Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2016 i Artists Magazine

“Radical Attention” was the appropriately titled exhibition of Catherine Kehoe’s paintings held in 2013 at Boston’s Howard Yezerski Gallery (now Miller Yezerski Gallery). The name lives up to what she refers to as a body of work that manifests the discipline of “fierce looking” she considers integral to her method as a painter. Fierce indeed. In her 27-year career as a painter studying, living and working in the Boston area, she has earned a national reputation. Her work consists primarily of mysterious and witty still lifes that exist at the edge of abstraction and a series of sharply observed self-portraits notable for their clarity and truth. The still lifes are transformative: Things as disparate as a bright yellow rubber dish glove, plastic grapes and a pinecone cohabit with the otherworldly…

As Hurricane Joaquin spiraled on a meandering northerly course from the Bahamas toward the Atlantic seaboard, 25 artists from as far away as Washington state converged on Gloucester, Mass. for Katherine Chang Liu’s painting workshop at Kat Masella’s Northeast Art Workshop Retreat. The largest city on Cape Ann, a rocky promontory at the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay about 30 miles north of Boston, Gloucester is America’s oldest seaport and the setting for The Perfect Storm , Sebastian Junger’s chronicle of the Halloween Nor’easter that devastated the area in 1991. With meteorologists issuing dire warnings of cataclysmic rain and wind from the Carolinas to New England and banks of monitors at the airport transmitting satellite images of what must have looked like the Vortex of Doom to…

LANDSCAPE First Place Han Jong Lee SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA HANLEESART.COM I grew up in Seoul, South Korea, where I also graduated from Kang Nam University before making my way to San Francisco. After Rain is an expression of my emotional journey through the city. It’s a place I’ve come to see my reflection and a city that’s allowed me to find peace with the diversity of life’s experiences. There are various lightings, colors and forms in cities, best represented on a rainy day. I wanted to express San Francisco with its light and reflections. MW Second Place Travis Troiani FAIRVIEW, TEXAS INSTAGRAM.COM/TRAVISTROIANI For Building Houses, Not Homes, I worked on the whole piece at once and used a wide range of materials and tools. I added a few three-dimensional elements…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. HAS ART in the traditional sense—tons of galleries, art museums, a long history of art making in the region—but it also embodies artfulness in the everyday. Bodies are decorated, sidewalks are painted, and empty spaces become celebrations with music and live performances. Visit the River Arts District, a converted industrial zone with 22 buildings of galleries and open studios. NOTABLE COLLECTION: The Biltmore Estate has many of its famous artworks on display throughout the mansion. You can see Renoir’s Child with an Orange in the breakfast room and Sargent’s Frederick Law Olmsted in the second floor living hall. DON’T MISS the Studio Stroll, twice a year, when the trolley provides free rides between buildings in the River Arts District. Find…

Becca Stadtlander at beccastadtlander says of her online illustration shop: “My creative business has helped me develop as both an artist and professional, most notably in my pursuit of growth and new ideas.” Lisbel Gavara of lanomadaillustra tion says that for her, making art for a living allows her to enjoy the simple things in life: “drawing, knitting, taking care of my plants, traveling with just a backpack and observing people when I visit new cities.” Oksana of TukoniTribe agrees and says, “When you postpone what you like because of money, you risk never coming back to it, or worse, you might think, ‘Oh, one day!’” We love how these artists are living out their passions. Check out their products at etsy.com.…

1. GREEN MIXTURES: First I experimented with color mixtures. Mixing violet and yellow can produce beautiful greens, so I took six violets and mixed each with two different yellows. I came up with greens ranging from a cool blue-green to a warm, orangey green. As always, I suggest you experiment with your own swatches. 2. PALETTE: From my experiments, I chose a foundation of two violets: quinacridone violet (warm/ more red) and ultramarine violet (cool/more blue). I also selected two yellows: Hansa yellow light (cool/ more blue) and Hansa yellow deep (warm/more red). I mixed Hansa yellow light and ultramarine violet to create a warm olive-green. I mixed Hansa yellow deep and quinacridone violet to get a warm red-orange. This resulted in four of my six colors containing violet, ensuring…

Never feel precious about your work. Be peerless. Pay attention to your own mind. Generate your own ideas. Don’t keep other artists’ work around for reference or inspiration. Your work is a reflection of who you are. Consider it your “self-portrait.” Art is about growth. You should be constantly striving to grow, evolve and improve. Learn to appreciate the variety and creativity of other artists without judgment. Look more deeply at other artists’ work, beyond the surface. Instead of inquiring about medium or technique, study the work for what it has to say, for what the artist is trying to achieve. Put Post-it notes on your painting with comments at the end of the day. The notes will provide a starting point when you return to the studio the next…

The paintings of William Merritt Chase depict a life of domestic ease and material success. He belonged to the last generation of international artists—a generation that included John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Valentin Serov, Joaquín Sorolla, Giovanni Boldini and James Whistler—whose paintings were expected to display the benefits of a life of leisure. “William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master,” now showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, presents Chase at his best, at the intersection of two disparate influences: the tradition of 17th-century painting and the modern vision of impressionism. For his portrait work Chase often favored the dark palette of the old masters, yet he was, by some accounts, the first painter in America to practice impressionism, with its dots and dashes of broken color. Chase played…

WORKSHOPS ALABAMA Huntsville Museum of Art 11/7-11/11/16, Huntsville. Ted Nuttall, Watercolor Portraits, Painting the Figure from Photographs. 2/3-2/4/17, Huntsville. Jean Hess, Challenging Collage. 3/16-3/19/17, Huntsville. Kathy Durdin, Loosening Up & Seeing Color Everywhere: Watercolor Portraits. 3/23-3/25/17, Huntsville. Qiang Huang, Still Life Oil Painting. 4/3-4/7/17, Huntsville. Mel Stabin, Watercolor: Simple, Fast and Focused! 8/24-8/26/17, Huntsville. Michael Story, Understanding Skies & Reflections: Landscape Painting in Oil or Pastel. Contact: Laura E. Smith, Director of Education/Museum Academy, 256/535-4350 x222 lsmith@hsvmuseum.org or http://hsvmuseum.org/museumacademy/master-artist-workshop Mel Stabin 4/3-4/7/17, Huntsville. Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused. Sponsored by Huntsville Museum of Art. All levels. Contact: Laura Smith, 256/535-4350 ext. 222 lsmith@hsvmuseum.org or www.hsvmuseum.org Michael Story 8/24-8/26/17, Huntsville. Huntsville Museum of Art. Master Artist Workshop in Oil or Pastel. Join us as we use the sky and water as…

I’M A TATTOO ARTIST; I find the process profound because the needle penetrates the skin. I’ve wanted to incorporate that meaning into the fine arts so that every image represents a story. I was born in Taipei. As an MFA student at the Academy of Art University, I was studying abroad in Italy when my mother called to say that my grandpa was in the hospital. My grandpa raised me; I look like him; we have a great bond. I decided to come back. At the hospital, I was alone with him; he had been unconscious for days. All of a sudden, he woke up. He was trying to tell me something. I said, “It’s OK, Grandpa. If you’re too tired and you want to go, that’s fine.” The whole…