Archive for the ‘Contemporary Art’ Category
Main Street Museum, White River Junction, Vermont | through November 18 Review by Laura Di Piazza Adam Blue’s current exhibition AstroExplorer – A Guide to the Heavens, at the Main Street Museum, takes us through three distinct spheres. “Constellations for the New Millennium”, which consists of 84 drawings and text pieces, provides concise and sometimes […]
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I spent most of August 2012 in Hallein, Austria in Manfred Pernice‘s O Tannenbaum course at the Internationale Sommerakademie (SOAK). O Tannenbaum and several other SOAK courses were held in the historic and impressive Alte Saline building, which once processed salt that was mined locally. It was an eventful 3 weeks attending exhibition openings, lectures […]
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Tags: Calligraphy, International Summer Academy, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg, Intimate Violence, Manfred Pernice, O Tannenbaum, poetry, Sculpture
Life Like Art
I incorporate everyday life within my art practice. My @ the carwash series includes a dozen photographs, selected from out of over 100, taken at a car wash in rural Vermont between December 2010 and March 2011. Before beginning this project I had a quiet moment in the automated carwash, where I noticed how captivating […]
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Tags: Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Art, Everyday Art, Life Like Art, photography, Shin, Vermont
Dream Galleries
“Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you” – Marsha Norman I have been to some amazing galleries: smalls ones in quaint New England towns and large scale exhibitions in big cities, however my favorite galleries are the ones I visit in my sleep. I never know beforehand what will be on […]
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Tags: Art, AVA gallery, Contemporary Art, dreaming, dreams, galleries, Gallery, lucid dreaming
Cards
Laura Di Piazza, Cards, 2011, ink on paper, 18″ x 24″ - 45.7cm x 61cm (from the ‘Add Before You Judge’ series) In creating Cards, I made a conscious decision not to use a polished and uniform calligraphic hand. I wanted to express through the letterforms and over all layout the essence of this man’s words, […]
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Tags: Cards, Lettering Art, Upper Valley Haven
Street Level
Galen Cheney detours us away from any expected niceties and motors us straight to the gritty and raw levels of the streets, be they our internal, external, peaceful and/or chaotic spaces. Cheney’s current exhibit Street Level at BCA in Burlington, Vermont, includes the multi-layered, graffiti style abstract pathways of Street Fair, which can be reminiscent […]
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Tags: Abstract Art, BCA, Burlington, City, Contemporary Art, Exhibition, Galen Cheney, Gallery, graffiti, Los Angeles, Street Art, Vermont
My Human Being
Conceptual artist Rebecca Weisman inserts herself into the landscape of her art in My Human Being, which is currently on exhibit at the Julian Scott Gallery, Johnson State College, in Vermont until March 10th. With 3 simple words, My Human Being, Weisman investigates our changing environment and how one tries to both capture and let […]
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Tags: Art Film, conceptual art, Johnson, Johnson State College, Leila Bandar, Rebecca Weisman, Vermont
To New Beginnings
There are many admirers of new beginnings. Somehow another chance to get it right or make it better drives us in new directions or deeper into our current path(s). Seasons give us great inspiration of renewal: to sow, plow, reap and rest – the harvest of our lives. Laura Di Piazza, It Begins With, 2011, […]
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Tags: Calligraphy, Contemporary Art, Harvest, New Beginnings
