DALLAS ARTS SALON

LIFE SUPPORT JAPAN - ONLINE AUCTION TO SUPPORT JAPAN

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Hiroshi Watanabe
Jun Masuda As Oyanagi
SOLD OUT ALREADY

Want to support Japan through photography?

Buy a print online through WALL SPACE GALLERY for Life Support Japan.

100% of all proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity to help rebuild the region & Direct Relief International for medical supplies and support.

Each photographer is donating one image and ten prints will be for sale at $50. Every edition that sells out brings in $500.

Currently, there are close to 50 prints for sale so if they all sold out, LIFE SUPPORT JAPAN will raise $25,000.

Crista Dix, owner of Wall Space Gallery, held a similar online sale that benefited the Haiti earthquake victims about a year ago.

Keep checking the website as more prints are being added as fast as possible.

This was put together in a matter of hours today by Crista Dix and Aline Smithson.

Please share.

Here are the next 9 images for sale:

Aline Smithson
Some Days

David Burdeny
Mudflat Ariake Sea

Emily Shur
Rikugien Garden, Tokyo

Tom Chambers
Vineyard Blush

Gabriela Herman
Fireworks

Russell Joslin
Horizon

Lori Nix
Three Figures

Jeffrey Aaronson
Tokyo Subway

Joni Sternbach
Kazzie

ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS IN MY COLLECTION

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I love books. I love books about art.

I am using my iPhone and GoodReads app to scan barcodes of books into my online library.

I decided to start with art and photography books and thought I would share them as I import them.

These are in no particular order and will never be complete as many of my books predate barcodes or do not have them as they are editioned works or self-published.

There are many more to follow.

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance

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Jan Gossart (Netherlandish, ca. 1478–1532). Portrait of a Man (Jan Jacobsz. Snoeck?), ca. 1530. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1967.4.1)

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

October 6, 2010–January 17, 2011
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor

The first major exhibition in forty-five years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) brings together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints and places them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early sixteenth century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck (ca. 1380/90–1441), and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Museum Main Exhibition Link

Exhibition Images Link

More About The Exhibition

Andrew Butterfield writes about this exhibition in The New York Review of Books on the secular narratives, voluptuous nudes, and remarkably beautiful and complex portraits of Renaissance painter Jan Gossart.

The Unexpected Pleasures Of Jan Gossart by Andrew Butterfield

VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY & SCULPTURE GARDEN - 2 OPENINGS AT THE FORTH WORTH COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER - FRIDAY 1/7/11

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Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Center will have present two new exhibitions at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

Both shows open on Friday, January 7th from 6PM-9PM at the Forth Worth Community Arts Center.

The FWCAC is located at 1300 Gendy Street (just south of the Amon Carter Museum) in Fort Worth, TX. FWCAC hours are 9-5 Monday to Friday and 10-5 Saturday.

Mark Messersmith

Fresh & Salty - A Splashing Exhibition

January 7-29, 2011

Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden presents a survey of artists’ responses to the transformative effects of water at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

Water, after air, is the second most important substance for sustaining life on earth. Artists have been intrigued with water as a subject for its magical ability to fracture, diffuse, bend, and reflect light, all at once. Water, as seen on a choppy ocean surface, a waterfall, a coastal marsh, is in a constant state of change, arguably never repeating itself.

Fresh & Salty is about how artists see water both figuratively and metaphorically, and how they choose to convey this transformative substance through their art. Water has provided artists with an infinite source of subject matter historically.

Vera Barnett

Included in this exhibition will be paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by over 30 artists from the late 19th century to the present including John Alexander, Vera Barnett, Kathy Boortz, Francis Chapin, G. Charpentier, Brian Cobble, David Collins, John Cobb, Dorothy Dell Dennison, Otis Dozier, David Dreyer, David Everett, Henry Finkelstein, Bart Forbes, Constance Forsyth, David H. Gibson, L. O. Griffith, Cindi Holt, Ken Howard, Billy Keen, Edmund Kinzinger, Mark Messersmith, Forrest Moses, Perry Nichols, Trish Nickell, Jane Starks, Bob Stuth-Wade, Claude Venard, Donald S. Vogel, Frederick Judd Waugh, Anne C. Weary, and Clara McDonald Williamson.

LU ANN BARROW - JOURNEYS: AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORKS

January 7,2011-February 19, 2011

LU ANN BARROW

Austin artist Lu Ann Barrow paints the joys and journeys of life with a folkloric style of pointillism. She celebrates everyday life with a light-hearted attitude through her focus on themes of rural Texas life, Biblical stories, and her travels to Egypt and Turkey.

Lu Ann Barrow was born in Rosenberg, Texas, in 1934, and studied with William Lester and Dan Wingren while earning her BFA at the University of Texas, Austin. She has regularly exhibited in Austin and Dallas since 1959, and was recognized with a traveling retrospective exhibition and catalogue in 2006. Her work was selected to represent the Texas Book Festival in 1999 and the National Book Festival in 2001. Barrow has been represented by Valley House Gallery since 1993 where she has had 5 solo exhibitions.

This exhibition is presented by the Fort Worth Community Arts Center and was organized in collaboration with Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden.

Founded in 1954, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden is Texas’ most enduring fine art gallery. The Modernist-style gallery, along with the 4+ acre sculpture garden, is located in its original North Dallas location. Valley House Gallery represents established and emerging contemporary artists working in traditional media, deals in important American and European art, and specializes in reintroducing significant Early Texas art. In addition to presenting exhibitions in the gallery and throughout the sculpture garden, Valley House Gallery publishes scholarly catalogues, participates in national art fairs, and assists museums in curating exhibitions. In 1964, Valley House Gallery was the first gallery in Texas invited to join the prestigious ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America.) The gallery is also a founding member of both DADA (Dallas Art Dealers Association) and CADD (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas.) Second generation owners Cheryl and Kevin Vogel invite visitors to enjoy a unique art and garden experience.

The Fort Worth Community Arts Center’s mission is to provide accessible and affordable exhibition, performance, workshop, classroom, and office space to artists and arts organizations in the region, and to serve the general public by presenting the work of contemporary visual and performing artists in a user-friendly environment that is available for event and meeting rentals.

MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2010

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I read about 75 books this year according to my Good Reads list but these were my favorites.

I didn't include art & photography books which are an entirely different category.

I covet Karl Lagerfeld's library:

Top 10 Books (in alpha order):

Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War - Karl Marlantes

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell

Tinkers - Paul Harding

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand

Others That Were Wonderful & Recommended (alphabetically):

A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick

An Object of Beauty: A Novel - Steve Martin

Anthropology of an American Girl - Hilary Thayer Hamann

Bloodroot - Amy Greene

Children of God - Mary Doria Russell

Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende

Faithful Place - Tana French

Homer and Langley - E.L. Doctorow

How to Paint a Dead Man (P.S.) - Sarah Hall

La Catedral del Mar - Ildefonso Falcones

Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving

Little Bee - Chris Cleave

Oryx and Crake (reread before I read The Year of the Flood) - Margaret Atwood

Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay

Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora - Pierre Berg

Shadow Tag - Louise Erdrich

Stone's Fall - Iain Pears

The Jump Artist - Austin Ratner

The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zaf√≥n

The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

The Hunger Games Series - Suzanne Collins

The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman

The Kingdom of Ohio - Matthew Flaming

The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall

The Passage (The Passage, #1) - Justin Cronin

The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zaf√≥n

The Strain (The Strain, #1) - Guillermo Del Toro

The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno: A Novel - Ellen Bryson

The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist

The World to Come - Dara Horn

The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

Under the Dome - Stephen King

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector - Benjamin Moser

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

BIBLIODYSSEY

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Over the weekend, I stumbled across this wonderful blog Bibliodyssey and it is a delight. One could spend hours catching up on their archives that go back to 2006 filled with eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints. I recommend it.

Today's post was from the The Ethelind Pope Brown Collection of South Carolina Natural History at the University of South Carolina comprised of 32 opaque watercolors, or gouaches, on paper.

Each depicts at least one species of flora and fauna (primarily birds, trees, and flowering plants) found in the American Southeast. The majority of the species are native to South Carolina, with some native to Georgia and Florida. Some fish and insects are also depicted, for a total of 48 species appearing in the collection, including several trees that appear multiple times.

The gouaches were created by the same anonymous artist, most likely in the 1760s or 1770s, and were originally painted within the pages of a single bound journal. With the exception of Mark Catesby's early eighteenth century paintings, the images in this collection are the earliest extant depictions of South Carolina flora and fauna.

They also published a book in 2007 filled with "a myriad of long-forgotten imagery has now re-surfaced, from eighteenth-century anatomical and architectural drawing to occult and alchemical engravings and proto-Surrealist depictions of the horrors of industrialization (for example, the half-plant, half-people illustrations of J.J. Grandville)."

ARTIST OF THE DAY: HOWARD SHERMAN

2010-12-19T12:46:00.001-06:00

I have always liked Houston artist Howard Sherman's work and ran into him last month at Cris Worley Fine Arts and was glad to see him.

Be sure you check out his next solo show in Dallas at Cris Worley Fine Arts in collaboration with Fedri Fine Arts Advisory on Saturday, January 8th.

Howard's paintings are wonderful and indeed make you smile if not outright laugh.

His career is taking off in many directions including some recent regional, national and international shows.

He is represented as one of the 62 mid-career artists in the recently published "Texas Artists Today" book as well as New American Paintings.

Here's a video profile of Howard, how he works, his process, his studio and his philosophy on art, life and humor:

Video Profile of Howard Sherman By Robert Land

* As seen in New American Paintings #90

Sherman deftly infuses his work with wry humor. The paintings are a mash-up of several historical ideologies at war with playful cartoons and a punk attitude.

For more details, please visit Howard Sherman's website

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Galveston Arts Center; "Eating your friction"; exhibition traveling from Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Galveston, Texas

2010 Artspace; "Bogus rating system"; Raleigh, North Carolina

2009 McMurtrey Gallery; "When gorillas shoot pigs"; Houston, Texas

2009 Pan American Art Projects; "Bloodthirsty animal on two legs"; Dallas, Texas

2008 Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas

2008 McMurtrey Gallery;"In my mind, you're inflatable"; Houston, Texas

2007 Gerald Peters Gallery, "Commodification of dissent"; Dallas, Texas

2007 North Harris College, artist-in-residence exhibition; Houston, Texas

2006 McMurtrey Gallery, "Venti Americano"; Houston, Texas

2006 REM Gallery, "The New Hotness"; San Antonio, Texas

2005 416 West Gallery; "Scratch That Itch"; Denison, Texas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 New American Paintings issue #90 winners show; Juror:Toby Kamps, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art-Menil Collection; G Gallery; Houston, Texas

2010 Museo de Arte Moderno; group exhibition; Trujillo, Peru

2010 Abstractions; Pan American Art Projects; Miami, Florida

2009 Drawn to Painting; College of the Mainland; Texas City, Texas

2009 Texas Anti-Matter; The University of Texas of the Permian Basin; Odessa, Texas

2008 Gerald Peters Gallery at Art Miami; Miami, Florida

2008 Group Dialogue; Gerald Peters Gallery; Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008 Multiplicitocracy; Katzen Art Center at American University; Washington, D.C.

2008 Artist-in-residence group exhibition in conjunction with Phantasmagoria; McColl Center for Visual Art; Charlotte, North Carolina

2007 Camp Marfa; Marfa, Texas

2006 Arthouse; "New American Talent"; two-year traveling exhibition; Austin, Texas; Curator: Aimee Chang, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

2006 Assistance League of Houston: Celebrates Texas Art 2006; Williams Tower Gallery; Houston, Texas; Curator: Jeffrey Grove, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, High Art Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

2005 Rudolph Projects/Artscan Gallery; "A Fine Line"; Houston, Texas

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Lonestar College - North Harris

AWARDS AND HONORS

2010 "Texas Artists Today" published by Marquand Books

2010 New American Paintings - No.90; Juror:Toby Kamps, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art-Menil Collection

2010 Jentel artist-in-residence; Banner, Wyoming

2010 Vermont Studio Center artist-in-residence; Johnson, Vermont * awarded Dedalus fellowship

2010 Set design Catastrophic Theatre production of, "Our Late Night"; Houston, Texas

2010 Visiting artist;Sam Houston State University; Huntsville, Texas

2009 Hunting Art Prize finalist; Houston, Texas

2008 Artpace 09.2 residency finalist; San Antonio, Texas

2008 Visiting artist;University of North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina

2008 Arts Houston magazine cover story; Houston, Texas

2008 McColl Center for Contemporary Art artist-in-residence; Charlotte, North Carolina

2008 Hunting Art Prize finalist; Houston, Texas

2007 Artpace 09.1 residency finalist; San Antonio, Texas

2007 New American Paintings - No.72; Juror:Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

2007 Visiting artist; Stephen F. Austin State University; Nacogdoches, Texas

2007 Hunting Art Prize finalist; Houston, Texas

2006-2007 North Harris College artist-in-residence; Houston, Texas

2005 New American Paintings - No.60; Juror: Fereshteh Daftari, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Yor

2005 School of Visual Arts; summer residency; New York, New York

EDUCATION

2006 The University of North Texas, M.F.A.-Painting and Drawing

1998 Houston Community College, Certificates in Computer Animation and Multimedia

1993 University of Texas at Austin, B.A. Studio Art

DALLAS CERAMIC ARTIST MARTY RAY FEATURED IN NEW BOOK "500 POTS"

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I love Marty Ray's pots! We have 9 that we have collected over the years. I was very excited to hear from Marty that two of her scraffito incised pots are included in the new book, "500 Vases" by Lark Books of Sterling Publishing which can be purchased from Amazon (click image). Congratulations!

The 2 pots included are "August Winds" and "Summer Day" both created in a series influenced by Hurricane Katrina in 2006.

You can see “August Winds” (pictured above) along with some other scraffito pots of Marty's at Marty Ray Scraffito Pots

Visit with Marty in her studio on the 18th annual White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour on Saturday, October 16h and Sunday, October 17th from 10AM-5PM.

Marty and her husband/painter Richard Ray, are located at studio #34 on the tour. Maps and info on the tour can be found at 2010 White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour

Marty is represented by in Dallas by Craighead Green Gallery

Marty has a wonderful website that you can visit at Marty Ray website.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: TIM BEST

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I first came across Tim Best's photography at his member show at 500X this past February and recently had an opportunity to get together with Tim to see more of his work and talk about it. Tim is a photographer and performance artist. I really like Tim's work. It is powerful. It is theatrical. It is performance art in photographs. It is Kabuki. The work pulls you in as you are drawn to each photograph to get closer to look at the faces. I think Tim Best is definitely a photographer to be watching.

Artist Statement:
My work consists of performances by actors and models that bring their alter egos to the set. I use the backdrop of either nature or the studio to ground them in the viewer's reality. Against this setting, these performers dress in seemingly random fashion and gaze into a spotlight as if to look into the future with the hope of finding Utopia. Despite the absurdity of this, these characters are empowered by this transformation through fashion and imagery to create their own cultural context.

Artist Biography:
Tim graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago Studio Arts program in 1995. Since then he has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Chicago, Illinois, New Orleans, Louisiana and currently Dallas, Texas. He has been involved with the arts community in those places and has shown in spaces that focus on new media, photography and video. Select exhibition venues include Apt3 Gallery, Boston, 3 Ring Circus Productions and Barrister’s Gallery in New Orleans, Three-Walls in Chicago, Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Medicine Factory in Memphis, and 500x Gallery in Dallas. Publications include the Times Picayune and The Gambit in New Orleans and the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Books include Constance 2007, a catalogue of New Orleans artists who stayed and helped rebuild after hurricane Katrina. He has given lectures at Rhodes College in Memphis and at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. In Dallas he is a member of Gallery 500x, a CO-OP of local emerging artists. Most recently, he participated as an artist in residence in the Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency program.

Artist Contact Info:

Email: tim@timcbest.com

Website: Tim Best

Facebook: Tim Best Fan Page

Twitter: timcbest

Artist CV:

Education:
1995 University of Illinois at Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Selected Awards
2009 Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency
2009 Puffin Foundation Grant
2008-2010 Gallery 500x Membership
2007 Pollock-Krasner Grant: Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency.
2007 Top Ten Cultural Events, Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee.
2007 Rhodes College visiting artist program.
1995 Tuition award spring semester and fall semester.
1993-1995 University of Illinois at Chicago Honors College

Community Projects:
2007-2008 “NOVA Projects”, Co-founded with Dan Tague, New Orleans artist registry to promote, catalogue, and exhibit New Orleans artists.
2006-2007 “Alternative Arts New Orleans”, Co-founded with Courtney Egan to open critical discourse in New Orleans to the artists and writers in the community.

Selected Solo Shows:
2007 “Manufacturing Expectations, Site Specific Installation”, The Medicine Factory, Memphis, Tennessee.
2005 “Business Man”, Apt 3 Gallery, 43 Aspinwall Ave, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Selected Group Shows
2010 “Modern Ruin” Washington Mutual Branch Building before its destruction, Curated by
Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer, Dallas, Texas.
2010 “Sheep, Sharks, and Nightlights.”, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2009 “Caliente” Juror José Torres-Tama, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
2009 “Texas National 2009” Juror Mel Chin, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, Texas.
2009 “Guardrail Damage Ahead” 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2008 “Me Myself and I” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 “St Claude Collective - a Prospect.1 Biennial site” Universal Furniture Building,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 Dallas Film and Video Fest Angelika Film Center, Dallas, Texas.
2008 “Me, Myself and I” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 St. Claude Collective Exhibition A Prospect.1 Biennial Venue, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 500x Gallery Member’s Show “Under New Management” Annual exhibition of 500x
Members Dallas, Texas.
2008 Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival Experimental category for
“One Liners” video.
2008 “500x 30th Anniversary Show” 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2007 “Identity” New Orleans Photo Alliance Curated By Deborah Luster.
2007 “Day Jobs” Three Walls Chicago, Illinois Curated by Kristin Freeman, Caroline Picard,
Rachel Wakeman and Sarah Wambold.
2007 “Unusual Suspects” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA Curated by Dan Tague.
2007 “Megabytes 6” Juried screening Contemporary Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2007 “The ‘I’ Show” New Orleans Digital Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana Juror David Halliday.
2006 “The Human Body” New Orleans Digital Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana juried by
David Houston, Chief Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
2006 “The Virus Show” The Green Room, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Surge” The Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, New York.
2006 “Just a Perfect Day, works by Tim Best and Jillienne Buena” The Big Top Gallery,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Likeness - Alternative Portraiture” Barrister’s, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Arty Gras” The Warehouse, Washington D.C.
2006 “Sustained Winds” Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana.
2005 “No Place Like Home” Giola Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2005 “All that Art” 8 New Orleans Artists showing during Jazz Fest, Fair Grinds Café
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 “Hydriotaphia - New Orleans Artists Design their Funeral Urns” Barrister’s Gallery,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 “New Art For a New Year” 18 New Orleans Artists at Ashé Cultural Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2004 “Mermaid Lounge Closing Bash” An Evening of performance and Video,
Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gallery Affiliations:
Gallery 500x, 500 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas, 214-828-1111 http://www.500x.org
APT 3 Gallery, 47 Aspinwall, Brookline, Massachusetts 02446 Aaron Goranson 617-739-8425
Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Adele Borie 504-410-0207
Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana 70117 Andy Antipas 504-525-6246
New Orleans Center for Photographic Arts, 1927 Sophie Wright, PL. New Orleans, Louisiana 70130,
Charles Megnin 504-522-3211

Bibliography:
“Constance” Publication of New Orleans Artists and Writers, 2008.
“Sustained Winds” Catalogue of the show at Acadiana Center for the Arts, 2008.
“Arresting Developments” Review of “Unusual Suspects” by Eric Brookhardt, The Gambit, July 1st issue 2007.
“Exceeding Our Expectations” Review of “Manufacturing Expectations” by Fredric Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 13th, 2007.
“Magic Mirrors” Review of “Just a Perfect Day” by Doug MacCash, New Orleans Time Picayune, July 7th, 2006.
“Art Recommended” Review of “Just a Perfect Day” by Eric D Brookhardt, New Orleans Gambit Weekly, July 11th, 2006.
“Show Gives Gulf Coast Land to Build On” Review of “No Place like Home” by Jenn Q Goddu, Chicago Tribune December 2, 2005.

Selected Collections
2009 “Staged Environments” visiting artist talk at University of Texas at Arlington.
2008 “ArtSpeak” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2007 “Manufacturing Expectations” Part of the Rhodes College visiting artists program, Memphis, Tennessee.
Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Ashley Haspel and Mitch Meyers, New Orleans, Louisiana
Aaron Goranson, Boston, Massachusetts
Steve & Joyce Goranson, Houston, Texas
John Schaefer, Los Angeles, California
Heather Weathers, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lectures:
Juror: 2003-2006 New Orleans Film Festival animation and experimental genres.

Frida Kahlo Morphing Self Portraits

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In honor of Frida Kahlo's103rd birthday this week, enjoy this lovely video:

Frida Kahlo Morphing Self Portraits

This biography was also excellent:

ARTIST OF THE DAY: MARY McCLEARY

2010-06-20T12:28:00.000-05:00

Mary McCleary is an amazing established Texas collage artist who just had her website redone. I love her work. I am sure you will too.

"The first time I saw the art of Mary McCleary I went away talking about the stunning and affecting paintings I had seen. I had to keep correcting myself, knowing the works to be collages . . . She is the Seurat of collage." — Harold Fickett

Galveston Storm | 45 x 60 inches, 1985, Mixed Media Collage on Paper

Take a look at her redesigned website which shows wonderful examples of her work over the past 25 years

STATEMENT

"I made my first 3-D collage 26 years ago. Since that time my work has grown in size, complexity and meaning. The collages are made by attaching layer upon layer of materials such as paint, paper, rag board, foil, glitter, sticks, wire, mirrors, pencils, nails, glass, painted toothpicks, string, leather, lint, small plastic toys and other objects on heavy paper, much in the way a painter builds layer upon layer of paint on canvas. Often these materials are used symbolically. My aim is that the obsessive images that result from this method of working convey an intensity which the viewer finds compelling. I am interested in the spatial complexity and visual tensions that come from the collages being illusionistic, while at the same time composed of three-dimensional objects that often retain their own identity. Drawing my subject matter from history and literature, I like the irony of using materials that are often trivial, foolish, and temporal to express ideas of what is significant, timeless, and transcendent."

Mary has 4 art books published. This is one of them:

Beginning with the word: Constructed narratives, 1985-2000

NEWS

• Mary McCleary will have a one-person exhibit at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, Jan 21 – April 21.
• Her next one-person show at Moody Gallery in Houston is scheduled for spring 2011.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas recently acquired Mary McCleary’s The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer (2008) for their permanent collection.
• Mary’s print, Fallen, Fallen Light Renew, will be included in the exhibition Advancing Traditions: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. The exhibit, organized by ExhibitsUSA, a division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, will travel for three years beginning November 10, 2010 to venues across the U.S.
• McCleary will have work in the exhibit, Obsessive Worlds, at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont. October 15, 2011 – January 1, 2012.
• Mary McCleary will be included in the new book, Texas Art: 70 2 C, due Fall 2010 and published by Marquand Books. Edited by Catherine Anspon. Photography by Everett Taasevigen.
• McCleary’s essay, Moving Pictures? will be included in Credo, a book being published by Houston Baptist University Press in Fall 2010.
• McCleary gave the keynote address, Things Seen. Things Not Seen, for the Texas Association of Schools of Art annual conference in Abilene, Texas in March 2009.
• McCleary has joined the editorial board at Image Journal. She will be teaching a collage class at the Image’s Glen Workshop at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM, August 1-8.

This is another book with her work:

Objects of Grace: Conversations on Creativity and Faith

BIO

Mary McCleary is Regent's Professor of Art Emeritus at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she taught from 1975 to 2005. Born in Houston, Texas in 1951, she received her B.F.A., cum laude in printmaking/drawing at Texas Christian University and her M.F.A. in graphics from the University of Oklahoma. Since 1970 she has participated in over 250 one-person and group exhibits in museums and galleries in 24 states, Mexico, and Russia. These venues include the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., MOBIA in New York City, the Grey Gallery at NYU, the Boston Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. She is also a recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. Her work has been regularly reviewed or featured in the Houston Post, Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman, Dallas Morning News, and other Texas newspapers, as well as in national publications: Art in America, Art News, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Art Papers, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Art Week, Artspace, Texas Homes, New American Paintings, and Contemporanea International Arts Magazine. McCleary’s work is in many public collections including those of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, the El Paso Museum of Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.

Another one of Mary's books:

After Paradise

ARTIST OF THE DAY: MICHAEL L BENSON

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"Delivered" - work from the Bath House "Fresh Faces 2x2" Show

Michael L Benson is a "re-emerging" artist who took a 20 year hiatus but is now painting up a storm of representational landscapes!

Artist Statement:

I transitioned from painting classically trained portraiture to representational landscapes while doing set design on the children's TV series “Wishbone”. I was doing a lot of drafting and my work was very architectural in nature.

Lately, I have been intrigued by the landscapes that are the least likely spots to be painted – the not beautiful landscapes - the backs and sides of buildings, loading docks, delivery entrances, etc. Locations that are a reflection of our everyday lives that we usually don’t notice much but have a beauty of their own.

Artist Info:

I have been interested in painting and the arts since I was a teenager and I was fortunate to attend the The Arts Students League in New York City for over 5 years and took many classes with Daniel Greene, the master of portrait painting. I was also a teaching assistant there. It was an amazing experience to be in a building that echoed such a wide variety of art history from famous students to teachers.

I won a number of painting awards from the Salmagundi Club and some other now defunct art clubs in the late 1970’s while going to school, being a bicycle messenger, working at the original Lee’s Art Shop and living in a loft in Williamsburg years before it was hip and DUMBO.

Realizing that I did not relish the life of a starving artist and NYC winters with no heat, I transitioned into the Feature Film and TV Commercial business via the Art Department and worked on hundreds of TV commercials and features films as a set dresser, set designer and property master. You can find some of my credits here on IMDB but I am not a paid subscriber so none of my TV commercial, early episodic TV or low level Art Department credits appear.

I pretty much stopped painting for 15 years during this period of my life.

My wife and I moved to Dallas in 1993 when she was transferred and I was hired to work in the Art Department on “WISHBONE” drafting and designing sets. I ended up on staff and worked on every episode. When the set decorators needed some reproductions of “Old Masters” for the “Great Expectations” episode, I got out my old brushes and oils.

When “WISHBONE” ended, I did some other film work in Dallas but became a residential agent for Ebby Halliday Realtors about 7 years ago which I love doing. And people somehow found out I painted, saw some of my old work and I started doing portrait commissions for friends and family.

I paint mostly in oil and enjoy doing landscapes and portraits. My style is predominantly representational.

I have been influenced by the work of some of my favorite artists: Richard Diebenkorn, Gregory Gillespie, Balthus, William Kittredge, Cezanne, Edward Hopper and many of the Quattrocento and Renaissance painters.

I am indebted to Rita Barnard who invited me to be in the recent “Fresh Faces 2x2” show at the Bath House Cultural Center that she curated and to friends Dahlia and Jonathan Woods for asking me to be in their current summer show “Hot Time, Summer In The City” which runs through the end of August at the Dahlia Woods Gallery

I am painting in almost all my spare time now and submitting work for invitational shows. I am available for commissions as well as for all your real estate needs!

Contact Info:

Michael L Benson

mbenson403@gmail.com

Work from the current show.

The author must admit she is married to the artist!

The Big List [568 & growing] Of Photographer and Photo Industry Interviews

2010-06-12T12:50:00.000-05:00

MIAD-FA382 is the class blog for Professional Practices FA382, a junior-level course for photography majors at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & DesignMIAD).

MIAD-FA382 will be on PAUSE until the Fall semester of 2010.

If you'd like to keep up with the what the students have been doing, please visit the New Society Photo blog.

Kevin Miyazaki steers the bus. Kevin is also the creator of collectdotgive.

Here's the List of 567 Photography Interviews on MIAD-FA382

Check out the winner of the liveBooks.edu website, Autumn Elizabeth Clark, for her project Americans Autumn's Website

Thanks to Elizabeth Avedon for posting so I can share.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: ELAINE TORRES

2010-06-05T12:16:00.000-05:00

22x30 pastel on paper
"Austin Sunset"

Elaine Torres utliizes acrylic paint, photography, and graphite pencil and paper to create beautiful works of art. Born and raised in Austin, Tx she now makes her home in Frisco, Tx. and shares her home with her husband, and 4 children. The daughter of renowned Texas artist Daniel Maldonado, she finds her work to be very different from that of her famous father.

Statement:

A long time ago, I sat and watched my father create something out of nothing. He took a blank watercolor board, and using his magnificent talent, blended and applied colors, to create a beautiful work of art. I asked him why he did what he did, and his reply was "I love to paint". Now, 30 years later, I find myself in the same position. I love to paint. It releases the imagination and allows my creativity to flow onto the canvas, through the lens, or onto the paper. I'm more of a free spirit on the canvas, and as such my creations tend to reflect my inner feelings and the emotions of my current state of mind. To me, my father is one of the Masters, and I could never begin compare my artwork to his, once created, they are two very different, passionate beings."

Sometimes abstract, sometimes contemporary, Torres defines her artwork as a vibrant creative outlet for the energy that lies within her. "When I put brushes or other tools to a canvas, I feel free to go where my mind takes me and I let the heart take the lead."

Website

AFFORDABLE ART: KEVIN J MIYAZAKI "BOOKLET" + PRINT $27 PLUS S*H

2010-05-22T10:43:00.000-05:00

Kevin is a very accomplished photographer and the wizard behind Collect.Give

Kevin Miyazaki Blog

From Kevin,

"For your consideration, a booklet and print.

This is something new for me, inspired by similar projects by online galleries and other photographers and unique to the wide reach and accessibility of blogs. I think the diminutive term "booklet" fits my offering well - both in the size of the piece and the spirit in which the pictures were created - these are small observations. (Besides, I feel kind of old when I hear myself say "zine.")

The thirty-eight color and b/w pictures are mostly singular images that I made and posted here on the blog, and not work from my larger projects (Camp Home, Early Places, or Fast Food)."

Edition: 150 pairs available (67 remaining). Title: 38. Saddle stitched, 6x6".

Print title shown above: Cemetery Flowers, Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Digital c-print on Fuji crystal archive matte paper, 7x5.5".

Price: $27.00 (plus shipping)

ARTIST OF THE DAY: MARIA TERESA G PEDROCHE

2010-05-22T10:18:00.000-05:00

Biography:
Born and raised in Brownsville, TX, Maria Teresa G. Pedroche is an award-winning artist who has exhibited in Texas, Mexico, and Spain. Her work can be seen at the Bath House Cultural Center through June 5. She was commissioned by Escariche (Guadalajara) Spain in 1999 to paint a mural and has been featured in juried exhibitions.

Maria Teresa was selected to be the cover artist for Corazón del Norte, that included her painting Staircase to my Heart by Wings Press in San Antonio, TX 1996.   In 2001 she was selected for the Dallas Burn Hispanic 50, awarded to corporate and community leaders who contributed to the empowerment of the Hispanic community within their respected fields. She holds a B. F. A. in Advertising Art & Painting from Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX and a M. F. A. Painting & Ceramics from Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX.

María Teresa is Head of Family Experiences & Community Outreach at the Dallas Museum of Art since May 2000.   She oversees family experiences, community engagement, festivals and exhibitions that include Advance Placement Juried Exhibition & Through the Eyes of our Children: Something Beautiful.   She co-curated Great Masters of Folk Art from the Banamex Collection in October 2001 and has organized other exhibitions that highlighted Caldecott Award Winning Authors.

Her experience includes working at the Meadows Museum for 10 years where she developed education and public programs, and other events related to museum collections and special exhibition. Some of the award winning exhibitions she curated at the Meadows Museum included Cristina Garcia Rodero: Photographic Eye of Spain, Mexico Through Two Lenses, and Latin American Photography exhibitions. She was selected to review and be a guest curator for Fotofest in Houston that included Valdir Cruz: Faces of the Rainforest. Other exhibitions she curated include Passionate Visions: 20th Century Latin American Photography at the Bath House Cultural Center, and the inaugural exhibition at the Latino Cultural Center in 2003.

Artist Statement for Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother) on view at the Bath House Cultural Center through June 5, 2010:
This series of work Flora was inspired by my beloved mother Maria Pedroche Garcia (1928- 2007). Her love of nature was contagious and she found beauty in all that sounded her. She often described her garden creating images in our minds with vivid colors, fragrances and she mimicked the sounds of her birds that would visit her daily. This body of work is dedicated to my Mamacita. When I was told the works for this exhibition would be shown at the Bath House Cultural Center in May, I immediately thought of my memories of my mother and Mother’s Day. There are twenty seven works in this exhibition.

While she was in hospice, she reminded me to water her flowers and feed her birds. It was during one of those days when I felt helpless that I discovered a bird of paradise that had two flowers blooming on one stem. I immediately showed her the fresh cut flower and she smiled and responded, “This is paradise”. Every day for a month, I would take the flower and photograph it facing the sky. I showed her the flower and the photos and she held on to my hand and prayed for blessings to shower all of our family. The flower died when my mother passed to paradise.

I developed the photographs a year after my mother’s last day on earth. I continue to discover new works from this series that bring back memories stored in my Corazon (Heart).   This past year, I created glass soldered houses inspired by my mother’s dicho, (proverb) “Cuida tu casa y deja la ajena.” (Take care of your home and don’t meddle in others.)

I hold on to her memories that strengthen me. What is essential does not die but endures. The greatest tribute to my mother is not grief but gratitude. My mother’s legacy is the acts of loving kindness and the inspiration to find beauty in all things in nature that will last me a lifetime. I am eternally grateful for my Mother’s gift of life, her stories, and her heart-felt spirit that inspire me.

Cuida tu casa y deja la ajena/Take care of your home and don’t meddle in others, Memories of My Mother 1, mixed media, glass soldered house, 9 x 3 x 2” Maria Teresa G. Pedroche, copyright

Ave del paraíso de mi madre/My Mother’s Bird of Paradise, Digital C print, 36 x 50”,
Maria Teresa G. Pedroche, copyright

Contact:
Maria Teresa G. Pedroche, P.O. Box 9253, Dallas, TX, 75209, mtgpedroche@tx.rr.com

AFFORDABLE ART: COLLECT.GIVE - 100% OF PROFITS DONATED TO CHARITY

2010-05-18T13:48:00.000-05:00

Since it inception in December, 2009, Collect.Give has raised over $7,000 for various charities from print sales of limited edition photographs by 17 photographers. Some of the editions have sold out but there is such wonderful work available benfitting so many wonderful charitable organizations.

Collect.Give Website

collect.give is a place to collect contemporary photography and donate to worthy causes at the same time. The photographers featured on collect.give have pledged to donate 100% of the profits from their print sales to worthwhile causes they support. Each has offered a print for sale and chosen their price and edition size. New photographs are added to the site every two weeks.

The newest print to the collection:

Photographer: David Wright

Title: Peter, 2009

Description: In January and February 2009 I spent 2 months in the small village of Alebtong, Uganda. Peter is one of only a few elderly leaders because most were abducted and brutally killed by the Lord's Resistance Army for not offering support to fight the Ugandan Army. Absence of elderly persons amongst the communities has adversely affected their culture and development.

Size: 9.6x12" image on 11x14" paper

Media: Archival pigment print

Edition Size: 20

To Benefit: A River Blue, a school in northern Uganda providing psychosocial counseling and intense vocational training in topics like tailoring, agriculture, and arts to vulnerable youth, formerly of internally-displaced persons camps. For more information: www.ariverblue.org <http://www.ariverblue.org>

Great Blog: Matt Kish - One Drawing For Every Page of Moby Dick

2010-05-16T11:35:00.001-05:00

Page 247 of 552.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Title: "But all these were collared, and dragged along the deck like dead cattle; and, side by side, were seized up into the mizen rigging, like three quarters of meat, and there they hung till morning."

7.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
May 15, 2010

Every Page of Moby Dick blog

Matt Kish website

Bio:

About me: I am not an artist. I have no formal artistic training or education. I've never had a gallery show. I work hard on each image and I do the best I can, but ultimately I do what I want to do, and that's that.

I was born in 1969. I wear glasses because I am slightly nearsighted. I like oppressively hot weather.

If you have any questions, you can email me at mattkish87@gmail.com.

About this Moby-Dick project: I'm working my way through the whole book in order, beginning with page 1 and ending with page 552. I'm not working ahead or jumping around to the pages I might like the most. If all goes well, I should complete this some time in March 2011. We'll see about that.

The blog is updated almost every day with a new piece of art, while this site is updated every time ten pieces are complete.

About the art: While I was in grad school, I worked in a used book store. Customers would bring in boxes of old books to sell to us, and we would evaluate them and resell most of them. Often, we ended up with lots of old books and maps and other paper ephemera that was just not going to sell due to condition, obscurity, or some other factor. Sometimes we priced these items at a dollar or even fifty cents and shelved them in our bargain section, but more often than not we simply discarded them. Dumpster time.

I began stockpiling anything that looked interesting. I was mainly interested in maps, diagrams, schematics, tables, science stuff and repair guides. I didn't know what I would do with it all, but I knew that some day I would use it. Now I am.

In terms of art supplies, I use whatever I want. Especially whatever I can scavenge or buy for cheap, like acrylic / craft paints, ballpoint pens, collaged stuff from magazines, crayons, ink, magic markers, nail polish, spraypaint, stickers, watercolors and whatever looks interesting. I don't use any digital effects on the art at all other than to scan the images and occasionally correct slight color or contrast imbalances so the digital image more closely resembles the actual art.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: HAI NGUYEN "IT GAVE US WINGS" VIDEO

2010-05-16T10:51:00.001-05:00

A must see: Hai Nguyen's time lapse video of a sculpture he built for his submission for the upcoming Dallas Red Bull "Art of the Can" exhibition.

Please watch the video. Hai took over 20,000 photos to make the video. Remarkable. It Gave Us Wings

Title: It gave us Wings
Dimensions: 11 ft tall, 5 ft wide, 10 ft long
Visual Medium: Red Bull Cans, plywood, galvanized steel wire, video

Stats:
704 cans / 600 birds
240 hours - spread over 47 days

About the Title:
The title of this piece is a metaphor for this exhibition and the artists involved. The Art of Can exhibition gives everyone, whether they are a full time artist or not, the opportunity to showcase their work to thousands of people and meet other artists and art lovers in their community. These art pieces would never have existed had it not been for the collaboration between artists and the organizers of Art of Can. This is what makes this exhibition special.

Inspiration:
We had 2 ducks visit our swimming pool everyday for about a week straight. And as sudden as they arrived, they left. This got me thinking about how amazing it was that birds can make these long journeys every year, and it inspired me to make this sculpture. The migration of birds over thousands of miles every year fits well with the Red Bull brand of high energy and extreme sports and to be able to capture this would make for a beautiful sculpture.

I learned a lot about myself while making this piece. The repetition of making hundreds of birds gave me the chance to spend time with my thoughts to reflect on my day, life, and dreams. Making 600 birds may seem like an awfully tedious chore. But in reality, it is not anymore tedious than running a marathon. A runner exercises their legs, lungs, and heart. I was exercising my mind.

About Hai Nguyen:

I am a first generation Vietnamese-American. My family immigrated to the US in 1979 when I was 3 and I grew up in Plano, TX. I've had an interest in art my whole life, but never considered it as a profession until recently.

My background is in computer engineering. I have a love for technology, science, and math, but also love being able to create something tangible that you can see and touch vs. something that only exists through pixels on the screen.

I'm excited to see where my art will take me. I feel like the art community in Dallas has really grown in the last few years and it's a wonderful time to be living in Dallas if you love the arts.

AFFORDABLE ART: TINY SHOWCASE - $20 LE PRINTS and PART OF PROCEEDS TO CHARITY

2010-05-15T10:55:00.000-05:00

Tiny Showcase was created by Jon Buonaccorsi and Shea'la Finch in November of 2004.

Current edition:

"Cradle"

Alexis Anne Mackenzie

Print # 72 of 100

7" x 5" (plus border for framing)

$20.00

Alexis has chosen the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as her artwork's charity. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute works to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. $250 dollars from the sale of her artwork will be donated to the organization.

AVAILABLE WORK

“We are lucky enough to be surrounded by a group of friends who are amazing and talented people.

We started thinking that it would be really nice if we could create a forum and community where all of this incredible talent could be showcased. Pricing was an issue - most of our friends aren't exactly rich, so we began exploring a smaller medium where the artist could make some money on smaller pieces of artwork. The art enthusiast, on the other hand, gets to take home their piece of artwork for around the same price as a CD, book or record.

Each week we pick a new piece of tiny artwork and turn the work into a limited-run print production. Each run is printed on archival Hahnemühle German Printmaking Paper. The archival ink is specially treated and sprayed, giving it an archival lifespan of over 60 years.

You sort of need to see the end product to get the full effect, but each piece really is a beautiful specimen.

Beginning in 2005 we introduced a new pricing structure where a percentage of the money from each print sold is donated to a charity chosen by the artist. This raises the print price slightly, but now the artist, as well as their favorite charity, benefit from each piece sold. “

TINY SHOWCASE BLOG AND MAILING LLIST

INEZ STORER - ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS

2010-05-14T10:22:00.000-05:00

"We are all like blotters. I am a blotter, absorbing all the different aspects of what I experience. Painting is evolutionary, and a grand experience." Inez Storer

I came across Inez's work at the Grover Thurston gallery in Seattle during one of our visits to our in-laws. They currently have a show of her work going on now and must do a show of her work at least every year or two. Inez Storer has been painting for over 50 years and is a remarkable woman as as well as a wonderful painter and one of my personal favorites.

A must read to know who Inez Storer is: Interview with Inez Storer

Also her life is fascinating - she married a Prince - a real one!

Doubly Creative - Inez Storer and Andrew Romanoff are married to the arts

By Patricia Lynn Henley

Their differences and similarities can be seen in the work. A highly trained artist who taught for years at the college level, she works with oil paint and collage on canvas or wood, blending found images and words with layers of meaning and insight in a style termed magical realism. Her artwork explores themes and ideas through rich colors and deceptively simplistic painted images and text.

He's a prince—the great nephew of the last czar of Russia—who's worked as a sailor, farmer, carpenter, timekeeper, jewelry maker and more. With no formal artistic training, his work has a naive spark that springs to life in his chosen media, Shrinky-Dinks, the plastic children's craft material that reduces after being baked. His hand-lettered titles become part of his artwork. A series depicting moments in his highly unusual life story are featured in his recent book, The Boy Who Would Be Tsar.

Below is the small work of Inez Storer's we bought about 5 years ago. It is one of my favorites and makes me smile whenever I look at it.

"This voyage offers a glorious respite from the turmoil of modern existence. This voyage also holds for you pleasant days of health-giving rest and relaxation">

Biography:

Inez Storer was born in 1933 in Santa Monica, California.

She studied at the Art Center in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, and the San Francisco College for Women, ultimately receiving her B.A. from Dominican University in San Rafael, California (1970). She received her M.A. from San Francisco State University (1971).

Storer's work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions consistently thorough the United States at institutions such as the Reno Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Missoula Museum of Art, Montana, and The National Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country.

Storer has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute (1981 - 1999), Sonoma State University (1976 - 1988), San Francisco State University (1970 - 1973), and the College of Marin (1968 - 1979). She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999, and has worked twice as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome (1997, 1996). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California, the Lannan Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University. Storer lives in Inverness, California and maintains a studio in Point Reyes Station, California.

Artist Statement:

“My work usually has an aspect of implied history, both through the use of the figure as well as objects that are a part of my "home" collections. The figures have a tendency to be slightly off balance, or passing from one reality to another. The absurd is of great interest, usually through the use of unconscious motivations. The figures can fill the landscape, either in a psychic way or in ways that are above gravity-pulled orientations. In using an imagined format of the surreal, I am able to work a more unreal world of fantasy. It does always seem to fantasy to me. There is oftentimes an attempt at an unrealized form of danger, close, in fact, to the real world...an emotional, sometimes physical precariousness. It seems to be a way of seeking clarity and identity through a parallel of sense of isolation. After all, I work alone in my studio almost every day.

I usually start my work by marking the surface of the painting, adding more and more, then peeling away the surface to the first marks. It seems a metaphor of one's own life, as the future becomes enmeshed with the past.

Most of the time I enter my studio with an agenda, but then something happens, and I let the painting take me on its own journey. To be surprised while painting is the real experience, the reason to keep on doing the work. I have objects, bits and pieces, images cut from a myriad of sources and whatever I can collect that inform my work, or sometimes I actually attach materials of some kind to the surface of the painting. It is a way of going shopping every time I am in the studio. And artists love to shop in whatever form that activity can take.

We are all like blotters. I am a blotter, absorbing all the different aspects of what I experience. Painting is evolutionary, and a grand experience.”

Inez Storer
Inverness, California

Website

For additional information, please contact the artist at inezs@horizoncable.com

Represented By:

Jack Fischer Gallery Gallery Website

Sue Greenwood Fine Art Gallery Website

Grover/Thurston Gallery Galleru Website

Thomas Paul Fine Art Gallery Website

Anne Reed Gallery Gallery Website

Beppu Wiarda Gallery Gallery Website

AFFORDABLE ART: WOZOFOTO - PHOTO OF THE DAY $10 PLUS SHIPPING

2010-05-13T05:56:00.006-05:00

What is Wozofoto?

Wozofoto provides fine art photography at unbeatable prices. Every day a new photograph from a different photographer is posted and everyday it’s the same price: $10. Our goal is to bring you amazing photography that you’d be proud to have on your wall, at a price you can’t resist. The photo of the day will change at midnight CST.

Do you have other photos for sale?

Many of the previous daily deal photos are available on the More Deals page. The price does go up, but you’re still getting an unbelievable deal on great art.

What are my printing options?

Daily deal photographs are available in 5×7, 8×10 or 8×12 for $10. Poster prints are also available and are typically available in 11×14 ($15), 16×20 ($25), and 16×24 ($25). All photos come in matte finish.

Are the photographs printed on quality paper?

Glad you asked! We print every photo in professional photo labs on archival quality paper and ink. Wozofoto prints will last several decades before any noticeable fading occurs. Unlike ink-jet printing, our process is similar to how traditional film is processed, meaning the digital images are transferred to actual photographic paper and will last a very long time.

How much is shipping?

For a 5×7: $1.99, for an 8×10 or 8×12: $2.99, for a 11×14: $3.99 and $4.99 for the others. Pretty reasonable, no? Your photos are guaranteed to reach you in perfect condition. We use strong, rigid, coated packaging to protect your photos during shipment. Also, all photos are placed in wallets or sleeves as added protection from any scratches during shipment.

How soon will I get my photograph?

We use multiple photo labs located in the USA to ensure fast delivery no matter where you are. Photos take a couple days to print and you will receive a shipping confirmation once they are on their way. In total, it will only take about a week to get your photo, give or take a day or two.

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We’d love to see your work! The photographer gets a large share of each and every photograph sold on Wozofoto. Contact us at wozo@wozofoto.com and please include a link where we can see your work.

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ARTIST OF THE DAY: TIMOTHY VERMEULEN

2010-05-12T09:55:00.001-05:00

I stumbled across Timothy's work through another artist's link on their website and was blown away by his work. We learned we both grew up in Paterson NJ and lived in Washington DC although not at the same time. He also does bulldog rescue. I believe Timothy is an artist to watch and his work is wonderful. Website

These are 2 paintings from a series of 14 from "Moby Dick".

His work Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago is available through

Top Image:
Moby Dick: Queequeg's Fast
Oil on panel
17.5" x 13.5"
2010

Bottom Image:
Moby Dick:Standing The Mast-Head
Oil on panel
17.5" x 13.5"
2010

Biography and Artist Statement:

"My works are small, figurative, autobiographical narratives. The narratives, while formed through self-portraiture, are often based on established stories or series from literary sources (e.g. Dante’s Inferno, Homer’s Odyssey, The 7 Deadly Sins). The sources are put into a contemporary context, and they refer to issues that may be personal, social, political, and/or religious. The dramas symbolize internal states, social conflicts, and past traumas. While the settings are often familiar, there are unsettling, disquieting circumstances that speak to the mysterious and contradictory nature of existence. Objects, settings, and human interactions carry symbols of the subconscious and collective memory."

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010
College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL (scheduled November)
Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
2006
Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Mount Saint Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD
2004
Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
2003
Signal 66 Gallery, Washington DC
2002
Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
2001
Mount Saint Mary’s University, Emmistburg, MD
Signal 66 Gallery, Washington, DC
Catholic University, Washington, DC
Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
“Contemporary American & Italian Artists on Paper,” - traveling show: Laporte, IN; Goshen, IN; Milan, Italy; Rome, Italy)
2009
“Gone to the Dogs,” Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“UpScale/DownSize,” Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2008
“Mythonomy,” The Spurious Fugitive, South Bend, IN
“Masks,” Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
2007
“The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son,” Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY
Bridge Art Fair, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
“Post-Mortem: & Away We Go,” Signal 66 Gallery, Washington, DC
“Articulating the Intangible,” Mclean Project for the Arts, Mclean, VA
2003
“Through a Glass Darkly,” First Presbyterian Church Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN
2002
“Wish You Were Here,” Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
“Small Packages III,” Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Area Artists,” The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
2000
“Small Packages,” Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Shake the Coat,” North Park University, Chicago, IL
“New Talent,” Signal 66 Gallery, Washington DC
“Summer Show of Gallery Artists”, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago

EDUCATION
1986         M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1982         B.A., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

BIBILIOGRAPHY

Brusic, Robert M. And Grace Will Lead Me Home, Lutheran University Press, 2007
Philbin, Gail. “Artist Targets Man’s Internal Struggle,” The Grand Rapids Press, September 19, 2004.
O’Sullivan, Michael. “A Close Look Into a Broken Mirror,” Washington Post, January 31, 2003
Brunneti, John. “The Man-made Wildernesses of Tim Vermeulen”, Catalogue essay for exhibition at Wood Street Gallery, September 2002.
Dawson, Jessica. “Vermeulen and Bolt at Signal 66,” The Washington Post, April 19, 2001.
O’Sullivan, Michael. “New Talent at Signal 66,” Washington Post, August 11, 2000
Crothers, Beck. “Solo Exhibition Previews,” Crothers Quarterly, Winter 2001, Volume 2, No. 4.
Bakker, Conrad. “The Conviction of Sight,” The Paper, October 22-28, 1998.
Camper, Fred. “Slick and Twisted,” Chicago Reader, Volume 25 (33), May 24, 1996
Nesvacil, Stephan. “Storytellers,” Free Fest Monthly, October, 1994.
Argy, Andy. “Fresh Produce,” The New Art Examiner, Volume 14, No. 4.
Bakker, John. “Emblems of Pain and Grace,” The Banner, December 18, 1989.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Old Kent Bank, Grand Rapids, MI
Curt Conklin, Chicago, IL
Irving Stenn, Chicago, IL
Timothy VanLaar, Champaign, IL
Stephen Cohen, Los Angeles, CA
Dan Fegan, Los Angeles, CA
Warren Weisberg, Evanston, IL
Dr. Milton Robin, Evanston, IL
Robert A. Lewis, Naples, FL
Andre Stone, Chicago, IL
Doug Stock, Chicago, IL
Michael McVickar/Brian Westphal, Chicago, IL
Nick Cave, Chicago, IL
Mary O’Shaughnessy, Chicago, IL
Maria Sakamoto, Potomac, MD
Mark Jenkins, Chicago, IL
Henry Vogel, Chicago, IL
David Zimmerman, Covert, MI
Lane Winter Vanderslice, Chicago, IL
Howard A. Tullman, Evanston, IL
Michael Delgass, New Haven, CT
Bob Blau, Chicago, IL
John Bakker, Chicago, IL
John Hrehov, Fort Wayne IN
Keith England, Chicago, IL
Gregorio Pakorny, Potomac, MD
Alex Margolies, New York, NY
Jenny Weisberg, Brooklyn, NY
Brett Harper, Lebanon, OH
Marc Ham, Los Angeles, CA
Carolyn Rogers, Chicago, IL
G.E. Colpitts, Elgin, IL
Chantal Habermam, Chicago, IL
Peggy Asseo, Evanston, IL
David Mandell, Portland, OR
Howard Eglit, Highland Park, IL
Curt Conklin, Chicago, IL
Oliver Sears, Dublin, Ireland
Victor Friedman, Chicago, IL
David Garrett, Portland, OR
Steve Paddock, Indianapolis, IN
Stephen Johnson, Sadorus, IL
Donald Herman, Chicago, IL
James Bristol, Santa Fe, NM

AFFORDABLE ART: LAY FLAT 02: META - GET ONE BEFORE THIS LE SELLS OUT LIKE ISSUE 01!

2010-05-11T09:15:00.000-05:00

Grab one before this issue sells out and becomes a collectors item like the first one did!

Lay Flat 02: Meta
104 pages, perfect bound
7.75 x 10 in. / 19.7 x 25.4 cm.
ISSN 1948-2876
ISBN 978-0-9842973-1-3
Published February 2010
Edition of 2,000

$30 + S&H | Now available!

Edited by Shane Lavalette and Guest Editor Michael Bühler-Rose.

Lay Flat 02: Meta brings together a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself.

Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Stephen Gill, Daniel Gordon, David Haxton, Matt Keegan, Elad Lassry, Katja Mater, Laurel Nakadate, Lisa Oppenheim, Torbjørn Rødland, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Useful Photography, Charlie White, Ann Woo and Mark Wyse are accompanied by the textual contributions of Adam Bell (Co-editor, The Education of a Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Publisher/Editor, Aperture Foundation), Alex Klein (Editor, Words Without Pictures), artists Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Arthur Ou, as well a conversation between Lyle Rexer (Author, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography) and James Welling, an artist who is seminal to this dialogue.

SOLD OUT: Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light (this is now a collector's item & check eBay for what some copies of this issue have sold for).

Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light

40 pages, saddle stitched + 20 unbound photographs
5.5 x 7.5 in. / 14 x 19 cm.
ISSN 1948-2876
ISBN 978-0-9842973-0-6
Published February 2009
Edition of 1,000

Edited by Shane Lavalette and Guest Editor Karly Wildenhaus.

Included in Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light are essays by Tim Davis, Darius Himes, Cara Phillips and Eric William Carroll, an interview with Mike Mandel by Shane Lavalette and a poem by Jason Fulford, all accompanied by 20 unbound photographs from a selection of international photographers: Andreas Weinand, Anne Lass, Coley Brown, Debora Mittelstaedt, Ed Panar, Estelle Hanania, Gustav Almestål, Hiroyo Kaneko, Kamden Vencill, Mark McKnight, Michel Campeau, Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard, Nicola Kast, Nicholas Haggard, Shawn Records, Raimond Wouda, Richard Barnes, Thobias Fäldt, Whitney Hubbs and Yann Orhan.

AFFORDABLE ART: ISA LESHKO 1st EDITION SIGNED EXHIBITION CATALOG & LIMITED EDITION PRINT

2010-05-06T09:29:00.001-05:00

Isa Leshko’s Thrills & Chills exhibition catalog and a limited edition archival pigment print of "The Wave.

Great review of her recent show at the Griffin Museum in the Boston Globe

Buy the book or print or both here!

ISBN: 978-0-615-35421-7

First Edition: 250 copies, each signed & numbered

Pages: 28, with 19 images and accompanying text

Size: 6 x 6 inches

Publisher: Exit 12 Press, an Isa Leshko Project

"The Wave" Print Specs

Catalog only: $19 plus S&H

Print Only: $50 plus S&H

Catalog & Print: $60 plus S&H

ARTIST OF THE DAY: ERIN HINZ

2010-05-06T08:59:00.000-05:00

Top:
Reeking of Bergamot (Detail 2)

2010

Graphite on Paper

44 x 30 inches

2nd from top:

We are not in a Dream Girls (Detail 4)

2010

Graphite on Paper

7 x 4 feet

Erin HInz Website

Artist Statement

My work explores an imagined world removed from the confines of reality. It is a vision of paradise—a place not laden with the burdens of the past—filled with harmony. This imagined utopia is in some ways a visual manifestation of the collective unconscious. Often a female figure is caught in a moment of play or rest on top of a hybrid form comprised of flora and fauna; the world, as it exists, for her. It is a place where she is completely free. Her lush surroundings serve as a metaphor for her body, a place for pleasure and wonder. Inspired by Rococo’s erotic content, the world is meant to evoke a light-hearted, celebratory sense of delight.

The drawings are allegories, rather than narratives, which seek to explore abstract notions of ‘beauty’, ‘eroticism’, and ‘freedom’. Influenced by kitsch, this world is densely interwoven with my own sensations, memories, and ideas. The intricately worked areas invite the viewer to explore the oddities drawn from my mind, becoming a type of surrealist hidden picture. I enjoy the technical challenge of relying on minimalist shades of gray while striving to create a lush Rococo inspired environment. Its overblown decorative motifs and erotic content inform each other and depend on each other to make meaning. My work, particularly its luscious style, expresses a similar connection between eroticism and freedom.

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Graduate Art Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL
2009 Autumn Nudes, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Charleston, IL
2009 Senior Painting Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2009 BFA Exhibition, H & R Block Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2008 End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2008 MICA in New York: Summer Intensive Exhibition, New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Annual Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2008 Miniatures Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO
2008 End of Semester Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2007 Juried Art Student Exhibition, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009-2010 Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Graduate Assistant, Charleston, IL
2009 Rose Brooks Center, Muralist, Kansas City, MO
2008- 2009 Gary Noland, Studio Assistant, Kansas City, MO
2008-2009 Jannes Library, Kansas City Art Institute, Library Assistant,, Kansas City, MO
2008 Byron Cohen Gallery, Gallery Intern, Kansas City, MO
2008 Grand Arts, Assisted in preservation of Lester Goldman’s Life Work, Kansas City, MO
2007-2008 Academic Student Resource Center, Kansas City Art Institute, Tutor and Note-taker, Kansas City, MO

AWARDS AND HONORS
2009-2010 Graduate Assistantship, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2008 Merit Scholarship for New York: Summer Intensive, Mayland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007-2009 Competitive Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute. Kansas City, MO
2007-2009 Dean’s List, Kansas City Art Institute. Kansas City, MO
2007 Purchase Award, Brookhaven School for the Arts, Farmer’s Branch, TX

EDUCATION
2010 MA in Art, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2009 Paris Study Abroad Program, Kansas City Art Institute, Paris, France
2009 BFA in Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2008 New York Studio Summer Intensive, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007 Brookhaven School for the Arts, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, TX

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Classic Construction, Brookhaven College Permanent Collection, Farmers Branch, TX

AFFORDABLE ART: RAYMOND MEEKS - PHOTOGRAPHER - LATEST BOOK/JOURNAL: "amwell | continuum"

2010-05-05T10:16:00.000-05:00

This is wonderful! "Pay What You Want" price structure starting at $24!

"amwell | continuum"
spring   twenty-ten
dumbsaint editions
volume one

12 x 9 inches "pay-what-you-want" multiple price structure
16 pages {14 b/w, 2 color reproductions}
laser prints on 50 lb acid-free sketch
hand bound.
text by ray meeks

Raymond Meeks Website

“amwel | continuum” is an artist book/journal which advances the narrative of my most recent artist broadside, “carousel”, while continuing to explore the construct of memory and resolve loss. it’s only now in the completion of this book, that I recognize a sustained and underlying thread of melancholy, similar to a passing glance in the mirror on your way out the door that reflects the unseemly or the shock of hearing your voice in a recording. for me, there are delicate moments of joy represented throughout this book, as well as a kind measure of hope. there are multiple pairings observed in the layout, perhaps to suggest a lingering in the landscape and to parallel my personal impulse to do so.

in addition, I’ve been compelled to experience and express time beyond chronological sequencing, the absence of time in the horizontal dimension of past and future.
in the making of books, I’m drawn to the merging of contemporary materials and media with less common and impermanent results.

Nazraeli publisher and friend Chris Pichler has generously offered a broad format laser printer (weighing-in at a hulking 150 lbs.) I suspect the machine lacks an “energy-star rating” and have found that by shutting down the lights and music and turning down the heat, I can successfully print books without short circuiting the power. obviously, this limits my printing operation to daylight hours.

however, the printer allows for fine reproductions where toner sits on top of cotton fiber paper and is “fused” creating a wonderful merging of mediums. While my recent publishing efforts may have something to do with deconstructing the “art book” and shifting focus from the beautiful object to honoring content and subject, I am, as many, drawn to tactile experience and a clear expression of the work in book form; using inexpensive materials and common tools while subtracting nothing of quality or value from the piece.

“amwell | continuum” is being offered as a “pay what you want” with five levels of price structuring.

the book alone starts at $24 or $50, depending on the level you wish to contribute, find value in the work and wish to contribute to future projects;

$66 (the year my wife was born) for the book and a signed/editioned color print;

$92 (the year my son was born) will additionally include a signed/editioned silver gelatin print.

The fifth level (patron, $125) includes book/two prints and is for those who generously wish to provide additional support to future projects.

purchases of the book and prints can be made securely through my website and the use of paypal or by contacting me by email or phone. Please choose the “purchase options” tab in the “amwell | continuum” gallery and select the price that suits you.

finally, this new book format serves as a model for a bi-monthly journal which I hope to begin work on immediately. the journal will be published in similar “zine” fashion with conscious attention to subject, content and narrative and will feature collaborations between myself and distinguished contemporary artists. I hope to create a model and mode of interacting, photographing and recording which removes my “self” in the service of a more universal genius or creative source. perhaps, a lofty mission and one that will most certainly evolve, but an undertaking charged with spirited enthusiasm.

Recent Group and Solo Exhibitions
Galerie Camera Obscura   "C'est l"ete" Summer 2009
AIPAD Photography Show, New York 2009
Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris   Feb, 2009
Photo L.A. January 2009

Candace Dwan   topsoil   New York 2008

Art Basel Miami   2007
PDX Contemporary Portland, OR   2007
Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris    2007
Photo-eye Gallery New Mexico    an Offering 2007
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston   Recent Acquisitions
Photo L.A. 2007 Los Angeles 2007
Fotofest, Houston        2006
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta Sound of Summer Running    2005
Bassetti Fine Art, New Orleans Sound of Summer Running    2004
White Room Gallery, Los Angeles   The Antiquarian Avant-garde        2004
Staley-Wise Gallery, New York    The Fire Within    2003
Candace Dwan, New York 2003

Collections
Numerous private and public collections including the George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Howard Stein collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Bibliotheque Nationale, France.

COLLECTING ART BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS, ZINES, FAIRS & SMALL EDITIONS

2010-05-05T09:48:00.000-05:00

A great and relatively inexpensive way to start collecting and learning about art in all media is through books, publications, blogs, zines and small editions.

I recently read about someone wildly famous in the art world (sorry name escapes me) who now has a world-class collection who said he started out by collecting used art books. Of which, he has a world class collection of these as well - which too have escalated in value.

A book-filled home is as important as an art-filled home and you can spend hours at Half-Price Books or the equivalent type used book store where you live or by reading art magazines at Barnes and Noble or thousands of blogs or artist websites online.

You can start collecting by taking baby steps and making small, inexpensive but important purchases. Look to photo zines, attending local art fairs and community art shows, support galleries who support and show emerging artists, purchase artist self-published editions, attend events and benefits where donated work is being sold at very reasonable prices by established artists who believe in the cause, and through affordable online art sites like 20x200 and Tiny Showcase.

I realize this is very elementary and basic but this is directed toward the people who read this who know who they are - who love art but are afraid to go to a gallery (go to openings when they are crowded and you won't feel intimidated not that you should whenever you go), think they can't afford to buy art (you'd be surprised what wonderful art you can find for under $50 - even under $25 - locally and online), meet artists, go to museums, read blogs, attend free seminars and don't be afraid to ask questions.

Along with "The Artist of the Day" feature, I am going to start posting about wonderful affordable art under $100 to start building a collection. Most of it can be bought online so you can even remain anonymous if you like. The most important piece of advice I can give you is to buy what you love and enjoy it.

Artist of the Day: MIKE SALCIDO

2010-05-05T08:52:00.000-05:00

Find Your FREEdom

Mixed Media - enamel, acrylic, oil pastel, sand, paper and plastic on canvas

36" x 48"

Mike Salcido was born in Roswell, New Mexico. From an early age he showed an interest in and a talent for a variety of art forms, including drawing, painting, music, and acting.

He has traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. His visits to Mexico City have been particularly meaningful, because there he was able to experience firsthand the strange power of the life and work of one of his major inspirations, Frida Kahlo. Other influences include Canadians Diane Desmarais and Dominic Besner and American Jay Miller.

While still primarily a painter, Mike has recently begun experimenting with photography. Using an Iphone camera, he creates haunting, disorienting, yet beautiful images of a world full of color and constantly in motion. Whether painting or taking pictures, though, Mike's goal remains the same: to trigger in the viewer a unique emotion that simultaneously snaps him out of his ordinary life and puts him into contact with the reciprocal energy of the world.

Mike's Website

ARTIST OF THE DAY: CARRIS ADAMS

2010-05-03T09:43:00.000-05:00

Belts and Roses. Wood, Leather, Synthetic Roses. 16"x 5"x 24"

Bookshelves and Friends. Oil on Canvas. 36"x 48"

Transporting Memories. Digital Print. 8.5'' x 11"

Carris Adams is a wonderful local emerging Dallas artist as well as a student at Brookhaven College. Carris can be reached at carrissheri@yahoo.com.

Artist Statement

My work focuses on my personal experiences ranging from childhood to present. As a child, my family was constantly relocating. In doing so, my siblings and I gained experience in areas of life earlier than desired. Only recently have I begun to analyze these experiences and try to gain an understanding of how they have molded me as a person today. With each move there were new problems, new people being introduced into our lives and new surroundings in which we had to adjust. I am recreating memories through painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking that will not only tell a story but create a personal map for myself. This series will also allow the viewer to create their own story and possibly think about their lives in conjunction with the work.

Group Shows

2010 Visions in Black Gallery Show (Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage)

2010 Juried Student Art Exhibition at Brookhaven College School of Arts, Farmers Branch TX

2009 Juried Student Art Exhibition at Brookhaven College School of Arts, Farmers Branch TX

2008 Celebrating 100 years Richard Wright Civil Rights Museum, Memphis TN

2008 Black History Exhibit at North Texas College, Gainesville TX

2007 Group Show at Visions in Black Gallery, Dallas TX

2007 “Artistically Speaking: Women and Innovation” Group Show at The University of North Texas, Denton TX

MOMENT IN TIME - NY TIMES LENS BLOG - 5/2/10

2010-05-02T12:56:00.002-05:00

Did you snap a photo this morning for the NY Times Moment In Time"?

My Treasures: Michael (husband), Einstein (our 10-year old big miniature poodle) and Coco (our 4 year old puppy mill rescue Coton du Tulear - typical Sunday morning at 10AM. Michael back in bed doing the NY Times Crossword Puzzle. Photograph over the bed by Dorinth Doherty and painting on far right wall by Heather Gorham - both wonderful Dallas artists.

Here's the skinny: Moment In Time FAQ's

After you take your photo, please send it as soon as possible to submit.nytimes.com/moment

Artist of the Day: Leeanna Morris - Photography, Printmaking & Ceramics

2010-04-28T00:37:00.002-05:00

"I enjoy the balance between the chance of the process and my own hand in the creation of my work. I feel my work is a kind of partnership between artist and process. We both have ideas of what will be the final out come but in the end it is collaboration. The final product is a unique and beautiful thing neither of us could have conceived on our own."

Leeanna Morris

Images - left to right:

Slip of the Mind, Cyanotype on paper sacks, dimensions vary

A Store of Things Remembered, cyanotype on white stoneware, 3ft x 7ft

Untitled Study,sludge drawing, blue sludge on paper, 6in x 9in

Leanna Morris Website

Group Exhibitions

2010

SAA Annual Juried Show, Doolin Gallery, SMU, Dallas, Texas, Jeffery Grove juror

Art for Darfur, Owens Fine Art Center, SMU, Dallas, Texas

Spring Exhibition, Doolin and Pathway Galleries, SMU, Dallas, Texas, Co-curator

Student Art Association Partnership with UPPD, University Park Police Station, Dallas, Texas

Experiencing Perspective, Diamler Financial Services, Fort Worth, Texas

2009

Student Art Association Partnership with UPPD, University Park Police Station, Dallas, TexasBFA Qualifying Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, SMU, Dallas, Texas Hughes-Trigg Student Art Contest, Hughes-Trigg Commons, SMU, Dallas, Texas Art for Darfur, Owen Fine Arts Center, SMU, Dallas, Texas Junior Exhibition, Doolin Gallery, SMU, Dallas, Texas Meadows at the Meyerson, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas 

2008

Art in the Landscape, Fort Burgwin, SMU in Taos, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico Hughes-Trigg Student Art Contest, Hughes-Trigg Commons SMU, Dallas, Texas

2007

Art in the Landscape, Fort Burgwin, SMU in Taos, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico

2006

Foundations Metal Forms, Doolin Gallery SMU, Dallas, Texas Foundations Large Drawings, Doolin Gallery SMU, Dallas, Texas

Education

BFA, Studio Art, Photography, Minor Art History, Southern Methodist University

Post Bachelorate Studies in Ceramics, Special Student, SMU, Dallas, Texas

Summer Business Institute, SMU Cox School of Business, Executive Education

Grants, Awards and Honors

2009 - Student Marshal for the Division of Art, SMU, Steven D. Wilder Travel Award, SMU Zelle Grant, SMU

2008 - Meadows Exploration Award, SMU, Member of Golden Key Honor Society

Artist of the Day: Russ Sharek and The Morpheus Comoany

2010-04-25T11:32:00.002-05:00

Russ Sharek is best known for his work in fine jewelry under his studio's name, The
Morpheus Company. He creates wearable sculptures which can be seen online at The Morpheus Company

While on his website, please take a look at his relatively new gallery of: Illustrations

About five years ago, Russ started developing a collection of giclee-printed illustrations using entirely free open-sourced software. Changing his creative media has been an interesting experiment and so far the response to the work has been very positive.

And, if his multimedia artisan status isn't weird enough, in his own words, he is also a circus freak. He perform regularly as a contact juggler, both on his own, and with a Dallas circus troupe called Creative Motion. You can find them on Facebook at Creative Motion and Russ is currently working on putting together a demo reel of my skills.

I am late in posting this but if you are out and about today (Sunday, 4/25), you can catch Russ and his work at the Bath House Cultural Center's Spring Art Mart today until 6PM .

2010 Spring Art Mart

The Bath House Cultural Center
521 E Lawther Drive
Dallas, TX 75218

I also really like Russ's first LE giclee (sold out) which was created in conjunction with a Valentine's Day art event benefiting the Genesis Women's Shelter called "the queen's cup runs happily dry"

Russ can work with you on jewelry commissions and can reach him via his website or by email at morpheus@dare2dream.com

Photographer Kenda North

2010-04-18T13:06:00.000-05:00

Ran into one of our favorite photographers Kenda North yesterday while we were out and about for the DADA Gallery Walk.

In addition to being an amazing photographer, Kenda has been a Professor in Photography at the University of Texas, Arlington since 1989 and you can tell when you see her with her students that she is a very nurturing teacher.

They had a truck parked on Dragon Street near PDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) most of the day filled with work by her students all of which was wonderful and diverse.

What a wonderful "pop-up" gallery idea.

You can see more of Kenda's work at her website.

She is represented in Dallas by Craighead Green Gallery.

She also has two wonderful photography books for sale on Blurb.com

Interview with Shreveport artist Ellen Soffer

2010-04-18T00:58:00.000-05:00

Neoteric Art.com interviewed Shreveport artist Ellen Soffer who I know and whose work I like. I thought I would share it with you. More of Ellen's work can be seen at her website.

Neoteric Art: Give us some history on yourself.

Ellen Soffer: I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. My father was an untrained artist on the side. My first memory of art making was of watching my father make collages out of fabric sample books. As a child I went to the Philadelphia Art Museum with my family and during school trips. I was interested in art and did drawings on my own.

During high school I started taking photographs and was involved with photography as my main medium. This continued during a summer class at Tyler, and as a freshman at Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio. After two semesters at Antioch I transferred to Philadelphia College of Art and started there as a photography major. Later after painting on my photographs, doing mixed media in the fiber and painting departments, I started concentrating on painting on canvas and paper.

The summer after I graduated from PCA I went to Skowhegan, and then the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA program. I completed my graduate work at SAIC in painting and then was a resident artist at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL. I moved back to Philadelphia and worked at different jobs including Utrecht and Media Makers (a medical graphics firm.) I joined the co-op gallery Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art and eventually had 3 solo shows there and participated in various group shows in the gallery and in other regional locations. I met my future husband at this time and moved to Shreveport, LA where he was working.

When I first moved to Shreveport I had a studio at AT-THE-LOFT, an artist studio building with an exhibition space. It was a building in downtown Shreveport that had been a dental office in the 1920’s. We had changing exhibitions and visiting critic programs, where we would bring in critics from the larger art world to give a lecture and view work. I worked there until my children were born and then moved my studio to a garage attached to my house.

I moved to a different studio two years ago which is unheated and behind my house but I still have a room in my house where I work when weather conditions prevent me from working in my unheated studio.

NA: You live and work in Louisiana. Do your surroundings influence your work?

ES: I am not sure, maybe the light and the trees. I don’t think you can see that so much in my work but that is what interests me visually in this environment.

My work is about an internal vision, emotions, memories that get processed on a subconscious level and than find a life in the forms and colors that I use. Sometimes I am so close to what I am doing that it does take a while for me to see what was an obvious influence. Living in Louisiana has an influence because I think that where you live has to affect your painting. Living here as an adult I feel more connected to the people in my life than the place. When I was growing up in Philadelphia I really did feel connected to the place, the buildings, people, the rhythm of life in that city. When I go back to Philadelphia now I notice the light quality is different. That is something that I would not have noticed if I had stayed there.

NA: Discuss your work/thought process when starting a new piece.

ES: I have about 10 paintings going at once. Usually I am working on about 5 paintings in my garage studio and 5 in the studio in the house. I mostly work with oil and acrylic, having painting going in both media. I also work on paper in gouache, acrylic, ink, pencil, watercolor and oil pastels. I have a few ways that I may block out a painting when I start. I sometimes start a painting with a loose grid, circles and irregular shapes. Then I start working with and cover over my initial drawing on the surface. If I feel the need to explore something more that I need to wipe out of a current painting I may make a brief drawing of it on a new canvas so I feel I can work on that idea later. Sometimes I use a ruler and a circular lid for the painting that have geometric patterns. I have not shown these as much as my paintings that have more irregular shapes. I have worked on the more geometric paintings on and off for about 18 years but most of the time I am focused on the irregular forms and circles.

NA: Half the struggle is creating the work while the other half is getting shown. What are some of the things you do to get our work out?

ES: I have been sending out postcards that I have made up for a few of the shows that I am in each year. I have also started using social media; Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin to reach out to a larger art audience. I send out packets to galleries and other exhibition spaces. I also send out email announcements. I send updates to art consultants and gallery dealers who have shown or sold my work. It is a challenge when you live in an area isolated from a large art community. Shreveport is 350 mile from New Orleans, 250 miles from Houston, and 190 miles from Dallas. I drive a lot to see art and to show my work.

NA: Who are some of your favorite artists…famous and local?

ES: I really like Picasso and have since I started painting, I also like Matisse, Cezanne, Mondrian, Leger, Morandi, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Bonnard, Rothko, Pollack, Newman and Gicometti. Also Brice Marden, Jim Nutt, Joan Mitchell, Richard Pousette-Dart, Eva Hesse, and Elizabeth Murry. Whenever I write these lists I forget someone I really like.

When I first moved to Shreveport I became aware of the work of Lucille Reed and Clyde Connell. Clyde was an older woman when I moved here and had a national reputation. She showed her work at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and her work can be seen on their website http://www.arthurrogergallery.com. <http://www.arthurrogergallery.com> Lucille Reed was an artist that maintained a studio at AT-THE-LOFT. (I also like the work of Robert Gordy and Elmore Morgan Jr. who along with Clyde are no longer living but are also on the Arthur Roger website.) Two artists that I like from south Louisiana are Luis Cruz Azaceta http://www.luiscruzazaceta.net and Frances X. Pavy http://www.pavy.com. <http://www.pavy.com>

Some Shreveport artists that I like are Bill Gingles, http://www.billgingles.net/ <http://www.billgingles.net> Robert Trudeau, http://www.trudeauart.blogspot.com/ <http://www.trudeauart.blogspot.com> and Talbot Hopkins, http://www.talbothopkinsart.blogspot.com. <http://www.talbothopkinsart.blogspot.com>

Artist of the Day: Izabela Wojcik - Sculpture, Paintings, Ornamental Ironwork Design And More

2010-04-17T20:45:00.003-05:00

"Custom solid bronze gargoyle floor tiles. These floor tiles are sculpted to be almost flat, so that no one trips on the relief as they walk around the room; the applied patina makes them look very 3D. I sculpted them for a local designer."

Izabela Wojcik Website

Izabela Wojcik, a Polish-American artist, is a renaissance woman who learned to express herself, as well as the needs of others, through works of art cultivated by a formal, as well as a self-taught artistic background. She is a fine arts visual artist, as well as a custom light fixture and ornamental metalwork designer. Izabela specializes and is accomplished in various mediums including artistic bronze, ornamental metalwork design, clay, oils, resin and acrylics.

Izabela was born in Stargard, Poland. Subsequently she moved to Greece where she savored the art and culture for two glorious years before moving to the United States, where she now resides. Izabela’s father, among other things, was a fantastic photo-realism artist and a musician. She was raised to be a strong and independent woman and to appreciate creativity over compliance. Some people become artists, Izabela was born an artist. “I clearly remember my mother explaining how to create the illusion of a foot inside a shoe rather then just an “L” connected to the rest of the body. I was four and managed to produce a spectacular copy of my mother’s simple little drawing of a girl holding a kite; it was so exciting to a little girl, that feeling stuck in me. I never could figure out who I wanted to be in life; never thought of myself as an artist, I simply was and continue to be.”

In 2001 Izabela received a Degree in Liberal Arts, with emphasis on Visual Arts, and shortly after began an exciting journey working for a local designer in Dallas, Texas. There, she was retained to sculpt unique works of art, architectural accessories, and undertake historical restoration projects for high-end residences and commercial buildings.

In 2005 Izabela found her home at Potter Art Metal Studios; a highly acclaimed family-owned-and-operated metal fabrication studio in Dallas, Texas, producing custom designs for 90 years. There, she designs unique ornamental metalwork, as well as gas and electric fixtures which grace the finest high-end reidential and commercial buildings across the country. "I love working at Potter Art Metal; it's a place of high creativity and constant change. I meet new designers, builders, architects, and home owners; all creating beautiful spaces in their own styles. One day it's Art Nouveau, the next it's Mediterranean; I have a high appreciation for all and this creative environment is exactly what keeps things fresh and interesting for me. As Richard Potter always says: "We do Extreme Metalwork." I have to agree, after all, we design and build 'functional art' destined to become heirlooms of the future."

Working for Potter Art Metal Studios gives Izabela the ability to pick and choose the projects she wants to undertake at home. She creates sculptures, paintings, drawings, as well as the occasional glass-art. "Doing my own artwork is a completely different experience, unless I'm specifically commissioned for a project, I simply have no idea where a piece will take me, and it's not until after the piece is completed and I have had time to take it in that I can let the feeligns come to me and realize what has been put on canvas or molded in clay."

Through the knowledge she gained from experience and constant learning, Izabela has found that each new medium enlightens all which have come before. Izabela has had the priveledge of being exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art. Her drawings, paintings and metalwork creations have been published in magazines, web articles, and even schoolbooks for both teachers and students.

“Every true artist dips their brush deeply into their own soul, and I am no exception.”

May 8 , 2010: A Collaborative Effort between DISD, the Nasher Sculpture Center and La Reunion TX

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Save the date!

Students from six local Dallas schools experienced a tour of La Reunion TX - an artist residency in the making in a 35 acre urban forest engaged as outdoor studio and gallery space. They marveled art works made of found and natural materials in an outdoor setting.

Then after a trash pickup along the sides of the road and in and around the former dumping ground in West Dallas, the students headed to the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Under the guidance of the Nasher, students experienced work in that permanent collection of works made with found and natural materials.

Back in the classroom, students created works made of found objects at La Reunion TX. The students self selected three works from each class to be displayed at a reception at the Nasher on May 8.

Join in an afternoon of creativity of our city's youth in the downstairs gallery. Light refreshments will be served.

About: La Reunion TX is an artist residency in the making. We currently engage our 35 acre urban forest as an outdoor studio and gallery with future plans for temporary housing for artists all over the world. Be a part of this unprecedented program in North Texas. La Reunion website.

DADA SPRING GALLERY WALK - SATURDAY 4/16/10

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Everything you need to know about today’s DADA (Dallas Art Dealers Association) Spring Gallery Walk. Participating galleries, artist panels and after-party info. Call or check for times and pick up a map at any of the participating locations.

TURTLE CREEK BLVD/MARKET CENTER BLVD/DESIGN DISTRICT
1. American Fine Art
1611 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.749.7749
www.americanfineart.com
artsales@americanfineart.com
New works by Karen Lastre, D. Michael, and Elodie Holmes.

2. Artizen Fine Arts
1202 Dragon Street, Suite 105
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.979.2140
www.artizenfinearts.com
info@artizenfinearts.com

3. Banks Fine Art, LLC
1313 Slocum Street, Suite 103
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.352.1811
Fax 214.352.6360
www.banksfineart.com
bob@banksfineart.com
Banks Fine Art has moved and is celebrating its 30-year anniversary with an exhibition of 18th- and 19th-century American and European oils and mid-century modern masters as well as new works by Marty Ricks and Anne Womack.

4. Alan Barnes Fine Art, Inc.
1019 Slocum Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.749.7979
www.alanbarnesfineart.com
info@alanbarnesfineart.com
Picture This! Exhibition of works from the French Academic School 1900–1960.

5. Beaux Arts
1505 Hi Line Drive
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.741.5555
www.BeauxArtsArt.com
info@BeauxArtsArt.com
Exhibition of dramatic stone lithographs created by Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), who depicted the raw, everyday life of ordinary, hard-working Americans. In 1934
Time magazine featured Benton in “The U.S. Scene” as a new hero of American art, cementing Regionalism as a significant art movement.

6. Cameron Gallery
1414 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.747.1414
www.thecamerongallery.com
info@thecamerongallery.com
Exhibition of metal sculpture by Texan Nic Noblique.

7. Joel Cooner Gallery
1601 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.747.3603
www.joelcooner.com
joel.cooner.gallery@airmail.net

8. Craighead Green Gallery
1011 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.855.0779
www.craigheadgreen.com
craigheadgreen@aol.com
Three-person exhibition featuring Bill Fegan, Harry Ally and John Hathorn.

9. Dallas Contemporary
161 Glass Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.821.2522
www.dallascontemporary.org
info@dallascontemporary.org
James Gilbert: Warnings & Instructions

10. Galerie Zuger
1215 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.749.7713
www.galeriezugerdallas.com
info@galeriezugerdallas.com
Exhibition of works by Britten, who uses elements of nature to translate emotion into magical landscapes.

11. Jacques Lamy Gallery
1607 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.747.7611
www.jacqueslamy.com
info@jacqueslamy.com
Recent works by Lionel and Jacques Lamy.

12. Samuel Lynne Galleries
1105 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.965.9027
www.samuellynne.com
info@samuellynne.com
License to Steel: Worksby Michael Kalish
Sculptures of iconic personalities, classic Americana, and elegant roses created from Kalish’s signature medium, license plates and vintage tailgates.

13. Sun to Moon Gallery
1515 East Levee Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.745.1199
www.suntomoon.com
marilyn@suntomoon.com
Photographic Gold by Dan Burkholder. An exhibition of photographs made of finely crafted platinum/palladium over gold leaf prints. Artist demonstration 4 p.m. Jill Skupin Burkholder will demonstrate several methods of combining photography with beeswax.

14. Mary Tomás Studio Gallery
1080 Building at 1110 Dragon Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
214.727.5101
www.marytomas.com/studiogallery
mary@marytomas.com
Group show of artists including Mary Tomás, Roger Moore, Blanche Evans and Mallory Jarrell.

Uptown
15. Afterimage Gallery
The Quadrangle #141
2800 Routh Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.871.9140
www.afterimage.com
images@afterimagegallery.com
Terry Falke: Photographs

16. David Dike Fine Art
2613 Fairmount Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.720.4044
www.daviddikefineart.com
ddfa@swbell.net
Olin Travis: Views of Texas, Colorado and Arkansas

17. The 4th Wall Gallery
2925 Fairmount Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.740.9400
www.the4thwallgallery.net
mabook1@msn.com
Paintings and drawings by Edel Rodriguez and Chad Attie.

18. Galerie Kornye
2530 Fairmount Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.954.4475
www.kornye.com
art@kornye.com
The Antique Show
Exhibition of oil paintings, bronzes, furniture, and objets d’art of both European and American origin by Alfred DeBreanski, Edouard Cortez, Eugene Galien Lalou, Benjamin Leader, Robert Wood, William Leigh, Pierre Paul Leon Glaize, Robert Philipp, Richard Elmore, and more.

19. The Goss-Michael Foundation
2500 Cedar Springs Road
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.696.0555
www.gossmichaelfoundation.org
info@gossmichaelfoundation.org
Exhibition featuring the work of contemporary artist and teacher Michael Craig-Martin including works on canvas, new digital animated work, computer portraits of both Kenny Goss and George Michael, and a large wall drawing installation specifically designed and commissioned for the space.

20. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC )
3120 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75204
214.953.1212
www.the-mac.org
macmembership@the-mac.org
Ginger Geyer: The Porcelain Reformation
Kenneth Hale: Landscape into Art
Glazed porcelain forms with links to quotidian life and cut-up, digitized, and distorted images based in actual and illusionist collage. Each exhibition will have a catalogue with a critical essay by curator Dr. Richard Brettell. Installation design is by Gary Cunningham of Cunningham Architects.

21. Museum of Geometric and MADI Art
3109 Carlisle Street at Bowen
Dallas, Texas 75204
214.855.7802
www.geometricmadimuseum.org
dorothy@geometricmadimuseum.org
Shine On | Pamela Nelson
RE: Constructions | Heather Marcus
Pattern, texture, and color define the works included in the exhibition. Drawing inspiration from the glimmering mosaics of Italy or the fluidity of fabric, these two artists explore the softer side of geometry.

Downtown
22. H . Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery El Centro College
Closed for Spring Gallery Walk

Deep Ellum
23. Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak at Good Latimer
Dallas, Texas 75204
214.671.0045
www.dallasculture.org/LatinoCulturalCenter
hortencia.rubalcava@dallascityhall.com
7th Annual Hecho en Dallas
Reflecting the cultural and ideological inspiration of the Dallas art scene, this juried art exhibition features professional local artists.

24. Dahlia Woods Gallery
600 Cantegral Street
Dallas, Texas 75204
214.827.0924
www.dahliawoodsgallery.com
dahliawoods@hotmail.com
The List in Lights
3-D bas-relief sculpture illuminated by multi-colored LED lights by Dallas-based Chris Lattanzio.

Fair Park
25. South Dallas Cultural Center
3400 South Fitzhugh Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75210
214.939.2787
www.dallasculture.org/SD CulturalCenter
victoria.meek@dallascityhall.com
LA 19 (Daughters of God)
Works that fuse photography and fiber arts by Fort Worth artist Letitia Huckaby.

East Dallas
26. Bath House Cultural Center
521 East Lawther Drive
Dallas, Texas 75218
214.670.8749
www.bathhousecultural.com
enrique.fernandez@dallascityhall.com
Sweet Acrobatics
Exhibition by twelve Dallas artists that is an artistic study of motion and dynamics featuring works of art in a variety of media.
Space II: Accenting the Positive and Negative
Exhibition of steel and mixed media sculpture by Dallas artist T. Stone that explores the effects and interaction of spatial relationships.

Oak Cliff
27. Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Closed for Spring Gallery Walk

Park Cities
28. Dunn and Brown Contemporary
5020 Tracy Street
Dallas, Texas 75205
214.521.4322
www.dunnandbrown.com
dbc@dunnandbrown.com
Flower Thief by Jeff Elrod
Exhibition of medium-to-large abstract paintings and acrylic on linen.

29. Meadows Museum at SMU
5900 Bishop Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75275
214.768.2516
www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org
meadows@smu.edu
Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Patron and Collector
First major exhibition to showcase the exceptional art collection of King Charles IV of Spain (1748–1819). The exhibit features some 80 works of both fine and decorative
art from the Spanish Royal collection, including sculpture, paintings, furniture, books, prints, silks, drawings, tapestries, porcelain, and ivory.

30. Pollock Gallery/Division of Art
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Hughes-Trigg Student Center
3140 Dyer Street
Dallas, Texas 75275
214.768.4439
www.smu.edu/meadows/art/pollockgallery.asp
pvankeur@smu.edu
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition - Featuring the art of MFA 2010 graduates of SMU’s Division of Art studio program.

North Dallas
31. Brookhaven College Forum Gallery and Studio Gallery
Closed for Spring Gallery Walk

32. The Englishman’s Gallery
14655 Midway Road
Addison, Texas 75001
972.386.5996
www.englishmans.com
info@englishmans.com
Equinox Forward
An exhibition of art from North Texas and the United Kingdom that explores the human experience of time in relation to seasonal change.

33. Norwood Flynn Gallery
3318 Shorecrest Drive
Dallas, Texas 75235
214.351.3318
www.norwoodflynngallery.com
sueflynn@sbcglobal.net
2010 Spring Juried Show
Featuring works by visual arts seniors from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Proceeds benefit the students and the Edith Baker Art Scholarship.

34. Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
6616 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, Texas 75254
972.239.2441
www.valleyhouse.com
gallery@valleyhouse.com
Lady Classical, Mother Metamorphosis, and Other Holy Fables Sculpture and drawings by Michael O’Keefe.

35. Brazos Gallery and Lago Vista Gallery
Richland College
12800 Abrams Road
Dallas, Texas 75243
972.238.6339
www.richlandcollege.edu/gallery
rrichards@dcccd.edu
Brazos Gallery
Juried Student Show
Lago Vista Gallery
Digital Media Student Exhibit

Irving
37. Irving Arts Center Galleries & Sculpture Garden
3333 North MacArthur Boulevard
Irving, Texas 75062
972.252.7558
www.irvingartscenter.com
minman@cityofirving.org
Within the Emperor’s Garden: The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion
Featuring a nine-foot-tall model of the ancient Chinese pavilion found within the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion is handcarved out of red sandalwood and was constructed using mortise and tenon joinery from 3,000 individual pieces. The exhibition—on loan from the Smithsonian Institution— also features photographs and text panels with information about the Imperial Garden. Other exhibitions include The Annual Irving ISD Art Show and a variety of sculptures in the outdoor Sculpture Garden by local, regional, and national artists.

Arlington
37. The Gallery at UTA
Fine Arts Building
502 South Cooper Street
Arlington, Texas 76019
817.272.3110
www.uta.edu/gallery
bhuerta@uta.edu
Outside Influences:Mike Noland & Fred Stonehouse
The work of outsider or self-taught artists has long fascinated and influence the two artists featured in this exhibition, which pairs the work of Noland and Stonehouse with pieces from their outsider art collections that influenced their work. Curated by Marilyn Jolly.

The Panel Discuss ions
As is customary, DADA will offer educational opportunities via its Panel Discussions for artists and art lovers on the morning of the Gallery Walk. This time the Center for Law and Intellectual Property (CLIP) from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law is collaborating with DADA to present panels discussing the legal rights of artists. Panel 1 will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon and will cover digital rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Panel 2 will be from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and will cover the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA). Tickets ($15 per panel) can be purchased online at www.dallasartdealers.org or at the door. Proceeds benefit DADA’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship. The Panel Discussions willbe held at The MAC, 3120 McKinney Ave., in UptownDallas. The panels will be led by CLIP law students under the supervision of Megan Carpenter, Director of CLIP and Associate Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan.

The Party
Capping off the evening of art and fun is the official Galler Walk After Party hosted by Nomad Arts and Deep Ellum Enrichment Project (in conjunction with DEEP’s
Gallery Walk). The event will be held at 2616 Commerce Street and will feature twenty-plus artists, five bands, and two DJs spinning from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. A portion of the proceeds from the After Party will be donated to the Edith Baker Art Scholarship.

ABOUT DADA
The Dallas Art Dealers Association is an affiliation of established independent gallery owners and not-for-profit art organizations in the Dallasmetropolitan area. DADA serves as a standard bearer for ethical practices in the art business, as an educational resource for the community at large, and as the facilitator of the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, which providesfunding and career development for visual art students. The Dallas Art Dealers Association, founded in 1985, is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization. Visit www.dallasartdealers.org or e-mail info@dallasartdealers.org
for more information.

MIA LATELY

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Sorry I have not been around lately but my 86-year old stepfather in Florida fell, broke his hip & is now in rehab. Went down to Florida to see him and my mom and assist with insurance, home care, hard discussions about future, etc. This is a blog unto itself and I was very sad for a few weeks and don't want to put my head in that place right now but I will come back and write about what it is like grow old in this country and the lack of patient advocacy that has nothing to do with politics. Came home to wrap up 2009 taxes with our wonderful accountant of 20 years, Shelly Taylor, whom we adore who is in NYC and a lot of work and life stuff to catch up with so ergo my absence. I hope everyone has been ok.

NYMPHOTO - Art for Haiti Auction

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"Bathing/Benyen", Tiana Markova-Gold, 2004

"Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, California", Emily Shur

Proud to have supported NYMPHOTO and Doctors in Health in their recent fundraising auction on eBay and having ended up being the high bidder on these two amazing photographs. It was a wonderful auction and thanks to all the photographers who donated work and NYMPHOTO for putting together such a wonderful the Art for Haiti auction. I hope you raised lots of money.

NYMPHOTO Blog

Info on the auction: NYMPHOTO ART FOR HAITI

Richard Haines - Fashion Illustrator Extraordinaire

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This is my amazingly talented friend & fashion illustrator extraordinaire Richard Haines at Pennyblack boutique in Milan recently sketching their spring/summer collection. A wonderful artist. Bellissimo! Watch the video: Richard Haines Milan Pennyblack

This is his blog: What I Saw Today

Letitia Huckaby Show - South Dallas Cultural Center - A Must See Show

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Letitia Huckaby's MFA show "LA 19 (Daughters of God) opened tonight at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Her work blends quilting and photography while paying homage to the women in her family. Her technique, imagery and powerful familial thread are superb and unique. She uses photographs of family quilts and relatives printed which on silk and other fabrics and then creates stunning new heirlooms that evoke the ties that bind her family together throughout generations. This is a not to be missed show.

The exhibit runs through April 24 and can be viewed at the SDCC located at 3400 South Fitzhugh St in Dallas on Tues-Fri from 1PM 9PM and Sat 9AM-5PM.

Letitia's Website

KERA's Cindy Chaffin recently visited Leticia at her studio: Art & Seek Studio Tour

Do You Preserve - Food not Art? Check Out Rick's Picks!

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If so, you need to buy a copy of friend Rick Field's new book "The Art of Preserving" in colloboration with Williams Sonoma.

Check out The Pickle Blog for the inside scoop from Rick’s Picks.

And for the best pickles, pickled beets olives, green beans, etc either head to the various Greenmarkets in NYC & Brooklyn or buy online if not available at a local retailer.

Rick's Picks NYC

The Phat Beets are TDF!

In Dallas available at: SCARDELLO CHEESE

Have A Photo Book or Zine?

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List it on The Independent Photo Book blog which announces independently published and/or produced photography books or zines, which are not available via Amazon or other standard outlets. Not sure if Blurb is considered a "standard" outlet.

Independent Photobook

Today featuring: Shane Lavalette's: Lay Flat 02: Meta

Fraction Magazine - Issue 12 - Achromatic

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Isa Leshko's "Thrills and Chills"

Click on the link Fraction Issue 12 and then on each photo for more info.