In 2005, while installing a show of my sculpture at the University of Maine at Machias, I encountered an intriguing object. Flanking the entry to Powers Hall, home of the art department and gallery, was a bronze statue of heroic-scale: a masterful female figure, nude from the hips up, posed on one knee. While it…
Timothy J. Clark’s solo exhibition, The Artist and His Process, will be on view at the Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), November 4–February 17, 2013.
Solo Show: Romancing New York: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen, South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton Street, NYC), September 24, 2012–January 5, 2013.
Sherry Camhy and her students are exhibiting paintings in Small Works at the Katonah Museum of Art through February 10, 2013.
Now available: Sylvie Covey’s book, Photoshop for Artists: A Complete Guide for Fine Artists, Photographers, and Printmakers, published by Random House. You can read a sample chapter here.
Mary Beth McKenzie has a newly-designed website: marybethmckenzie.com
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Now available: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Frank Mason’s Life of Christ, a collection of sixty-eight paintings and 139 preparatory drawings and studies by Frank Mason that interpret the life of Christ.
One night in 2001, on a visit to New York, I discovered the Art Students League. I was a tourist from Argentina—I had no plans to live in the city. Yet, as soon as I walked in the building, my hands warmed and I felt I belonged there. As I left 57th Street that first…
How to paint the city: Wander around a lot. The more aimless, the better. Buy a good camera and always carry it with you. Take many, many photos. When wandering look for the common, the unexciting, the ordinary. Take note of these scenes knowing that you will make them extraordinary. Look for the contrasts: bright…
From the solo show Hans Witschi, Neue Bilder at Stephan Witschi Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), November 2–December 1, 2013.