Are ye feral yet? We definitely are. This morning Dan had a moment of realization that he should clean himself up for a Zoom call. I told him he was grand, as indeed, to my eyes all of this informality is just rounding the corporate corners off of everyone, and he, for a moment, believed me.
My trajectory has been one of mending. By mending myself, I mend others.
I am mostly at sea in the studio, adrift in reverie on good days, awash in doubt on the bad. But forty years of working has taught me that moves come from failure and from the work I make while waiting in the wings.
We are in the middle of rupture, in the eye of upheaval, imagine the repairs that need to be done!
Studio View Do you think art matters during a crisis? I believe art plays a critical role in society. In times of crisis even more so. Particularly when the crisis is microscopic with massive, life altering consequences. We see the disastrous and terrifying results of this disease and the only advisable action, […]
Tracy King (neice); Arlene Lovett (sister); Cornelia Schulz Art matters in a time of crisis, for the connection to the energy and spirit of creativity is a vital life force, not just for culture but for civilization itself. Art Toronto 2019 The arts bind us to the lineage of cultures past […]
Toshiaki Noda – (Link to a small body of ceramic sculpture completed a few months ago) I believe art always matters to us regardless of the time in which we live. It matters even when we are in a crisis like this. I believe there are more important things in our daily lives that […]
We’re all deeply concerned how this crisis is affecting so many lives, loved ones and communities throughout the world. I’ve tried many times to find words to express something meaningful, only to find with each attempt I come up woefully bankrupt. Maybe it’s because what I want to say, all the comfort I […]
APRIL 1, 2020 BY CATHERINE KIRKPATRICK Artists on Coping: Helen O’Leary During the Coronavirus pandemic, Art Spiel is reaching out to artists to learn how they are coping. Photo by Eva O’ Leary, Fader Magazine Helen O’Leary is an Irish-born artist best known for constructions that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, object and image. She trained […]
March 7, 2020 – July 26, 2020 East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery Throughout modern art history, painting has been declared dead and later resuscitated so many times that the issue now tends to has largely been ignored. Despite any debate over painting’s viability, artists continue to persevere in keeping the medium fresh […]