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Keizer Mayor’s Invitational, Winter Art Solstice
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Will.
The art has been submitted and the jury has judged.
One of my favorite pieces is by an extremely talented artist currently living in Keizer, Elizabeth Baumann (website, blog) “Bound by the necessities of life”:
Look for more information next week for the upcoming Mayor’s Gala, Winter Art Solstice, taking place on January 29th, 6-9 pm.
( Tickets in advance: $10, night of the event $15. You can register here. And more information at the Keizer Art Association website.)
Cool opportunity – Encaustic Workshop
Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Will.
September 26-ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOP
Painting with Hot Wax.
Learn the ancient art of Encaustics with DEANNA WHITE. Learn the history, safety and how to make your own wax paints.
You will try fusing techniques with the beeswax, using different heating tools such as a heat gun, torch and flat iron.You will work on your own projects at your own pace and will have one finished painting, maybe two, depending on how you work. You may want to bring some of your own *personal photos, special papers, and any other flat items such as leaves, for collage. Deanna will also have a large assortment of papers and collage items. *Photos must be fresh Kinko photo copies which are toner based, not ink jet.
Saturday, September 26, 11:00-4:00. $65 includes all supplies.
You can register here. I’d hurry there are only 3 spots left.
“I was at a show of a friend who just graduated from art school.”
Posted on August 18th, 2009 by Will.
Dushko Petrovich: I would be likely to critique it as excrement, and talk about its qualities, you know, its color, smell or something like that…because that’s exactly what the person didn’t want to hear.
brilliant advice
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Will.
Self-promotion
Posted on May 24th, 2009 by Will.
Nice little article about me & the Salem Project in Sunday’s Statesman Journal:
Salem photographer releases book .
Great post for anyone pursuing a creative career
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by Will.
Thanks so much to Liz Kuball for bringing this to my attention.
The Acting Advice Blog – by: Jenna Fischer from The Office
I thought being an actor meant being famous. But, most actors aren’t recognizable. It’s funny. I watch TV in a whole new way now. Like, I watch a show and I see the person who has 3 lines on Law and Order and I think, "Their family is gathered around the TV flipping out right now. I bet that was a huge deal for that person!" There are so many actors that make a living by doing support work on shows. I was that person for many years. For me to stay in this business, it had to be okay if I was never recognized. I learned that I loved the craft of acting more than the idea of being famous.
(my emphasis)
via The Acting Advice Blog – by: Jenna Fischer from The Office .
Ego can so get in the way of pursuing so many things in one’s life. You should read the whole post, there’s a ton of great advice from obviously a very generous actor.
Caravaggio may have been the first master of photographic technique
Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Will.
Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera.
via story here .
Virtual Museum tours
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Will.
This video was brought to my attention over at Exposure Compensation (brilliant blog, btw). Besides the coolness of being able to tour an absolutely incredible museum online, what I loved was the behind the scenes look at digitizing the artwork. I’ve often assisted artist friends of mine by photographing their work, and I can totally attest to the difficulties of accurately rendering their work using digital photography. Enjoy.
Unfreaking-believeable
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Will.
Zoe Strauss’ experience of censorship by the printer, not the publisher. Given all the blatant phallic symbols around the world, it never ceases to amaze me how irrationally insecure and sensitive men are when presented with an image of another man’s penis.
Don’t have $100 million laying around?
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Will.
Very cool
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Will.
Love this!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Will.
This would be helpful with artist’s statements as well:
Salvation is here!
Feeling inarticulate? Critically gauche? Or just verbally impotent?
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A quick note, and a scathing art review
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Will.
With the changes that I indicated here, I’ve managed to screw up my blog feeds. I don’t know if I’ve gotten them completely fixed – hopefully I will have this solved soon. So that may explain why you haven’t received any recent updates from me. I’ve set up a 301 redirect for the old address, but you should probably update your link to the new address, http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/. Enough of this tech screw-up talk, check out the review.
I’m glad I’m not an artist currently exhibiting at the ‘How Soon Is Now?’ Exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. From Roberta Smith’s review (NYT):
“How Soon Is Now?” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts is almost nothing but symptoms reflecting almost nothing but failings. Yet this show of amateurish and derivative work by 36 emerging artists also says a lot about the competition among art mediums, the latest trickle-down trends in art making and the shortcomings of higher art education. In answer to the show’s catchy title, for many of the artists here, “now” may never come.
The difficulties with artist statements:
Perhaps an overfamiliarity with Conceptual Art and especially the theories it inspired can leave young artists with no sense of how to make an artwork that holds together as an experience. You can sense the lack of connection to either materials or self in their statements, which appear on the wall labels beside the work. They mix overblown, one-size-fits-all artspeak with quite a bit of wishful thinking about their work’s impact, as if they could control the meaning or effect of their work. Different artists claim that their efforts “contend with codes of power, authority, race and class,” “question man-made constructs,” “challenge the anthropological categorizations of early photography” or “reveal the latent power of the public’s collective intelligence.” A few statements manage to locate the art in the vicinity of the artist’s life. “My work focuses on Pakistani-American social and cultural customs and growing up in a working class Muslim family,” one artist says, a reminder that art comes from highly specific contexts. Unfortunately these words accompany a completely generic work involving the hair of the artist and her mother.
Followed by some good advice:
Aspiring artists need to expose themselves to the sheer intensity and variety of art, to learn what they love, what they hate and if they are actually artists at all. New York’s galleries and especially its great museums offer ample opportunity for this kind of self-education, which leads to self-knowledge. Anything is possible when artists set to work knowing they have something they urgently need to say, in a way it hasn’t quite been said before.
I try to comfort myself by alternately declaring that ‘I am no artist, I’m a photographer’, and other times just putting my head under my pillow. Also I absolutely abhor artist statements. The struggle continues, though I’ve had a recent string of very rewarding photographic projects.
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