Events: this category includes articles and videos that announce upcoming events and show photos from events or from my other adventures.
Labor & Art & The Labor Of Art
It’s strange to think that six short years ago this building was the B&O Warehouse and I was acting in a performance piece that took over its seventh floor. Now it’s the Olympic Mills Commerce Center and I’m a painter in a group show in its gallery.
How to make a living as an artist
1) Make a lot of work.
2) Show a lot of people the best of that work.
3) Be friendly.
4) Repeat.
Speaking of speaking…
I’m doing a talk tomorrow and I did one last week. With all this lecturing, I’m thinking a lot about how best to engage an audience…
Portrait of a wedding
Two of my dearest friends from college, Christine and Aaron, got married last weekend at Lake Tahoe.
Just because I’m showing at DIVA…
The opening party for Apple Pie at Eugene’s Downtown Initiative For The Visual Arts was so much fun!
Not your mother’s tarte aux pommes.
My Maman and I made her version of apple pie—a tarte aux pommes—for the opening of Apple Pie tonight in Eugene!
A different kind of Apple Pie
I may have already exhibited Apple Pie in Portland, but the version of the show which opens in Eugene on Friday seems like a whole new series in its new space!
Research for a painting.
There’s research and then there’s research! Sometimes going to a drag show is the only way to get a painting done.
The portraitist portrayed…
...because it doesn’t hurt to have the tables turned once in a while. Portland improv group Super Project Lab did it to me live on stage at the Winningstad last night.
A Brief History
A Brief History opened this evening at the Littman Gallery!
I ♥ Kevin Cook!
Today was part two of the film filming for OPB’s Oregon Art Beat. KC and the crew documented my interview with the extraordinary Kevin Cook.
If an artist talks about her work…
...does she say anything interesting?
My name is Gwenn Seemel. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA. I’m a full-time artist and I’ve sold my soul to the genre of portraiture. I blog in French as well as in English. More...
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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