Studio Visit: Alex Couwenberg, The Language of Style “ In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.” ~Robert Motherwell “Art is an experience, not an object.” ~Robert Motherwell By Gary Brewer Language creation is an essential…
Studio Visit: Katherina Olschbaur, Form as Potential “When form’s in place, everything within it can be pure feeling” Chris Kraus, I Love Dick “There are so many kinds of reality, and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute.” Hélén Cixous, Eve Escapes By Gary Brewer Paint has the ability…
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.…
Studio Visit: Tim Hawkinson, The Indices of the Unknown “What is an idea? It is an image that paints itself in my brain.” Voltaire By Gary Brewer Art is a philosophical quest – it is a method of discovery – in the right hands one can use it to become a vehicle to question and…
Studio Visit: Andy Moses, Ecstatic Resonance “I sing the body electric… I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea… As I see my soul reflected in nature…” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass By Gary Brewer Every nerve fiber resonates to the rhythms of nature; the infinite space…
Studio Visit: Jodi Bonassi, Stories of the Persona “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” Joseph Campbell “Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls…” Alice Neel By Gary Brewer Painting is a spiritual discipline; it is a space and an…
