Vivien, I absolutely love the composition of the last picture posted. Very effective.
By the way, I delivered the thirty paintings I'm contributing for a show of 11 artists (more than 150 works) affiliated with our university. It will show for a year on five floors of an academic building centrally located downtown amidst galleries. Our show will be a regular part of the first friday art walks and will include posters, calendars, booklets and TV advertising. I'm looking forward to it. All paintings will be for sale, but there will be no art dealers, just direct contact between customers and artists, the best of all possible worlds if you ask me.
that sounds great
any photos? do try to take some and post them. It really is easy to post them to photobucket - it does all the resizing of them for you, you simply upload them and then paste the link (shown below it - the IMG) here - no need to click on any buttons or anything and it appears
I've started on some canvasses but am going to be working long hours this week so won't be able to get much more done for a while.
Excellent, JL, glad to hear this.
Thanks; I knew you'd both be glad for me. I will try to take photos of the installation when it's up in Sept. The 150 plus works will be distributed throughout the work spaces of the floors four through nine of the building. I do not know if the installer will hang all of mine in the same general area or intersperse them with other works. But I definitely will take ego-photos of my works (as well as the entire show) and then learn how to post them.
Good, good, look forward to it.
I'm especially pleased that your Uni space or spaces get covered in the art walks. Very good.
I have a painting in the (wait, while I remember) what is that lipstick? Ah, the Revlon Pavilion at UCLA. Well, really the intermediate patient area of the breast cancer center. At least it was still there when I last heard. a few years ago now, thence for quite a while. I know they have to change them - I have had galleries. I hope my painting isn't now in some damned basement. Better, a basement laboratory, or some such. I suppose it was auctioned. Geez, should I ask?
Things come and go, under different agis's. So it goes, as Vonnegut would say.
Well, hey, maybe I should ask. I'm friends with the curator (can't remember how, I think we just liked each other when she wanted to talk to me about my painting). We went out to lunch. In her truck, rumble rumble rumble, sputter, with the oddly wired music.
In any case, she was an underling, savvy as she was, and I didn't dislike the overling. I wouldn't mind knowing if my painting is still prominent or in, ah, storage, or auctioned. Presumeably they didn't burn it.
UCLA? I wonder if she worked there when Diebenkorn taught there, sometime in the mid-60s. Imagine: I went to UCLA (as a sociology undergraduate) when Diebenkorn (one of my all-time favorite painters) taught there, and I didn't know it. Gasp!
No, this was in the med center area, and in the 90's.
On Diebenkorn, I've long wondered precisely where his studio was in Ocean Park....
I've only read that it was the second floor of a building he owned on the walk of Venice Beach (?). I'm not as impressed by his Ocean Park series (painted from his second floor window) as I am by his Albuquerque (and other) paintings.
I agree with you on that, JL.
Hmm, on the beach. I probably walked by his studio a thousand times then.
SCREW Diebenkorn. I Need some advice and help. Ive blown almost a month of just screwing around and no new art to show. Im in a real slump and Im running out of time. Ive gotta be back home by mid September and Im just not even interested in starting anything. What the hells wrong? Im beginning to worry.
You got the web? Look at batches of others' drawings/paintings and you will soon be so annoyed you'll get started in reply.
Farmerman, I don't know why but I havn't had a slump for a very long time. I think it's because I begin pictures with the least possible expectations. That's easy for me to say because my style of work does not require planning and committment to some anticipated end product. My abstract-ish approach permits me to just splash paint whereever I have ANY impulse to splash it and then, once it's begun, I build on that.
After such easy beginnings, the problem becomes one of knowing when to stop.
Good luck.
Also, you don't have to worry about staying in your space from minute to minute, and you don't have to really care if you agree with this or that flingingpoo.
Though, as you may remember, I very much agree with your last statement.
I'm so inventive-spouting when I'm not being shy.
Yeh, flingingpoo.
(smiles)
