Tag Archives: Drawing & Collage

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş

Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Mar 8, 2011

In talking to dozens of artists, curators, and critics over the past few months, over and over I have heard the same term used by those located within the community …

Wangechi Mutu

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 25, 2011

“I’m really trying to pay homage to the notion of the sublime and the abject together and using the aesthetic of rejection, or poverty, or wretchedness as a tool to …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Graffiti in the Classroom

by Joe Fusaro | Feb 23, 2011

Students often have lots of interest and questions about graffiti, graffiti art and street art. My response usually includes the fact that I love graffiti art and street art, especially …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith

by Joe Fusaro | Feb 2, 2011

It seems like a good time for Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith. Artists whose work incorporate storytelling, pointed statements and using the female body to do so, Nancy Spero and …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Ben Durham

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Jan 28, 2011

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Ben Durham

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Jan 28, 2011

Turkish and Other Delights columnist Elizabeth Wolfson is filling in for regular Inside the Artist’s Studio writer Georgia Kotretsos this month and next. — Ed. Ben Durham lives and works …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

When One Day Is Not Enough

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 26, 2011

With all of the mandatory testing that students must be put through it’s no wonder that most kids, especially in elementary grades, receive classes in visual and performing arts one …

How To Stretch an Arm Through a Gap : An Interview with Ellen Rothenberg

by Caroline Picard | Jan 17, 2011

How To Stretch an Arm Through a Gap : An Interview with Ellen Rothenberg

by Caroline Picard | Jan 17, 2011

While Ellen Rothenberg works in a range of scale and material, there is a tactile quality to her work–a directness that calls attention to the body. I always think of …

Occupying Multiple Scales at Once: An Interview with Hiro Sakaguchi

by Caroline Picard | Jan 14, 2011

Occupying Multiple Scales at Once: An Interview with Hiro Sakaguchi

by Caroline Picard | Jan 14, 2011

I am fascinated by varying scales of reference, especially when one has to negotiate multiple scales over the course of a single day. Hiro Sakaguchi works as an art handler, …

Caution, You Are Being Watched: Deb Sokolow and You

by Caroline Picard | Jan 13, 2011

Caution, You Are Being Watched: Deb Sokolow and You

by Caroline Picard | Jan 13, 2011

Deb Sokolow invokes You, the audience. When engaging her work–wall drawings rife with text-narratives that revel in heist, hijinks and mystery, You are not a passive bystander. You are implicated …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Out of Line

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 5, 2011

If you get the opportunity in the next month, take some time to see On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century at the Museum of Modern Art. And if you …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 31, 2010

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 31, 2010

Artemis Potamianou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She attained a BFA Degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1997 and an MFA from the Staffordshire …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ten for ’10

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 29, 2010

Looking back over the column this past year, I thought it might be worthwhile to pick the top ten questions generated in a year’s worth of posts. Below are some …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford: Painter

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 15, 2010

If you live, work, or happen to be traveling through Boston any time soon, make absolutely sure you see Mark Bradford‘s mid-career retrospective at the Institute for Contemporary Art. This …

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi, Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Dec 2, 2010

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi, Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Dec 2, 2010

Nostalgia is the longing for a home that never was; its subject is an idealized place where the troubles of today hold no sway. In paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Northern …

Flash Points

Under the Influence: Drugs, God and Politics in Self-Taught Art

by John Foster | Nov 29, 2010

Under the Influence: Drugs, God and Politics in Self-Taught Art

by John Foster | Nov 29, 2010

In 1974, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis launched the exhibition Naives and Visionaries, showcasing nine artists whose work manifested itself through artistic environments, both secretive and public. Martin Friedman …

Going to California: David Wilson, Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 26, 2010

Going to California: David Wilson, Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 26, 2010

Albert Bierstadt bathed the Sierra Nevada in heavenly light while Ansel Adams photographed Half Dome as though it were on the moon. Many artists depict California’s natural features as mythic …

Going to California: David Wilson

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 24, 2010

Going to California: David Wilson

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 24, 2010

My hometown of Lafayette, California, encompasses a 925-acre nature area, the boundaries of which press up against the town’s suburban roads and cul-de-sacs like a face against glass. When I …

Going to California

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 22, 2010

Going to California

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 22, 2010

Many people in the East … have been to Los Angeles or to San Francisco, have driven through a giant redwood and have seen the Pacific glazed by the afternoon …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Rough Country by Ali Fitzgerald

by Ali Fitzgerald | Nov 18, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Rough Country by Ali Fitzgerald

by Ali Fitzgerald | Nov 18, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art Education and Influence

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 17, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art Education and Influence

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 17, 2010

How is art influenced? What role does art education play in how artists form works of art later in their career? Recently, when I posed these questions to colleagues (both …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 10, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 10, 2010

In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex

by Oliver Wunsch | Nov 10, 2010

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex

by Oliver Wunsch | Nov 10, 2010

Over the past few decades, “interdisciplinary” has emerged as a popular designation in academic culture, particularly in the arts and humanities. Both as an undergraduate in studio art and as …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Derek Chan and I have been friends for a little over four years. We both moved from Los Angeles to Chicago in the Fall of 2005. We had several mutual …

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

by Daniel Quiles | Oct 11, 2010

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

by Daniel Quiles | Oct 11, 2010

I am happy to once again be blogging for Art21. This is the first of three posts loosely based around contemporary art from/in Latin America. Living in a city other …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

There are many reasons to teach with the art of William Kentridge, and as we get closer to the premiere of Art21’s new film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, airing …

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2010

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2010

“I enjoy working with drawing, painting and collage. My studio is full of little pieces of drawings, colour papers and different colour tapes. I find a piece of paper on …

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

Vida Simon enters her work. The Montreal-based artist creates gentle, introspective drawing installation/performances where we witness her artistic process live and in progress. She literally embodies her own art, working …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art could not have picked a better moment to mount Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition about the changing aesthetics and politics of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 15, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 15, 2010

Every art student (and I mean EVERY art student- K-12, undergrad, graduate, adult education, private lessons, you name it) has had one or more situations when an initial idea for …

Tag Archives: Drawing & Collage

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş

Wangechi Mutu

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Graffiti in the Classroom

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Ben Durham

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

When One Day Is Not Enough

How To Stretch an Arm Through a Gap : An Interview with Ellen Rothenberg

Occupying Multiple Scales at Once: An Interview with Hiro Sakaguchi

Caution, You Are Being Watched: Deb Sokolow and You

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Out of Line

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ten for ’10

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford: Painter

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi, Part 2

Flash Points

Flash Points

Under the Influence: Drugs, God and Politics in Self-Taught Art

Going to California: David Wilson, Part 2

Going to California: David Wilson

Going to California

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Rough Country by Ali Fitzgerald

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art Education and Influence

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

3 Museums, 2 Days (part I of II)

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Summers at Ox-Bow

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