Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The Business of Art Workshop
The Business of Art Workshop – A Professional Development Series for Visual Artists
Panel Presentation: The Inside and Out of Creating a Great Art Portfolio
Saturday, May 5, 2012; 3-5pm
Free.
Join Tosha Grantham, Philippa Hughes, Christina Marsh and John Yeh
as they discuss what makes a portfolio great and not-so-great. Hear
what makes them look twice or not at all, what they've seen that works,
and where trends are going. Discussion to be moderated by Alonzo Davis.
Advance Registration Required
SMARTlink #883815
Brentwood Arts Exchange - exchanging ideas through art.
A Facility of the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission
@ Gateway Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Avenue
Brentwood, MD 20722
301-277-2863/ tty. 301-446-6802
arts.pgparks.com
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Supermoon next Saturday
Get your cameras and peepers ready: the full Moon will be up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than others
during the year. The reason for this phenomenon is that the Moon becomes
full on its closest approach to Earth on May 5, 2012, also known as the
perigee full Moon, and Cinco de Mayo Luna in Mexico (I just made that up).
Geek details here.
Geek details here.
Tonight at Morrison House
WHAT: “The story behind the 100 Artists of Washington, DC book” - Morrison House Presents: F. Lennox Campello, Author
DESCRIPTION: Author F. Lennox Campello discusses his controversial book, 100 Artists of Washington, DC, and provides insights into the selection process, the publication of the book and the subsequent eruption of controversy in the Greater DC area art scene.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 1, 6 to 8pm
WHERE: Morrison House, 116 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
INFO: Morrison House: www.morrisonhouse.com / Phone: 703-838-8000
DESCRIPTION: Author F. Lennox Campello discusses his controversial book, 100 Artists of Washington, DC, and provides insights into the selection process, the publication of the book and the subsequent eruption of controversy in the Greater DC area art scene.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 1, 6 to 8pm
WHERE: Morrison House, 116 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
INFO: Morrison House: www.morrisonhouse.com / Phone: 703-838-8000
ADMISSION: Free admission (Food and drink available for purchase)
Monday, April 30, 2012
Scrapping the artists
Here's the story: There's a 1.6-acre property adjacent to the National Institutes of Health Open Space in Bethesda. The initial proposal by developer Patrinely Group of Houston, Texas included 25 percent "moderately priced dwelling units and about 2,000
square feet within the main building for an arts incubator, which would
have offered studio and exhibit space for emerging artists." That all went away when the condo market collapsed in Bethesda and now StonebridgeCarras, which purchased the site about a year ago, has a new proposal:
How does the Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce feel about that?
Yeah Ginanne, another grocery store is an even better concept than an arts incubator. After all, there are only about a dozen or more grocery stores in Bethesda and ahhh... zero affordable space for artists and nothing even remotely close to an arts incubator, and most Bethesda area art galleries have closed in the last couple of years; thank you for your moral support.
Good move StonebridgeCarras (nice artsy name!) and let DC Art News be the first to welcome to Bethesda, yet another Safeway, or yet another Giant, or considering the artsy name of the developer, perhaps another Whole Foods.
Makes my head hurt.
Read the Gazette story by Jessica Ablamsky here and read the developer's news release here.
The vacant Trillium lot could be home to 360 luxury appartments and a grocery, if plans are approved by the Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday.And first thing to go in the StonebridgeCarras proposal: The arts incubator.
How does the Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce feel about that?
“We really support that,” said Ginanne Italiano, executive director of the Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce. “It’s not the whole concept that the other organization had, but I think this is going to be an even better concept.”
Yeah Ginanne, another grocery store is an even better concept than an arts incubator. After all, there are only about a dozen or more grocery stores in Bethesda and ahhh... zero affordable space for artists and nothing even remotely close to an arts incubator, and most Bethesda area art galleries have closed in the last couple of years; thank you for your moral support.Good move StonebridgeCarras (nice artsy name!) and let DC Art News be the first to welcome to Bethesda, yet another Safeway, or yet another Giant, or considering the artsy name of the developer, perhaps another Whole Foods.
Makes my head hurt.
Read the Gazette story by Jessica Ablamsky here and read the developer's news release here.
Around Town
That busload of San Francisco art collectors visiting the DMV is out and about town today. They started with a pep talk this morning (at the home of a most gracious Chevy Chase art collector) and then headed out to the District to visit art studios, artists' homes and galleries.
They were last seen visiting Flux, Red Dirt and the WGS and all of those artists' studios in that area.
They were last seen visiting Flux, Red Dirt and the WGS and all of those artists' studios in that area.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Collatz Conjecture and Art
I'm probably only one of a handful of people on the planet who has an Undergraduate degree in Art as well as a degree in Mathematics and a Master's in Artificial Intelligence.
As such, I'm always thinking about ways to explore Math in Art... Hidden in the shadows of most of my drawings (shadows cast by bodies as well as shadows in the bodies themselves) are often to be found other figures and clues, and just as often mathematical equations, progressions, theorems, conjectures, etc.
One recurring and fascinating issue to me, buried in the shadows of a drawing that I sold last week in New York is the Collatz Conjecture:
Take any natural number and let's call it n.
If n is even, then we divide it by 2 to get n / 2.
If n is odd, then we multiply it by 3 and add 1 to obtain 3n + 1.
Repeat this division/multiplication indefinitely (and this is where "indefinitely" becomes an issue, as the British say).
The Collatz Conjecture is that no matter what number you start with, you will always and no matter what the starting number is, eventually reach 1.
This conjecture property has also been called "oneness."
Can art help represent this? I don't know - that's why I bury them in the shadows of the drawings and not try to solve them per say; but often it is the drawings themselves that trigger the specific mathematical clue/issue being associated with the piece.
As such, I'm always thinking about ways to explore Math in Art... Hidden in the shadows of most of my drawings (shadows cast by bodies as well as shadows in the bodies themselves) are often to be found other figures and clues, and just as often mathematical equations, progressions, theorems, conjectures, etc.
One recurring and fascinating issue to me, buried in the shadows of a drawing that I sold last week in New York is the Collatz Conjecture:
Take any natural number and let's call it n.
If n is even, then we divide it by 2 to get n / 2.
If n is odd, then we multiply it by 3 and add 1 to obtain 3n + 1.
Repeat this division/multiplication indefinitely (and this is where "indefinitely" becomes an issue, as the British say).
The Collatz Conjecture is that no matter what number you start with, you will always and no matter what the starting number is, eventually reach 1.
This conjecture property has also been called "oneness."
Can art help represent this? I don't know - that's why I bury them in the shadows of the drawings and not try to solve them per say; but often it is the drawings themselves that trigger the specific mathematical clue/issue being associated with the piece.
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