SCAD Museum of Art Curator: Melissa Messina The contemporary painting world is constantly experimenting with ways to discuss the history of painting through creative uses of media. In the exhibition “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting” at the SCAD Museum of Art, a narrative is created throughout the history of fibers from Sheila Hicks… Continue reading Exhibition Review: “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting”
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Survey of Art: Tobia Makover
Image credit and property of Tobia Makover Wax Surface Mystery, childhood, concealment- these are the first words that rang through my brain as I gazed at Tobia Makover’s photograph entitled “Sandstorm.” In her recent photographic work, Makover has been experimenting with Encaustic Photography. Encaustic art is created using a wax medium that is heated to… Continue reading Survey of Art: Tobia Makover
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 10: Death and Life
Past Echoes The chapter opens up with a direct and forward discussion about our current cultural portrayal of death, and how this is “endlessly in the media but in real life is hidden away in hospices and nursing homes…” One of the roles of art has always been to bring discussion and understanding of death,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 10: Death and Life
Progress in the Studio
Artist Journal #8
2-20-13 I created an intense large scale drawing during my model session Monday night. I’m not yet sure what to think of it. I often find that when something scares me, it normally means I’m heading in the right direction. When I draw, I feel connected with the materials, the paper, the surface, the subject.… Continue reading Artist Journal #8
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Experience of Space The chapter opens up with an important distinction between place and space: “place is where we stand at a particular moment in time, space is everything else.” Throughout the history of painting, creating spacial illusion was key to developing a believable ‘window to the world’ effect. In contemporary painting, exploration of spacial… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Finding Identity Reading Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction in Painting Today was akin to a metaphysical trip through my own mind. I related to many of the key concepts discussed behind abstraction and its keen ability to retain “the integrity of the human hand, and thus the integrity of the human identity.” Unlike in Chapter 5,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 7: The Figure
Figures and Bodies An overarching idea explored throughout Chapter 7 that was most intriguing was the difference between the body and the figure. Throughout the history of painting, figure painting either involved a ‘faceless’ figure represented for its pureness of form or portrait painting, which still involved depicting the human form in its visual perfection.… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 7: The Figure
The Color of Collaboration: an essay on the history of pigment in southern France
Ochre began in its pure form, as drawing media in early ancient civilizations. This iron oxide mineral is an element of the rocky limestone landscape of Roussillon, the mountain town just above Apt in Provence, southern France. Its ancient use was referred to as “skin paint” and in present day is used to color “everything from soap… Continue reading The Color of Collaboration: an essay on the history of pigment in southern France
Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
“The wall metaphor, the dirty graffiti, the emphasis on tactility, the sparse and additive configuration of the works…” Twombly’s work takes on a new concept of ‘human scale’ in which the markmaking more closely immitates the mark of an average person, even within the context of a larger space. “Twombly…exemplifies the importance of the little.”… Continue reading Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
Kalel R. Cloonan 