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…
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: 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.…
Artist Profile: Britney Penouilh, A Journey from New Orleans to LA By Genie Davis Artist Britney Penouilh was born in New Orleans and has done artists residencies in New York, Alaska, and North Carolina. Having moved to Los Angeles, she spends a great deal of time exploring the desert and its rich minerals and stones,…
