Contemporary Artists of Tucson

With Greta Ward, Kathryn Wilde, Jack McLain, Nancy Drigotas, and myself Nancy Charak, we are Contemporary Artists of Tucson. Announcements will be coming shortly re a pop-up exhibit at Plaza Palomino, at Swan and Fort Lowell in Tucson the last weekend of February 2016.

A big thank you to Fred Soto for helping us make the connection.

Artist of the Day: Ellsworth Kelly

My artist of the day: Ellsworth Kelly, not a bad portion at 92.

Here's more from SFMOMA, Ellsworth Kelly Explains Abstraction.

Writer, Author, Artist of the Day: Carol Nissenson

Carol Nissenson is my artist of the day: long-time friend, author, thinker, musician, activist, improvisationalist, the list goes on and on.

And here's more about Carol. . ."Carol Nissenson is a professional actor/director. Her resume includes opera, recordings, commercials, stage and film work in both DC & NYC and national tours of Broadway shows. She currently performs with and directs Now This, a DC-based music and comedy improv troupe. They’ve performed in 23 states. Their audiences range from preschools to Fortune 500 execs."

"Carol has been working with the ‘unwritten word’ for two decades, and storytelling is central to that work. She knows it will sound like a cliché, but she always wanted to write. It was the road not taken. But Carol did get to hang out with a lot of well known, and soon to be well known writers when she lived in NYC. Ironically, that may have discouraged her. She wanted to write light, fun, frivolous stuff and they wrote literature. A couple of years ago she said 'I’m just going to do this, damn it'. Now it is an obsession." ABOUT CAROL NISSENSON.

And you can hire her troupe, NOW THIS.

Artist of the Day: Joyce Owens

Happy Hanukkah! (hope you caught my talk at the Art Institute of Chicago centered on my work and how I related to Chagall...)  And you can see more of Joyce's work here. http://www.joyceowens.com/

Beauty is Skin Deep, Joyce Owens, artist.

BLACK, MOSTLY 9H

“Mostly 9H” Series, each 8"×8″ plus black satin frame, graphite, charcoal, conte crayon on gessoed clayboard.

“Black”, October 22, 2015 opening reception, close November 28th, Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Conceptualized by Sharon Swidler, curated by Jo Marks Aardsma.

Exhibiting with Jo Marks Aardsma, Tonia Bonnell, Michael Burnett, Nancy Koenigsberg, Diane McGregor, Corey Postiglione, Susan Schwalb, Sharon Swidler.

WHY BLACK?

…I was no longer working with black…but with the material of black, the surfaces of black, created a light. And this light is a secret light. A light that is not obvious. It was coming out of the black….”– Pierre Soulages

“This show interests itself in the ‘non-objective’: art that is not representational, that contains no recognizable figures or objects, art that has no intentional derivation from any concrete matter.The work for this show was selected because each artist uses black, not as negative space, but as an opening from which to reveal what lies at the edge of vision.”—Jo Marks Aardsma

This work is a continuation of paintings and drawings from the last several years. http://www.rounderstudio.com/black/ and the current work at http://www.rounderstudio.com/mostly-9h/ 

Artist of the Day: Tor Dettwiler

"Overfishing Ones Waters"

c 2000

wood, pvc, epoxy, acrylic, found: plumbing and fishook

13" x 4 and 1/2" x 6 and 1/2"

"Umbilically Urban - Mother & Child"
c 1994-96
pvc, wood, tin, acrylic, found: duct elbow, plumbing
3' x 1' x 2'

Paul Conly and Lothar and the Hand People

Please click the WATCH ON VIMEO button. Paul Conly talks about what music is and how we are music.


"Sound Waves"…. Paul Conly and Lothar and the Hand People from rich lerner on Vimeo.