Posts Tagged ‘ December 2008 ’

On Buying Art

On Buying Art

What does it mean to be a consumer of art? G. Blake MacPhail tackles this question for 2008's holiday season.
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Art Wish List: An Introduction

Art Wish List: An Introduction

One of the fun things about pulling together Art Map Burlington’s Annual Art Wish List is putting down the critical lens we tend to look at art with. In its place is an instinctual, gut reaction to the art we are looking at. In short, Does it turn us on?
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Art Wish List: Allison Petroski’s Urns

Art Wish List: Allison Petroski’s Urns

Aspiring ceramicist Allison Petroski’s urns in the Firehouse Gallery’s “Exposure” exhibition demonstrate an incredible sense of line and pattern.
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Art Wish List: Tally Groves’ Barns & Love Shacks Paintings

Art Wish List: Tally Groves’ Barns & Love Shacks Paintings

One could be tempted to dismiss the paintings as folk art, but if you look closer, you see the expertise with which Tally Groves wields her oil sticks and a richly textured surface that only a master artist could create so consistently.
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Art Wish List: Barbara Ekedahl Woodblock Prints on Maps

Art Wish List: Barbara Ekedahl Woodblock Prints on Maps

The work of this Lincoln, Vermont printmaker shows a keen knack for combining the simplicity of Sumi ink woodblock prints and the harmonic complexity of topographical maps.
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Art Wish List: Liza Cowan’s Small Reverse Paintings

Art Wish List: Liza Cowan’s Small Reverse Paintings

A practice which began in Asia and was popular in North America in the nineteenth century, reverse painting has a long folk tradition. Liza Cowan’s work is more in line with that of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Robert Rauschenberg...
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Art Wish List: George Breisch Gonzalez’s Graffiti Plates

Art Wish List: George Breisch Gonzalez’s Graffiti Plates

George Breisch Gonzalez uses his advanced studies of anthropology and fine art to create pottery that is rooted in contemporary, urban America.
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Art Wish List: Beth Robinson’s Strange Dolls

Art Wish List: Beth Robinson’s Strange Dolls

Beth Robinson’s handmade dolls provide a wonderfully bizarre antithesis to the sweet-faced babydolls and Cabbage Patch Kids of many an American youth. Made from varied materials including polymer clays, vintage fabrics, and even human hair and teeth, they are more Nightmare Before Christmas than something you’d find neatly wrapped under the tree on Christmas...
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Steven P. Goodman’s Small Paintings and Digital Images

Steven P. Goodman’s Small Paintings and Digital Images

Steven P. Goodman creates small-scale paintings in oil, as well as digital images. Goodman likens his "role as a visual artist to that of a poet, but instead of using words, composes with images, combining them in unique ways to create a personal statement.”
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December 2008 | V.3-N.12

December 2008 | V.3-N.12

The December Issue hits the street: On Buying Art, Our Annual Art Wish List, Steven P. Goodman is on the cover.
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