Our Back Yard/Orazio Salati, Artist
Using an encaustic process, Salati makes extensive use of complementary colors, as well as colors that don’t seem to go together. He says applying heat to a rich mix of color, wax and tar becomes a process of discovery.
Neil Tetkowski: Art and Activism in Clay
Neil Tetkowski creates art that communicates beyond cultural barriers. It is with this global perspective that his artwork is embraced throughout the world…
Lucy Nell Stewart/Featured Artist: Video
Reality Check Artist Statement “I find great sustenance in the mother ship and all her elements. Coming from a classical and avant-garde theatre arts background I carry with me the proscenium to composite new worlds with my beloved and always surprising...
On Location, France/Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Chloé Bourguigon: Love or what’s left of it by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret Reviewer or Cloe Bourguigon love does not leave. Not totally. Like tobacco. Not totally. It's a disease, an addicition, an...
A. J. Fries/Artist
This ongoing series started with simple portraits of the toys I remembered from childhood, evoking the nostalgia and celebrating the simplistic brilliance of their design. Well-loved and enthusiastically played with, these portraits remind the viewer of the world they left behind when they grew up…
Management by Emotions/by Carlos M. Rodriguez, Ph. D.
Management by Emotions: The “Artist” Inside Me by Carlos M. Rodriguez, Ph.D. Contributing Writer usiness organizations around the world strive for profitability, growth, and sustainability....
Duda Penteado/Art + Activist = Artivist
I had a chance recently to visit the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where Brazilian-American artist and cultural activist Duda Penteado has a solo show running through to December 2. The exhibition is free and open to the public…
Lotta Lemetti/Photography
Lotta filming for her video, Kekta. *** Lotta Lemetti: In Search of Polycultural Identity nown as a versatile and prolific photographer highly skilled in both digital and analog, Lotta Lemetti has...
Our Back Yard
More in our Back Yard: A few of the many, many people whose contributions to culture in the Southern Tier of Upstate NY, make Broome, Tioga and Tompkins counties a great place to live…
Our Back Yard: Bertha Rogers/Anglo-Saxon Riddle Poems
Uncommon Creatures Perfect Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Six Swans Artist Editions; First edition (April 1, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1893389057 ISBN-13: 978-1893389052...
Our Back Yard: Jules Gotay
SUBMARINE The art of Jules Gotay Language & Perception: Making the Connection CARNIVAL Artist's statement: y paintings live on the border between language and the physical...
The Days of the Untitled Mona
The Days of the Untitled Mona The transformation from the everyday person into a supreme being DAY 7 The Mono Lisa: Politics of Sexuality By Pauline Joelle Panetta Edited by Dorothy Louise Zinn The object of analysis central to this essay is Cynthia...
OUR BACK YARD: Na Chainkua (Chainky) Reindorf/Artist Interview
My work is informed and inspired by the visual language of West African textiles and the custom of using these textiles as a means of communication. I am equally fascinated by our widespread relationship with textiles almost exclusively as objects with specific functions. The work I make aims to alter our experience with, and reliance on, these materials as utilitarian by rendering them as meaningful aesthetic objects to be encountered…
Deisboeck’s World
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Cynthia Karalla’s “Read Rose”
The magic of Karalla’s project lies in the play between a handful of visual elements, which allows to grasp at a single glance the multilayered complexities of society…
Bill Wolak/The Joy of Collage
Everything Moonlight Promised *** Artist Spotlight Making Connections Artist’s Statement he joy of collage is finding the endless connections between seemingly unrelated things. In some collages, the...
Maria Foskolaki/Art
I believe that life is as simple or as complicated as regards the point of view of each person.
A Crack In The Sidewalk/Barbara Rosenthal
DAMAGED EGOS, ILLUSIONS and ARTWORKS:
Consignments, Drop Offs, Pick Ups, Presentations and Studio Visits: The artist/columnist offers valuable advice from years of experience on what to expect — and watch out for — while dealing with and showing work to galleries and museums.