HAPPY NEW YEAR to Art Blogs 4 U!

Firstly, I wish everyone reading this every success in the coming year, - whatever your hopes are for your art or anything else in 2007 may they all come to fruition!Secondly, here is an update on progress at Art Blogs 4 U:Art Blogs 4 U has been running for one calendar month and has received 800+ visits.We...

Philip Edson

Although born In England, I have lived and work in Alicante, Spain since 1999 where I have my own studio. All my work is of an abstract nature and is experimental. I am self taught and regard myself as a free spirit. My work is not constrained by commercial or any other considerations and I imagine...

Jessica Torrant

I was born and raised in rural, northern Connecticut, an only child with a wild imagination. I loved all things creative, including dance, theatre, writing, and most especially, music and art. I found painting to be my greatest love, and studied Fine Art at the University of New Hampshire, and the University...

Paula Manning-Lewis

Art is my calling. Its not just what I do, its who I am! Through 35 years of ups and downs art has been the one constant in my life. My professional Art career began in March 1991 shortly after the birth of my second son. My hope was to earn the part time paycheck I needed to be a stay at home mom....

Jo Castillo

Jo has been drawing and painting as long as she can remember. She works mainly in pastels, although she enjoys many media. She paints what she loves, both in studio and plein air. She is constantly learning and experimenting to improve her work. Jo's training has been through workshops, teaching and...

Anne Kullaf

Anne Kullaf has been drawing and painting since childhood. A native of New Jersey, she studied graphic design and fine art at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and at The Art Students League of NY.Her work has been exhibited at the National Arts Club in New York City, as well as at the Hunterdon...

Robin Neudorfer

After graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, with a BS in Industrial Design, Robin Neudorfer went to work for Landor Associates in San Francisco, CA. She designed commercial interiors for such companies as Banco Union, Panama, Air Cal, USA, Computerland, USA, BiLo, USA, DBS, Singapore,...

Rebecca Grantham

Cleveland Painter, Rebecca Grantham has a passion for landscape painting. "Painting outside in nature, en plein air is the most inspiring and rewarding way for me to create.Being outside immersed in nature, I can completely lose myself and be surrounded with the living energy that drenches my senses...

Greg Kapka

I hail from the British Isles, and am now one year down this never-ending road to artistic self expression.After regrettably attending University for two years, doing an unfulfilling course, I dropped out in order to follow what I had always wanted to be. Nervous, and with pencil in hand, I enrolled...

Sharon

Having only discovered art in the last few years, I am full of enthusiasm and feel very much like a child in a sweetshop, so many wonderful things to try! I dip into a variety of media and try out every subject in my search for my artistic self and what truly appeals. My blog is a record of my artistic...

Sue Choppers-Wife

Like most artists I'm still trying to find my niche with my artwork and one way to help do that is to share my thought process as I work. This is one reason I started my blogsite. I hope that by sharing my works in progress along with my frame of mind I might just hone not only my skills but my focus....

Lesly Finn

I am English, a mother of four children and a registered nurse. In 1999 I emigrated to New Zealand with my husband, since when I have been able to pursue a long held dream of expressing myself with paint. I work mainly with pastel or in acrylic on canvas, and I sometimes incorporate collage.When working...

Art Blogs 4 U

The purpose of this blog is to provide a centralised List of artists who write about their art on their blogs. The layout of the site may change from time to time but the List itself will remain on the main page so will always be easily seen by visitors. I will be posting to the blog at regular intervals...

Between us (and the body). Shen Wei

A Chinese photographer moves to the U.S. Here, he discovers bodies. Bodies as social places. Bodies as identifiers, as the places of definition. How does the place one belongs to relate to the body one owns (isn't this a beautiful expression? to own a body...)?Shen Wei's...

Yinka Shonibare and the artist's freedom

Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003)Shonibare's most famous works play on the idea of origin and power. The first lecture is clear: headless people are scrambling for Africa. They are dressed in European clothes, but made of African fabric. They are false. But this...

Art Blogs 4 U .... and it's Day 3

Sorry!!! - had a bit of a glitch yesterday and sign on box disappeared (totally my fault and won't happen again, promise!) New Sign on is started below and original names are now on permanent list.About Art Blogs 4 UHave you ever tried to join a list of links to art blogs? (there are several around)Did...

About Art Blogs 4 UHave you ever tried to join a list of links to art blogs? (there are several around)Did weeks go by and your name not appear?Like to help to make THIS list a success? If you answered YES .... then PLEASE READ ON!HOW TO JOINThis list is open to anyone practising 2-dimensional fine...

Shadowing light. Jindřich Štreit.

This magnificent artist has been recommended to me by my brother. Just look:And more...I feel like showing most of the images on the site which represents him, www.talent.cz.One thing makes me wonder. All of the pictures above were taken in Czechoslovakia before 1989....

Imagining we would like abstract painting and would actually accept things that don't say anything, don't even smile or bark, simply have colors

Lori Herbserger, New Paintings Installation (Untitled), 2002 (acrylic on canvas and wall)

Technorati: painting, visual art, fine art, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Make art to experience and not art to read about

"7. Don’t make modern art. Modern art tends to be ironical, cynical, self referential, afraid of beauty, afraid of meaning-other than the trendy discourse of the day-,afraid of technology, anti-artistry.Furthermore contemporary art is a marginal niche.The audience is elsewhere.Go to them rather...

Delicious.The only thing that irritates me here - and I suppose that's just a silly problem - is that the brilliant guys that created this, Winkler and Noah, have absolutely no problem whatsoever selling these wonderful, environmentally friendly messages...... and next...

The Perfect Gift

Keep the world full of surprises.If you don't have any books to cross, and are really not in the mood for a birthday party performance, then think of something else. Make it fluffy, hard, shiny, matte, transparent, sticky, disgusting, funny, shocking, simple, personal,...

Layers

Of course, of course. This is not what it seems.This is not a concrete column. This is not graffiti. This is something entirely different. It is a picture, a photo of graffiti. It is printed on dibond, the type of aluminum that is used for traffic signs, for example. And...

Magdalena Jetelová. How much should we know?

See this>These are powerful images. Dark, quite genuine in their landartishness, in their hands-on approach to the material. No gimmicking with the pictures here, just plain, gloomy black-and-white pulp.My recent lectures, concerning Shakespeare, his work and times,...

Discreet vulgar and artsy

Both works are created by Mexican artist Amor Muñoz.

Technorati: fine art, visual art, design, sex, art, contemporary art, vvoi

The Thought Project by Simon Hogsberg is very close to the spirit of Sophie Calle, with a slight postsecret twist. Here, too, the idea is simple: ask strangers what they were thinking at the very moment you stopped them. What impresses is the quality of the answers. It...

Happy Housing

Gilles Barbier, The Prince of Bellies (2003)
Gilles Barbier, Le Terrier (2005)

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Technorati: art installation, installation, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Two more pics of Cabrita Reis + bonus

(part 1 here)It is constructed. It is not freely distributed. It has a structure. It is the structure it has. The lights have rhythm. The lights are the chaotic order that sustains. They... some are covered with glass. Like a mirror of water. But their transparency doesn't...

Pedro Cabrita Reis - «Foundation» at the Gulbenkian Foundation

Foundation is, of course, the Gulbenkian Foundation. I have myself had the chance to discover some of the Foundation's warehouses and storage rooms, and it was an impressive experience. The average visitor has no idea that the two buildings, seperated by a medium-size,...

On Performance Art, In Lisbon

At last! Some good quality theoretical debate about performance, in Portugal! This is a very unexpected early Christmas gift.With artists such as Rui Horta and Pedro Tudela, and among the curators, Isabel Carlos and the Portuguese star-curator Delfim Sardo, this is going...

Both pictures are by Margi Geerlinks, at the Aeroplastics gallery in Brussels.Her works seem very uneven, some are simple "surrealist" plays with meaning, others are quite clever social commentary, others yet - really freaky stuff, way out there. But one thing is sure -...

Why I like Elizabeth LeCompte

Wooster Group, Hamlet (2006). Photo Paula CourtEverything I come up with in my head, I put it on stage. But in 90% of the cases it doesn't work, precisely because it's in my head.I think about what the audience will think. Every single moment. I want to be there, every...

Fixing theater

In the next couple of years I'm determined to make a couple of independent short films. I' m disappointed by a great deal of theatre. I love it, but I am beginning not to like its transience; as I get older I want to do something fixed.- Pete Brooksfound here, along with...

Videoart contest

Magmart | International Festival of VideoArt | 2nd edition"Is now starting, till February 2007, the 2nd edition of Magmart | video under volcano, international festival of video art.The festival is a production of studio tad, with partnership of Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, GenomART and Computer...

Aram Bartholl is playing with your life

Aram Bartholl, First Person ShooterPretty self-explanatory. Among Bartholl's projects there are several ones playing with the idea of an "online" gaming world. It is all light-hearted, smart material. Taking oneself just seriously enough, but for heavens' sake, not too...