What's on your book shelf? Brenda Goodman and Lorraine Glessner

Since  my book shelf blog post I have received a few books from friends, a Brice Marden catalog, Letters to a Young Poet, Art and War and a Joan Mitchell book. Thanks to all of them!!  I am  thinking a book trade party among artist friends might be fun. 

Check out Brenda and Lorraine's book collection.

Brenda Goodman

 

 

 Lorraine Glessner
I LOVE my books and i love that you're doing this post!! it's great to see the books that other artist's have, especially relative to the art they make. these are books in my living room on the stairs to my studio and in my studio. i have many more beside my bed, around the studio and at school for my students, but this gives you a good sampling. last summer i organized my books according to subject to make it easier to find them and so that i didn't purchase books i already had-which, i sheepishly admit, i did a few years ago. yes, i'm also a bookaholic and proud of it!! thanks, Lisa, for this fun and interesting post!

What's on your book shelf?

What is on your bookshelf?

Look at the books and then check at their websites.

Joanne Mattera

These are some of the books in my library. I also put art on the shelves. You can identify a Nancy Natale. There's also a Rose Olson (she's a Boston-based painter who does extraordinary things with veils of color) and a drawing on canvas by my niece Toria when she was about nine years old depicting a palette and easel, which she titled on the painting, "The Artist's Touch." She's an adult now but I love that little painting. There's also a small oil-on-panel view, postcard size, of I Faraglioni, the rocks of off Capri., which I bought on my first trip to the island some 35 years ago. There's also a table in my living room groaning with more recent books, including: Women Gallerists in the 20th and 21st Centuries; Bridget Riley; Line, the catalog of the MoMA show last year; and My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. That latter  I understand very well, as I am a bookoholic.

 

 

Paul Behnke

Sue Katz
So in my computer room/library are lots of books - a shot of more recently acquired books and some "oldies but goodies" from Japan (we went there in 2004) - the best book about process: Zen In the Art of Archery" by Eugene Herrigel, 1960s, and a book about proportion in the Japanese house and book once borrowed by Richard Serra,"Forms in Japan," about language for forms. 

Binnie Birstein

 attached are some book shots from around the very neat, on the market house

 




 

What's on your book shelf?

Whenever I am visiting a house or studio I usually find myself at some point in front of the guest's bookshelf having book envy.  This week one of my friends, who has been an avid book collector for the past 30 years, just realized how much some of her art books are worth!! Another friend and I shared some of our favorite books with each other.
I have books all over my house and studio and some on loan but here are a few shots of my neat piles in my office.

I did this early on in my blog as a list but this time how about a photo or two of your book shelves?  
email 2 jpegs  low res with your name and url to art @lisapressman.net
Thanks

Nancy Natale

Nancy Natale, artist and blogger, sent this post to me almost ready to go so I want to send her a huge thanks. What a treat to be able to see her wonderful new work and get a glimpse some of her influences.




Natale - Bandito, 2010, 24”x24”, encaustic with mixed media on panel



I feel that I have finally come into my own with my work. It’s been a long time getting there, but I’ve stuck with it by working, looking, reading and experimenting. I think I have only touched the tip of the iceberg and there is lots more still under water. My website is here at  Nancy Natale and my blog "Art in the Studio"





Natale - Three Reds, 2010, each 10”x8”, encaustic with mixed media on panel


Here are some of my influences and the influence has been from the integrity of the vision in addition to the work itself.

First of all, Joanne Mattera For providing the information and inspiration about encaustic with her book and her beautiful lush work, and also for being a model for me with her wisdom, experience and energy as an artist and a woman.Here is her blog and her book.
  
Joanne Mattera, Gemmo, 2011, 32”x32”, encaustic on panel



Joanne Mattera, Silk Road 146, 2010, 12”x12”, encaustic on panel

Other inspirations – not necessarily in order, but what they all have in common is an emphasis on the physical construction of their work and a dark sensibility.

 

Leonardo Drew for his use of accretion, for finding beauty in the old, beat-up and cast off and for his devotion to materiality



 
Lee Bontecou  for her dark sensibility, inventive use of materials and for being true to her own vision


  
El Anatsui for his use of accretion to make something so beautiful from nothing




 

Philip Guston
for daring to change his work so drastically and for painting so honestly. Also for the physicality of his paint.




 

Brenda Goodman
ditto(Guston) and with extra credit for having to struggle as an artist who is a woman and a woman who is a lesbian


 

Richard Diebenkorn for his line, color, space and love of paint


 
Joan Mitchell  for her color, marks and dark spirit


 
Ted Larsen for his complex simplicity of design and love of old painted surfaces



 

Lance Letscher for showing me the way

Quick pics from a day in NYC, Part 2

Color Study 69, 2009
Color Study for Painting 590
oil and alkyd on illustration board
15 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches (38.4 x 17.2 cm)">

David Reed
Color Study 69, 2009
Color Study for Painting 590
oil and alkyd on illustration board
15 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches (38.4 x 17.2 cm)

Color Study 41, 2009
Color Study for Painting 524-2
oil and alkyd on illustration board
15 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches (40 x 21.9 cm)">

David Reed
Color Study 41, 2009
Color Study for Painting 524-2
oil and alkyd on illustration board
15 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches (40 x 21.9 cm)

ColorStudy 68, 2009
Color Study for Painting 571-2
oiland alkyd on illustration board
16 5/8x 9 3/4 inches (42.2 x 24.8 cm)">

David Reed
ColorStudy 68, 2009
Color Study for Painting 571-2
oiland alkyd on illustration board
16 5/8x 9 3/4 inches (42.2 x 24.8 cm)

A few more from NYC


AT ADAA

Judy Pfaff at Pavel Zoubok Gallery

Untitled (St. Sebastian), 1978

Mixed media construction

23 x 20 x 11 inches Courtesy Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY

Kathy Butterly at Tibor De Nagy






The shadows and bowls caught my eye but I didn't get the information. (if you know please email me)





David Reed at Peter Blum


WorkingDrawing for Painting 576, 2007
mixedmedia on paper
twosheets, each 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55.9 cm)

AT PULSE

Beka Goedde at Cristina Ray


Weight of Color III
2010

mixed media on paper

11.75 x 8.7



In Chelsea

Fran Shalom at the Abstraction show, Nancy Margolis Gallery





Joan Mitchell at Lennon Weinberg Gallery


Untitled (La Fontaine), 1957,
78 1/2 x 64 1/2",
oil on canvas

Still Dancing, 2010, oil on panel, 12"x12"

Quick pics from a day in NYC

Rachel Whiteread
Grey, pink, yellow, grey, 2010
Resin
6 1/4 x 42 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches
(16 x 107 x 11.5 cm

I went to NYC yesterday to several of the art fairs and down to Chelsea. It was very quiet at the ADAA so it was easy to see the work: Joseph Cornell, Hannalore Baron, Philip Guston and more. Pulse was in a surprising small venue but had a bit more of a "pulse" going on.

I took a few photos of some of what resonated for me .


Rachel Whiteread

Yellow, Pink and Blue, 2008
Dental plaster, resin, wood and metal (three units, one shelf)
9 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches
(24 x 40 x 20 cm)

SANDWICH, 2008
Plaster, pigment, resin, bronze, wood and metal (five units, one shelf)
8 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches
(22.5 x 40 x 20 cm)

Joseph Cornell

Hannalore Baron





Tara Donovan at Pace Gallery


Drawings: (Pins)


Close up




gatorboard, paint, and nickel-plated steel pins
96" x 96" x 2-1/2" (243.8 cm x 243.8 cm x 6.4 cm)


Pat Steir at Cheim Reid

Stay tuned for some Joan Mitchell and others.

Lucy Mink's Art Influences

I first saw Lucy Mink's charming paintings on FB. The color, the patterns, the quiet narratives caught my eye.

Her Statement:

I am consumed by combinations of color and form as a visual, abstract diary of my life, where time does not belong to me, but to others.

I am frequently organizing their things while they dance. I am in a situation.

Under Here 19 x 20 1/2 oil on linen on panel


Home 8 x 8 in oil on linen on panel

TheSoundOnTheGround 24 by 22 1/2 in oil on linen in panel




I Need A Place To Put Some Things that We Weren't Allowed To Talk About
19 x 20 1/2 oil on linen on panel


Lucy's art influences:

Elisabth Cummings

Marden Hartley

Alice Neel

Balthus

Soutine

Philip Guston

Lucian Freud

Matisse

Giorgio Morandi

Cindy Sherman

my kids

What I hear and think about and look at:

David Bowie..... often

The Rolling Stones- 'Get off of my Cloud'

Looking at books with unusual trees with my 4 year old

How a 6 year old sees the world.

What to make for dinner that my kids will eat.

Everything while out walking.

AGoodTypicalSolution 8 x 8 oil on linen on canvas