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Letchworth Arts & Crafts Festival
What do Silent Mylo Tuxedo Cat, a herd of Buffalo, wacky witches, vampires, cats and dogs have in common? They will all be with me at the Letchworth Arts & Crafts Festival!
The show is this weekend, October 12th,13th & 14th, in Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY
The show runs:
- Saturday 10-5
- Sunday 10-5
- Monday 10-4
Here’s a link for more info about the park: http://nysparks.com/events/event.aspx?e=79-7001.0
Come for the leaves, come for the art — just COME!
When is a Print more than a Print?
I’ve written about this in the past (Hybrid Art?) but I continue to struggle with it. I am a Mixed Media artist. My originals are made of acrylic paint, polymer clay, sometimes wire, sometimes nails, sometimes metallic powders…… I have no problem labeling my originals: “Mixed Media Originals”. In turn, I make paper reproductions. They are flat — they are made of archival ink and paper, they are obviously “Prints”.
In between those extremes lurk my canvas prints with original polymer clay sculpture. Like this:
Art History #4: Grant Wood’s American Gothic, sort of….. #1/100 
And these:
Original: 5 Wines
Print: 5 Wines: Dogs #2/100
Original: Art History #2, Moanin’ Lisa
Print: Art History #2, Moanin’ Lisa #4/100
Original: The Usual Suspects
Print: The Usual Suspects #1/100
So what are these things? The base images are limited edition prints on canvas. They are mounted on board, some are painted (all of the labels in my 5 Wines series are original little paintings in and of themselves), all are finished with original, hand sculpted faces, figures, animals, etc. Are they prints, a series of mixed media originals, or somewhere in between?
Joan Horn, a fellow Western New York artist, suggested I call them ” Hybriginals”. I like that. They are Hybrids. They combine 21st Century printing technology with old fashioned, hand made art work.
Whatever you choose to call them, please come and see them in person at one of my shows. Click here for my show schedule: Upcoming 2013 Shows
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Everything Old is New Again
I can’t remember exactly how my Art History series began. It started about 2 years ago with a piece I called “VanGogh meets Warhol meets Parmigianino meets Kurek”. It was based on a Vincent VanGogh self portrait — but it also incorporated Warhol’s use of repetition — and it touched on late Renaissance Mannerism (Parmigianino’s Madonna with the Long Neck.) Long, possibly bad, titles aside, the series has been well received and continues to grow. Here’s a look at my latest “victims”: Grant Wood and Max Beckmann. “Art History #4: Grant Wood’s American Gothic …. sort of…” is based on a painting that needs no introduction. “Art History #5: Max Beckmann Merlot” deviates a bit from the other pieces in the series. Warhol’s repetition wouldn’t have worked here. So, instead of creating four repetitive image cells, I added onto the original image. I changed the cigarette in Beckmann’s hand to a wine glass and added a table with a wine glass and bottle of wine. The image on the bottle of Beckmann Merlot features a miniature image of one of his still life paintings.
If it isn’t obvious, let me state that these works are all meant to be in good fun! They are based on well known works, and I include “Art History”, the name of the original painting and/or the name of the original artist in each title. If you are not familiar with Max Beckmann, you should be! He was an interesting character. Here’s a Wikipedia link to start you off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann
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