what I do
Aside from artwork, because of artwork, and to support the artwork, I have a job. I am exhibition director for a small gallery attached to an art supply store. It pays the rent for the studio, and keeps me hopping around the community when I might other wise be isolated. I have to make myself get out in the world, out of my bubble of endless ponderings. I am always interested in what others are doing, but it tends to add to my list of ponderings.
I teach drawing, too, a few evenings each week. This, I do for the cash and the “AHA!” moments of sudden realization. I intensely dislike some aspects of teaching adult continuing education, however. Specifically, the aspects of mixed motivations, involved. Folks take the classes for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with learning, craftsmanship, or art. Some come to class for social purposes, some for entertainment, and others for therapy. I dont mind providing a little entertainment with the lesson…
I look for ways… little things I can do to make the world a better place. Not big splashes, just little ripples. The art supply and the gallery are vital community resources. Art is, both, provacative and healing. All communities need both of those influences. That which creates also destroys. Not everything that destroys also creates.
I stay late, arrive early, fix the plumbing, mop the floors, make and check the lists, and ponder the ripples. I am not one to climb to the top of the tree. I have seen enough asses up there to realize mine is not going to do much good. Besides, the fall from greater hieghts is more dangerous. I have enough difficulty picking myself up from lower altitudes.
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- Anthony Lister at Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC March 17, 2010Australian born artist Anthony Lister is showing at the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City from March 19 through to April 19.A lot of my favorite artists are painters that never really give up using the pencil (line). Painterly paintings are good but so are paintings that look like drawings. I guess I like painterly drawings or linear paintings. I like painterly paintings and linear drawings too ;-)Anthony Lister - Terms of Engagement, 2010Mixed media on canvas, 39.5 x 39.5 inchesAnthony Lister - BET, 2010mixed media on paper, 6.5 x 9.5 inchesAnthony Lister Super Girl 1, 2010Mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 inchesFrom the Lyons Wier Gallery blog here.."Known in the Low Brow movement for his intriguing, playful hybrid of street art, expressionism, and cubism all manifested in non-traditional media such as spray paint; Lister’s new body of work shows the tongue-in-cheek frivolity of his earlier pieces developing (or decaying) into a more mature and disturbing direction. The deformities and un-done aesthetic resolve of Lister’s work provides viewers with a concretization of contemporary societies’ psyche – or, as the artist himself states, “making the obvious more, well, obvious”."OPENING: Fri. March 19th, 2010 6-9pmDATES: March 19th - April 19th, 2010See more Anthony Lister works from the exhibition here or see the artist's website here.
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