Juxtapose.

Louise Bourgeois and René Magritte, the authors of these works, are two very different artists, but it’s their similarities that never cease to inform the way I make art. 

Twenty slices of the American dream

Apple Pie opens 28 August at the Interstate Firehouse here in Portland and travels on to Eugene next year, and, though I’ve been working on the series for a few years now, I have two paintings that are as yet unfinished!

The middle class art market

Experts don’t know why households in the $40,000 to $80,000 annual income range are reticent about buying art, but the subject of this portrait does.  And so do I.

My disposable thumb

The story of how my right thumb came to be non-compulsory to my painting process doesn’t actually start on my kitchen floor as I try to stop myself from fainting after slicing my digit to the bone on a can top.

Do artists always have to be transparent when physicists don’t?

I wonder what Sandra Rice, the artist behind these figures, would think of that question.

Done!

How do you know when you’ve completed a painting?

Stillness conveys power…

That’s the traditional logic, but movement has its own kind of force, one which Frans Hals, the painter of this lute player, didn’t ignore.
 

The difference between propaganda and art

The implications of images evolve along with the culture which surrounds them, but propaganda always remains, in all the important ways, propaganda and is only ever about inserting a pre-digested visual in a person’s head.  Art should be just as good at putting an image in an individual’s head but not one that leaves so little room for thought. 

Paint your life.

When I discovered PaintYourLife.com, I was horrified, but, try as I might, I haven’t been able to put them out of my head.  I get the feeling that it’s more than their catchy title that has me thinking of them. 

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