In order for cost and supply to keep up with the demand artists often use cheap and accessible materials such plywood, particleboard and Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF). What these products don't tell you are the makeup of MDF board is toxic.
Printmaking has come a long way since Hokusai's "Great Wave." At Mesa Arts Center (MAC) in Arizona, I rolled acid paint onto stencils and cranked out anime-pop prints.
The discussion this day though was what had happened following the storm. There was talk of the difficulties faced in doing business and troubles with cell phone coverage; but mostly about the damage the storm had done to "art."
I'd like to take a page, pun intended, from the Slow Movement and suggest "Slow Information," the ongoing inheritance of the 15th C. technology of Gutenberg. It's still going on, and not just at Colonial Williamsburg.
Today is the birthday of painter and printmaker Edward Hopper. The artist who created "Nighthawks," one of the most recognizable American paintings, w...
Installation view of Ctrl+P, artist: Marie Lorenz. Courtesy Arlington Arts Center (Photo: Greg Staley)
There is a great show that opened recently ju...
James Harris Gallery in Seattle is currently showing two exhibitions that draw deeply from our sometimes faulty perception; between paintings by Sarah...
Last year, Lhotka exhibited her unique form of digital and mixed-media prints at Denver's Walker Fine Art in a group show and this year will exhibit solo there in an exhibit entitled Horizons.
If you read my earlier post, "Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer" you know that the entire Normandy region of France is pay...
This summer, in a festival entitled Normandie Impressionniste, the entire Normandy region is paying homage to the artists who lived and worked here, and to the artists and places that inspired them.