December 30, 2018
2018 Year-In-Review
I think a little end-of-year introspection is always a useful thing, looking at themes and assessing what worked well and what worked less well, what feels unfinished or unexplored, or what is clearly ready to be left behind.
December 10, 2018
Read, Listen, Look.
A mini list of articles, podcasts, and artists that are worth your time, featuring Christopher Knight on Hilma af Klint & Abstract art, Austin Art Talk with Artist Tammie Rubin, and artist Nasim Hantehzadeh.
April 12, 2018
14 (In Memory of Tanaya Otterpohl)
In 1986 when I was a freshman in high school, a man named Robert Clifton Mays broke into the home of one of my classmates, Tanaya Otterpohl, and murdered her. Like me, she was 14 years old.
April 22, 2018
Little Artist Big Artist 10th Annual Exhibit
“All grown-ups were once children... but only a few of them remember it."
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
April 23, 2018
Kids SumMer Art Camp 2018
“We can all talk, we can all write, and if the blocks are removed, we can all draw and paint and make things. Drawing, painting, and making things are natural human activities, but in many they remain in the seed state, as potentials or wishes."
—Sister Corita Kent
May 6, 2018
MARS REVISITED
Mars Revisited is a moment of pause. In the first painting of this series of large watercolors, Curiosity's rover tracks lead the eye into an expansive landscape, but the scene is looking back at where we have already been and then projecting that forward into where we might go.
August 31, 2018
Visual Meditations
On the morning of May 22, I drew a tarot card, made this small stick watercolor drawing/painting, and then wrote: The little jiggity jaggedy path that your life has taken, with so much experienced already along the way, all culminates into a moment of clarity where you can see that you will be able to go here then there and then there and then there... And it doesn't matter if you don't know how, in fact that would take all the fun out of it. It's a moment of passage.
October 3, 2018
Featured Artist The Angry Cloud
A few weeks ago I went to an artist's talk at DORF, a gallery space that sprouted last Spring in the garage of Austin-based artists and married couple Sara Vanderbeek and Eric Manche in a quiet, south Austin neighborhood. The second show in the space featured a local street artist known as The Angry Cloud.
November 4, 2018
Ornithomancy
Buzzing with energy, a curious broad-tailed hummingbird approached, asking "What are you?," closely followed by painted bunting gliding overhead, using his innate senses to find his way. A while later, a peacock strolled up and announced his arrivall, a colorful concept map of interconnecting ideas and thoughts on display behind him.
January 11, 2019
Featured Artist Tammie Rubin
A few delicate tendrils tip a porcelain cone askew, creating an underneath place, unreachable and mysterious. Austin-based artist Tammie Rubin's body of intuitively-created sculptures that comprised her recent show at Women and Their Work, Everything You Ever, are filled with these kinds of mysterious negative spaces...