Featuring artists: this category includes articles and videos which show the work of artists besides myself or which talk about other artists’ work.

The separation of subject and portrait

It’s impossible to divorce a person from her-his face.  More than any other physical feature, a person’s visage comes to represent her-him as well as everything she-he believed in and stood for.  In that way, portraits have a certain extra power.  More than just the expression of the artist, a likeness wields the full force of the subject’s character.

Portrait of the artist as Web 2.0.

Artist Geoffrey Raymond turns portraits into a platform for comment and captures a moment in history. 

Why is portraiture kept apart?

According to art historian Charlotte Mullins, one of these paintings is a portrait and the other is not.  Mullins’ explanation of just why is as revealing as it is nonsensical.

A Brief History

A Brief History opened this evening at the Littman Gallery!

When a Presidential candidate is like a President…

...or, rather, when a whole lot of people hope he is.  Artist Ron English’s Obama-Lincoln mashup is just that latest manifestation of the phenomenon that is the Democratic Presidential nominee.

When a Presidential candidate is like a baby with candy.

Artist Jill Greenberg’s manipulated photos of Presidential candidate John McCain are nothing new: it’s the gesture behind the work that’s so meaningful.

Gwenn Seemel, sculptor.

Feeling the draw of the third dimension. 

Gwenn Seemel, LANDSCAPE painter.

Because I would hate to seem predictable.

The supreme ultimate art form

I’m not talking about allegorical portraiture, the super genre, again!  This time, I’m referring to Tai Chi Chuan (literally translated to “supreme ultimate fist” or “big energy boxing”), which, as I see it, is more about art than physical fitness. 

Portrait of the artist as a tangle of yarn

On a recent gallery hopping expedition, I came upon this work by artist Heather Watkins.  It didn’t immediately spark my interest, and, as such, I wouldn’t normally have investigated further, except that I happened to notice that Watkins sees this work as portraiture.

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. 

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.

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