Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
"Painting allows my subconscious perceptions to register graphically, similar to the way they do in dreams. I have come to see painting as a developing solution to the unconscious. If I allow myself enough freedom , painting goes beyond the formal and aesthetic into a dialogue with the psyche."
Joe Goodwin
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Robert Raushcenberg (1925 - 2008).
Recognised as an heir to Dada and precursor of Pop Art, he glued, assembled and happily combined all sorts of images and materials from his era, playing on their interaction in terms of shape, texture and colour. In 1958, Léo Castelli took him under his wing ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
While working on his MFA at the University of Illinois, Joe Goodwin became interested in the work and ideas of C.G. Jung, especially his concept of the collective unconscious and his interest in dreams. Dreams defy physics and amplify experience with their ambiguous spaces, symbolic meanings, and sensations that seem to speak from ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust", yet most people are unaware of this genocide.
Babi Yar is the name of a ravine in the northwestern section of Kiev. A. Anatoli described the ravine as "enormous, you might even say ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
March 2008 - Featured Artist
::Portfolio:: :: Q & A :: ::Cindy Jackson ::
Cindy is presently developing a project called “REQUIEM for Babi Yar” - A proposal for a monumental sculptural environment to honor all those who perished in the Babi Yar ravine. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Born: 1960Education:
B.S. Webster University
B.F.A. Art Center College of Design
A.A.S. Southern Illinois University "Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our greatest interest is with things human." Cindy Jackson uses figurative sculpture is as a way of connecting with the outside world. "My desire is to make art that ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes in his painting. ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Max Miller was born in 1980 to a family of artists and craftsmen. His early years were characterized by his family constantly moving among various locations throughout North Carolina and Texas. Without any steady playmates, drawing became his chief activity. Max's parents would bring home reams of discarded paper, which he ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Over the past 25 years Mark Bennion (b.1948 Seattle, Washington) has developed a unique painting process, which he calls fresco. Using oil, plaster and paper on a panel on canvas, his work shows a contemporary edge and a pallet of it own, yet it seems like we are looking at fragments ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1904, Rotterdam; d. 1997, East Hampton, New York
Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904, in Rotterdam. From 1916 to 1925, he studied at night at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, while apprenticed to a commercial-art and decorating firm and later working for an ...
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