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Donna Seaman: Saving Women Artists from Oblivion

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Donna Seaman Saving Women Artists from Oblivion Photo credits: bottom of page In Identity Unknown, published just last week by...

Art Coaching, Part Two

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Doing It One-on-One When I set out to survey the field of art coaching, I had no idea it was such a huge and varied terrain. There are full-service ventures that cover all aspects of building an art career, such as Alyson Stanfield’s “Art Biz Coach” and Crista...

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

by Ann Landi | September 25, 2017 | Features | 1 Comment

Artists report on nocturnal inspirations and frustrations I once described Louise Bourgeois as having “a direct pipeline to her unconscious,” and that still seems a fitting description for an artist who came of age in Paris at a time when the Surrealists were the...

Walt and Louise Rosett

by Ann Landi | February 27, 2017 | Collector Spotlight | 5 Comments

Walt and Louise Rosett are savvy, unpretentious, enthusiastic collectors who have filled their sprawling house in suburban Albuquerque, NM, with art since first acquiring abstract watercolors by Ron Slowinski in 1982. The sleek split-level is now packed, but in no way...

Ripe for Rediscovery: Thomas Child

by Ann Landi | September 16, 2016 | Features | 0 Comments

Rare photos from the 1870s give a glimpse into an ancient civilization on the brink of change Her face framed by an ornate tasseled headdress, the bride looks eager and expectant and maybe a little scared. Her groom seems more confident, certainly more relaxed. You...

The “Aha!” Moment, Part Two

by Ann Landi | July 22, 2016 | Features | 3 Comments

More Tales of Accidental Discovery and Enlightenment Legend has it that the great early 20th-century painter Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction when he left one of his landscapes positioned upside-down in his studio. He returned the next day and loved the almost...

Painting with Big Mama

by Ann Landi | March 12, 2018 | Artist Essays | 2 Comments

By Phillis Ideal I still see Big Mama leaning over her garden to pick a zinnia to put in her still life. Her old pink slip hung diagonally, a foot below her hiked-up stained dress, half-covered by her paint smock, which matched her white faux-fur bedroom slippers,...

What Is a Drawing? Part Two

by Ann Landi | October 30, 2017 | Features | 3 Comments

Since I am the sort of person who damn near weeps when she sees a great Degas pastel (like Waiting, 1882, above), it’s not surprising that drawings are perhaps the medium closest to my heart. I love the spontaneity, the economy of means, and the sense that one is as...

Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines

by Ann Landi | January 13, 2016 | Artists Choose Artists | 3 Comments

“The Brown Dot Project (TBDP),” a series of mine from 2015, has been deeply influenced by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines, whose works investigate the way rules-based procedures construct order and meaning. Gaines, born in 1944, makes drawings…

Terms of Engagement

by Ann Landi | October 1, 2017 | Features | 3 Comments

Dealers Tell Us What They Look for in Representing Someone New What makes a gallery decide to take on a new artist? To make a long- or short-term commitment? What goes through a dealer’s head when she is looking at (or looking for) art to show, either in solo or group...

In Praise of Pop-Ups

by Ann Landi | April 2, 2017 | Features | 6 Comments

How, Why, and Where To Do One In a few weeks, Adria Arch will be staging her second “pop-up art experience” with fellow artists Patti Brady and Catherine Bertulli. The three-day event, called "Appetite," is part of Artweek Boston and will include the usual opening...

Summer Reads: Two Feisty Women and a Bromance in Poetry and Paint

by Ann Landi | May 7, 2017 | Features | 0 Comments

A few weeks ago my neighbor and Vasari21 member TJ Mabrey asked me why I didn’t suggest some books for the warm-weather season, when supposedly we all head for the country or the beach armed with a Kindle or a stack of paperbacks. Since I am always reading biographies...

Archived Feature

Confessions of a Closet Painter

Sep 18, 2017 | Features | 5 Comments

Coming to Grips with “Makee-Doo” I suppose it all begins with the “Sandy Becker Show,” which Boomers may remember watching on little black-and-white TVs in the 1950s and ‘60s. The genial host of this children’s variety program regularly showed drawings sent in by his...

Artist’s Block and How To Beat It

Dec 11, 2017 | Features | 5 Comments

Feeling stymied? In a slump? Disconnected from your work? You’re not alone. We’re all familiar with writer’s block from the many cinematic clichés. The author sits at his typewriter or word processor, smoking and drinking and muttering profanities. The author fills a...

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It’s Not What I Expected I Would Do

Oct 15, 2017 | Features | 2 Comments

An Artist Opens her New Home and Studio for ArtWalk Kingston By Millicent Young I had just landed in Kingston, NY, in early July with Niko, the dog of Perpetual Joy, and the four cats, a long chapter of life in rural Virginia completed. I was moving into my new...

Archived Under the Radar

Deonne Kahler

Apr 30, 2017 | Under the Radar | 12 Comments

In the last four years, Deonne Kahler has produced a remarkable series of photographs of the U.S. National Parks system. With an unsentimental but expansive eye, she aims to capture what she calls the “soul and personality” of these wild and often breathtakingly...