Art Influencer: Astri Swendsrud Embraces Non-Traditional Routes of Art Presentation By Sydney Walters Los Angeles is notorious for a vivacious arts and entertainment scene. Yet it can be daunting for artists as they muse upon the many places that may be a good launch pad for his or her work. Many artists regard Blue Chip…
Studio visit: Rebecca Farr, The Spiritual Embodiment of Empathy “Empathy makes you imagine the sensation of the torture, of the hunger, of the loss. You make that person into yourself, you inscribe their suffering on your body or heart or mind…Physical pain defines the physical boundaries of the self but these identifications define a larger…
Studio Visit: Roland Reiss, Chromatic Joy By Gary Brewer “Colors have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of color.” “There are always flowers for…
Studio Visit: Kio Griffith, Between Worlds By Gary Brewer “At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which…
Studio Visit: Jennifer Celio, Natural Selection and the Art of Survival By Gary Brewer “Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment… The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and…
Studio Visit: Srijon Chowdhury – Color as Spirit, Matter, Emotion By Gary Brewer “The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world… the picture… which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing…
Studio Visit: Jay Mark Johnson, The Shape of Time By Gary Brewer “Before the new technologies and ideas, time was a river in which human beings were immersed, moving steadily on the current, never faster than the speeds of nature…Photography appears on this scene as though someone had found a way to freeze…
