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No Canvas, No Rules, Francisca B. Ugalde Dec 2022

No Canvas, No Rules, Francisca B. Ugalde

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This presentation activity is a creative exploration of the concept of DIS-EASE, as in the absence of ease, uneasiness, or discomfort.

Conceptually, I am exploring DIS-EASE in three ways:

  1. As you can see, I am painting directly onto the gallery wall. As the keeper of these galleries, I can assure you that this is a big no-no. I mean how dare anyone disturb these pristine surfaces?! The rationale behind my discomfort is rooted in the idea that the gallery is a sacred space, and that these walls ought to be kept pristine so that the objects displayed against them …


Doorway, Jaycee R. Guttormson Oct 2022

Doorway, Jaycee R. Guttormson

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Artist Statement

Doorway is a piece that exists in a state of duality and cyclicality, just as a door operates both as an opening and a barricade. Through decay, there is new life and new life gives way to decay. This fact of life and death existing synchronously is furthered through the cohesion of natural forms and manmade structures. In this state, the form is both familiar and unrecognizable and asks the viewer to step into a world that is as alien as it is commonplace.

This dichotomy of life and death, growth and decay, and familiar and strange is …


Circulation Of Images, From Recognition To Erasure: An Artist’S Response, Lei Xie Apr 2021

Circulation Of Images, From Recognition To Erasure: An Artist’S Response, Lei Xie

Artl@s Bulletin

This article revolves around my practice, as an artist, which has an essential link with images and their circulation. In a subtle way, painting offers me a language allowing me to explore the polysemy of the chosen image, to experience a vocabulary both figurative and abstract. My practice could choose and process "ordinary" images, which are diffused but whose diffusion does not alter the subject, and has no consequence on the latter. It can also retain images whose strength is intrinsic to their circulation, to their popularization, to their controversy, images which will however ultimately generate paintings, and simultaneously erasing …


Color Compliments, Jennifer Hansen Rolli Jan 2021

Color Compliments, Jennifer Hansen Rolli

The STEAM Journal

A discussion of the range of use of complimentary colors


The Marriage Of Art And Science, Mike Doyle Dec 2020

The Marriage Of Art And Science, Mike Doyle

The STEAM Journal

Art work that shows how the viewer translates visual cues into meaning


Combining An Intuitive Art Workshop And Neuroscience Rituals To Make Us Happy, Audrey Gran Weinberg Dec 2017

Combining An Intuitive Art Workshop And Neuroscience Rituals To Make Us Happy, Audrey Gran Weinberg

The STEAM Journal

One might wonder how intuitive art can connect to neuroscience and how this could be accomplished. In this descriptive article, research connecting art therapy and neuroscience has been collected and a workshop on Intuitive Painting has been described in detail. The connection was made by the author based on an article by Barker (2017), ‘4 Rituals to be more Happy,’ who writes a popular science blog. The rituals: gratefulness, expressing negative emotions, decision making and human touch were combined with Dr. Pinkie Feinstein’s method of Intuitive Painting in a small group setting. Although subjective, it would seem that at least …


Gary Brewer - Dark Matter Series, Gary Brewer Nov 2016

Gary Brewer - Dark Matter Series, Gary Brewer

The STEAM Journal

In the Dark Matter series of paintings I am abstracting images from NASA’s efforts to map dark matter using the Hubble Space Telescope. From these abstractions I create diaphanous veils of blue that convey a sense of movement; the movement suggests primal forces: wind, water air and fire.

The figure in the foreground is one of the elements: gold, copper, silver, which develop into a variety of fantastic shapes. The ‘elements’ which are the foundation of life on earth, are born in the heart of a star and explode out into the universe upon its death and collapse. The force …


Celebrating Life, Denouncing Human Violence, Peter London Nov 2015

Celebrating Life, Denouncing Human Violence, Peter London

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

Essay enticingly brings to our view the painter Seymour Segal, as artist who admits the viewer unabashedly into the "discomfort, the danger ... of the protagonist or event taking place."


Portrait Of A Mop, Taylor L. Andrews Apr 2015

Portrait Of A Mop, Taylor L. Andrews

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Mana & Ea, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin Feb 2014

Mana & Ea, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin

The STEAM Journal

This work, Mana and Ea, expresses Polynesian indigenous sovereignty struggles with colonialism and globalism in the Pacific Islands.


Baa Baa Black Sheep, Olan Quattro Feb 2012

Baa Baa Black Sheep, Olan Quattro

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Copy Of A Sculpture, Dinesh Manandhar Jan 2011

Copy Of A Sculpture, Dinesh Manandhar

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Making Connections, Evan P. Petrack Jan 2010

Making Connections, Evan P. Petrack

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Light Shade And Emotions, Anukul Gurung Jan 2009

Light Shade And Emotions, Anukul Gurung

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Six Squares, Geoffrey D. Gaenslen Jan 2006

Six Squares, Geoffrey D. Gaenslen

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Abstract Painting, Allison Nix Jan 2006

Abstract Painting, Allison Nix

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Paintings, Stephen Smalley Dec 2004

Paintings, Stephen Smalley

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Drifters Lament, Mercedes Nuñez Jun 1999

Drifters Lament, Mercedes Nuñez

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.