Duane Keiser, “Self Portrait in an iPhone, 9/10/2011″ oil/paper, 6″x5” Duane Keiser is perhaps best known as the leading pioneer in the trend of painters selling work online. He is not only a fabulous painter who has sold work in major NYC galleries but continues to be a leading figure “in democratizing the art world, using the Internet to change the making and selling of art” as a 2006 article in USA Today discussed. In another article in the New York Times written by Michelle Slatalla in August 31, 2006 “By most accounts, the roots of the painting-a-day movement reach back only as far as December 2004, when a painter named Duane Keiser, who also is an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, decided to test his discipline by challenging himself to post a new creation every day on his site at duanekeiser.blogspot.com.
When asked about his pricing stats, Keiser stated: “The blog was launched in 2004. I’ve been following Duane’s blog since it’s beginning. Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Moses. Thanks for sharing your story with us Jennifer. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. My story is the story of a group of talented artists who had the vision to start a gallery.
The Kingston Gallery is a dynamic, contemporary exhibition space located in the heart of the most densely populated gallery district in Boston, SOWA. Founded in 1982, this artist run cooperative gallery provides its member artists with the freedom to develop and curate their own exhibitions. It was conceived to be a space where the membership actively support and encourage experimentation and development within each member’s ongoing body of work.
Beyond solo exhibitions of member artists, we host national juried exhibitions, present group exhibitions by both member and non-member artists, introduce emerging artists, and sponsor other exciting cultural events and projects. We’d love to hear more about your business. Contact Info:
Copyright © Barry W. Van Dusen. All rights reserved. In August of 2004, Barry joined a group of international nature artists in Great Britain to help raise funds for an ambitious habitat restoration project. Named the Great Fen Project, this undertaking will create a 3000 hectare wetland between Huntingdon and Peterborough, England. Young Swallows , Woodwalton Fen August 25, 2004 watercolor, 11" x 16" The artists worked at Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen National Nature Reserves - the only remaining natural wetlands in what was once the largest inland Marsh (or "Fen") in great Britain. Red Admiral - Woodwalton Fen August 27, 2004 watercolor, 6" x 6" Edge of the Fen - Woodwalton Fen August 27, 2004 watercolor, 11" x 14" During Barry's week at the fen, he painted landscapes, birds, butterflies, dragonflies, plants and even fish! Greater Bladderwork -Woodwalton Fen August 25, 2004 Watercolor, 11” x 14” To learn more about the Great Fen Project visit: www.greatfen.org.uk www.langford-press.co.uk 11” x 14”
Many years ago when I first started taking art courses in the San Francisco area, even though I'd made art on my own since I was a child, there was one course that was a revelation to me: Oriental Brush Painting, as I think it was called. What was so unusual and revelatory was the importance of the brush mark. Each mark was important, not just the overall drawing/painting/impression. This was made even more noticeable in the actual practice of painting. The rice paper we painted on had a consistency similar to toilet paper. The black ink on the brush seemed to leap off the brush, even before it touched the paper, and form an indecipherable blob rather than the graceful mark I sought. What this taught me I think is that it's possible to make art that contains the most graceful and expressive marks, which are themselves a major component of the art.
This course was only one semester long and I never began to master it. My linocuts I think do tend much more in this direction. The Salem Athenæum’s current exhibit, Celia’s Salon is about Celia Thaxter’s informal arts colony on Appledore Island, ten miles off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The exhibit displays books and art, and aims to convey what it was like to be part of Celia’s celebrated circle. It’s summer in the latter half of the 1800’s and you’re an envied member of Celia Thaxter’s salon on Appledore Island.
In Celia’s flower-filled cottage parlor, next to her family’s resort hotel, you mingle with the literary and artistic luminaries of the day, enjoying informal morning concerts, lively discussions and evening readings. While on Appledore, you might breakfast on fish cakes and baked beans with Nathaniel Hawthorne, or stroll in Celia’s flower garden, pausing to admire a painting-in-progress by Childe Hassam, or visit with Salem’s Derby or Bowditch families who are summering on the island. Appledore Hotel Registry: Notable Guests Julian Hawthorne Writer and journalist. E.M. Artists at Appledore. By Alexandra de Steiguer © 2016 Alexandra de Steiguer Late Winter, Isles of Shoals, 2016: I write this post from my rocking chair, looking out upon rugged, deserted islands in the stormy north Atlantic. I say “deserted” but I’m here aren’t I?
Sometimes I have to pinch myself – it still seems both unreal and also, well, super-real. Though daylight is short, my days among the islands are long. Lying seven miles out to sea in the north Atlantic, these islands see an incredible amount of wind during the winters. That’s a fairly common day. And mixed into all of this are the calm days, when the stillness is so complete that the sound of the lighthouse foghorn only seems to emphasize the profound silences between. I’m not sure they could have found a more appreciative person to witness the winters here, though of course it wasn’t in the job description… I’ve been surrounded by water much of my life.
Poppies, Isles of Shoals, 1891 Childe Hassam 1859 - 1935, United States Oil on canvas Overall: 50.2 x 61 cm (19 3/4 x 24 in.) framed: 73.5 x 83.8 x 6.7 cm (28 15/16 x 33 x 2 5/8 in.) Gift of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. When Childe Hassam stepped off the ferry onto the rocks of Appledore Island, he found the place that would occupy his imagination for three decades.
The Peabody Essex Museum dedicates its presentation of this exhibition to the memory of Carolyn A. The Peabody Essex Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art co-organized this exhibition in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory. Media Partner: Promotional Collaborator:Childe Hassam Park, Boston Images Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam. Watercolor on paper. Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam. Poppies, Isles of Shoals, 1891 Childe Hassam 1859 - 1935, United States Oil on canvas Overall: 50.2 x 61 cm (19 3/4 x 24 in.) framed: 73.5 x 83.8 x 6.7 cm (28 15/16 x 33 x 2 5/8 in.)
Gift of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. When Childe Hassam stepped off the ferry onto the rocks of Appledore Island, he found the place that would occupy his imagination for three decades. The Peabody Essex Museum dedicates its presentation of this exhibition to the memory of Carolyn A. The Peabody Essex Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art co-organized this exhibition in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory. Media Partner: Promotional Collaborator:Childe Hassam Park, Boston Images Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam. Watercolor on paper. Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas. Childe Hassam. Grant Wood, January, 1940 Robert P. Archer, Approaching Storm, 1938 John Steuart Curry, Tornado over Cansas, 1930s John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas, 1928 Alec Soth, Joshua, Angola State Prison, LA, 2002 Peter Blume, Light of the World, 1932 Thomas Hart Benton, The Lord is My Shepherd, 1926 Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930 Joe Jones, Drought Farmer, 1937 Sandor Klein, American Farm Hand, 1937 Roy Benzona, Old Man Wyoming, 1970 Charles Pollock, Look Down That Road, 1942 Earle Richardson, Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934 Jacob Lawrence, The Negro was the largest source of labor to be found after all others had been exhausted, 1941 John Gutmann, Mobile, Alabama, 1937 John Rogers Cox, Cloud Trails, 1944 John Rogers Cox, White Cloud, 1943 Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World, 1948 Andrew Wyeth, Public Sale, 1943 Wynn Chamberlain, The Barricade, 1958 Robert Vickrey, Fear, 1954 Maynard Dixon, Shapes of Fear, 1930 Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, Poplar Woods (Poplars), 1929 Joe Jones, American Justice, 1933.
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