Art
2 Lousy Cell Phone Pictures Of The Exhibition & A Neat One Of A Dog
3 September 2010
Already September! With all the activity lately ether I haven’t had time or was simply too tired to blog. Last week’s opening went well, it’s always nice when all the galleries of a certain area open their respective shows on the same evening, gets folks out and walking. The gallerists of most cities have figured that out and Zürich is no exception, I think they’ve divided the city into four areas which have independent gallery nights. It was sunny and hot out, and a bit muggy too. I dropped my stuff off at the hotel downtown, walked to the gallery – about 15-20min away – and just started pouring sweat once indoors… for what seemed like hours, terrible. Fortunately there was a refreshingly fruity pinot blanc to sip on, it’s nice to be with gallery that still serves decent wine!…
Wacom Cintiq 12WX
9 July 2010
I’ve been using an Intuos 3 8×6 for the last couple of years and really consider it the most useful tool for working at a computer so I guess it’s no surprise that I’ve been looking at the Cintiq series screen tablets with some curiosity and desire since I focused on them a few months ago. It also seemed that my mom, who is also an artist, could profile by using one. She tried a Intuos 2 way back when, but drawing on the pad while looking at the screen didn’t work for her so after some hesitation I suggested she try one… Which is why she asked me to install it on her Mac a couple of weeks ago, which I quickly tried to do (being in a bit of a hurry at that time), but wasn’t able too. Which led to it coming home with me so I could figure it out first… So here I am adapting, kind of, to a Cintiq 12WX.
Sticking it onto my Windows 7 machine worked fine and it didn’t take long to figure out that it had probably also installed perfectly on my mom’s Mac. The issue was simply that since it’s screen was set as an extension of her main screen I hadn’t realized that unless you set the “display toggle” to “pen display” and “force proportions”, when you switch between the two screens you can end up with the mouse pointer on the main screen but off to one side of it… As it was I couldn’t set anything up since whenever I toggled over to the main display the mouse pointer disappeared. So I’m like “where’s the pen? This isn’t working…” :P
Which is why “what I dislike about it” gets listed first.
Vampire Wedding Cake Adornment
6 July 2010
It’s has been a while since I’ve made it back to the states, unfortunately, especially since there have been a number of events that I’m really sad to miss. A recent one was a niece’s wedding over in the dark lands of far away Vermont, (shudder) and although this blog usually avoids subjects like family going ons I couldn’t help but want to share the fantastic vampire couple wedding cake adornment that her sister made for this special occasion!
New Scuplture Portfolio
14 June 2010
This machine actually booted up this morning! So far so good… :P
A good time perhaps to mention that I’ve accepted to show some of my sculptures, bronze and other, in Zurich at the Annamarie Andersen Gallery towards the end of August and so I've made a new sculpture portfolio to put some of them back on my artist site…
Les Mont de Baulmes
17 April 2010
Last week I took a walk above the village my folks live in, with Elstir – their Shetland sheep dog – and made a couple of quick sketches. The one here on the right is of the Baulmine, a stream that has its source about 3/4 of the way up the mountain.
It has been highly canalized over the years because of the amount of water that comes down with the spring thaw as well as during big storms. The size of the rocks the water can carry during those moments is quite impressive, but its a bit late in the season for that now. I’ve drawn it off and on now for nearly 30 years watching the stream bed and its environment changing with time, tamed by man; or at least it seems…
...Tell Me it's Raining
25 March 2010
Don’t miss the Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining show at Apexart in NYC!
Curated by Bad at Sports it’s up from April 7th to May 22nd 2010.
And BTW, I have a work on paper: Squares and Humanoid (Looking Out) in this show.
Opening reception: April 7, 6-8 pm
Saturday Snow, Sunday's Stroll
8 March 2010
Just as it looked like the Spring was getting closer wouldn’t you know that the temperature would drop again, flirt with the -6° to -12° C (21° – 10°F), encouraging all the show that fell on Saturday to stay put and freeze up the town some more instead of politely melting away like I wish it would.
Sunday woke with the sun, not of the let’s melt all that snow kind but unfortunately closer to: “the sun is shinning, don’t forget your sunglasses it’s really bright out, hey it’s freezing! Where did you put my gloves?” kind. Brrrr…
Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History
28 February 2010
Friend, artist and art historian Mark Staff Brandl has posted the video of a 55 minute speech he presented at the CAA (College Art Association, art historians organization) annual conference, as well as at the Kunstschule Lichtenstein, in 2010. It concerns description and criticism of the standard conceptions and models of fine art history and the history of comics, while offering a new one model for conceiving of and teaching these histories:
Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History.
If you’re like me and art history always made you want to puke, it’s probably because you had one of those horrible teachers that unfortunately seem to pollute the trade; …and just look at how luscious the fruit bowl is in this painting… Ugh!…
Journey to the Moon by William Kentridge
13 February 2010
Enjoy!
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I was browsing through one of last month’s…
Darned Patinas!
18 January 2010
Thursday I spoke wrote to soon!
On the way to the foundry I realized that I had forgotten to take note of the edition numbers and dates of the two works but turning around meant loosing the whole morning and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to stamp the date on a bronze that had already received its patina… On Friday of course the stamp slipped, scratching the surface….
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