Come enjoy these treasures from private collections: DON CLAUSEN’S seascapes of 1963 to abstracts of 2012, most never before shown publicly. Not all artwork shown is for sale. Yes, Clausen’s still painting at the age of 82; still enjoying morning …{read more}
Australian Artist Paints the War in Afghanistan
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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}
New children’s book release!
Lulu Looks for Love by Katie Pfeiffer
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Katie Pfeiffer’s new children’s book, Lulu Looks for Love, has just been published.
Lulu the cow is lonely. With a cat as a guide, she searches the world for love, in all sorts of fascinating places. But she just …{read more}
When there is nothing, there’s the cup of coffee
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When there is nothing, there’s the cup of coffee
Early morning,
i step out;
in a heap, in the rubbish pile,
my paintings.
They look ‘belonged’.
Few more displaced to the storage-room.
New companions for the dust,
old tricycle; bicycle, …{read more}
Art and the Artist: An Interview with Michelle Dunaway
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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}
‘Leporellos in Black and White’ by Rik Lina
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in ARTTRA gallery
AMSTERDAM
From 4 January to 12 February 2013
Opening on Friday, January 4 from 17:00 to 19:00
Rik Lina – in his atelier in Amsterdam 2012
BLACK AND WHITE
My drawings and black and white paintings have …{read more}
A Gallery of Woodcut Prints by Loren Kantor
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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}
Six Mixed Media Pieces by Donna Kuhn
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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
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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}
Uncle Fred
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[Editor's note: F.N. Wright was a novelist, artist, and poet, whose work was published widely in the small press.]
Uncle Fred and I once thought up a name for our dream bookstore. It would be called Tangents. I’ve always thought …{read more}
Interview with Artist Katie Pfeiffer
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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
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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}