Part 6 | Artist Lindsay Ketterer Gates Manifests the Personal in the Unexpected
Part 6 | Artist Lindsay Ketterer Gates Manifests the Personal in the Unexpected With Ideas on Craft and the Craft School Experience from Kristin Muller, Executive Director, Peters Valley School of Craft I began this series with a quote from the Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates: “Ars longa, vita brevis” which translates to “life is short, but art lives forever,” though its original meaning was more akin to “the life so short, the craft so long to learn.” And after s
REVIEW | Bruno Surdo: Allegories
Bruno Surdo: Allegories
Ann Nathan Gallery
“The flesh is at the heart of the world.” Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible It seems so obvious to say that we are our bodies. In every sense of what that means: philosophically, physically, emotionally, or psychologically…it is true. I am my heart, my lungs, my brain; and these vital organs that sustain me also generate and contain my sympathies, my dreams, my fears. Encased in plump flesh, my ve
BOOK REVIEW | Shows and Tales: On Jewelry Exhibition-Making
BOOK REVIEW | Shows and Tales: On Jewelry Exhibition-Making Published by Art Jewelry Forum Discussing the work of Victoire de Castellane, in particular her exhibition titled Fleurs d’Exces, Benjamin Lignel writes: “…what the pieces lack in scale, they make up for with an overabundance of formal twists and colorful turns, born of excessive craftsmanship. The extensive use of lacquers, matt or gloss, sparkles, real of fake, texture, grainy, veinous, crinkled, on the clenched f
REVIEW | Charles Ray: Sculpture 1997 – 2014
Charles Ray: Sculpture 1997 – 2014 Art Institute of Chicago “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”- John Lennon For artist Charles Ray, it all comes down to perspective: of viewing or of being viewed; and, it is worth both looking forward, from creation through the process of aging, as well as looking back, by creating visual replications of impacts: boyhood, car wrecks, birth; and, most importantly, encounters with others. At our core, it is in our very ability to see,
