http://artandperception.com a multi-disciplinary dialog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:04:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en oil on maple panel, 45 cm x 60 cm Improvised from a photograph this winter taken near Otter Creek in the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Colors were mixed from Ultramarine blue, Manganese violet, Turner yellow, Chinese Lake, white and black. None of the mixtures displayed even the slighted hint of green. Having ... http://artandperception.com/2010/03/snow-in-the-dunes.html It's a nice coincidence that Steve and I should both be showing in libraries. My son Matt, an employee of the Cleveland Heights/UniversityHeights Main Library, passed on the news that the library had prepared some gallery spaces in the old YMCA building across the street. I was urged to contact the ... http://artandperception.com/2010/03/my-particular-library-show.html The dreamings of the Australian aboriginines represent a kind of art that goes to the core of their identities. To the extent that that represents any kind of  an accurate description, allow me to state that these images are at something of an opposite extreme in that they play around ... http://artandperception.com/2010/02/rand-and-mcnally-dreaming.html Children's Water Dreaming 1972, 62 x 44 cm, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi Aborigines used Australia's wealth in ochre colors (iron oxides) to paint their mythologies on sand, cut bark of stringybark tree and their bodies. In 1972, acrylic paints and masonite boards were made available to a few Aboriginal men congregating ... http://artandperception.com/2010/02/water-dreaming.html [caption id="attachment_4943" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Soutine with Dog"][/caption] In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about how Soutine’s use of Christian imagery mixed with his life experiences, artistic influences and his own Jewish culture in his paintins, particularly his carcass paintings such as Flayed Rabbit from 1924. ... http://artandperception.com/2010/01/soutine%e2%80%99s-carcass-paintings-part-3.html [caption id="attachment_5014" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="detail of wallpaper panel, 8 x 3 feet"][/caption] I collaborated with my friends Jonathan Nodrick and Anita Modha of ROLLOUT Custom Wallpaper in Vancouver on a project that's currently on view in Toronto. The exhibition, entitled Radiant Dark 2010, is on view January 21-24, and runs concurrently ... http://artandperception.com/2010/01/oh-that-explains-everything.html Tic Tac Toe was a mess. This 40" by 56" foam painting was colorful, but wrongly so. The smiley faces were in yellow, the mugs in violet and the grid in a mixture of the two colors, all set upon a motley background pretending to whiteness.   With nothing to lose ... http://artandperception.com/2010/01/back-to-black.html