Category: Art History

Call to Artists and Gallery Owners for articles and interviews

I have a growing international online art  newsletter, http://donaldkolberg.com/art_core.htm and an art blog, http://artblog.donaldkolberg.com I am placing this call out to artists and gallery owners in an effort to supply something more than another site to display their work. Your individual project will be published under the  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License   so you will be able to use it on your own site free of charge. All I ask is that you forward the newsletter link of your published piece to your friends and fans.

This can be an information article about your work or an interview you have done or one created from the questions below. In either case I will display some of your works and include links to your website and other social media. If you are interested please send the response to dskolberg@gmail.com.

Please remember to include 4-8 jpegs of your work and your contact and social media sites.

When did you first start to realize you were on the path to becoming an artist?
What is the primary medium you work with and why?
Tell us about your style of art and how you have developed this visual voice.
What subject matter inspires you to create art and how do you keep motivated when things get tough in the studio?
What projects or pieces are you working on now?
What artists (famous or not) or art movements have influenced you and why?
How have you handled the business side of being an artist?
Tell us about another artist’s site you think our audience might like to see.
Is there anything else you would like to add about yourself?
And we have to ask, what advice would you give other artists about being an artist?

If you have any questions feel free to contact me
Donald

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Blogs Need Attention Like Everything Else

by Jo Allebach

After searching around in various places, I discovered that blogging was like anything else, it needed attention. […]

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Sculpture Magazine May 2011 Issue – Lee Bul

 

 

Lee Bul: Phantasmic Morphologies

by Michaël Amy

Who we are is determined to a considerable extent by what we are. The what includes our origins in time and place, gender, race, social status, sexual orientation, education, and political and religious convictions. Once we have this information, we believe that we know enough about a person to be able to classify and judge him or her. We have a tendency to embrace stereotypical thinking.

The South Korean artist Lee Bul moves away from what we know—or what we think we know. Her work examines how the mind functions by exploring some of its dreams, ideals, and utopias. Interviews with Lee over the years have shown her to be a highly sophisticated and articulate thinker, with a wide range of interests in the history of ideas, the cultures of both East and West, and science and technology. Her work argues that everything is in a state of flux, that many of the notions we accept as laws are often the product of bias and can—therefore—be corrected, and that the imagination constitutes an all-conquering power. Surrealism is an important source for Lee’s ideas and images. She understands imagination’s ties to cognition and knows from firsthand experience how it can free one from physical and ideological bonds, thus becoming of critical importance to survival.

Thaw, 2007.

Fiberglass, resin, acrylic paint, black crystals, and mixed media, 93 x 113 x 212 cm.

Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY.

via Sculpture Magazine May 2011 Issue – Lee Bul.

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This is incredible work

glass sculpture Focus Glass by Peter Newsome, ...
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Peter Newsome’s Clear-Form Glass Assemblage

The contemporary techniques of glass artist; Peter Newsome have been some of the curiosities many artists become fascinated with. Newsome has been a passionate sculptor of glass since the early 1990’s and has mastered both traditional glazier and glassworker techniques as well as some adaptive contemporary techniques. His skills allow him to hand-slice layers upon layers sheet glass in precise forms for his assembled compositions. Many of his works resemble organic strands or waves depending on the contortion of his subject. Newsome’s background in the glass engineering industry has led him to acquire several original methodologies for practicing original glasswork. He has exhibited several of his sculptures at many international art hubs such as the London Art Fair at Burton’s Court, Chelsea and at Newby Hall Sculpture Park, Yorkshire.

Sculpture by Photography by Gerardus

Newsome employs a sort of ray-like intensity by focusing on the overlapping transparencies of the media. The edges where the glass cuts off into air become patterns when pit against each other in natural light. The artist’s ability to materialize designs in three dimensional space is coupled with his capability to imagine the unique transparencies of their compositions as well. Since his popularization in the glass art industry, Newsome has been a well recognized modern sculptor, especially within the communal Chelsea areas.
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More on redoing your Statement and Bio

Apparently there are a number of really good writers out there working to help artists create better art statements and bios. Luann Udell a regular contributor to fineartviews.com started a series on telling your story. It looks to be a great series. Luann Udell’s Blog: http://luannudell.wordpress.com And while you’re at it subscribe to Fine Arts View they have really good articles on art

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