Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Hello everyone,
I tumbled in this artist when I was checking out some art blogs. Please take a look at his story. It is fascinating. It is a story of discipline and commitment and success. Here is his blog:
Also Take a look at his link page. There are articles and the archive of the paintings he has made as well as the cigar box easel.
http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/
It was humbling to read about his commitment to paint one painting a day and stuck by the commitment it about 2 years. O boy , this makes me feel ashamed. Given I couldn't even catch up with a painting a month concept! Anyways hope this inspires us all. Good and productive week. M
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
10 x 10 Revisited- Meeting September 15, 2008
September, 15, 2008- Meeting at Brian's This to update for the previous meeting.
It was decided that the group would revisit it.
In attendance: Shar, Amy, Craig, Kathy, Brian, Gail.
The goal is to use the synergy of a group to our benefit- the total could be greater than the sum of its parts. To have a project to work on that will allow is to expose the creative process and work towards a goal of having an exhibition.
We discussed why we thought this 10 x 10 project did not work last time we tried.
For the next 10-12 months, this 10 x 10 project will be the focus of the group. We need to have a specific goal and plan in mind as we go along to facilitate the commitment to this project. The end vision is important.
Size and number of panels?
10 x 10 is fine- the panel we use will be determined ahead of time. Surface can be changed by artist.
Panel is Blick Studio arts board- acrylic primed 10” x 10”, 1.5” cradle. 13610-1010
The goal is to use the synergy of a group to our benefit- the total could be greater than the sum of its parts. To have a project to work on that will allow is to expose the creative process and work towards a goal of having an exhibition.
We discussed why we thought this 10 x 10 project did not work last time we tried.
For the next 10-12 months, this 10 x 10 project will be the focus of the group. We need to have a specific goal and plan in mind as we go along to facilitate the commitment to this project. The end vision is important.
Size and number of panels?
10 x 10 is fine- the panel we use will be determined ahead of time. Surface can be changed by artist.
Panel is Blick Studio arts board- acrylic primed 10” x 10”, 1.5” cradle. 13610-1010
Any specific recommendations on theme?
An innovative theme would be a good idea. The exhibition needs to be interesting to someone else. Several ideas were discussed, we talked about having the next meeting to bring ideas, but it was decided that we need to get going. Guidelines can be altered along the way- but let’s get started.
The theme: “Grey Matters”. Originally started out as “Shades of Grey(Gray)”- then the topic was expanded. Grey matters- could mean many things from simply painting in shades of grey, to looking at levels of ambiguity and to what is going on in the grey matter.
Shar sent the following email after the meeting:
If we end up going with this idea/title I think we may need to tie it together with a bigger thought...
grey matters: a group experiment in collective thought grey matters: a group experiment in collaboration grey matters: a group approach to continuous thought
Set guidelines.
Monthly meetings continue more regularly scheduled.
Next meeting- first panel- use a grey “monochromatic” palette to encourage unity.
Each meeting we need to have a panel prepared to discuss and at the end of that meeting we will decide the next task.
Commitment from all members is needed. If anyone does not want to participate- they can be put in a “holding pattern” until we are finished with the project. We may want to look at adding to our group.
How many group members and panels per member will be determined. We need to be aware that if we do not get the panels and parts of the projects done as committed to on a monthly basis- momentum is lost and the evolution of the project is changed.
We all have talents that can add to the facilitation of this project- such as communicator, documenter, promo design, marketer etc…. this will be determined as we go along.
We will have a blog with documentation of this project- for people to add ideas to and see what is going on. This blog will be in an open format allowing the outsiders to look at our collaboration process. It is critical that the project is chronicled properly.
This is pretty much where we ended this meeting.
2. Complete at least one panel for marketing package 10/08
-Collect information and image from each person for marketing plan
-Discuss and design promo materials
-Plan for sharing of responsibilities-(design, promotion, follow up)
3. Promo Package
-Put together ideas and lists of venues where we would like work to be 11/08
4. Market to venues to establish show date. TBD
-Establish show date.
5. Complete 10- 10 x 10’s for each person TBD
Hello Everyone, I thought this might be an interesting show to catch up. Beside the photo is black and white so I thought it might be very fitting to gray matters subject!Part of: blogs.walkerart.org
Happy Birthday, Frida
by Paul Schmelzer at 10:40 am 2007-07-06
Filed under: Exhibitions
One hundred years ago today, Frida Kahlo was born. In Mexico, the occasion is being marked with the opening of the exhibition Treasures from the Blue House, Frida and Diego, featuring never-before-seen items locked away in trunks at Kahlo and husband Diego Rivera’s house, Casa Azul (now the Frida Kahlo Museum). The show includes 22,105 documents, 5,387 photos, 179 pieces of clothing and more than 6,000 magazines and books owned by Kahlo. Much of the material was locked away at Rivera’s request; he asked that her personal effects not be exhibited publicly for 15 years after her death in 1957. The AP reports:
But Dolores Olmedo, a patron of Rivera, kept them closed, believing the trunks could contain personal information that would compromise the couple’s image, said her son, Carlos Phillips Olmedo, who runs several museums, including The Blue House.
In 2004, a year after Olmedo’s death, curators opened the trunks.
Inside they found corsets Kahlo used to support her back, after she fractured it in a bus accident as a young girl.
Curators also found snippets reflecting Kahlo’s daily life, including a trolley car ticket with a scribbled note, a napkin stained with a lipstick kiss, letters from European artists and 102 never-before-seen drawings by Kahlo.
They also discovered 30 photos that Kahlo’s father, photographer Guillermo Kahlo, had taken of himself, possibly inspiring Kahlo’s self portraits which she used to deal with her accident, her tumultuous marriage and her inability to have children.
Closer to home, the Walker, in association with SFMOMA, is commemorating Kahlo’s birth year with the first American traveling Kahlo traveling exhibition in decades. Frida Kahlo will open at a preview party in Minneapolis on October 26. Curated by the Walker’s Betsy Carpenter and guest co-curator (and Kahlo’s official biographer) Hayden Herrera, it features some of Kahlo’s best known paintings, art her works inspired, and a room of photos from Kahlo’s personal albums, many never exhibited before. The show will travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this winter and SFMOMA next summer.
Above: Kahlo poses with Guadalupe Marin, onetime wife of Diego Rivera.
Happy Birthday, Frida
by Paul Schmelzer at 10:40 am 2007-07-06
Filed under: Exhibitions
One hundred years ago today, Frida Kahlo was born. In Mexico, the occasion is being marked with the opening of the exhibition Treasures from the Blue House, Frida and Diego, featuring never-before-seen items locked away in trunks at Kahlo and husband Diego Rivera’s house, Casa Azul (now the Frida Kahlo Museum). The show includes 22,105 documents, 5,387 photos, 179 pieces of clothing and more than 6,000 magazines and books owned by Kahlo. Much of the material was locked away at Rivera’s request; he asked that her personal effects not be exhibited publicly for 15 years after her death in 1957. The AP reports:
But Dolores Olmedo, a patron of Rivera, kept them closed, believing the trunks could contain personal information that would compromise the couple’s image, said her son, Carlos Phillips Olmedo, who runs several museums, including The Blue House.
In 2004, a year after Olmedo’s death, curators opened the trunks.
Inside they found corsets Kahlo used to support her back, after she fractured it in a bus accident as a young girl.
Curators also found snippets reflecting Kahlo’s daily life, including a trolley car ticket with a scribbled note, a napkin stained with a lipstick kiss, letters from European artists and 102 never-before-seen drawings by Kahlo.
They also discovered 30 photos that Kahlo’s father, photographer Guillermo Kahlo, had taken of himself, possibly inspiring Kahlo’s self portraits which she used to deal with her accident, her tumultuous marriage and her inability to have children.
Closer to home, the Walker, in association with SFMOMA, is commemorating Kahlo’s birth year with the first American traveling Kahlo traveling exhibition in decades. Frida Kahlo will open at a preview party in Minneapolis on October 26. Curated by the Walker’s Betsy Carpenter and guest co-curator (and Kahlo’s official biographer) Hayden Herrera, it features some of Kahlo’s best known paintings, art her works inspired, and a room of photos from Kahlo’s personal albums, many never exhibited before. The show will travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this winter and SFMOMA next summer.
Above: Kahlo poses with Guadalupe Marin, onetime wife of Diego Rivera.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Why Grey Matters
From black to white. Dark to light. Exposed to concealed. Recognize the nuances and subtleties that go unnoticed. Look beyond the obvious. And study the essence of what lies between. shar 10/21/08
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