Art World

No Explanation Necessary

February 26, 2012

Visual art, we are told, should speak for itself. I have been thinking about a post on Facebook by Jerry Saltz, well-known art critic and writer, in which he complains about the tendency to over-explain modern art. I posted in a previous blog post that in my opinion the only visual art that needs explanation [...]

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Richard Diebenkorn at MoMA, Fort Worth

January 8, 2012

To bring in the New Year, I was lucky enough to take a trip with family to the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas. It was featuring the Ocean Park series by Diebenkorn, along with some sketches on paper (apparently, he rarely sketched his works in advance), as well as a small exhibit [...]

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Play Away ~ Creativity is Child’s Play

December 13, 2011

I am working on ideas for a new series of monotypes and drawings, based around words – words as part of an artwork. Isolated words can have a lot of impact and have of course been used fully already in art, to a lesser or greater effect. These works will be new to me, and I [...]

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Art Conspiracy Weekend

November 12, 2011

I spent Friday creating this one-day oil painting, that will be auctioned for a local Dallas charity (Musical Angels), at a live cattle-call-style auction in a warehouse on Commerce in Dallas tonight (November 12th). We are all issued regulation boards, either primed or unprimed, and the freedom to create whatever we like. 150 artists contribute [...]

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Developing a Complex

October 24, 2011

I wanted to save and share a stream of thoughts I had earlier today on Twitter, because it was taking my mind along interesting pathways, which I develop a little bit below. This is such a complex question and I could write many thousands of words on this topic, and I am approaching it from [...]

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SEEDS ~ an ArtCon fundraiser – July 15th!

July 9, 2011

This is my painting, Pinkplasticpixel, that I created for the SEEDS fundraiser in Dallas, part of the ArtConspiracy group. This and many other works themed around either flamingos or garden gnomes will be auctioned on July 15th 2011 to raise money to fund the big Art Conspiracy fundraiser, in the Fall. Tickets are $10, and [...]

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Solo Manifesto

March 2, 2011

I am working hard in these first few months to focus on making art. The other business of art continues apace – the publicity, watching for suitable opportunities, finances and so forth – but I’d committed myself to invest in time spent on my work, as the main focus. I am preparing my new series [...]

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Dia de los Muertos, Bath House Cultural Center

November 7, 2010

Flying back from Corpus at 6am from the Third Coast National in Corpus Christ (link to this article is at the end of this post), and after a brief sleep at home, my family and I got ready to attend the opening reception for Dia de los Muertos at the Bath House Cultural Center, in [...]

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Xue Contemporary Gallery, Mind Rules Matter

November 7, 2010

Inaugural Exhibition A new gallery in the design district of Dallas, several of my works were featured in Xue Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition, Mind Rules Matter. My husband and children represented me at this event as I was at the Third Coast National in Corpus Christi (if you want to read my blog post about it, [...]

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Third Coast National

November 7, 2010

Sixth Annual Third Coast National Contemporary Art Show Third Coast National, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX. The juror for this show was Trenton Doyle Hancock, a prominent nationally known artist with works in the Dallas Museum of Art, the Whitney in NY, and, as I learned over dinner after the opening, he will be [...]

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