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Le blog de l’artiste peintre franco-américaine Gwenn Seemel. Les articles sont en anglais et en français, et souvent ils sont bilingues.


Featuring artists: cette catégorie de mon blog contient des articles qui montrent des œuvres créées par des artistes qui ne sont pas moi ou qui parlent d’autres artistes.

Cross-pollination

Tuesday 18 June 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (1)

bee


A few days ago, Mistress Clarissa approached me about drawing something to go with a poem she’d written.  I answered with a video of me doing the drawing as well as with an image of the drawing, and she responded with this video.


How baby-making really happens

Thursday 13 June 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth


What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth tells the story without all the judgment and baggage.


The good that could come from admitting we’re animals too

Sunday 26 May 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

Barbara Naterson-Horowitz Zoobiquity


Humans like to think of themselves as “other” and often “better” when compared with nonhuman animals, but a book by Barbara Naterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing, proves this mindset is not only silly but also dangerous. 


Why I can write a book about science even though I’m not a scientist

Wednesday 22 May 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (5)

painting of white-throated sparrows


My credibility as the author of Crime Against Nature, a book about science, has been called into question now and again. 


Understanding your different audiences as an artist

Friday 17 May 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (3)

Apartment Therapy


Sometimes it’s hard to think of who is interested in the work you make, but the press—both the press you go after and the press you get—can help you figure it out.


Is Haley Morris-Cafiero a photographer?

Thursday 9 May 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

Haley Morris-Cafiero Wait Watchers


Or is she a performer?  Or a conceptual artist?  Maybe the question should be “does it matter what we call her seeing as her work is so poignant?”  It’s a fair point, but I do think that her title is worth discussing.


Civil rights and multipotentialites

Thursday 2 May 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (0)

Kenji Yoshino Covering


This post started out as a glowing review of Kenji Yoshino’s book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights and turned into a similar sort of endorsement of Emilie Wapnick’s work.


Nature’s case for marriage equality

Saturday 30 March 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (0)

peach-faced lovebird


In arguments in front of the Supreme Court this past week, the legality of same-sex marriage was discussed in terms of the “basic biological fact” of heterosexual reproduction.  Happily, scientist and author David George Haskell didn’t let that misdirection go unchallenged.


Speaker of the conference

Thursday 21 March 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (3)

museum


At the beginning of March, I visited the Big Apple but also DC.  In fact, the New York part of trip was extra credit.  I was actually flying east to talk at the Freedom to Connect conference in Washington.


New York and new context

Wednesday 13 March 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

Kristan


I just got back from two days in the Big Apple where I had big fun with my big brother.


Where originality resides / Où l’on trouve l’originalité

Wednesday 23 January 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

Humon's Animal Lives


The fact that Animal Lives by Danish artist Humon and my Crime Against Nature have similar starting points only makes both projects more original, not less so. Le fait que Animal Lives par l’artiste danoise Humon et mon Crime contre nature ont le même point de départ rend les deux projets plus originaux et non pas moins.


My model / Mon modèle

Wednesday 16 January 2013 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

Kristan Seemel


I saw my brother briefly around Christmastime and it made me think of what he represents for me.  J’ai vu mon frère en fin d’année et ça m’a fait penser de ce qu’il représente pour moi.


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Je m’appelle Gwenn Seemel, et j’habite aux États-Unis. Je suis artiste peintre. Je crée des vidéoblogs et des articles en français et en anglais. En savoir plus...



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