More early odd works from current scanning of old art slides... this is "The day I found myself in a metaverse of Frida Kahlos" from 1980, when I was in art school at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Saturday, July 02, 2022
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Artist Panel: Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth
Artist Panel: Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth
Sunday July 17, 1-2PM at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
Artist Panel: Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth
July 17, 1-2 p.m. ET
Register on Eventbrite to attend in-person or virtually
Artists showing: Sobia Ahmad, F. Lennox Campello, Elizabeth Casqueiro, Ric Garcia, Claudia "Aziza" Gibson-Hunter, Julia Kwon, Khánh H. Lê, and Helen Zughaib
This event will be held in-person at the museum.
Monday, June 27, 2022
RIP Sam Gilliam
Just heard the sad news that the great artist Sam Gilliam has died.
Last week I wrote about Sam's first ever major museum show in DC area. My feelings here.
Sunday, June 26, 2022
I will judge this year’s "Paint the Town" Labor Day Show
It will be soon announced that yours truly will be the judge for this year’s "Paint the Town" Labor Day Show sponsored by the Montgomery Art Association
The Paint the Town Labor Day Show is one of the region’s largest and longest-running art shows composed of all local artists. The show will be open to the public Saturday-Monday, September 3-5, and I will do both the closed-door judging and then and on Saturday, September 3, I will also judge the plein air competition and then present the awards.
About the Plein Air Competition: As you walk around Kensington on the Saturday of the show weekend, you'll see dozens of artists painting and drawing all over town. Those are participants of the annual Plein Air Competition. From 7 am-3 pm, adults and children complete paintings with a Kensington theme and submit them for prizes awarded by me. The competition is open to all adults and children. Free for children under 18 and current MAA members; adults pay $10 per person. Registration opens July 15.
Details here.
Schedule
FRIDAY, JULY 15: Call for entries opens (members only)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3: Exhibit floor open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Plein air art competition, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. -- Awards ceremony, 6-8 p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: Exhibit floor open, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5: Exhibit floor open, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Pick up purchased artwork, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: Pick up purchased artwork, 9-11 a.m.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Three DMV artists representing US at Venice Biennale
There are three area artists who are currently representing the US at the Venice Biennale -Glasstress. That's their collaboration in the background of the photo from the Italian press below:
The Italian press calls Chris Shea, Michael Janis and Tim Tate "international stars" - The Washington Post and other local media call them... oh wait! There's not a single mention of this in our local press!
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Michael Janis is on this Satuday!
Art Clinic Online will be having one of the DMV's true art superstars this coming Saturday!
The guest artist is the incredible Michael Janis, uberglass artist and Co-Director of the Washington Glass School.
Michael Janis was born in Chicago, IL and currently lives in Washington, DC. Trained as an architect, his glass figures showcase his very disciplined approach to the medium. He became Co-Director of the Washington Glass School & Studio in 2005, where he teaches and oversees the studio’s many site specific and public art commissions. His portraiture works often look, at first glance, to be made with graphite or pastels, but actually are made using crushed glass. He painstakingly manipulates the individual grains of the glass powder with X-acto blades and brushes on flat glass and fired (fused) in electric kilns.
Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Janis went to England’s University of Sunderland and taught at the UK’s National Glass Centre where he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass. The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities awarded him the 31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Award for “Excellence in the Arts”. This year, Janis’ glass sculpture, made in collaboration with artist Tim Tate, is featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale of Art exhibition, “Glassstress”. Janis’ artwork is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tacoma Museum of Glass, Florida’s Imagine Museum and the Fort Wayne Museum of Fine Art.
Zoom Meeting Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86416329284?pwd=R20zZUVIUkxmdERGQzBqN3M5SVJwZz09
Meeting ID: 864 1632 9284
Passcode: 191463
Friday, June 17, 2022
The Christ and Seder
A few years ago, before Governors in many states made it a Covidian crime, I was invited to a Seder meal by a friend who is also quite a well-known Philadelphia area artist and an even better known curator.
Somehow the conversation turned to Christ’s Last Supper, which of course was a Seder meal and she observed how most paintings depicting The Christ’s last meal showed regular bread instead of the unleavened bread required by Jewish tradition to celebrate the Passover. This is very interesting to the pedantic part of me, already troubled by the fact that nearly every depiction of The Christ that was presented to me in art school depicted mostly Northern European-looking Christs, rather than the Semitic Middle East Israelite that He was.
And now I wonder, are there any contemporary depictions (or any depiction) of the last supper which depict this last Seder for Christ in a more historically correct perspective?
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