Claudia Sperry's Influences and Favorites

Here is Claudia Sperry's work. Her solo show at Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA opens October 1.


Untitled, 2010, oil on wood, 48 x 48


An excerpt from an essay by David Gibson:

"The works of Claudia Sperry communicate a depth of meaning beyond mere appearance. They speak of the struggle to achieve meaningful form, a role that only the artist is prepared to fulfill. Sperry has developed an aesthetic that combines the conscious and unconscious qualities of painterly expression, giving each painting a memory of its own, and a dynamic borrowed from her precursors, the alchemists. Place one color next to another, read the signs, build a form that accrues in portent
as it adds to an oeuvre. It’s not about analysis, her work, but about feeling our way through an experience. Ambiguity is her greatest tool. She speaks not to the viewer, but to the painting, asking it questions which it refuses to answer. The truth is that meaning follows beauty, the rest is silence."

Untitled, 2010, Oil on Wood 11 x14

Influences and favorites



Picasso

Rauschenberg

Amy Sillman

Matisse

Judy Pfaff

Hoffman

Klee

Per Kirkeby

Richter

Jane Hammond

Pat Steir

Eva Hesse







Untitled, 2010, Oil on Wood   36 x 36





View from Claudia's studio







Untitled, 2010, oil on wood,  48 x 48

Tim Mc Farlane's Studio

Last week artists, Pam Farrell, Ravenna Taylor, David Foss, Tim McFarlane and I got together in Philadelphia. First stop was David Foss's solo show, Exits and Entrances, at the LGTripp Gallery. Later we went up the street to Tim's third floor walk up studio for some snacks and a look around.


This is the sign above Tim's door in his studio. As I looked around I couldthat see he follows this advice.



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Paint everywhere....


and tools, materials, books, unfinished and finished pieces.

Dave and Tim.

Great fun,Tim. Thanks for having us.

Upcoming Workshops

Rooms of Anais Nin, encaustic 28 x24 L Pressman

It is almost the end of the summer, amazing isn't?
There is still time to see:
"Reality & Artifice" 2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Art New Jersey State Museum through Oct0ber 31, 2010

And time to plan on taking some workshops or classes for the fall.

I am booking for private time in my studio in West Orange,NJ

4 hour blocks of time.

Encaustic, pigment sticks. painting.

Email for details : art@lisapressman.net

Encaustic Workshop
Sunday,September 26th

Geralyn's Art Studio

Maplewood ,NJ

973-275-1966 for registration details

Beginning Encaustic Workshop

Sunday, October 3rd

Visual Arts Center

Summit, NJ

908-273-9121 for registration details

Advance Encaustic Workshop

Sunday, October 19th

Visual Arts Center

Summit, NJ

908-273-9121 for registration details

8 week encaustic classes begin at Center for Visual Arts in September

908-273-9121 for registration details

Shadows and Walls

I have a pretty simple approach to picture taking. I take them, I upload them, and very rarely do anything else to them. I took these a while ago and have been looking at them as possible "sketches" for drawings.
















































































The walls at Mass MoCa. The art will be the next post.





And these are a glimpse of a Sol LeWitt behind a window.

Outside/Inside Part 4

Barbara Fisher

"train tracks right outside my studio door....I mean right outside.....very loud all day long. most of the cars are carrying wood chips to the paper mills west of Asheville
(NC). Draw your own conclusions! no pun intended." "Taking Up Space" 30 x 36 oil and charcoal on canvas

Tim McFarlane

Here are two shot for you. A view outside of my studio window. It's on the fourth floor of a building in the Old City section of Philadelphia. The church on the left is the historic Christ Church. The painting is a recent piece titled, "Daydream Drift", 2010, acrylic on panel, 24" x 24". Here is the link for my art blog"

Recently I visited my pal Marie Vickerilla as she was getting ready for her show at the Chace-Randall Gallery. I couldn't resist taking these two shots.



Red-Blue oil on canvas, 34 x 32

Studio Visit

Last Friday, Pam Farrell organized a group studio visit at her place in Flemington, NJ. She invited us for lunch and to look at her work and share something of our own. Artists included David Foss, Tim McFarlane, Rob Solomon, all from the Philadelphia area and Ravenna Taylor along with myself from NJ.

I was so busy looking at Pam's garden, collection of art, antiques and eating BLT'S on homemade bread that I didn't take any pictures of her house. Too bad because it is a great place.
But I did snap a few in the studio.




Pam's studio is in the back of her house. She is busy getting ready for a show at Morpeth Gallery scheduled for the spring. Here you see an oil painting that she is working on at the moment.



A painting that Pam just finished:
Soft Parade (sanctuary)
60" x 60"oil on canvas 2010




Ravenna, Rob, and Dave checking out Pam's works on paper.





Pam, Dave, Rob, Ravenna and I looking at my series of ink and wax on paper. I am thinking about including these in my January show at The Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia.












Tim and Dave discussing Dave's mixed media works on paper. Dave has a show coming up at the LG Tripp Gallery in Philadelphia this September.







Ravenna and Tim looking at one of Tim's new paintings. He is represented by the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia.

Untitled, 2010, acrylic and paper on panel, 16" x 16"
Rob Solomon and Ravenna Taylor didn't bring work for this visit but here are some images from them:

Rob Solomon's work

Freefall

Ravenna Taylor's work
Mansion Of Bliss


July 16 photocollage 2 Song Cycle 25

Thanks, Pam. A great time was had by all. I am looking forward to next month's visit at Tim McFarlane's studio.