I am thrilled to be showing new work at SAM Gallery! This is a portrait show with six fabulous Seattle artists. I’ll share about the making of these paintings, and post to V. Notes soon.
SAM GALLERY PRESENTS: FREE RADICALS
JUN 12 – JUL 7 2019
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
SAM GALLERY
10 AM – 5 PM
The artists in this show create portraits based on museum-goers, pop stars, celebrities, unknown Etruscan citizens, and very specific emotions. Much like the 19th-century British artists on view upstairs in Victorian Radicals these artists bring their unique interpretation to the word “portrait.”
I am presently in NY attending a Figurative Sculpture Marathon at the NY Studio School, and won’t be able to attend, but I invite you to go and enjoy the show’s opening reception June 13 from 6-7:30 pm. Wear a nametag that says “Ruthie V.” and smile at the generous people who talk to you.
A Post-Abstract Representational Artist From Wikiart: Avigdor Arikha (April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian. Avigdor Arikha (originally Victor Długacz) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine). His family faced forced deportation in …
Chuck Close has an almost photographic memory for things that are flat, but for 3 dimensional things that move around – things like faces – he is effectively blind. His work is built around his talent, and his disability. Through the detailed grids, Close can learn about the faces of people he cares about and commit them …
Today is the Memory/Imagination day of our 30 Day Creative Challenge. Look at “The Desperate Man” by Gustave Courbet. Your challenge today is to imagine what he’s looking at, and recreate that. Medium is artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, assemble a diorama, or dress in drag. Set a timer for 20 minutes. When the timer chimes, continue if you wish, …
Last Tuesday for our observational drawing I posted a challenge to draw your unmade beds. In return you posted exceptionally beautiful drawings, proof that lack of housekeeping makes for good art. Your drawings were so personal and beautifully rendered that decided to propose a similar measure of housekeeping for today’s challenge: laundry. Artist’s choice materials. …
Free Radicals Show at SAM Gallery
I am thrilled to be showing new work at SAM Gallery! This is a portrait show with six fabulous Seattle artists. I’ll share about the making of these paintings, and post to V. Notes soon.
SAM GALLERY PRESENTS: FREE RADICALS
JUN 12 – JUL 7 2019
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
SAM GALLERY
10 AM – 5 PM
The artists in this show create portraits based on museum-goers, pop stars, celebrities, unknown Etruscan citizens, and very specific emotions. Much like the 19th-century British artists on view upstairs in Victorian Radicals these artists bring their unique interpretation to the word “portrait.”
Featured Artists
I am presently in NY attending a Figurative Sculpture Marathon at the NY Studio School, and won’t be able to attend, but I invite you to go and enjoy the show’s opening reception June 13 from 6-7:30 pm. Wear a nametag that says “Ruthie V.” and smile at the generous people who talk to you.
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