Update and new artists added!

First of all sincere apologies to all those artists who have applied for inclusion in recent months, - I am sorry that it has been so long since this blog was undated but a bad fall (with injuries including a badly broken arm) caused a backlog in all sorts of daily activities, let alone blog updating! And for those who get a bit impatient I would like to add that I do not make any money out of this site .... it is a LABOUR of LOVE!

Having just spent several hours over the past few days going through the applications, here are a few of the reasons why an art blog may not get accepted:

• There is no link to AB4U on the artists website.
• There are very few examples of the artists work on display and/or the blog is very new.
• The majority of the work displayed is not 2-dimensional art.
• The majority of the work is digital art, photography or craftwork.

NOW - a BIG WELCOME to some very clever artists!

Anna Schueler




Lisa Argentieri




Catherine LaPointe



Kathleen Walker
Deborah Paige Jackson




Laura Locke



Mary C Nasser





Stephen Williams




Eithna Joyce



Jane Crisp




Magdalene Lima Fiallos



Mary Maxam

How It Works

You do things.
You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it.

You do them and please, please, you think, do not ask me what I'm doing, what my political take on this, for the moment now I just have a political in-take, the out is not political to my best knowledge. Fortunately, your knowledge is not best. You see, you do things.
And although most of them, you can honestly say, you know little about, the matter speaks for you. (Which, of course, does not mean you do not try to talk with it, for it, explain it, relate it and convey it, extrapolate it, and prove where it, the matter, stands).
Some of the works you work, frankly, are worthy of the highest criticism. They are, yes it has been said before, the flops. Or worse, they have the wrong ideas, wrong media, wrong impressions and plenty-wrong outcomes.

Yet within these plenty-wrong outcomes, things are born. And these things might just make connections, little roots holding on to little pieces of earth. Not that roots hold on to any particular piece, but this metaphor just decided to go its own way, and we at New Art listen to metaphors, so yes, there might be no palpable piece of anything that the roots hold to, yet the work (by now it is work) is starting to appear as if it were actually something, about something, into something, for something. It gains weight.

And then, at some ungiven points, not necessarily at the end or at any sort of finale, the Holy-Flip happens. It could be a form, it could be filled with air or helium, it could be pretty far away from you, but still yours, still stemming from this surprizing head. You might say "things came into place", but you have no clue what you are saying, you don't have the perspective, you just enjoy it, the fact that now it seems clear, there is a connection, things are being said which you knew you wanted to say or wanted someone to say, some other head maybe.
And you know what? When it works, it's so simple.

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All the works above are by Marina Decaro. The first and last image are from a work called "4 ojos" ("4 Eyes"), 2007.

Disclaimer: Marina De Caro was not consulted before writing the above text, and it is not meant to portray the development of her career. The above text is fiction and any resemblance to real art life stories, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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