Tuesday, March 04, 2008

John Walker Painting Survey at Nielsen in Boston

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Charred, ashes, a swath of detritus spread across miles and miles of a scorched earth, flotsam and jetsam littering a muddy shore, left behi...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

The Calling

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My most recent entry mused about that call an artist hears and has to answer; why this of course becomes the artist's calling .  When I ...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Making Something of Something

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I was talking to my friend, Ulick Mahoney, at his extensive exhibition of paintings at UMASS Boston's Harbor Gallery yesterday, and one ...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Exceptional

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My last post warned against the temptation to believe either yourself or others that you deserve recognition. I recommended against ever go...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Surviving The Fall

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I'm not sure anyone else experiences the fall from grace the way art students do after they leave school, and although everyone graduati...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

No Fear of Painting

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I'll get right to it. Painting is like flying. It is fun. It is free. You can see! You can see better. Or, it's like swimming, which...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Culpa Minor

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You have to be willing to be bad. You have to be willing to fail. No one tells you this. As an artist you have know this. You are going to m...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Humble Pie

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I doubt there is an artist out there who doesn't know that the next thing they do could be a complete bust. We live with it. We try to b...
Monday, September 10, 2007

The Three Ps

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When I was a teenager and hitch-hiked everywhere, I learned the lesson about letting go. It was a quasi-spiritual revelation, and more than ...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

What Counts!

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Many years ago, well over twenty, I taught a class at RISD called Light In The Tunnel. At that point I was thoroughly aware of the risks of ...