Beni O’Donnell: Culture and Identity
Beni O’Donnell was born in China and has studied in Japan and the United States. I first saw her work in an advertisement for ‘Women’s Work: Culture and the Feminine’ […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Studio Update: Merging and Tearing
Over the past two days I have dedicated some real hours to the studio, and that feels pretty great. I’m keeping up with the self-portrait exploration. It’s a bit unnerving. […]
Xenia Hausner: Tension at Equilibrium
Harmony is perhaps not in the foreground. But a tension at equilibrium. (Hausner) Somehow, Xenia Hausner doesn’t look how I thought she would look. She was born in 1951. At […]
Kristin Sarette: How Many Layers
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that […]
Studio Update : Settling into a new place
Yesterday I finally pieced together my new studio space. It has nice light and white walls. A door that closes and opens. Working electricity. Two windows. It’s all I could […]
Soey Milk: Explorations in Erotica
There is no doubt in my mind that Soey Milk is a phenomenal painter. I am inspired by her mastery of the figure and the skill she commands with pattern […]
Loretta Lux: Lovely or Lost Children
Images of children can be creepy. I’m thinking of the old black and white Victorian era portraits, the Renaissance paintings where little children are gussied up like small adults and […]
A painterly photographer is an excellent notion, I think: Taking a closer look at Photography
One of the reasons I am most thankful for starting this blog is that it has made me more aware of different genres of art that I wasn’t really looking […]
Going to the Birds: Studio Update
Since my life has been so hectic of late, I haven’t really had the opportunity to work as much as I would like. So, my current commitment to keep making […]
Lisa Yuskavage: to titilate and be taken seriously
I am so happy to write a blog post about Lisa Yuskavage today! She is an artist who is very influential to me (and millions of other feminist artists). Yuskavage […]
