Art maker, art lover, art collector, art writer. Culture hound. Pom-pom waver for creative folk. Mor
A lovely write-up of The Swimming Hole Foundation and the recent residency I had there, collaborating with an A-team of stupendous artists!
This weekend is the not to be missed event: Upstate Arts Weekend, taking place from July 22-24, 2022. More than 100 exhibitions and projects […]
Please join me for a Truth Values Community event, Thurs April 14th at noon, for a fun conversation with performer, playwright, and "recovering mathematician" Gioia De Cari as we talk about walking between the worlds of art + math! She might pry some answers out of me about about what sent me along the path of combining art and math, while we view some of my related work. This is a live Truth Values Community online event free for members. To join go to https://truthvalues.org/join-us and click “Join Free." Info also on my website, www.skypape.com
[Photo of me by Robbie Quinn, in his 🔥 new book of street fashion portraits, "Street Unicorns," published by Abrams.]
If anyone knows of artists in any conflict zones, please share this resource:
https://artistsatrisk.org/apply/?lang=en
https://www.iie.org/programs/artist-protection-fund
Artist Protection Fund will make life-saving fellowship grants to threatened artists from any field of artistic endeavor, and place them at host universities and arts centers in safe countries where they can continue their work.
Culture-A and Anne Trouillet Rogers amplify the fantastic work of creative people around the globe, and I am so pleased to be part of their circle and featured here! Check out all of their "5 Things" interviews to be amazed and inspired. (Photo by the incomparable Robbie Quinn)
I visited Sky Pape in her upper Manhattan studio in 2009. She was working on a commission with us for Tiffany & Co…
My heartiest appreciation to all who attended the live event last night for a lively conversation about my work and broader concerns. Thank you, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance for making it happen! If you missed it, a replay is available here: https://www.facebook.com/northernmanhattanartsalliance/videos/165643848890438/
I'm happy to welcome you to a live, one-hour virtual affair on Thursday, July 8th at 7:30 pm (Eastern Time), presented by Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA). It’s a feature on me and my work, and we’ll have a chance to casually interact in real time. I’d be delighted for you to join in so it won't just be me talking to my fig plant. The Zoom link will is on the home page at https://www.skypape.com, or you can find the event below.
I am interested in how geometry and patterns may provide clues for contending with systems that verge on widespread cataclysm.This […]
Good news alert! I’m excited to share that I am part of the ! This important award was created to help New York City’s artists, boost 's cultural resurgence, and engage the public with arts activities this summer and fall. I’m looking forward to sharing my work with you in person this September - details to come. Thank you for being part of my creative community, you artists, art lovers, and all you good people, and thanks to , , , and for the support!
Greetings! Most of you in my circle of friends are art lovers and artists, so I need not explain how hard hit our creative community has been this year. If you plan to do some year-end giving, please consider this Foundation you may not know. The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation has been funding individual artists for 38 years. A contribution of *any* amount would make a difference. Every dollar will go directly to the artists as unrestricted grants, providing financial support and recognition that gives artists both the means & encouragement to continue their work. Here's the link http://chenvenfoundation.org/donate/
Buying art may be beyond the budget, but this is one excellent way to support the work of artists and foster a greater appreciation for the arts. With warmth and glad tidings to one and all.
2020 marks 38 years of grant-making by the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded grants to over 200 artists. Our success would not have been possible without the contributions, large and small, of individuals and organizations who value the arts. Artists...
4-5:30pm this Sunday, Nov 17th at in LIC, artists Charlotte Schulz (first image is a detail of her breathtaking work) will join curator Zeljka Himbele and artist Scherezade Garcia to talk about all our work in the current show "At Sea," on view until Dec 8th. RSVP 718-637-6317 or [email protected].(2nd image, "Tidal Diamond" by & third is from the rich interior of Roger Clay Palmer)
Sunday, November 17th from 4:00-5:30pm.
The show runs from September 29 - December 8, 2019
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Up on the walls now at Gilman Contemporary, my solo show - opening reception July 6th, if you happen to be in Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho!
If you're in NYC, get into the mood of the season with "Serenading Summer," at June Kelly Gallery. Up through July 31st, I'm hanging on the walls with Elise Asher, Stan Brodsky, Carmen Cicero, LeRoy Henderson, Frances Hynes, Charles Martin, Hughie Lee-Smith, Kay WalkingStick, Philemona Williamson, and Nola Zirin.
Empty Mirror did me the honor this week of publishing pieces from my "Passing Through" series. http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com
Literary magazine includes poetry, essays, book reviews, the Beat Generation, art, and collage. Publishes every Friday.
While vag value deals last... https://hyperallergic.com/417356/art-by-women-gender-study-sexism/
In a study that included analysis of auction data and experiments with thousands of respondents, researchers found that perception of artists' gender consistently affects how their work is valued.
Today, Tuesday 10/10/17 is the last day my solo exhibition, "Passing Through," is on view at June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer St, NYC, from 11am to 6pm. Thanks to all who have seen it and encouraged me with your fantastic responses.
Greetings, and happy autumn!
This is just a reminder that my solo exhibition of large-scale work on paper at June Kelly Gallery in NYC is closing soon – October 10th will be the last day to see it.
“What an intensely provocative show. Whip smart and aesthetically balanced with high craft and noble nuance.”
~ Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, LiVE MAG!
I’ll be at the gallery between 4 and 5pm on Saturday, and happy to see you if you happen to pass through.
Where: June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer St, Floor 3, New York, NY 10012. Telephone: 212-226-1660
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11-6pm,
CLOSED Sunday, Monday
Save the date: Sept 7, 2017, 6-8pm. Opening reception for my solo show, "Passing Through," at June Kelly Gallery, NYC.
Photo: "Day into Night," Sumi ink, water, Flashe on hot press watercolor paper, 51.5"h x 69.75"w
Artists Unite-MTA Poster Project Exhibition/Celebration this weekend, June 3rd and 4th.
OPENING RECEPTION, Saturday June 3, 5-930pm (at 7:30pm, video, silent auction, raffle, art sale)
Sunday, June 4th, 12-5pm
Closing Party, Friday, June 9th, 6-9pm
LOCATION: Hudson View Gardens Lounge, 128 Pinehurst Ave at West 183rd St (enter from the private driveway off W 183rd)
The Artist's Unite-MTA Poster Project emerged from an eight-year collective effort to bring art into the subway elevators. In 2010, my poster was selected for this incredible project. This exhibition brings together all 40 beautiful posters that made the commute a more uplifting experience.
So many of my favorite things, rolled into one - art, science, poetry, and fungi. An extraordinary evening, "The Universe in Verse," organized by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings, had as its finale a reading of Neil Gaiman's new poem, "The Mushroom Hunters," delivered so expressively by his wife, Amanda Palmer. https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/the-mushroom-hunters
THE MUSHROOM HUNTERS, by Neil Gaiman
Science, as you know, my little one, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe.
It’s based on observation, on experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe the facts revealed.
In the old times, they say, the men came already fitted with brains
designed to follow flesh-beasts at a run,
to hurdle blindly into the unknown,
and then to find their way back home when lost
with a slain antelope to carry between them.
Or, on bad hunting days, nothing.
The women, who did not need to run down prey,
had brains that spotted landmarks and made paths between them
left at the thorn bush and across the scree
and look down in the bole of the half-fallen tree,
because sometimes there are mushrooms.
Before the flint club, or flint butcher’s tools,
The first tool of all was a sling for the baby
to keep our hands free
and something to put the berries and the mushrooms in,
the roots and the good leaves, the seeds and the crawlers.
Then a flint pestle to smash, to crush, to grind or break.
And sometimes men chased the beasts
into the deep woods,
and never came back.
Some mushrooms will kill you,
while some will show you gods
and some will feed the hunger in our bellies. Identify.
Others will kill us if we eat them raw,
and kill us again if we cook them once,
but if we boil them up in spring water, and pour the water away,
and then boil them once more, and pour the water away,
only then can we eat them safely. Observe.
Observe childbirth, measure the swell of bellies and the shape of breasts,
and through experience discover how to bring babies safely into the world.
Observe everything.
And the mushroom hunters walk the ways they walk
and watch the world, and see what they observe.
And some of them would thrive and lick their lips,
While others clutched their stomachs and expired.
So laws are made and handed down on what is safe. Formulate.
The tools we make to build our lives:
our clothes, our food, our path home…
all these things we base on observation,
on experiment, on measurement, on truth.
And science, you remember, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe,
based on observation, experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe these facts.
The race continues. An early scientist
drew beasts upon the walls of caves
to show her children, now all fat on mushrooms
and on berries, what would be safe to hunt.
The men go running on after beasts.
The scientists walk more slowly, over to the brow of the hill
and down to the water’s edge and past the place where the red clay runs.
They are carrying their babies in the slings they made,
freeing their hands to pick the mushrooms.
Poem text and proper context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/26/the-mushroom-hunters-neil-gaiman/ Original poem written for and recorded at "The Universe in Verse" (brainpickings.org/the-unive
Let's dance.
There is only one dancer in the world, and the dancer’s name is All Dancers.
An overdue retrospective of Lygia Pape (unrelated!)
A retrospective of the artist’s paintings, sculptures, constructions and films at the Met Breuer suggests what art should do in times of political havoc.
Gender Gap Persists at Largest Museums
Just 30 percent of large art museums have female directors. And they make 75 cents for every dollar earned by male peers.
Time to look deeply into the holes of art history.
Abstract Expressionism is largely remembered as a movement defined by the paint-slinging, hard-drinking machismo of its poster boys Jackson Po***ck and Willem de Kooning.
Informative and artful, W.E.B Du Bois' exhibion in 1900, including these works and more, “...provided Du Bois with an important opportunity to not only advance the sociological study of blacks, but to begin to bring into focus the intellectual and social accomplishments of black Americans, as well as their social, cultural, and political experience.” (from Hyperallergic.com http://hyperallergic.com/306559/w-e-b-du-boiss-modernist-data-visualizations-of-black-life/ ) http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900/
Visually dazzling set of hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.
I'm looking forward to seeing Jackie Shatz's show, "Interiors," at Carter Burden Gallery, opening tonight, Feb 2, from 6-8 pm at 548 W 28th St, #534, NYC. Up Feb 2-23, 2017. Congrats, Jackie! http://www.carterburdengallery.org/jackie-shatz
Pink is the color of the people, it seems! http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-december-1-2016-1.3874399/the-world-s-pinkest-pink-can-be-yours-unless-you-re-artist-anish-kapoor-1.3874420
Artist Stuart Semple has created the pinkest pink paint ever but refuses to share it with Anish Kapoor, the creator of the Vantablack.
What would you expect from the non-reader, cultural illiterate with horrid taste? Goodbye National Endowment for the Arts & National Endowment for the Humanities. Creative types are all just haters & losers anyways.
Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending.
Coming to Film Forum in NYC soon. https://mic.com/articles/164507/i-am-not-your-negro-4-things-to-know-about-the-new-james-baldwin-documentary#.9jMVZdc5V
The new film brings the late author's words back to life.
Art and Film: Elizabeth Murray and the splendor of the ordinary - Two Coats of Paint
Murray, who died in 2007 at 66, stretched and contorted household scenes and objects into kinetic abstract festivals on baroquely shaped canvases.
How to not cry. Draw.
When Klee hosted classes in his home, he often required that students spend time observing the movements of the tropical fish in his large aquarium.
Because there are things to celebrate, let's honor the date of Paul Klee's birth. Talented in many realms, not just visual art, here are a few of his well-chosen words:
"I paint in order not to cry."
"One eye sees, the other feels."
"Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible."
"It’s an auctioneer’s jackpot dream. A man opens a portfolio of drawings, and there, mixed in with the jumble of routine low-value items, is a long-lost work by Leonardo da Vinci. And that, more or less, is what happened to Thaddée Prate, director of old master pictures at the Tajan auction house" [NY Times 12/11/16]
The back of the drawing reveals notes that were written from right to left, as Leonardo was known to do.
June 26th is the last chance to see Nicole Eisenman's "Al-ugh-ories" at the New Museum. I highly recommend you catch the first NY museum survey of work by this MacArthur-genius, brush-wielding badass.
I only recently saw this photo of me next to my piece, "Reliquary," snapped at June Kelly Gallery by the incredible and inimitable idiosyncratic fashionista herself, Jean! http://idiosyncraticfashionistas.blogspot.com/
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