Trying to make your way in the art-world is not easy. And treating it lightly is not the way to make doors open for you. I remember once when I said i took a job as a designer someone said, “that sounds like fun”. Pssht, right, revisions upon revisions, indecisive clients…picky clients, designers block, not [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Being an Artist: PROOF-READ EVERYTHING
Posted in Being an Artist, Essays, Misc., Photography, tagged Being an Artist, Essays, Submissions on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fall=Art. Mark Slankard @ CSU and Mallorie Freeman @ WR
Posted in Openings, Painting, Photography, exhibitions, tagged Cleveland Art Scene, cleveland artists, CSU art gallery, Openings, Painting, Photography, william rup on August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
School buses, crickets, dark mornings all signal one thing: summer is in the September of its years…sob. The days will still be warm and in theory summer is still raging on, but we all know its a downward slope. Plastic surgery couldn’t rejuvenate the wrinkled droopy skin of the always fleeting season of humid sweltering [...]
Michael Dotson: Master of the tape
Posted in Being an Artist, Painting, tagged cleveland artists, Painting on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CIA graduate and now Washington DC artist Michael Dotson has created this Electric Company-esque youtube video look into his process as a painter. Dotson’s hyper colorful Apple I I e program computer-y architectural Tron landscapes are both a celebration of painting and seeing like the Op Art of Bridget Rilley and [...]
Photography: Between You and the World.
Posted in Essays, Photography, criticism, tagged Essays, Photography on August 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I read an article in the New York Times recently about museum behavior. How attendees generally breeze through galleries rarely looking anymore than the time it would take to read the label or description on the wall. It seems people subconsciously want someone to tell them what they should be looking for first, glance at [...]
Studio Report.com: The Inner Sanctum
Posted in Being an Artist, Painting, Photography, tagged artist studios, Painting, Photography on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Artists whose work is omnipotent, in magazines, proliferated over the Internet and art magazines are sometimes larger than life. The images become icons and then the often man behind the man behind the man, the puppet master, the face in the shadows pulling the strings is like the mystery of the person in the limo. [...]
Power of…A slow week
Posted in Photography, Power Of..., tagged Flickr on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been a bit anemic on my art writing lately. Summer is dragging on here and I’ve been busy living the dream. You know, working 40 hrs to save some money and pay some bills, raising 2 kids, making art, cooking, eating, cultivating my savage tan, and trying to stay on top of all [...]
