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instinct + skill both benefit greatly from practice The secret of successful art-making is... - curiosity - creativity - risk - hard work (discipline) - resourcefulness - embrace glitches/accidents, process - & persistence Preserved in SAIC alum Roger Brown's (BFA 1968, MFA 1970) former home and studio, RBSC is filled with objects from the far corners of the world of thing-making. You will find works by Chicago Imagists and nonmainstream artists, folk and tribal art, material and popular culture, costumes, furniture, and things found wandering here and there as well as Brown’s Ford Mustang still parked in the garage.
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Drop by Drop An installation of 5,000 ceramic elements. March, 2016 333 University Ave Sacramento, CA 95825 www.katbing.com
"Well Van Gogh didn’t have Prozac or social media, so that’s a bummer." Link to article. Link
Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler - Eight Video 3 min, 35 sec (loop) www.hubbardbirchler.net/works/eight/ The title Eight refers to being eight years old as well as using the number eight as a symbol of infinity. The looped video has neither a beginning nor an end, and the images in which dreams and reality are intertwined continue with no conclusion in sight. The girl who should be the star of her eighth birthday party stands alone, getting soaked as she cuts the cake in celebration of her own birthday, in stark contract to the sounds of chatting that seems to come from somewhere in the house. This surrealistic scene provides a glimpse into the world of a child that cannot be understood with adult rationality. The expression in the girl's eyes reveals a strength that remains unbowed by her miserable situation. It stirs memories in the viewer, recalling the loneliness unique to childhood and the inviolate freedom and secret feelings that only children possess. Some quotes... "For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back. I wonder what will come of placing this generation under house arrest." "...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender..." "Certainly for artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet arrived, is what must be found. It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, “live always at the ‘edge of mystery’ — the boundary of the unknown.” But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea." "Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown." "Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss." |
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