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Category Archives: Others’ work

Burchfield’s Force Fields

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Charles E. Burchfield’s landscape paintings swarm with spirits.  His wild and hairy visions of the alive world are currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in an exhibit titled Heat Waves in a Swamp.  I knew a little of Burchfield before, mostly through reproductions, but seeing this show, brilliantly curated by sculptor [...]

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Ohno: Oh Yes

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Kazuo Ohno, a seminal figure in the butoh dance movement and one of the great creative spirits of our time, passed away June 1, 2010, at the age of 103. I saw Ohno perform in 1996 at the Japan Society in New York.  In an essay posted on my first website, I wrote, ” I [...]

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We See Differently

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Poster for “We See Differently” exhibit at CUNY Lehman If you’ve attended an open life drawing session, not a class where an instructor is steering everyone down a similar path but a practice session for artists of all levels, you’ve probably had the experience of walking around the room on the breaks and noticing how [...]

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Stories in the Round

Friday, April 16, 2010

Sculpture practice involves working in the round.  A traditional figurative sculpture studio has rotating platforms for the work and for the model, so both can be observed from all angles.  A sculptor must also consider the work from an engineering standpoint, analyzing weight distribution, compression, tension, torque and shear, especially when the work is large.  [...]

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Figureworks is Ten

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Friday, April 9, 2010 is the opening reception for an exhibit celebrating ten years of Figureworks, Brooklyn’s premiere gallery specializing in figurative art.  Figureworks hosts an open life drawing session on Saturday mornings, and I’ve been a regular at those sessions for years.  Gallery director Randall Harris has selected work by ten artists from his [...]

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