Artdeal Magazine

Artdeal Magazine is a touchstone for artists; what it means to choose a life devoted to art, and how to survive and flourish as such. It provides sanctuary. This blog will do as intended; offer a running commentary, a little reminder, a yes for being an artist!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Forget What I Just Said!

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Teachers say a lot of stuff. I am continually reminded that the luckiest artists are the ones who had no teachers at all. They call teaching...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

Art Miami

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Next to the word oxymoron in the dictionary are two other words: Art Miami. My own experience is that art is a butterfly. It goes where it l...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Hello!

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First off I've been consumed by a major project since April. It is just starting to turn the corner. I've also just curated a show a...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Larry Deyab: Return of the Native

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Larry Deyab has reached a really important place in painting; a place where painting can't really start until you get there: nowher...
Friday, February 05, 2010

Non-Refundable YES!

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Faith is the non-refundable "yes!" Think about it. If you had had a non-refundable yes for that thing, that dream you bailed on in...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

No big deal!

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I like painting. I like the place painting takes me. I like looking at painting. I even like thinking about painting and talking about...

Your lap!

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It is really hard to embrace the responsibility that being an artist entails. Most artists would turn back if they realized the truth. But t...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

What's Best?

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When I was a teenager I watched two of my older brothers have a heated argument over a pick-up truck. One of them was arguing for what he th...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Where Art Happens

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Recently someone asked me why I don't teach my children "art." I was after all, they argued, an excellent art teacher at...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Charles Seliger (1926 - 2009)

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This is my first attempt at writing something about the passing of Charles Seliger. I made a hash of it. It is not in my nature to throw th...
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Addison Parks
Painter(Washburn, Crispo, Creiger-Dane, Nielsen, MoMA PS1). Past lives include muralist(NYC, MoMA PS1, London, Rome); art teacher(RISD, Putney, Suffolk),art critic(ARTS Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Arts Media, Provincetown Arts, Stuff), curator, gallery owner/director, art trucker, preparator, etc. Written up in NYTimes, ARTS Magazine, Boston Globe, and Rome Daily American. I grew up in the arts and I believe in the experience and power of art to make life if not better, fuller and more connected. I publish Artdeal Magazine to serve this purpose.
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