Artist Highlight; Beth Lo

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                                               Beth Lo, Made in USA, Slip Cast Porcelain

I was on the Jealous Curator blog and came across this artist, Beth Lo. Aren't these porcelain figures adorable? I love that she adds Mandarin text to her porcelain figures -they are 10 inches high.

Friday Mantra

List of Exhibitions in NYC That I Want to Go to this Fall/Winter

I was going over the New York Times list of upcoming art exhibitions for the September to May season and there were so many exhibitions that I am interested in going to.  I want to make more of an effort to see more art!

September

. Naim June Paik: Becoming Robot at the Asia Society.

. Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India at the Rubin Museum

. Thread Lines at the Drawing Center

. Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil at the Morgan Library and Museum

October

. Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper at the El Museo Del Barrio

. Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at the Museum of Modern Art

. Judith Scott-Bound and Unbound  at the Brooklyn Museum

. Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground at the Museum of Modern Art

. Cubism: The Leonard Lauder Collection at Metropolitan Museum of Art

. Helena Rubenstein: Beauty is Power at the Jewish Museum

. Chris Ofili: Night and Day at the New Museum

November

. Madame Cezanne at the Metropolitan Museum

December

. Reopening of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

. The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at the Museum of Modern Art

January

. Noguchi as Photographer; The Jantar Mantars of Northern India at the Noguchi Museum

February

. The Generational Triennial at the New Museum

March

. Laurie Simmons: Two Girls/1966 at the Jewish Museum

April

. Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum

. Portraits from the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts Paris at the Drawing Center

May

. Van Gogh; Roses and Irises at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Matisse The Cut-Outs Exhibition at MoMA

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                               Henri Matisse, The Parakeet and The Mermaid, 1952, Paper

There will be a Matisse The Cut-Outs Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art here in New York. It will begin October 15, 2014 and end on February 8, 2015. Here is the link to exhibit.

Interview with Jennifer Orkin Lewis on Lisa Congdon's blog

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Jennifer Orkin Lewis, Illustration

An artist friend of mine, told me about one of her favorite bloggers, Lisa Congdon -who is a well-known artist and illustrator from Oakland, California. I was on Lisa's blog and found her interview with Jennifer Orkin Lewis, aka AugustWren. Lisa talks to Jennifer about her daily painting project which has evolved over the years and now has ended up where she sets a timer of 30 minutes and when the timer goes off, it is a complete painting no matter what.  I love the discipline that Jennifer has in creating this daily habit of a painting a day -truly inspiring. Here is the link to the interview.

Wordless Wednesday

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                                                     Governors Island, New York, 2014

An idea for the next painting

Even though majority of my paintings are images of still life and portraiture -what I really love is abstract art -there is something about the colors and the patterns that I really enjoy looking at. What I have been doing is cutting and pasting from old magazines to come up with ideas for future abstract themed paintings.  I put these 2 cut outs together and came up with this image and I think this is going to be a new painting! I also have been wanting to try painting monochromatically so this image fits into that criteria perfectly.

Friday Mantra

Saw this on Pinterest and wanted to share it. I have been in a state of inertia and can't seem to wake up from it.  I am letting "Life" get in the way of my creative pursuits and I cannot let that happen. I need to just show up even if briefly.

Speed Sketching

Illustrations by Barbara Weeks.


I came across this article about speed sketching. This maybe a way for me to get back into drawing.

Essentially there are only 3 steps:

1. Think small (credit card small).

2. Keep it simple. Avoid detail -stick to shapes and values.

3. Focus -pinpoint your subject.

Now this sounds very doable!

Here is a link to the article here.

Wordless Wednesday

Raoul Dufy, Interior with Window Open, Oil on Canvas, 1928

Picasso on Intuition and Creativity

 

Pablo Picasso, Self Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 1907

Saw this terrific article on Picasso and his views on creativity. I liked that he said " to know what you are going to draw, you have to begin drawing." One cannot wait for inspiration to hit, one needs to show up every day and work.

Here is a link to the article.

Artist Highlight: Stella Maria Baer

Tiger Bunny Bugle, Ink on Paper

I was reading about the artist, Stella Maria Baer from the blog DesignSponge.com (article here) and wanted to share her work with you.  From the article, I like that she starts her day by journaling things that she wants to make -I love this aspect of her morning and would love to incorporate this into my daily routine.  There is a sense of the whimsical in her work and childlike innocence.

Wordless Wednesday

Robert Henri, Tam Gan, Oil on Canvas, 1914

Inspirational Ted Talk by Brene Brown

Lately, I have been really enjoying the work of Brene Brown. Her specialty topics are shame and vulnerability. I wanted you to see her Ted talk on Vulnerability. It gives you lots to think about.