painting in progress

PR for show: Andrew's List of Newspapers to Contact

i am the PR leader for our show.
I ask for your assistance in contacting these periodicals:
For our collaborative art exhibition
We will be stronger when we work as a team, thanks, everyone!


PR for KEVRO Art Event

FAU, University Press
- phone: University Press (561) 297-2960
-Online Contacts: http://www.upressonline.com/university-press-staff-contact-information-1.753292

Boca Raton News
- Phone: Main Line: (561) 893-6400 / Classifieds: (561) 893-6401
-online Contacts: http://www.bocanews.com/contact-us.html

Boca Raton Times
Phone: (954) 698-6397

Palm Beach Post
- Main office: Telephone (561) 820-4100 / Hours: M - F 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Online- send a Press Release
You can send news releases to The Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/feedback/newsroom.html

The Sun Sentinel
- Telephone: 954-356-4000. (Ft.Lauderdale)
- Online Contacts: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/sfla-helpindex,0,4600310.htmlstory

West Boca Forum (online/blog articles) (affiliated with The Sun Sentinel)
(Alex’s contact from January show)
Dave Rossman- Email- dsrman747@gmail.com / phone: 954-871-1232.

Delray Forum (online/blog articles) (Affiliated with The Sun Sentinel)
Dave DiPino- Email- ddipino@gmail.com / Phone: 954-621-5000.

fau-X's Collaborative Exhibition at Kevro Art Bar

KEVRO ART BAR, Delray Beach

www.kevroartbar.com

Our final project is our Collaborative Exhibition at Kevro's Art Bar on Saturday, May 2, 2009. This special event will have food, an open bar and entertainment from 6:30-10:00pm.

A group of us went to the venue on Wednesday to look it over. The space is limited so we need to go back to measure and come up with some creative ways to display. It would be helpful if everyone could meet us at a future date to help plan ahead.

Most important is the PUBLICITY, which Andrew Ackerman has offered to chair, but your assistance is greatly needed to help follow up with notifying and contacting the papers...see the blog before this for a list that Andrew needs assistance with...if everyone contacts one paper, we can get a lot done!

Here is where we are so far:

1) Entertainment: Andrew:- Will meet with Mike Mineo who plays sings and plays the guitar. Check out his website:

Brittany offered to check with a friend who is a DJ that can do sets in between the live music.

2) Publicity: Andrew- has already looked up contact numbers and e-mails--You can really help us by getting the word out right now...no time to waste! Please check with Andrew on who you can help contact.

3) Flyers/Poster - Robert is at the drawing board designing...Nicole has offered to do the printing for them

4) Food: Diane - She wil buy the food, plates,utensils,etc. but will update you later on what she will need. Suggested Donation $20 will give us enough cash to purchase most of the items. She will start collecting on Monday, April 6

5) Installation: Alex and Brittany...but everyone will have to figure out how to hang/present their work...

6) Cleanup- Everyone will help

7) We need to decide on a name ASAP so that the flyers and Publicity can get started!

Any suggestions? (How about fau-X Collaboration?)

Please give us any suggestions you have...or if you can volunteer...or if you have any concerns!

What do you think? is this an interesting thing to focus on?

Our inhibitions cloak our most genuine aspects and raw human conditions. I strip away vanity and expose our underlying connections.
My work is driven by the urge to find that which unifies us. Currently, I use my own body as a means of researching and depicting what it means to a woman in our materially based culture. I explore my most primal feelings, which I feel inhibited to exhibit. These inhibitions, I feel are a direct effect of our culture. We make our own cages and thus the behaviors which need to be contained.
Continually in history men have painted women as “lovely” fertile objects or as any kind of fertile object for that matter, lovely or not. Perhaps it is this more dominant perspective of the female body that has effected its current situation within our society. Because we have been portrayed as objects, have we become objects? Have we associated ourselves with our physical bodies so much so that our job now is to hush any part of ourselves that may attribute to this assumption/definition? Do all women gotten the impression that we should be an executive and reclaim our bodies for ourselves! I am intrigued by these definitions of women as servers and objects of desire and the rebellions enacted. Rebellions where women act more like men. Perusing and competing. Who is supporting and nurturing? Have we abandoned what we are? As a women I feel a push and pull to what we want. We want to be like men, yet we still crave to be that object of desire. We pose but feel compelled to show disgust to those who look. Why? The gaze has become perverse because the purpose of the pose has lost it’s significance. The nude body has become engulfed within it’s context and those of us who live in chosen naivety are questioned.
I paint privately and genuinely these conditions, then bring my work to the public. The unguarded self within my work can evoke a sense of crudeness, for they lack the self consciousness which we have carefully crafted as a polite barrier between one another. I invite you beyond that boundary and into our untainted, intimate selves.

The meaning of real "Success"

I wanted to share this. This is not a complete quote but it's the essence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "Success" said,
The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work. If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not find his orders or customers. To be content with acquiring the skills is to be happy. The time your rival spends dressing his work for effect, hastily for a market, you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He may win the prize or get the appointment; but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art, and a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.

Music For our Collaborative Exhibition?

I have contacted my friend, Mike Mineo.
He's a very soulful musician.
I just sent him an invite to c if he can perform at our show-
that Saturday in May, like 7-9 pm.
I'm hoping he will say he can do a musical set for our art exhibition...

Here's a link of "5-4-3-2-1," it's my favorite of his songs.
check it out, if u like:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=49975104

Hopefully, we can get him on board.
otherwise, we will have to consider other options.
I shall Keep you all posted.
we shall see...
~peace~

Experimental

During my research for Minimalism, specifically Frank Stella, I came across a rather interesting project that he, and other famous artists participated in: The BMW art cars of the 1970's. BMW commissioned Stella, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and others, to create a work using the cars as the ground. (You can view the cars at: http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/artcars/ ) The cars can hardly be called Minimalist, but they did get me wondering; what would a minimalist art car look like? With that in mind, I dusted off my car modeling skills and built up a model with the spirit of Minimalism. This was not an attempt to create a bare minimal car from the ground up, rather to take an existing car, in this case a 1992 Lancia Delta HF, and make an art car out of it. The car lent itself well to a Minimal approach with its clean and, for the most part, unadorned body. I painted it matt black, including the wheels, yet I kept all the details to ensure that it would still be accurate and realistic, even in 1/24 scale. It was an enjoyable project, and I definitely would like to continue with other model cars.

Exhibit

The exhibition needs a name...
I am starting this thread so that you can post possible titles.

Correction

When we were doing our critique of Nicole's work I mentioned a female Renaissance painter who was a miniaturist. I thought it was Lavinia Fontana. I stand corrected, her name was Sofonisba Anguissola. They were born within twenty years of each other and enjoyed long distinguished careers as court painters in the Spainish court and the Papal court respectively.
Sorry about the confusion.

In the Realms of the Unreal

So, last night i watched "In the realms of the unreal" a docuentary style movie about henry darger. I have to say that lmost everything that i thought i knew about him may have been completely wrong. He is the author of what may be the largest ever work of fiction at over 15,000 pages not to mention innumerable paintings, for which he would collect magazines, coloring books, scraps, to trace and draw in refernce for is paintings. i could probably ramble on about Darger for quite some time, but instead ill just suggest that you guys watch the movie for yourself, i highly reccomend it.

another show

JAFFE CENTER for BOOK ARTS
at Florida Atlantic University's Wimberly Library


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Join us on March 23 for a very special evening of Shaker music in the
intimate setting of the Jaffe Book Arts Gallery with members of the
acclaimed Boston Camerata. Less than 30 tickets remain for this very
special evening you'll experience no where else but here at JCBA:

Ann Azéma and Joel Cohen, of The Boston Camerata
A Jaffe Athenaeum Concert
"In Yonder Valley: A Brief Introduction to Shaker Life and Music"
Monday, March 23, 2009
7:30 PM
Jaffe Book Arts Gallery

Anne Azéma, soprano, Artistic Director of The Boston Camerata and
Joel Cohen, Director Emeritus, will present a musical program and
discussion on the the connection between Shaker songs and early
English and American folk music. The two will also explore Shaker
music as an integral part of Shaker life and worship, as well as the
transmission and notation of Shaker melodies.

The most famous Shaker song, of course, is "Simple Gifts," but the
Boston Camerata has for years been exploring the beauty of all Shaker
music in performances all over the world. Azéma and Cohen are
frequent visitors to Chosen Land, the Shaker Community at Sabbathday
Lake, Maine, to further research Shaker music, and, in fact, the
Shakers of Sabbathday Lake have performed with the Boston Camerata at
concerts in New England. The Boston Camerata has performed to packed
houses all over the world, and it is truly an honor for us to have
Anne and Joel perform and speak here at the Jaffe. You can learn more
about the Boston Camerata at their website (www.bostoncamerata.com).

Tickets to this intimate concert event are very limited. We will sell
only about 50 tickets to this "Living Room Concert" with two of the
most accomplished musicians in the choral tradition. This is a
benefit concert with proceeds benefitting JCBA's Education Fund,
bringing extraordinary exhibitions, lectures, and hands-on workshops
with leading book artists to the Jaffe Center. This fund also
provides scholarships giving FAU students the opportunity to study
with these artists.

Minimum donation per ticket is $25, though larger donations are
certainly encouraged (and appreciated!) for this worthy cause. Give
$45 or more per ticket and accept our gift to you: a Boston Camerata
recording of your choice on compact disc. You might choose, for
example, "Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals"--probably the
most famous of the Boston Camerata's recordings. It's been described
in print as "One of the most remarkable recordings of vocal music
I've ever heard," by Norman Weinstein of The Boston Phoenix... and
personally, I agree. Your larger donation helps us immensely with our
mission, and the CD is just a small token of our appreciation for
your generosity. Thank you.

Here's a direct link to this event page at the JCBA website, where
you can reserve tickets:

http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/jaffeevents.htm



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Thank you, as always, for your support of JCBA!
John


John Cutrone
Programs Coordinator
The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts
Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
http://www.jaffecollection.org


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Critiques? Are they Helpful?

From the book, " Why Art Cannot Be Taught" I had the opportunity to read thru the chapter on critiques. I want to share with you some of the ideas on why critiques are hard to understand:

1) No one knows what a critique is.

2) Critiques are too short.

3) Critiques drift from topic to topic.

4) Teachers make their own artwork and have their own agenda.

5) Teachers make idiosyncratic judgements.

6) Critiques are like seductions:full of emotional outbursts.

7) Critiques are like many other things-including bad translations...

8) Teachers waste time giving technical advice.

9) Some teachers are judicative others are descriptive.

10) A Students presence can be confusing...An artwork implies a creator...Fallacy? A viewer needs to have an idea of the artist's intention...WHAT DO YOU THINK?

11) Artworks are usually unoriginal.

As for my critique, I set myself up for doom...when I called my own art "kitchy".

Using this word thru the discussion prevented my critique from progressing..it stopped in it's tracks! Now it's my burden to convince all of you that my work is viable and has a place in the hall of fame....

Note to the Artist: Keep enough interest going so you can figure out why the critique ended(if it had) and the teacher isn't talking...must read this entire book!!

Here are some photos from our last critique to jolt your memory.
Do you think the last critique helped you or not?

Looking for thoughts

Hello Everyone.
I have been working on my paintings and I have come to a point with one where I do not know if I should stop or add more. I am adding fabric pieces to some of the paintings that are a little similar to this one, but I think this one maybe is complete as shown....
What do you guys think?
Enjoy the break and paint away:)

Problems with exhibiting small works...

Hello all, in researching Peggy Preheim (one of my recent favorites as I was exploring artists who could inform my work) I came across this review of a recent exhibit. The end of it discusses the problems of exhibiting small work which is something that affects a few of us so I thought I would post.

http://www.exhibitfiles.org/peggy_preheim_little_black_book

Da Vinci

I just watched a video on Yahoo! about the discovery of a new sketch in one of Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks. What makes this discovery so important is that it is believed to be a self-portrait when he was young, which is very rare to see. The researches performed an "aging" simulation on the portrait and compared it to his later ones, and it virtually looked the same. The reason why it was never found was because it was very faint and he simply wrote over it in his typical "mirrored" handwriting. A journalist was going through the notebook when he made the discovery after spotting the off-colored area in the book.