tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88228516776172522402024-03-12T19:31:58.558-07:00Eileen Lives With ArtEileen loves art. She lives with art. This blog features her occasional comments about the art works she's brought into her home.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-11939825166943793242017-01-13T14:21:00.000-08:002017-01-13T14:21:03.373-08:00ERIC SHAW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I was happy to help support <b><a href="http://www.belladonnaseries.org/">Belladonna's</a></b> last fundraiser as Belladonna is one of my favorite presses! Am looking forward to homing "Uni," a painting by <b><a href="http://www.ericjshaw.com/">Eric Shaw</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> introduced to me by Belladonna. It's cool yet pops! And do check out Belladonna's <b><a href="http://www.belladonnaseries.org/">publications</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> which I heartily recommend!</span><br />
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I appreciate this <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7U64sVmCn8">YouTUBE</a></b> video for showing the paintings' lovely surfaces.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-32783467558487646922016-12-07T05:30:00.000-08:002016-12-07T05:30:13.864-08:00RACHAELA diROSARIA<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;">From a 2015 trip to New Orleans, we were blessed to bring home a work by <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/feralfemmeart/">Rachaela diRosaria</a></b>. We got a shadowbox painting by this fabulous tattooed artist and artist of tattoos: </span><br />
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From our trip, here also are photos of her (I love the phases of the moon across her face -- phase / face!), her supportive husband, and more of her works at the show where we met:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-86055859948298582382016-12-06T19:50:00.001-08:002016-12-06T19:50:39.157-08:00DENISE DUHAMEL<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Duhamel">Denise Duhamel</a></b> is known for her poetry. I don't know how much she practices visual art but, once, she also made this wonderful watercolor that is a cheerful presence in la casa:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">When it comes to art, I have no standards as regards German Shepherd tchochkes: our family welcomes GSD in all of its forms. Thus, here are</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> our 2015 Christmas GSD paintings. We tried to evoke Vermeer's light with the top image of Athena and our son on the dog bed. Achilles poses by the second painting for which he had modeled. We just heart our dogs!</span><br />
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<i>("Pina Ooze," 2016, acrylic and image transfer on panel, 5x7)</i></div>
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I acquired <b><a href="http://www.readeguzman.com/">Rea de Guzman</a></b>'s "Pina Ooze" from a fundraiser for the worthy<b><a href="http://filamartistdirectory.com/"> Filipino American Artist Directory</a></b>. It arrived and looks so much better in person (ignore the ratty dog towel against which I photographed it please; but ratty dog towels are relevant for "living with" art). Do click on the image to see more of its resplendence!<br />
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I believe this piece is actually an artist's study for her "Filipinana (After Filipinana)" series. You can see more about the 2014-2015 series <b><a href="http://www.readeguzman.com/#/portfolio/">HERE</a></b>, but here's an Artist's Statement about it:<br />
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<span style="color: #575757; font-family: proxima-nova;">A predominant symbol in this series of work is the pineapple. Originally, Spain introduced the pineapple to the Philippines (from South America). The Philippines is currently the world’s largest pineapple producer. A distinct feature of the pineapple is piña fiber, which can be extracted from leaves and woven with organza to make clothing. Historically, piña fiber became an ingredient, along with organza and muslin, in traditional women’s outfits known colloquially as “Maria Clara” (a metonym referring to a mestiza literary figure from Jose Rizal's </span><em style="color: #575757; font-family: proxima-nova;">Noli me Tangere</em><span style="color: #575757; font-family: proxima-nova;">, first published in 1887). The “Maria Clara” became tied to Philippine ideals of beauty and female social roles, underscoring a great irony: the native notion of beauty took on the dictated perspective of the colonizer and became recognized by clothing made from a foreign fruit. This trend continues today as popular Philippine ideas regarding beauty center on imported products, media perpetuation of westernized images, and the championing of myriad skin-whitening/bleaching products.</span></blockquote>
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<i> (Postcard for "Filipiniana (After Filipiniana)" series</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[N.B. I don't know how to type the tilde over first "n"...]</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-25210579573443939822016-11-29T23:32:00.000-08:002016-11-30T23:33:07.128-08:00ARCHIE RANDI met <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Rand">Archie Rand</a></b> through the poet John Yau. Both have collaborated several times and one of their collaborations is the etchings-based <i><b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/100-more-jokes-from-book-of-dead-by.html">100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD</a></b></i>. A print series of one of the etchings in the book is the charming <b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/08/cold-water-flat-by-archie-rand-and-john.html">"Cold Water Flat"</a></b>:<br />
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Now that you see the image above, you can chuckle with my placement of it in our wine cellar.<br />
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I was blessed that both gentlemen helped me inaugurate my literary and arts press, <b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/">Meritage Press</a></b>, and thankful that, as a result, I can also enjoy this charming etching.<br />
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I encourage you to check out the art of Archie Rand as well as the poetry of<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yau"> John Yau</a></b>.<br />
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I met <b><a href="https://okiranalog.wordpress.com/">Jean Vengua</a></b> through poetry but she's also an accomplished visual artist. I was honored that she chose to make two tiny chair paintings for my mini-chair collection -- I did a blog post on her paintings at my <b><a href="http://sitwithmoi.blogspot.com/2013/07/mini-chair-mini-paintings-by-jean-vengua.html">mini-chair blog</a></b>, but here they are on a so-called "Tennessee Yellow Chair":<br />
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Thank you, Jean!<br />
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And do check out her poetry, too, including her award-winning book, <i><b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/prau-by-jean-vengua.html">PRAU</a></b></i>!<br />
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I make books. Heart those books. And, usually, I develop a manuscript and then, if there's a publisher, look for an image(s) for its front cover. Well, I just received "P<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">uñeta</span></span>" by Jennifer Rebecca Ortuoste, and it is the first image for which I plan someday to create a manuscript. I love it so much I want to put it on the front of a book!<br />
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I not only love its colors but I love how Jenny subverted the art of embroidery to create such an edgy work! Y'all know what<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">puñeta</span></i></span> means! <br />
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I first saw "P<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">uñeta</span></span>" through its appearance in the <b><a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/543260/lifestyle/artandculture/chromatext-rebooted-follow-your-bliss">"Chromatext II"</a></b> exhibition in Manila (Dec 2015-Jan. 2016). I immediately ordered it, with the help of Philippine poet-novelist Krip Yuson (thanks Krip!). Anyway, I'm so happy to welcome it into la casa! Had I done this work, by the way, I would have leaked blood drops all over it -- but La Doctora obviously is the like the rest of humanity: better than I at the domestic arts...<br />
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I begin this post with a detail from <b><a href="http://westbeth.org/wordpress/artist/jon-dorazio/">Jon D'Orazio</a></b>'s painting because the detail shows exactly what one sees at eye level. Contrast that with the second image, the painting itself whose photo I had to go to the other side of the room to take. That's why we sometimes joke that Jon must have painted this painting with a very long brush -- it's amazing how he painted the abstraction at close quarters for the image from afar. I believe this says something, not just about D'Orazio's painterly mastery but, also how he's so taken into heart all of his lessons from and training in Buddhism. Kudos, Jon!<br />
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We've lived with this painting for decades and it remains fresh.<br />
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It's ever so lovely to bear witness to someone else's lucidity and how such generates art.<br />
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My "Botero" is an inexpensive tourist tchotchke from the gift store of the <b><a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/partner/museo-botero-bogota">Museo Botero</a></b> in Bogota. But I treasure it because I love its image of plump books. Botero, of course, is known for plumping up his figures -- and while I love the book in all of its forms, I have a special fondness for PLUMP as in THICK books. I make them, too, like the book nicknamed <b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/poetry/i-take-thee-english-for-my-beloved/">BRICK</a> </b>with its 504 pages in a genre known more for less-than-a-hundred pages. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Merely</i></span> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">504 pages? I shall have to work on exceeding that...!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-86848128453841564162016-09-18T09:47:00.001-07:002016-11-30T23:33:22.479-08:00INTRODUCTION with THERESA CHONG<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On Sept. 11, 2016, I posted a note on Facebook that came to be the impetus for this blog. I replicate that post here as my first post for this blog (there are older blog posts than this Introductory post because I moved over older "Living with Art"-type Facebook posts to this blog):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><b>9-1-1:</b> Tom woke me up with a jolt. He had been watching "Good Morning America." He rushed me to the television. We had just left NYC and, from San Francisco, we watched the first tower fall. For over three years, I had worked at the 103rd floor of One World Trade Center. Then the second tower fell. And we watched Charlie Gibson unable to see what was happening. We watched Mr. Gibson unable to process, thus see, the fall of the second tower -- a lesson again in how (1) people </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;">fail to see what they do not want to see, and (2) we see only what we want to see. Later, I made a scheduled class visit. I held up a newspaper's front page featuring<b><a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/"> "The Falling Man"</a></b>. I said that this image revised the image I have of my book <i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Lightning-Poetry-Progress-American/dp/1889876038?ie=UTF8&n=283155&redirect=true&ref_=dp_proddesc_0&s=books">BLACK LIGHTNING</a></b></i>. I raised the cover of my book, which reproduced a painting by <b><a href="http://theresachong.com/">Theresa Chong</a></b>. I said I could no longer look at my book cover or Theresa's painting (which hangs in my house) without seeing the falling man superimposed against its lines. Theresa had made her painting by standing the canvas on edge, thus, allowing gravity to dictate the fall of the black and white paint stripes. Gravity dictates ... so much. September 11--my Birthday for so many years, and still my *legal* birthday. A few years ago, my mother revealed that, actually, I was born on Sept. 10 but the village recorder the next morning failed to adjust the day since I'd been born at night. The revelation shocked, then brought extreme joy. I no longer shared the same birthday as the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. And I was no longer a 9-1-1 baby.</span></span></blockquote>
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<i>"Black Lightning" (she renamed her painting after my book title) by Theresa Chong</i></div>
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You can see--compare the above images with--the iconic photograph of 9-1-1's "The Falling Man" available at this article on <i><b><a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/">Esquire</a></b></i>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-78823411883921736712016-09-17T17:27:00.000-07:002016-11-08T14:25:53.383-08:00STELLA LAI<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">We like to live with works by an artist in depth. Here are some of the works by Stella Lai. I admire her works, partly for reflecting how she successfully made up a character, "Puchaa," whose name amuses me for being Mexican slang for "Pussy." Perhaps my favorite is her installation "DON'T TOUCH ME" which is featured below with a detail photo -- I'll always fondly remember how she'd visited the house with two other artists and her dealer and all busily screwed in those little heads on the wall. Afterwards, she signed the wall directly -- a signature I also appreciated for its anti-capitalist </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">element.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-61466427436662377872016-09-15T17:46:00.000-07:002016-11-30T13:31:28.019-08:00ALLEN BRAMHALL<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Mi casa is blessed to house two lovely artworks by </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=635758061" href="https://www.facebook.com/allen.bramhall" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Allen Bramhall</a>. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allen is not just a visual artist but someone close to my heart:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> a poet who has supported poetry as a former publisher (30 books!), critic, supporter of others' poetry presses and books, and author of intelligent and wise poems. He is a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 arial\22 " , sans-serif;">"poet who innocently turned to painting," and I'm glad he did!</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nevadaart.org/exhibition/daniel-douke-extraordinary/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.nevadaart.org/exhib…/daniel-douke-extraordinary/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822851677617252240.post-79985361754148656962016-09-11T17:35:00.000-07:002016-12-05T22:20:33.724-08:00BRIAN LUCAS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b><a href="http://brianlucas.tumblr.com/">Brian Lucas</a></b> is a poet as well as a visual artist. I met him through poetry but have enjoyed living with his works for years!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Cristina Querrer, by the way, is also a poet with a lovely chapbook, <i><b><a href="http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/exporting.html">The Art of Exporting</a></b>,</i> from dancing girl press & studio (2011). Here's a <b><a href="http://halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-art-of-exporting-by-cristina-querrer.html">review</a></b> I wrote on it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">We discovered Michelle O'Connor about 15 years ago during one of San Francisco's Open Studios (where artists opened up their studios to the public throughout the city). We were her first "Collectors" -- I use the term because we would find out later that she treasured being able to say her art is <i>collected</i>. We had visited tons and tons of studios that day and her paintings were our pick; we thought she had such potential and wanted to encourage her. I thin</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">k she wasn't out of art school yet. For several years, Tom had one of her larger works hanging in his office lobby; apparently she would visit his office lobby (grin) to take photos and look at her painting in such a context she might not have imagined would be possible. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Perhaps a year or so after we met her, she was riding her bike in San Francisco, got side-swiped by a vehicle and died. Her father came into town to collect her belongings ... including her journal from which, her father would come to share in a telephone call with Tom, she had written about such relishing the idea that "Art Collectors" would appreciate her work and how much she enjoyed seeing her painting in one of San Francisco's skyscrapers. Tears me up even now just to think of her too-short life and the cut-off of potential. I am glad we helped her know that, as an artist, she was valued. May all artists know this about themselves and their works. Michelle O'Connor: R.I.P.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Their charisma is probably not captured well by my iPhone camera. But they did first grab our eye for what they visually are ... on</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ly then for me to discover and adore that (according to the gallerist) the works were made after Sharon made one of her huge installation works. In other words, while the marks are deceptively simple, the artist found her way to making them only AFTER first making a much larger work (and if you google for images of Sharon's installation works you will find them multi-layered, smart and pleasingly dense, among other things). So I took the artist's process to be like poetry -- that the poetics underlying the minimalist poem can be encyclopedic in attention even as its manifestation might be a small poem. Anyway, even after over a decade, these works continue to delight with their presence -- thank you, Sharon Louden</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> for your intelligent and compelling work:</span><br />
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