Holly Thornburn

TITLE: Lise
ARTIST: Holly Thorburn
WORK DATE: 2008
CATEGORY: Paintings
MATERIALS: Mixed Media on Canvas

London / Campbarbossa Gallery

I know this is mixed media, but the layering feels like the kind of scumbling i can only dream of achieving when i paint. It feels like it's 20 feet deep.

Shalene Valenzuela

Don't think anyone's posted about her yet...
She visited the Ceramics class (which I sneaked into) and did a presentation of her work and different glazing techniques and other cool stuff. She makes molds of ordinary household objects and uses a lot of underglaze and screen printing on the clay. I thought her process was about as interesting as the work she makes :) These are a couple of my favorite pieces, but she has a lot more at www.shalene.com.

Ciao!
a.r

Study from Nature series #4 - Mountains

I like this application of the ink on Rice Paper

TITLE:
Gu's Phrase - Study from Nature series #4 - Mountains
ARTIST:
Wenda Gu
WORK DATE:
2005
CATEGORY:
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
MATERIALS:
Ink on rice paper
SIZE:
h: 275 x w: 183 cm / h: 108.3 x w: 72 in
REGION:
Chinese
STYLE:
Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)

Di Rosa Preserve - Art/Nature Gallery
Hi everyone in Blogsville,


Has anyone ever been here before? Is it worth going up to see?

http://www.dirosapreserve.org/index.html

Performance Art

Hi all, I know Dickson that you have not asked for performance art yet, but after we went on our field trip I remembered something more about Andy Goldsworthy. He is an Scottish artist and deals mostly in creating art in nature. A friend of mind introduced me to a great YouTube video on Goldsworthy that I hope all of you will enjoy. His work amazes me and he is such an unassuming person. I like his comment that he oftens pushes his creations to the point of collapse. It makes me want to go live in Scotland.

YouTube - Rivers and Tides:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TWBSMc47bw

Chinese Dog Family

Weird but my dog is on the same couch in the same room.

But this is Li Ji's dogs, painted in 2007

I had a great time in SF yesterday...what I learned is:

1) popular art that sells doesn't have to be "good" art or even well done.

2) beautiful art can sell

3) there is no limit as to what one can call art

4) it's a really good idea to get out there in the Contemporary Art world and see what's selling.

Thanks Dickson - I think it would be really good to go to the Art Museums as a group and check out all the new openings as well. Lucy says "hi"