JUNE ART CHAT - Light in Art Sundays 8 - 10pm New York Time

I stopped in at about 9:30 p.m. but no one was home

WILL THERE BE A CHAT ON SUN 6/8?

Yes, farmerman, there is every sunday. The difficulty is that all of us can't or don't always show up on the dot of the start of the chat time...and it is hard to wait around for someone else to show up.

Sometimes four people are there at the start, many times none. I have waited various times, six minutes, twenty minutes, a half hour (balancing my checkbook, cleaning out stacks of papers, filing receipts in order, all hated tasks....) and have had people check in. Once I waited an hour and somebody checked in just to see if anyone was chatting...a guy from New Jersey, and we ended up talking for a long time about food...

For me the chats start at 5pm on sunday afternoon, and I am still doing laundry or starting cooking or should be out watering the yard...so sometimes
I check in and run back and forth to see if some one else has.

Finally I learned how to switch browsers and will be at Sunday chat or be square. Hope to see everyone there.

Great Joanne, we miss you when you're not on a2k!!

Well sorry to diappoint but I cannot enter the chat room. New computer system soon for me crossing fingers and a new provider.

Here are a few links on a artist who does light installations, James Turrell.

http://www.crawfordartgallery.com/turrell.html Wedgework at Crawford Gallery

http://www.depont.nl/en/menu/ind-col.htm Wedgework III

http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-11.html Roden Crater

http://members.aol.com/mindwebart4/page43.htm Mattress
factory installation

http://www.arttowermito.or.jp/art/95/turrell/index-e.html Toward Unknown Light

http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/english/03_exhibitions/04_Venice-Venezia.htm Panza collection at the Guggenheim in Venice (several artists)

Here's a few more, one on Robert Irwin, and a couple on Dan Flavin:

http://www.mcasd.org/collection/permcol/artists/irwin2.html
Robert Irwin

http://www.diacenter.org/ltproj/flavstair/ Dan Flavin

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/05/22/29940.html
Dan Flavin

The lit landscape is interesting. I don't know if all things are better for being simplified. I tend to shy away from minimalist art as it's been all the rage since the 60's and I get bored of it in museums. What makes this persons work different/better than that of a light designer on a stage, or an innovative home decorator with a feel for space? Why do these deserve to be "art" ? I know I am a purist, but I am not attracted to these pieces. It's not that they are made of light, but that other people have been working with light and space for decades, these artists introduce nothing new or better to the scope of art from what I have seen.

It is pretty...

Portal, I am not all that interested in the work on the links either. I think the work takes an element of perception, how light affects what we see, and separates it as a subject, and that that is a reasonable thing to make into an art piece. In looking for a topic for art chat, shepaints and I talked briefly about light in art; the links are to add some recent work that some may not know about.

I haven't been coming out to the chats, but your topic interested me as I've often heard painters and photographers talk about how different it is to work in the northern light. Soooooo, I've been doing quite a bit of reading on the Group of Seven and artists of the Baltic, and how the northern light was thought to have influenced their work. It's been interesting. Thanks for the research push!

oh, sorry. Didn't know why those were posted. I guess I was in the mood for critique-ing. It would be interesting to have a critique section on here, maybe in the other art section. You know, put a picture up and everyone tears it up, gives their input.

BTW, does anyone know of any other good art forums? This is the first serious/good one Iv'e come across.

I have yet to work out the time differences to know what time in England the chats are - will make it one day!

Vivien - this site click is the one that works best for me - i use the sunclock selection. Right now I can tell that you and I are both in daylight, and if I look more carefully, I can figure out the times as well.

thanks for that e beth

Vivien, I think it would be one in the morning in England...which is why we sometimes talk about a second art chat time. The art chats ebb and flow. Sometimes very few show up, or people show up but don't wait around for others, since it tends to tie one to a computer and a big blank.

Other times they are very lively.

aaaagh! not with work the next day! - shame....