Studio Visit: Kiel Johnson: The Animated World of Everything in a Universe of Possibilities By Gary Brewer “Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets…
Studio Visit: Ron Athey, Undoing the Morbid Body of Christian Guilt By Gary Brewer “…I am nothing but love all my branches burn if I darken the day then the shadow recoils within me…” -Jean Genet, Funeral March Dionysian pleasure – a world freed from the sins of the father – awakening in the…
Studio Visit: Kimberly Brooks, The Metaphysical Touch “The real voyage of discovery consists of not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust “A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities.” Leonard…
Final Round Up: Studio System 2 at Torrance Art Museum By Lawrence Gipe After spending the month of June creating work, the 12 artists participating in the Studio System 2 residency at the Torrance Art Museum displayed the results of their labors at a closing reception on June 30. It was this author’s pleasure and privilege…
Studio Visit: Leigh Salgado, The Power of Pink “The beauty of the world which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. By Gary Brewer The weave of a pattern, the frilly ornamentation of lacy shapes layered into thoughts…
Studio Visit: Lawrence Gipe : The Dark Poetry of History “One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] – it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir… as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those…
Studio visit: Tim Musso, A Whale’s Heart and the Redwood Tree “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars… The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.” Robinson Jeffers “All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man.…
