May Exhibitions

I am off to teach an oil stick workshop at R&F and thought I would post upcoming exhibitions in May. It is very exciting to have my work exhibited in these venues with such good artists. I will be sure to take some photos and post  after the openings.

 

Making their Mark features work by Amber George, David Kidd, Chase Langford, Maria O'Malley, Audrey Phillips and Lisa Pressman. Like fingerprints, artist’s lines and marks have unique characteristics that differentiate one artist's work from another. This show explores the variety and beauty of mark making, ranging from straightforward linear graphite marks to intuitive gestural gouges. The over riding theme that runs through all of the artist’s work is the intention to let the mark speak for itself. Artists Amber George, Maria O'Malley, Audrey Phillips, and Lisa Pressman will be at the opening reception.

Curated by Amber George, the show is the first exhibition in the gallery's Artist Curates series. Tuesday, May 3

Opening Reception :6:00pm - 8:00pm 

closes on June 17th
Susan Eley Fine Art
46 West 90th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY

Walking the Line  36 x 36 oil on board L Pressman

Affordable Art Fair
May 4,5,6,7,8
Anelle Gandelman Fine Art Booth G3
PO BOX 504
Larchmont, NY 10538 

Including Artists
Thea Schrack
Lisa Pressman
Jackie Battenfield
Geoffrey Baris
Betsy Weis
Deborah T Colter

1/5/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/5/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

	1/21/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/21/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/8/1 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman 1/3/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman 1/3/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/8/1 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/3/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/3/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

1/3/10 ink, wax on paper, 12 x 12 L Pressman

The Book Shelf of John Seed

JOHN SEED

The first image is my "all Picasso" shelf, the other is a bit more eclectic.

My Huffington Post Blog
An archive of my writings on art:
http://www.johnseed.com

Bookshelves of Marie Vickerilla, Tamar Zinn, Cheryl McClure, Krista Svalbonas

Marie Vickerilla

 Tamar Zinn

Cheryl McClure

 

 

Krista Svalbonas

I have a studio book case that houses all the artists and works that inspire my practice.Then I have two bookshelves dedicated to my photography, teaching and other media in arts. PS Krista's blog features an interview with me this week. Thanks, K

April on the Calender

April on the Calender 24 x 24  encaustic

Last Friday, I went to the opening of Conversations at R&F Handmade Paints  in Kingston, NY.  You can see complete blog posts on the show at Joanne Mattera's blog and a visit to R&F at Nancy Natale's blog. 

I was poking around the factory and found a color  I haven't seen from them although I am very familiar with it.  The paint makers make some wonderful mistakes. This one doesn't have a name yet but I am voting for LP green.

A pleasant surprise  on the R&F shelves

 

Delicious !

Please make some more

  

I also found a note I sent to Darin  propped up on the shelf.  It was a patch of one lone pigment stick  that I probably found in the special rack. I am looking for it again.  I can recreate the color  but it just doesn't have the same feel as the pigment stick.

I did find  a reference for them while I was taking pictures-the gloves!!

Big Pink

Other Photos

 

  

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