by Ann Landi | Oct 1, 2017 | Features
When is a prank a work of art? And when is it just a one-liner? During a panel on the “Art of Pranks” at a convention of the College Art Association a few years back, a participant identified as Clark Stoeckley, “Artivist,” maintained a totally impassive, even bored,...
by Ann Landi | Sep 18, 2017 | Features
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...
by Ann Landi | Aug 20, 2017 | Vasari21 Radio
Michael David SoundCloud Facebook Michael David has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a painter and is one of the pioneers in encaustic techniques, which he describes in detail in his interview with Vasari21 Radio. He has been represented by some of...
by Ann Landi | Aug 20, 2017 | Under the Radar
For many years now, Grace DeGennaro has been looking for ways to combine the sacred and the secular through “simple” geometry that turns out not to be quite that simple once you become seduced by the mesmerizing patterns and understated colors. “My work is the kind of...
by Ann Landi | Aug 13, 2017 | Under the Radar
Raised in south Florida, Brenda Zappitell studied dance from the time she was three through high school, but seemed inevitably destined for a career as a lawyer. “I come from a family of lawyers and after getting my degree from the University of Miami, where my dad...
