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Australian Artist Paints the War in Afghanistan
Ben Quilty looks more like a lumberjack than a painter: stocky build, big beard, flannel shirt. But Quilty, from Paterson, New South Wales, is actually one of Australia’s most promising portrait artists.
2011 marked two significant events in Ben Quilty’s …{read more}
A Guide to Must-See Brooklyn Street Art
Street art is taking over our cities, and New York is one of its spiritual homes. Want to know whose work to look out for? Here are three of the most notable Brooklyn street artists.
1. Juan Carlos Pinto
Guatemalan …{read more}
Art and the Artist: An Interview with Michelle Dunaway
Listen and you’ll hear the music in Michelle’s paintings. Of course, they wear the responsibility quite lightly. Incisive and mild, caught and emancipated, real and dreamy, they reach within your grasp like an early morning dream. Listen.
You may not …{read more}
A Gallery of Woodcut Prints by Loren Kantor
Loren Kantor on the Carving Process
I’ve always been an old-school guy. I prefer tattered books to e-readers, vinyl records to MP3′s and classic black & white movies to modern 3-D dreck.
I fell in love with woodcuts in the …{read more}
Glass Houses by Kalliope Amorphous
Glass houses is a series of conceptual self portraits created using distortion mirrors. These portraits explore the fragmentation of the self, or the hidden self which is often underlaid beneath a facade. These fragmentations are the subconscious or conscious fears …{read more}
Six Mixed Media Pieces by Donna Kuhn
Artist’s Statement
I make art because that is the only way life makes sense to me. A recurrent theme in my work is the face: semi-abstract, colorful and emotional. I don’t choose to draw these faces. Their forms just come …{read more}
Artist Katie Pfeiffer’s FREE PUSSY RIOT Painting Sparks Controversy & Censorship
Greater Philadelphia area artist Katie Pfeiffer creates spirited, colorful paintings, drawings and mixed media work, with a strong, often intensely personal point of view.
Last month, when she created her “Free Pussy Riot” painting on her front door, she had …{read more}
La Picaudiere – and Hundertwasser’s Honey
Asked in an interview what he would remember most about his life as an artist, Man Ray replied “the women.” I was a bee whisperer, like Edmund Hillary who climbed Mount Everest and who was a beekeeper in New Zealand, …{read more}
The Eve of Fluxus: A Fluxmemoir
by Billie Maciunas
Arbiter Press, Orlando, Florida
ISBN 978-0-615-35216-9
Fluxus is a name taken from a Latin word meaning “to flow”— often described as “intermedia,” a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins in 1966. Fluxus as an artistic group was named and …{read more}
On Relationships: 6 New Works by Katie Pfeiffer
Artist’s Statement
Relationships dominate my life. The relationships I have with other people and the one I have with myself. I explore these personal interactions through art . My focus on color and humor are meant to draw the viewer …{read more}
Interview with Artist Katie Pfeiffer
Recently I was fortunate to sit down with artist Katie Pfeiffer, and discuss her background, art, inspiration and the connection of spirituality to the creative process.
How would you describe your work?
My paintings, drawings, collages & designs are a …{read more}
In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008
THE ARTIST
for Bruce Conner
THE ARTIST has faces that are nude ladies and feathers.
Women pose in the visage of the whirlpool
raising bare arms and arching bare thighs.
Tentacles of squid sway down among pinions
of African eagles ...{read more}
About Photographer Larry Keenan
In 1965, California College of Arts and Crafts student Larry Keenan was asked by his teacher, poet and playwright Michael McClure, if he would like to photograph a group of his friends. Asking McClure whom his friends were Keenan was …{read more}
Luismi García (@lumigane10): "The Neighborhood" http://t.co/kK9ymFNrJj via @EmptyMirror #Brooklyn ...
Luismi García (@lumigane10): Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac reissued. http://t.co/kMu6...
@CSkinner: @shittydeath Was it here? http://t.co/GyfmBVDF4K (h/t @Oog for helping...
@bdukesthetruth: Big thanks to Empty Mirror books for posting an article about my book ...
Ali Valdivia: amazing!...