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The main focus is pints, ceramics, photography, fiber arts. nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-8161241495439580102019-12-28T21:54:00.000-08:002020-01-13T09:40:49.538-08:00Catalan Vessels <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Last October, I spent almost a month at the Art Print Residence, outside of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">At that time there was a lot of political activism regarding the secession of Catalonia from the rest of the country. Catalonian flags hung on every building. There were protests, strikes and at the end battles in the center of Barcelona between the police and the protesters that set a pace of almost of a state of emergency. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I could not stay indifferent to the general state of upheaval, yet I was there to print my woodcuts, images of bowls and vessels, domestic elements that have little to do with politics. I realized that although I was in sunny Spain working in a great studio surrounded by a garden, a small piece of paradise, instead of using color that reflected the joi de vivre, I was working on compositions using black ink on black paper.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I was wandering why and then I realized that it was my impression of Spain, through the memory of Federico Garcia Lorca’s last play: The house of Bernarda Alba. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">It has been written at the eve of Spanish Civil war in 1936 and is a metaphor of oppressive government. The widow Bernarda Alba is running a very tight household, adhering to her strict rules without taking in consideration the desires and needs of her daughters, creating tension that culminates in tragedy. </span></div>
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nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-85503265646182616692019-01-05T19:29:00.000-08:002019-01-05T19:29:36.435-08:00Printing sessions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a printmaker who does not own a press. For years I have created prints using alternative printing methods, until my recent residency at the Constellation Stdios, in Lincoln, NE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having a press all to myself 24/7 was like falling in love again to a long lost lover. Now I am totally hooked to printing, the ink preparation, the smell, the paper, the trans I get while I am composing my images. I never use sketchbooks. Before the printing session I gather my carved blocks, my tools, the ink, the paper and I compose the images upon the whim of the day. I love the double excitement of pulling a print that I have put together in an almost automatic unpremeditated way. </span></div>
nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-11527052647562468642019-01-02T10:10:00.001-08:002019-01-02T10:12:59.040-08:00Happy new vessels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May 2019 be a year full of inner light, warmth, creativity and adventure that nourish the soul. </span></div>
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nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-76419889540576021492018-11-24T14:45:00.000-08:002018-11-24T14:45:19.522-08:00Ruth Asawa: Life's Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw this very beautiful show at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Asawa is a remarkable American artist, I had never heard of. Her experimental sculptures are totally innovative, poetic and etherial. She explores light and shadow, weight and volume, materiality and transparency and the in-between or negative space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing it from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air. You can see right through most of my sculpture...And I like the way the pieces overlap, because they are transparent. Transparency is very exciting to me." </span></div>
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nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-71947852999017354312018-10-16T21:30:00.000-07:002018-11-12T14:01:58.732-08:00Pressing Matters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am getting ready for a week long residency at Karen Kunc’s Constellation Studios in Nebraska. After a long pause of a couple of years I have not been doing printmaking, I am going to start developing my project under the name “Ikat DNA”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am going to create a hybrid between photography and printmaking, exploring the visual vocabulary of Uzbek Ikat textiles and the faces of Uzbekistan’s future. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My passion for Ikat textiles brought me to the ancient cities on the Silk Road. Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent. I have spent three weeks touring the landlocked Central Asian Country, crossing deserts, the steppes, visiting fabulous cities and monuments and taking pictures of children. </span></div>
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nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-8295673901126858132018-09-02T06:13:00.003-07:002018-09-02T06:13:51.378-07:00Indictio/ Ινδικτος<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Since the Roman times Indictio marked the beginning of the year and the time of harvest, compulsory provisions of food and clothing in preparation of the winter, as well as the collection of taxes, the start of the fiscal year. </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">In modern day Greece, Indictio marks the new year, a day that counts the time since the beginning of the creation, approximately 7980 years ago. Also Indictio/ Ινδικτος marks still in the rural Greece the first day of the new, as well as the ecclesiastical year. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">From now on, this will be the place I present and write about my art. Monoprints, photography and ceramics. </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Stay tuned. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Nancy Exarhu</span><br />
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nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-61763770171025397082013-01-01T08:27:00.001-08:002013-01-01T08:27:46.297-08:00Embarking to a new yearFirst day of 2013, a year I intend to keep this blog afloat and bring to its followers lots of art news and artwork! May the wind blow into our sails!<br />
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<br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeT0BEFy18AFTgfvnKqnueiKygPwh2KWW3MQFPZy7L_K3tR2yhc8xT9jy7EcQ_GYTUu8V_owx3hRxaj1Fsv4BXp30aqxGb1FfW4FP_nQBOhVfgGxX-73o-duCfEB6eT5rQYHreY3FIkYH/s640/blogger-image-1633211055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeT0BEFy18AFTgfvnKqnueiKygPwh2KWW3MQFPZy7L_K3tR2yhc8xT9jy7EcQ_GYTUu8V_owx3hRxaj1Fsv4BXp30aqxGb1FfW4FP_nQBOhVfgGxX-73o-duCfEB6eT5rQYHreY3FIkYH/s640/blogger-image-1633211055.jpg" /></a></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-18446832086412823692010-09-12T07:34:00.000-07:002010-09-12T07:34:48.732-07:00Talisman<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRfrtVCzuFNxUQ2yOEZgmucjv9IEYd5c89UB-IpIIoYgWjcT4WbwYibK_m3ZFJ64GYU0dciUkAcBmhP4hcTdBotNLcuNCg1Vff9RD0cM6f0oCw6y061BcjydGYJ1MG3XyPf-CnirhG75-/s1600/IMG_0893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRfrtVCzuFNxUQ2yOEZgmucjv9IEYd5c89UB-IpIIoYgWjcT4WbwYibK_m3ZFJ64GYU0dciUkAcBmhP4hcTdBotNLcuNCg1Vff9RD0cM6f0oCw6y061BcjydGYJ1MG3XyPf-CnirhG75-/s400/IMG_0893.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">"Talisman", hand made necklace and earrings by Natassa Fokianidou-Theodoridou</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Natassa, who is also known as Pharaona, lives and works as a fiber artist in Thessaloniki, Greece.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She says about her work:"Yarns are a very seductive adventure for me. Whenever I see any sort of weaving it always attracts my attention. A silk shawl or a cotton blouse make me instantly observe their way of construction and how they are weaved or knit, whether they are hand made or machine made. I begin immediately to make a story. How it would look in another color, with what other fabric it would go on well, where it comes from… and all this happens in a fraction of time, many years now. As a result of this craze with yarns and weavings I keep on experimenting with combining them with other materials. Wood, stones, beads, bones, dried flowers, shells, silver and gold, brass, wire, glass, leather, papier mache. What I really enjoy is when materials have a completely opposite texture, and the color combinations are daring and unusual. But what satisfies me the most and feel it deep in my heart is that: part of me is concentrated right on my work bench and my other half flies untamed on top of the sea, on mountains, volcanoes, woodlands, lakes, rivers, waterfalls that are full of the daylight, the dusk and the dawn, living alone with a rhythm full of mystery. <br />
There, along with all these, I love, and I keep being creative." </span><br />
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http://www.pharaona1.blogspot.com <br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/natasa22455 </div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-59528941556889343742010-09-11T07:45:00.000-07:002011-02-03T07:47:43.754-08:00Istanbul, Cultural capital of Europe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIToDEZqdng9INtWifBaWLxQuj73JqvGY7-iVyoj35nSWFfcrSlxoWWT6fHB7jp_uDaL5DplYA3H_JJyqQmxatv1Yr1MNaj06CcQR5jc9-QY07C3hJP5yPPCF2d7RP8Obi-kXw0HxTHaQn/s1600/IMG_0188.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIToDEZqdng9INtWifBaWLxQuj73JqvGY7-iVyoj35nSWFfcrSlxoWWT6fHB7jp_uDaL5DplYA3H_JJyqQmxatv1Yr1MNaj06CcQR5jc9-QY07C3hJP5yPPCF2d7RP8Obi-kXw0HxTHaQn/s320/IMG_0188.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglncDfnJc0-0crJin5pWOF9pwKFhhs9XA5JsSK-9XQmh4gWgznO5P9TeLwYsOgjz0_1nQOWZAVJ097Ir8hlpdUhLK0EIDESxRUZFUAvFJfasCEyHmq48aJmWn2NleRsXgIQzHEYWASMrjk/s400/Untitled+Image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504193889335687346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">"Waterless Slip", mixed media print by Amy Firestone Rosen.</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">11''x14'', Edition of 30, 2010</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWpgj5HL-s79_F8yzNJtisMukl-dS-ozZic9sl9R4zdUEpuw5WyBN_hmsyeJPfNb4H9KV2WpxpRD3pw3AZCNQYuBlLYHKbKzSWdQfYExiCj05NYMUfo5fyMD60DdU6sR9NXaWPnX7MXN6/s1600/Untitled+Image+1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWpgj5HL-s79_F8yzNJtisMukl-dS-ozZic9sl9R4zdUEpuw5WyBN_hmsyeJPfNb4H9KV2WpxpRD3pw3AZCNQYuBlLYHKbKzSWdQfYExiCj05NYMUfo5fyMD60DdU6sR9NXaWPnX7MXN6/s400/Untitled+Image+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504195273595904258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><img src="file:///Users/max/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" />nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-12940265163667237632010-07-29T15:10:00.000-07:002010-08-27T12:53:26.935-07:00Studio Escargot-photography<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-TE35VG6jtvkg4Gde7hL_WdTPqJbheANISNYKhiQHfrICBp8X8SuWDl8BNjUoE48wAwgAit8teSGRDKPkEoJY6HXhyphenhyphenRlJoyCjVjELX83C8wjeMoDi07grpMOhiig_XTZK4EV9pEiCqh7/s1600/IMG_7669.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-TE35VG6jtvkg4Gde7hL_WdTPqJbheANISNYKhiQHfrICBp8X8SuWDl8BNjUoE48wAwgAit8teSGRDKPkEoJY6HXhyphenhyphenRlJoyCjVjELX83C8wjeMoDi07grpMOhiig_XTZK4EV9pEiCqh7/s400/IMG_7669.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510178012751481858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Nancy Exarhu, Mesta, digital print, 2010</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUDJeYtYd8skp51-4JZ72lDnRn3aMHaE5lFKMlx7vlPsJoQpwllR44-RRh4UYYKrkBZ0SQlDl3lZ4Lvt1qN-nIJnewSA6VNeYjzDAsGRZZmjoPuCG7-X1a2Ctti-BCm2Tf9ocb4tJXggI/s1600/_MG_3472.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOUDJeYtYd8skp51-4JZ72lDnRn3aMHaE5lFKMlx7vlPsJoQpwllR44-RRh4UYYKrkBZ0SQlDl3lZ4Lvt1qN-nIJnewSA6VNeYjzDAsGRZZmjoPuCG7-X1a2Ctti-BCm2Tf9ocb4tJXggI/s400/_MG_3472.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504222727246543026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Max Holtz, Athens, digital print, 2010</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Studio Escargot is based in St. Louis, MO and promotes art print</span>s <span style="font-family:lucida grande;">and photography</span>.nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-79811286056170856022010-06-06T07:54:00.000-07:002010-08-28T08:56:35.585-07:00ex-plate...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZsWrgvF_9w1DEsCYrli_CcVLJ-neDufXxWFX9pz_Wz7wT1_V1YlbkOh0UdMJAS5HbQomA7XNY1S5yPFcweb_09tHX0gg70zNvlyVlVG0bhThADHYoXqDzqx8NO-1cFkkVoe2w1Ci1I2M/s1600/yan.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmOnZcUOSAseKuX9mPhfDSHse1kFmQmT3xlfJQKT6ya7kIt1tUo5AKsuu0dbg7DBheBWQfD_ZqCwRqgTisH3V98ZRT8yEgx4TpsyBtm_ond-g2Saa_QGnyI5wxe2E2InCbjUlRtEzFcbE8/s400/-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510165396510034242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Manolis Yannadakis, ex-plate.../prints- monoprints-installation<br />Greek print maker extraordinaire.</span> <span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br />Lives in Thessaloniki and works at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University</span> <span style="font-family: lucida grande;">where he teaches Drawing and Printmaking.<br />His work has been shown localy and internationally and is represented by Artis Causa Gallery in Thessaloniki.<br />www.artcau.gr </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJGPSVjfFcQescvgEs_jejV2OoLjpDdMJxhpzl7PWEUuEFFc4jUWPoBdcg0xLgirIKWB3g-w-Xg1YaGZy5-C2WefpzBeUc6WBcq2-BV55zp29huX1AWSYCKQWawCS7nELoMe1wR3AoYM7U/s1600/Yiannadakis5_web_large-.JPG.jpeg"><span><span></span></span></a>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-21439540098731964772010-05-04T09:50:00.000-07:002010-05-05T13:03:30.736-07:00Tom Huck-Evil Prints<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTDI-r3Y3memQMW5Kzq_Veg34HqR7WUY82d5LZDDMNIbrbpgJBbg-HwCyBrdCz9tpgLcJ0J15hIk2F3ZKdUgE5IyqiIEuenUcQW9btnZNZt1mJ56VFSxCKl5kPRSgP7s8qz1hmm_GPXVF/s1600/brandybaghead6panel.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></p></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"The transformation of Brandy Baghead", by Tom Huck. Woodcut on paper, 82''x24'', 82''x45'', 82''x24''. 2007-2009. Edition of 40. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tom Huck lives and works in St. Louis where he owns and operates Evil Prints Studio.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He says about his work:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"My work deals with personal observations about the experiences of living in a small town in south west Missouri. The often strange and humorous occurences, places, and people in these towns offer a never-ending source of inspiration for my prints. I call this work "rural satire". My work has been influenced by an array of artists, among them the woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, the etchings of Warrington Colescott, nearly all of the German Expressionists, and the late great Frank Zappa. My chosen media is printmaking, specifically woodcut. The combination of dark humor with the inherently expressive medium of the woodcut heightens the complexity of my images. Fot the past few years I have been engaged in the creation of a folio of prints entitled "2 weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities". Each image depicts a single day's occurence, while all the images together describe a period of two weeks. The images come from either personal accounts or local folklore from my hometown of Potosi, Missouri."<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More about Toms amazing prints and activities at: www.evilprints.com</span></span></span></div></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-75258518642137874392010-04-29T18:58:00.000-07:002010-05-04T09:50:31.331-07:00Patsy Degener (1924-2010)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-_iwLcFvRP-79zKvOZpJm5PbeK5ty_ccVIehIuurdjPbUy1oWumIkFn_ewm_KRsi2Agub-lXFCQ20YFjKtG4qMWTwzo02y_HQTzeTZe2r93CodNPJNR4v4sRHlDbAcFmX1zGhi9FzzvF/s1600/E7C48C41-3048-7A03-39054A5E33CFA891.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-_iwLcFvRP-79zKvOZpJm5PbeK5ty_ccVIehIuurdjPbUy1oWumIkFn_ewm_KRsi2Agub-lXFCQ20YFjKtG4qMWTwzo02y_HQTzeTZe2r93CodNPJNR4v4sRHlDbAcFmX1zGhi9FzzvF/s320/E7C48C41-3048-7A03-39054A5E33CFA891.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465744221610039618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> <span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Last month Patsy </span>Degener<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> passed away. </span></span><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> When I first came to St. Louis she was introduced to me as a </span></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> </span>remarkable<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> person, a great artist and a fierce art critic. Indeed I was very happy to have met a real artist, passionate with her work, opinionated about art, outspoken and with an impeccable taste. I was very much impressed by her ceramics that are a hybrid of sculpture and painting dealing with art historical, mythological and architectural subjects. </span></span><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span>She started out to be a painter, but chose ceramics when she lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx early in her marriage. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">''After my second child was born,” she told a reporter, “I decided that I was becoming a vegetable. I was trained to paint and I tried to paint, but that was entirely too intellectual with babies around, so I took up ceramics.'' </span></div><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">She moved with her family to St. Louis in the '50s and lived here since. </span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span>Patsy had a rich and productive life and left us her art and her impact in the St. Louis art scene. She was a member of the faculty of People's Art Center, a progressive inner-city program founded by the WPA in 1942. It was the first racially integrated arts program in the city. </span><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">She also was responsible for running MECA, the Metropolitan Educational Center for the Arts, a federally funded arts program. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">She taught art in the St. Louis public schools, too, in the famous program initiated and run by the late Dr. Marie Larkin. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">She influenced and formed the art scene of St. Louis as a founding member of Craft </span>Alliance<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> Gallery and the First Street Forum now the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and from 1980 till 1990 as an art critic for the St. Louis-Post Dispatch. </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-25417013033697649152010-04-21T08:15:00.001-07:002010-04-22T12:28:54.530-07:00Franco Ionda<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLN8t8z0Fd9ze4ArhnBkz9TBLe_wNAHwq020wcHhCGHl5-DBscvUgLIawVPJX4YFJ4Jf1H67iRPT-UzbvESDLhmCnoCNIzSppBIzJio9P6jdJh1o0zdcfNHzhmL5hAGvIc9fJQddu7L6J/s1600/picture.aspx.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLN8t8z0Fd9ze4ArhnBkz9TBLe_wNAHwq020wcHhCGHl5-DBscvUgLIawVPJX4YFJ4Jf1H67iRPT-UzbvESDLhmCnoCNIzSppBIzJio9P6jdJh1o0zdcfNHzhmL5hAGvIc9fJQddu7L6J/s320/picture.aspx.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462609876979845218" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;font-size: 12px; "><tbody><tr valign="top" align="left"><td face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" size="10pt" style=" "><br /></td><td face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" size="10pt" style=" "> </td><td style="text-align: justify;font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mistake 3 by Franco Ionda</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span id="SearchResults_rptLotResults__ctl0_lblTitleNotes"></span></span></span></td></tr><tr id="SearchResults_rptLotResults__ctl0_trMedium" valign="top" align="left"><td style="text-align: justify;font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></td><td face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" size="10pt" style="text-align: justify;"> </td><td style="text-align: justify;font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mixed Media and Acrylic on paper</span></span></td></tr><tr id="SearchResults_rptLotResults__ctl0_trSize" valign="top" align="left"><td style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></td><td style="text-align: justify;"> </td><td style="text-align: justify;"><span id="SearchResults_rptLotResults__ctl0_lblSize"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">23.6 x 31.5 in. / 60 x 80 cm.</span></span></span></td></tr><tr id="SearchResults_rptLotResults__ctl0_trWorkYears" valign="top" align="left"><td style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></td><td style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></td><td><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', Arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Franco lives and works in Florence, Italy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">He has been collaborating for almost 20 years with Centro per l’ arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato and with numerous international museums. He started showing his work first in Belgium in 1986 and since his work has been exposed in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and USA. He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">More about Franco at www.francoionda.com</div></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-43600346607915069642010-04-20T16:17:00.000-07:002010-04-23T08:01:19.953-07:00First<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIlzPhN4iBXC8uVJz5U_znzW-rCEFSBmK5T60-zL1K0MdiDStzSN86YW8QcdOqAQ_ky7YVDo8QfbGggnf4_ywDh8LIEI6-o3pS51QmOLucyRYrvSSZghkyotFRgLBFOtivha9Gd5i8sQK/s1600/First.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAIlzPhN4iBXC8uVJz5U_znzW-rCEFSBmK5T60-zL1K0MdiDStzSN86YW8QcdOqAQ_ky7YVDo8QfbGggnf4_ywDh8LIEI6-o3pS51QmOLucyRYrvSSZghkyotFRgLBFOtivha9Gd5i8sQK/s320/First.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462363045941965186" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"First",mixed media on paper by Lauren Bakoian. Lauren lives and works in NY</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">She says about her work: "First</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is 12 x 20 inches, white gouache, ink and black gesso on paper. I begin by making a grid on the paper and I have a general idea about how to divide the space. The process brings about change. The image emerges, and synthesis happens between idea and process. Many of the works are based on Armenian miniatures in their structure. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> First</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is the first piece in this body of work. Like </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">First</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, many of the works are set up like two pages in a book.The gouache is from the paint maker Robert Doak at </span></span><a href="http://robertdoakcolors.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">robertdoakcolors.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. It is actually a white watercolor. His colors are beautiful and on a whim I bought white. The gesso is Golden and the paper I think is Rives BFK, but it was a couple of years ago. Oh, the date on the work is 2006."</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-34532471685019425922010-04-20T16:11:00.001-07:002010-04-22T06:36:15.017-07:00Hot House<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCNghe744Ie1uZDc5CKAdelxwsLpQ-PLckTeSfopP8AeIEEV9nmtjw6XdfN-eooNzDzYzuKCxN0eab3pEvEbx6QBJRSFyz15JMp6NUlXEtE9Lu-gPt0xgIMr4kXERvpJCGRmUrFYIS3BV/s1600/17_Hot+House+61x49.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCNghe744Ie1uZDc5CKAdelxwsLpQ-PLckTeSfopP8AeIEEV9nmtjw6XdfN-eooNzDzYzuKCxN0eab3pEvEbx6QBJRSFyz15JMp6NUlXEtE9Lu-gPt0xgIMr4kXERvpJCGRmUrFYIS3BV/s320/17_Hot+House+61x49.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462362108655361090" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Hot House", painting by Barbara Holtz who lives and works in St. Louis, MO</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Barbara says about her painting: "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hot House is the result of several arrangements and palettes. Once I felt there was some depth I began the process of spacial arrangement and then the addition of sharp accents to give the plane some punch. I was also involved in making a variety of markings. Going over and over the negative spaces with a range of reds created a surface I hoped would make the painting bristle. At first of course I thought of Matisse. However, I wanted to move to my own rhythm. If the painting had not been framed I would probably keep dabbing at it. In the end, I did decide to include the Matisse cat in homage to him."</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More about Barbara at </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Barbara+Holtz/25220.html</span></span></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-46695188894474495592010-04-20T07:18:00.000-07:002010-04-21T08:08:02.035-07:00Small Talk Interlude<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CqvDDjj-iUm_sLE1de1J4_ShU2RfDMuqDcQ_KIRvYPWI_v6C1a6jHIDIOZWkGlWNyAic_Igy2ujI8ZsGsF5d7YwkpkSnS7SeiJysX-Ippl8iR3mQdhRxt8zWRjZytQmFaBJMNV31aPla/s1600/SmallTalk+Interlude.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CqvDDjj-iUm_sLE1de1J4_ShU2RfDMuqDcQ_KIRvYPWI_v6C1a6jHIDIOZWkGlWNyAic_Igy2ujI8ZsGsF5d7YwkpkSnS7SeiJysX-Ippl8iR3mQdhRxt8zWRjZytQmFaBJMNV31aPla/s320/SmallTalk+Interlude.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462224210367823970" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><b>Small Talk Interlude</b>, Collage</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: 300; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">by Pam Anderson who lives and works in Richmond, VA.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;">33''x30''</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Pencil, thread, gesso, charcoal, paper napkin</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Pam says about her art: "I am interested in the space between sentiment and pure formalism. I find a pleasing coupling is struck between the external world collage evokes and the more meditative and internal rhythms of drawing and sewing. Emptiness matters, and if clutter or crowding occurs, it is deliberate. Everything here is deliberate, usually surgical in its precision. Precious is an essential adjective in describing this work (I'm holding on, the work is holding on). I'm a collector of minutes and hours, even days, but also of the petty thesaurus scrap that would otherwise end up on the floor. I'm an arranger, an organizer of mostly flat space, though sometimes I tease with an illusion. My pieces are meant to be read, not just seen. They are syntactical and intimate. The work likes being caught between divisions, pairing opposites: keeping together/falling apart; past/present; top/bottom: fast/slow; written/imaged; actual/simulated; present/absent. Sometimes it is hard to tell which is which. In the last couple of years I have experienced death often and profoundly, losing people I cared about far too soon. If people are not yet dead, they are sick. Waiting. Underneath everything is this. Art, this art, is a way to make sense of the senseless. " </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;">More about Pam at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;">www.mapanderson.com </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;">and</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', serif;">http://www.markelfinearts.com/port.php?id=7</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><h3 style="text-align: justify;font-size: 18px; color: rgb(227, 227, 227); margin-top: 0px; font-weight: lighter; "><i><br /></i></h3></span></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-16426127686371842472010-04-19T15:35:00.000-07:002010-04-20T08:45:13.627-07:00Scouting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHgLJBYp8hzWtVfJP85s7pRf_F2QBpWzUeQSgcp6wOum7vHNiwCiaomlY7ah9TdAAFOsl_nWpgQHI5T68hXutfVDy-y3QXe5B9l0rL4IcnvSwFFYTZ8ex48eGfL4i68VAbQy2ZQoPDioX/s1600/Heller_Scouting.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHgLJBYp8hzWtVfJP85s7pRf_F2QBpWzUeQSgcp6wOum7vHNiwCiaomlY7ah9TdAAFOsl_nWpgQHI5T68hXutfVDy-y3QXe5B9l0rL4IcnvSwFFYTZ8ex48eGfL4i68VAbQy2ZQoPDioX/s320/Heller_Scouting.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461980958663147474" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><div style="text-align: center;">"Scouting", a print by Julie Heller, collagiste extraordinaire.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Julie lives and works in St.Louis as a graphic designer. She uses printed images from old publications and stamps in the most unpredictable way, composing portraits of perfect strangers. </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More about Julie at www.julieheller.com</span></span></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-58473363078030514312010-04-19T06:48:00.000-07:002010-04-20T16:20:53.427-07:00Passion or the Impossible Choice<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0Hv_7zIscBx_vCEtaE_KCFBC6RCj5xzxDI72dZkS9tnZMVAawivN2vazL6nhOwDXs_9HBeJJGPl2P2aTdpOoQIjD-nlwhsItF7ytBUpS6-1plcvolDktZ-FZ-llqVWjsJjs8PBXVLj2b/s1600/Photo003+copie+000.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0Hv_7zIscBx_vCEtaE_KCFBC6RCj5xzxDI72dZkS9tnZMVAawivN2vazL6nhOwDXs_9HBeJJGPl2P2aTdpOoQIjD-nlwhsItF7ytBUpS6-1plcvolDktZ-FZ-llqVWjsJjs8PBXVLj2b/s320/Photo003+copie+000.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461845483119276914" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Passion or the impossible choice <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Romaine Fauchère</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">diptych 111cmx122cm </span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Rembrandt oil on canvas</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> </span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">She says about her painting: </span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">"The research field is the exploration of different paths, daring and frustrating the «choice » to achieve at the extreme where the antagonists meet and are confronted.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">To abandon, and finally to discover the intrusive and joyful fullness.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">To give up to distinguish the detail in order to discover unexpected totality.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Passion rises from this renunciation.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">The blue and the red that have been opposed over centuries of painting and optics, twinkle and palpitate on the same level."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Romaine is born in Sion, Switzerland, lives in Lausanne.</span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">She studied painting, sculpture, scenography and design at the Academia delle Belle Arti in Firenze and at the Academia delle Belle Arti of Brera, Milan (Italy) where she graduated in 1989.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Later she trained in scientific drawing and she collaborated with several archaeology institutes.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Since 1990, Romaine has created more than thirty scenographies and costumes for operas, classic and contemporary theatre in Switzerland, Germany and France.</span></span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">At the same time, Romaine keeps developing her activity as a painter and she exposes individually and collectively in Switzerland and Italy.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /><br /></span></p><div><br /></div></span>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872652717092873156.post-82332619155402619752010-04-18T09:17:00.000-07:002010-04-20T08:42:08.692-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMpTQF3uMuMPm-Ayc_sxEetomYVzyh-rxdOZYb2_XelSU-auWwAlyBQ6PAfVYm592yRKhMb7rk5OkPnEti_JgBaVvW303xlNRhss2bHkZJJjfmZheLDOIxh8BOZaQojBiRrkUhgbZdX0du/s1600/IMG_1451_1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMpTQF3uMuMPm-Ayc_sxEetomYVzyh-rxdOZYb2_XelSU-auWwAlyBQ6PAfVYm592yRKhMb7rk5OkPnEti_JgBaVvW303xlNRhss2bHkZJJjfmZheLDOIxh8BOZaQojBiRrkUhgbZdX0du/s320/IMG_1451_1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461512776024468978" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><div style="text-align: justify;">Daffodils signal the end of the winter. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Mixed media drawing on paper. I forget the dimensions. Not too small, not too big. Made in 2007 by Nancy Exarhu. </span></div>nexarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04520740738083170442noreply@blogger.com1