The gallery is located on the corner of Higgins and Broadway (next to Dana Gallery)The exhibition will be open December 3 & 4, and December 10 & 11.
Thanks also, to our great install team.
Thanks also, to our great install team.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
FRESH PAINT OPENING
The gallery is located on the corner of Higgins and Broadway (next to Dana Gallery)
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Everybody's getting in on it.
Chicago painter Bruce Elliott has come up with a novel way to get customers into his Old Town Ale House bar in Chicago with his nude Sarah Palin picture. The American vice president hopeful for the republican party is shown in a full frontal nude pose, standing on a polar bear skin rug, clinging to an automatic weapon, with a lucky moose still alive outside the window. The moose looks like it's in a river, but I guess it could also be a pool of oil, so perhaps the moose is stuck and about to die?from: Art News Blog
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
MASTER OF LIGHT GOING THROUGH A DARK PERIOD.
Thomas Kinkade Mugshot
Thomas Kinkade DUI, Bankruptcy, Fraud – The ‘Painter of Light’ is apparently in a dark period. He has recently had to file for bankruptcy to escape retribution in relation to fraud charges in which the world-renowned painter was successfully charged with bilking galleries out of millions.
On June 2, 2010, one of Thomas Kinkade’s company,Pacific Metro LLC, filed for bankruptcy protection had to file for bankruptcy protection after art gallery owners successfully pressed fraud charges against the company. They, along with hundreds of other creditors, were said to be owed millions by the famous painter’s art empire. Kinkade is said to beone of the world’s wealthiest artist. He is certainly one of the most collectible artists in the world. He is known for homey landscapes and Christian motifs. Now, it seems, he will be known for a quick succession of legal problems.
Kinkade, 52-years-old is a native of Placerville, California. He was pulled over and arrested on DUI charges on Friday night, June 11, 2010, outside of Carmel, California, where he owns a home. This on the heels of his company’s legal troubles.
A Monterey County sheriff’s deputy stopped Kinkade for a minor traffic violation. According to the California Highway Patrol spokesperson, after an initial conversation about the violation, the deputy gave Kinkade a sobriety test, which he failed.
LA TIMES Article on his DUI. Click here.
The following are excerpts from eHOW on
Value of Thomas Kinkade Prints
Kinkade Prints
Warning
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Themes of magical realism stream through Peter Doig’s work, capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquillity, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream. Drawing from his Canadian childhood, and one of the spookier scenes from Friday the 13th, Peter Doig’s canoes have become a seminal image in his work; their reflection in the water, like a double life, is a fantasy mirror to the unknown. Canoe-Lake is rendered with unsettling perfection: capturing not just a spying view over a fence, but the strange echoing silence of drifting on a lake, the impossible stillness of the current, and the cloying warmth of late-summer air.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Encasutic painting: John Buckland
John Buckland's landscape images are strongly drawn from the North Wales countryside in which he lives and works. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky was born on December, 16th (4), 1866 in Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good cultural environment. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa where his father ran his tea factory. There, alongside with attending a classical gymnasium (grammar school), the boy learned to play the piano and the cello and took to drawing with a coach. "I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of the reality", he wrote later. In Kandinsky's works of his childhood period we can find rather specific color combinations, which he explained by the fact that "each color lives by its mysterious life".
Friday, November 5, 2010
Perin Mahler
Click here to see more of her paintings.
My current body of work, titled Autobiographies, is a series of large, multi-figure paintings illustrating various aspects of my life both personal and professional. In these works I use the format of history painting, normally associated with the heroic and eternal, to depict quotidian subjects. Using complicated structures and often large casts of characters, I’m attempting to conjure a dramatic presence from a scene that might be experienced on a daily basis. Most recently, the themes of these paintings have veered toward domestic subject matter, focusing on parenthood and its various experiences. I’m interested in the idea of responsibility both in the sense of physical care, with its concomitant associations of anxiety and fatigue, and in the habits and personality traits bequeathed through heredity. These works, almost as much still life as figure compositions, use objects to represent the burdens of domestic life.
Luc Tuyman
Exposing the gap between represented image and historical event, Luc Tuymans's paintings delve into the inner workings of how mythology is created. The reality of Luc Tuymans's work is almost 'twee', pleasing images of a lampshade or leopard-skin rug pass quite comfortably as aesthetic totems; it's only their cognitive association with the Holocaust, or atrocities of the Belgian Congo, that encapsulates the true banality of evil - the unspeakable horror in a teacup, the monstrous potential of an empty bath. Luc Tuymans's paintings consciously fall desperately short of the iconic, becoming vestiges posed as counterfeit emblems for that which cannot be conveyed.
For more click here.
Alexa Meade
"Meditation", Photo of performance comprised of acrylic paint on a live model and found objects.
This person puts a different twist on "Figure painting".
Click here to go to her website.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Jose Roosevelt
Click here to se more of his work and other artists.Attention students: there are also a lot of other interesting surrealist artists on this site. However, do not submit others from this same site, find new sources.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
MaryAnn Bonjorni Lecture (THIS THURSDAY)
Professor MaryAnn Bonjorni will be presenting a lecture on her sabbatical work on Thursday, October 14th, 6:00 pm in LA 11. (The LA building is the one directly accross from the front of the art building).
For extra credit, attend her lecture and write a one paragraph summary.
3 from Rico
Jeremy Geddes for more of his work click here.
Mark Bryan: Website: CLICK HERE
ZACK ZDRALE, website click here.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Figurative Painters (Gestural)
David Park
Richard Diebenkorn
Nathan OliveiraClick on the links below to see some good examples.
Bay Area Figurative Artists
Richard Diebenkorn
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Mick Finch: New Technology, New Painting?
Technological change has meant that photography, film, video and more recently holography and digital forms, are now widely acceptable artistic mediums. But beyond this adoption of technologies by artists lie deeper questions. Technological impact in the context of mass culture is transforming how we view and experience the world. How can artistic practice examine all that constitutes this transformation? Historically artists have not simply up-graded their artistic pratice by adopting new technologies. Leo Steinberg used painting to formulate a concept of how information works. In 1968 he examined a changing relationship between painter and image which, he argued, was dependent upon the way general representational models were being influenced by mediated information.
"(T)he pictures of the last fifteen to twenty years insist on a radically new orientation, in which the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes".
"(T)he pictures of the last fifteen to twenty years insist on a radically new orientation, in which the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes".
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