It’s been awhile
Guilty, as charged. I haven’t been consistent with the blogging. Blogging is important. It doesn’t pay the bills, though. Paying the bills has taken priority. I have been painting, teaching, marketing, and did a short stint managing a gallery for a friend. I am blessed. Many artists have not fared as well in this economy.
Art is generally considered a luxury item in our American culture. As a cowboy once put it, “That’s damned ingenious! Ain’t good fer nothin’, but it’s damned ingenious!” If you can’t eat it, ride it, or warm your bum with it, it isn’t something you really need. Even so, a cowboy came to see the art and was astounded by what he found. (It would surprise many an urbanite to know that contemporary cowboys are typically well read, well educated and well versed in the arts, if not conventionally articulate. Yes, real cowboys… in 2010. Beef not Kobi.)
We take things for granted in our American culture. Like the luxury of having so many cultures to experience. When it comes right down to it, feeding the body will take priority over feeding the mind until it is generally recognized that feeding the mind is the first step… not a luxury.
Critical thinking skills rank right up there with reading, writing and mathematics. Objective observation is the supposed cornerstone of the sciences. (Truth be told, the cornerstone is research $, and objectivity is slave to that Master.) In fine art, we have the vehicle to convey history, math, reading comprehension, objective observation, critical thinking skills, and writing. No other vehicle conveys all subjects cohesively. It’s not just fun… it’s effective.
It’s not just effective, it’s infectious. Open one mind in any given group…
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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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