IN THE STUDIO | Kevin Greeland
Artist Kevin Greeland offers a peek behind the curtain of his curious narratives and evocative works in a conversation about what’s real, what’s imaginary, and the delicate line he so masterfully blurs between the two. March 2015 Name: Kevin Greeland DOB: June 2, 1962 Place of Birth: Lancaster, PA Current City & State: San Diego, CA Q: In your artist statement, you note: “I seek to create my own “Natural History Museum” of sorts, seeking to investigate, explore, record, capt
MUSING | Thoughts on Beauty, Surrealism and The Body, and the Jewels of Salvador Dali
“If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and observing, one physiological precondition is indispensable: rapture.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888[1] “Beauty is the agency that causes visual pleasure in the beholder–by showing us something of which we may not approve in such a way that we cannot resist it,”[2] and often simultaneously, is “nothing but ugliness subdued.”[3] The paradox of beauty is in its relationship to ugliness, because
MUSING | Margherita Manzelli
Dopo la Fine by Margherita Manzelli Part of the permanent collection at the Art Institute of Chicago When I find myself at a crossroads of sorts, whether its emotionally, intellectually, financially, or creatively – one of the most stunning and captivating paintings I’ve ever experienced, Dopo la Fine, by Italian painter Margherita Manzelli rises to the surface in my memory, unexpectedly flashing behind my eyes in situations where it seemingly has no place. But in actuality,
REVIEW | Anne Collier
Anne Collier Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago “All one wants to know is whether the mere representation of the object is to my liking, no matter how indifferent I may be to the real existence of the object of this representation.” - Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment | Part 1: Critique of Aesthetic Judgment / First Section: Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment / First Book: Analytic of the Beautiful / First Moment of the Judgment of Taste: Moment of Quality Asking me to loo
REVIEW | The World is Mystical, Dangerous and Delicious
The World is Mystical, Dangerous and Delicious Western Exhibitions Organized by gallery staff and presenting work in a variety of media, The World is Mystical, Dangerous & Delicious is a show about ghosts. And dreams. Both have been topics of philosophical inquiry throughout the history of Western thought ever since Aristotle’s treatise On Dreams, and both provide intimate inquiries into what haunts us as humans in our actual and imagined realities. Evident in the works of
