are not going to last forever. </b></i></div><div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7pt 27pt;"><i style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7pt 27pt;"><i style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Before the Pandemic:</b></i></div><div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 7pt 27pt;"><i style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BvXPvfHY80/XvJM24UvZUI/AAAAAAAARfM/4hpCSdwqBJA5GMLbmOq52kfXLVlva7VUgCK4BGAsYHg/s2756/2%2BNET%2Bhigh%2Br.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2756" data-original-width="1800" height="781" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BvXPvfHY80/XvJM24UvZUI/AAAAAAAARfM/4hpCSdwqBJA5GMLbmOq52kfXLVlva7VUgCK4BGAsYHg/w510-h781/2%2BNET%2Bhigh%2Br.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><b><br /></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;">The pandemic hasn’t affected my work on the concept level as such. The only problem is having limited material to work with. This is fine since my process includes trying out concepts on a smaller scale first then painting on the canvas. So in a way I have been working consistently in my sketchbooks. However since canvas painting isn't possible now, I have been exploring digital media with my old sketches and paintings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;">During this lockdown I have realized that as an artist I prefer isolation, silence. In silence new ideas arise, thinking happens. But this silence is different, it is disturbing. In this situation I often get distracted while painting. It feels like someone is keeping an eye on me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;">I have always worked in isolation. I have turned one room in my house into my work area. When I am there it just feels like the studio. Though unlike in the studio where I'm completely isolated from everyone, my family members are always around. They peep in to see the process, share their thoughts, we discuss things, so they in a way have been part of my process which is a nice surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><div>LINKS: Instagram link is<b> yshwantdeshmukh </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Video on Youtube : <b> </b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DfPdO5_yHhkY%26fbclid%3DIwAR3B_6qZQEASf6kXsqjmkz8aimha3dToznxXIiBMVywv5lWysZM22xZIIOY%26app%3Ddesktop&source=gmail&ust=1593023037400000&usg=AFQjCNGaw_P5DKSQd8q5Pts7JnE1cYi5tg" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPdO5_yHhkY&fbclid=IwAR3B_6qZQEASf6kXsqjmkz8aimha3dToznxXIiBMVywv5lWysZM22xZIIOY&app=desktop" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=fPdO5_yHhkY&fbclid=<wbr></wbr>IwAR3B_<wbr></wbr>6qZQEASf6kXsqjmkz8aimha3dToznx<wbr></wbr>XIiBMVywv5lWysZM22xZIIOY&app=<wbr></wbr>desktop</a></div><div><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div></span></div>
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ARTFULLIFE BY CATHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625581009666018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618419390707050041.post-10830587852094736662020-06-21T14:09:00.000-07:002020-06-21T14:15:49.154-07:00Working in Isolation: One Artist in Dehli Finds More Space in Her Compositions<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Most artists work in relative isolation. Our collective art practices and the creative process </b></i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>demands it. It goes against the human urge to congregate and socialize. Still, we persevere as t</b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>he 'call to create' nudges us. We then deliberately make space - intellectually, emotionally and </b></i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>physically. We move forward quietly, with the intention and faith in the process.</b></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Artist </span></span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "google sans" , "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">Ritu Aggarwal</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in Dehli India, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shares her experience with making art during this distressing </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and complicated time. </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24.5333px;">Before the pandemic, my geometrical spaces or architectural forms on the canvas were a little crowded and in a single medium. Also the color scheme was quit bold with dark tones but during the pandemic my work shifted to quite minimal. Now I have found some spaces in the composition. The color schemes have also shifted to lighter tones and with mixed media. Due to the lockdown the daily working situation has changed. There is no opportunity to go out to see the world physically, so this has also been a good time to do my art work more patiently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24.5333px;">During the pandemic I was surprised I found the environment and atmosphere around me more clean, peaceful and silent . Everything seems to be connected with nature and breathable. And this gave me the new theme “Silent Spaces” for my upcoming works. Now my new works are not as crowded as before.<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24.5333px;">When I came to know about this challenging pandemic situation, initially, I got scared but I decided to spend my time creating. Gradually I discovered that the natural world around me is recovering due to lockdown as pollution has lessened. Delhi is a very populated and polluted global city and I have lived here for the past 28 years and have suffered from asthma.</span></div>
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When one door closes, another opens. So new doors of online shows and other opportunities<br />
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<span style="line-height: 24.5333px;">My home is my studio and my studio is my home. Before the pandemic I used to work either at my home in isolation or in Triveni ( institution) with other artists which was quite interesting as there was always a positive environment. But due to the pandemic I stuck only to my home with my family which is quite distracting during my creative time. I am not getting enough ”alone time” for painting as this is a basic need of an artist, I think. The thinking process in isolation is necessary for creating art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24.5333px;">My family is not particularly interested in art so this is a big challenge for me. I am discouraged as it is unlikely that there will be an art market for the next couple of years, but I will continue to make art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Ritu Aggarwal's Instagram link is : artistritu17</u></b></div>
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