tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78962595107884835562024-03-18T20:55:21.174-07:00BloggoniaIntensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-33732578054693324092018-02-06T18:25:00.001-08:002018-02-10T12:15:13.815-08:00Beauty and the Beast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was visiting JoAnne McFarland recently before an open studio in her Gowanus studio in Brooklyn. Two walls were filled with uniformly sized cards-- they were her "race cards" and "woman cards." JoAnne is a published poet as well as an accomplished artist and these cards play with words as well as imagery. These powerful works of art are painted, collaged or stenciled, many with with words or phrases sewn on with beads. They are provocative, sometimes very direct and other times more subtle. Check out <a href="http://www.joannemcfarland.com/">JoAnne's website here</a> for more about her art. </div>
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JoAnne McFarland: Still-ed Life, Michael Brown</div>
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As I took it all in I noticed this small 5" square painting of an artichoke. It seemed an anomaly at first, unrelated to the rest of the work. The colors and construction of the split flower/fruit were simply lovely and as I drew nearer I noticed the pale stenciled word: Tamir. JoAnne then pointed out the second part of the name "Rice" painted on the wall outside the frame of the painting. Tamir Rice was the young 12 year old boy who was shot to death several years ago by police who were responding to a report of a man with a gun. Tamir had been playing with a toy pellet gun. </div>
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JoAnne's art does this sleight of hand. Like a hammer cloaked in velvet or a filigreed but lethal letter opener, she draws us in with beauty, wit and wordplay and then tells a story of pain, death, abuse and loss. Her work embodies the idea that incredible beauty and unimaginable suffering often co-exist in an intense spiral: greed and grace, virtue and vindictiveness. JoAnne's work pierces the heart with stories of cruelty and injustice, but the understated narrative is the indomitable will to survive by wresting joy and beauty from bitter soil.<br />
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<i>Woodcut by Nomi Silverman in 440 Gallery's group show </i></div>
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<i>"Personal is Political is Personal" juried by Sue Coe </i></div>
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The past few weeks have been an escalating nightmare across
the world and at home: the Orlando massacre, then the bombings in Istanbul and
Bangladesh followed by the police shootings in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, the
bloodbath in Dallas, then terror in Nice and the attempted coup in Turkey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When 440 Gallery chose the theme several months
ago for our summer juried group show “Personal is Political is Personal” we
were focused on the fact that it is an election year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>National elections tend to magnify all sorts
of issues—from gun control to women’s rights, the criminal justice system and
the scourge of racism and bigotry. The unspoken dread was that, unfortunately,
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We are artists. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
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one lamp lit in the darkness of despair. It is not an escapist fantasy nor a
dirge but a kindling of ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of
the work is heavy, sad or provocative but when these emotions are channeled
through the mind and hands of an artist the art object itself becomes the
reality, we are one step removed from our own trauma. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have space to breathe, to process and to
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Ibn Randall’s work is commentary on race, inclusion, beauty
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Dale Williams’ paintings and drawings evoke the angst of our
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Divine Williams’ photograph of two young children stirs a
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of the somber Black Lives Matter march in another of William’s photographs on
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Textiles have been featured in juried shows at 440 over the
past several years and Sue Coe has chosen some exquisite examples in this
traditionally feminine medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bethany
Taylor’s medieval banners depict contemporary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>conflict with embroidered titles in English and Latin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eva Capobianco’s homage to her childhood
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This is a show that provokes and engages us or enrages us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It creates a space for thought, for
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I have been working on a series of portraits based on old family photographs. In my last post I featured the screen print of my parents when they were first married. I am placing these portraits within a fantastic context-- sort of a magic realism-- that creates a mystery and gives some insight into the lives of the people in the photograph. In my parents portrait they were encircled with the flames of young passion and a spiral at my mother's abdomen indicated the beginning of their childbearing years. The photograph of my paternal grandmother, above, is placed against a background that suggests her childhood home of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Of course the first thing you notice might be the skull and staring eyeball echoed in the sphere of a full moon. I call her "Baton Rouge Beauty"</div>
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I hung the painting as part of an installation with a root that I harvested from my garden last year. I saved the root because it was so interesting. Not visible in this photo, the top part of the upturned root is beautifully whorled. The two branches or trunks are also twisted around each other like the last verse of the old folk song Barbry Allen: the thorns growing from the heart of the buried Barbry Allen and the rose from the heart of sweet William "twined themselves in a true love's knot, the red rose round the briar." The portrait on the opposite side of the upturned root is my grandfather. He holds a bundle of cigars in his hand, although someone mentioned that it also looks like dynamite. I call this painting "The Appalachian Sorcerer" I happened across these whitewashed and weathered frames for the portraits which suggest the passage of time. I like the mystery, the curiosity it stirs. Though the paintings are personal with very specific imagery, I am pleased when people interpret it and give it a back story of their own. I like to hear what they think, to see how close they come to the story I am trying to tell.</div>
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So here is my grandparent's story: They met when my grandmother was a student in an elite girls school in Baton Rouge. My grandfather was her teacher. She was sixteen and he was twice her age when they married. It was a relationship that, although not unusual for the time, would have been illegal in most places today. She was Catholic, from an urban, comfortable, warm Delta family and moved with her new husband to Appalachia in 1911. He was from a family of Baptist schoolteachers and musicians in the mostly poor, rural and austere mountain culture of Western North Carolina. She never really adapted to her home over the next seventy years of her life. She bore nine children and cared for many of her grandchildren at one time or another, including myself and my siblings. She had a glass eye from an illness and, while she could be affectionate on occasion, she was a harsh, bitter woman. She was very outspoken about the ignorance and general backwardness of life in the mountains and told stories of her childhood that sounded like fairytales. My grandfather was never without a cigar stub between his fingers and was as reticent as a cigar store Indian. He was a slight, peaceful man and the undisputed head of the household. He put a suit jacket on every day for the dinner my grandmother cooked for him. He played the fiddle-- the "plinky-planky music" my grandmother hated as well as well as the classical sheet music pieces she played on the piano. He was penniless and a poet and carved tiny wooden fiddles and banjos that my aunts later turned into brooches.</div>
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Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-73693602087958676962016-03-30T20:34:00.001-07:002016-03-30T20:34:29.708-07:00Boom Baby Boom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Boom Baby Boom</i>, Screen print, 22" x 30" 2016 </div>
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This print is based on an old photograph of my parents from the year they were married. My father was in the army and the photo was taken in their hometown of Asheville North Carolina although they lived on the West Coast that first year in army housing. </div>
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This is a relatively new medium for me-- screen printing. The registering of the colors is a bit difficult, so I was going for a bright cheap holy card look so that if it turned out a bit fuzzy, I could salvage a few with the rationale that I was going for the clumsy quick print look. It turns out they lined up pretty nicely after all. </div>
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I referenced Our Lady of Guadalupe (and a thousand other iconic Madonnas) with the position on the crescent moon and framed, not in a halo, but flames. I'm not exactly placing them in hell although as young teenagers married too soon they saw their fair share of hell. The flames are the all encompassing halo of carnal passion and the spiral in my mother's Blessed Mother blue dress is the spiral of life growing in her womb. </div>
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I call it Boom Baby Boom as they represent the beginning of the post war baby boom and, in microcosm, their own private baby boom that progressed through thirteen children. The title also echoes the epithet "Burn, baby burn" from a few decades later after the Watts riots in LA. That particular reference doesn't relate to my parents personally but the suggestion of fire, anger and self destruction in the face of powerlessness is apt. </div>
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Here are the film color separations. There were five colors printed with white the paper.</div>
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Touching up a few glitches where the red flame didn't print. I also touched up Mama's milk mustache that is still seen here. The blue on this print is slightly off-- too much to the right. I was going to toss it but Roni Henning, the master printer in the studio where I print, showed me how to delicately scrape, paint and fill in to make it all work. </div>
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It's been great working with Roni. I was struggling with my five color separations and she used to print 27. She literally wrote the book on non-toxic water based screen printing and has printed for Andy Warhol, Romare Beardon, Red Grooms, Alice Neel and so many more. She is also the most down to earth person you could imagine. Also, her father played violin and the young man that is my father in the image above was a bluegrass fiddle player. </div>
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Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-31331464859419959672016-02-02T22:14:00.000-08:002016-02-02T22:14:31.971-08:00African American History Notes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'll begin with Sojourner Truth because truth is beauty. I grew up in the Southern United States during a time before the Civil Rights Movement and I have been trying for the past several decades to educate myself about a part of our American history that is still unknown to most of us. We were just not taught as children about African Americans contributions to our collective culture. When I read some of these stories now, stories of incredible talent and strength in the face of tragic injustice, I am so moved and inspired by their courage and indomitable spirit. I know that some of my ancestors were probably the source of some of their pain, and I know some helped to alleviate their burdens, but this is not about me or white guilt. This is about black power and black beauty, an essential interconnected part of our American DNA.<br />
I am posting some images of remarkable women here today in the hopes that just a glimpse of their amazing faces might inspire you to look them up and discover some of the buried gold of our American ancestry. Some you will know already, some are relatively unknown. When you click the wikipedia link-- read about their childhoods and education and the paths to their accomplishments. <br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth <br />
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Sarah Breedlove, or Madame C.J Walker-- one of the wealthiest women
in America, was an entrepreneur, a philanthropist and the first woman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker</div>
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Edmonia Lewis-- an American sculptor</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonia_Lewis</div>
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Zora Neale Hurston, a great American writer of novels, short stories, plays and essays. She was also a folklorist and anthroplogist. One of my favorite writers.</div>
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Here's another sculptor, Augusta Savage. Beautiful work from an artist of the Harlem Renaissance</div>
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Marie Maynard Daly was a chemist. She was a researcher and teacher and worked with the American heart Association studying the effects of hypertension on the circulatory system.</div>
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Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, humanitarian, Union spy during the Civil War and suffragist. She helped countless refugee slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.</div>
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I will close with this glamorous image of Joyce Bryant, a singer and performer with a voice and sex appeal that catapulted her to fame in the 1950's as the "blond bronze bombshell." She sang in nightclubs and with opera companies. Still alive at age 87. </div>
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winter we are warmed by the hope of a fresh start. and that's the key: just
start and keep starting again and again each day. It eventually adds up. I have
been making small crowns of seasonal flowers for my garden Madonna for years. A
few decades ago on a trip to Thailand I was entranced by the custom of placing
a small handmade daily offering, an arrangement of flowers on the threshold of
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school memories of the crowning of the Virgin in May combined in creating my
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garden. It is something I do after spending time on chores, weeding or sweeping
leaves. It's a final quiet moment when I walk around my small backyard city
garden finding just the right flowers for braiding into a tiny crown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The cement statue is only about 18 inches tall
and the crown of her head is about the size of a ping pong ball. The challenge
is not only to get a harmonious arrangement of colors and textures, but to find
blossoms and leaves on stems delicate enough to weave into a diminutive circle,
yet strong enough to hold together. The process is meditative yet purposeful: I
pluck branches of thyme or narrow grass-like leaves to form the basic braid
while choosing a variety of more fragile flowers to add to the crown. Part of
me is focused on the task at hand but my mind floats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since last year I have been photographing the
crowns. The meditative state of the repetitive action in the weaving of the
crown morphs into the more focused creative state of framing and capturing the
crowned Madonna. Crouching close to the small statue to get just the right
angle has given me a new perspective. The mass produced concrete virgin, bought
at a roadside stand, has, through the lens of my iphone, taken on an
anthropomorphic visage that I never experienced before. The play of light and
shadows on the mottled surface of her face, combined with various camera angles,
can give one the impression of subtle emotional expressions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have not been as diligent as the Thai
shopkeepers with their daily flower offerings. Days, even weeks might pass
before I am in the garden again. The crowns I make dry out and shrivel, falling
from her head to circle her neck. The dried fallen crown and the virgin's bare
bowed head struck me one day as particularly poignant and so I began
photographing that as well. Sometimes she looks like a stylish young girl with
a scarf or stole and the crowns themselves suggest a grand Victorian hat,
something I would love to wear in the Easter parade. </span><br />
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seasons, from spring through a summer harvest and winter snowfall. I'm not sure
how much longer I will continue to photograph my crowned garden Madonna, but I
know I will always be making a crown for her. It is something insignificant and
ephemeral and I don't really believe it brings me luck or prosperity. It just
makes me happy, it is very calming, to take the time to make some small
beautiful thing for it's own sake. It makes me feel like I am part of the
garden, part of the cycle of life.</span><br />
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Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-73522992200168386582015-01-26T11:38:00.003-08:002015-01-26T11:40:11.378-08:00Caught in a Blizzard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am just now in 2015 writing again. I have moved my actual physical home and studio address a few times and am trying to restart this blog. My misadventures in updating the info in my account matches the velocity of the winds outside my studio window this blustery blizzardy day. I have posted an old sculpture of mine I call "The Portuguese." Her glance over her shoulder captures my own wariness as I try to move forward. If all goes well, I shall continue with a new energy and approach. Wish me well.</div>
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Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-4465780880505009402011-07-16T16:37:00.000-07:002011-09-11T11:34:11.047-07:00Text, Characters, and Fonts of Wisdom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWSKy5h_GKoHt95mRNBSnPYk0ILFm-6seMdmwMBZhljN0hjWDhkaFahLV4PMNcAcv_0AfnEoY7Y1nQjX4LVvfk6EbDFP5EO1jtCYmQfY6F4oIy3SKhGbz0lHEjxAhuQckFaJOREPyySo/s1600/Gallery.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWSKy5h_GKoHt95mRNBSnPYk0ILFm-6seMdmwMBZhljN0hjWDhkaFahLV4PMNcAcv_0AfnEoY7Y1nQjX4LVvfk6EbDFP5EO1jtCYmQfY6F4oIy3SKhGbz0lHEjxAhuQckFaJOREPyySo/s400/Gallery.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.440gallery.com/" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">440 Gallery</a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> is currently hosting their annual juried theme show this month. The theme this year is "Text" and there was a lively opening reception on the evening of June 30. <a href="http://www.artbrooklyn.com/">Dan McDonald</a> was the roving photographer and caught some of the artists in front of their work. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The juror this year is Susan Fleminger, artist, educator, curator and <span style="line-height: 115%;">Deputy Director for Visual Arts and Arts-in-Education at the <a href="http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AACHOME_homepage">Abrons Arts Center ofHenry Street Settlement.</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dan M. caught Susan, Gallery member <a href="http://x.gailcflanery.com/index.php">Gail Flanery</a> (in summer polka dots) and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_959297635">Aleksander</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://aleksanderbetko.com/"> Betko</a> in a lighthearted moment. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5mU84ri2TjPXUk_0MXVzeEDRUVFUJSEix-UdLm12g_mTkeZ4E_ymzw_hhnxY258quCRjzyYUUNMCG1PhFondDNXaaqLA4HbnKsS_NheXu9F7p7IE4N0ydSou0y-1weeqPEQnapDYN0I/s1600/Fleminger.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5mU84ri2TjPXUk_0MXVzeEDRUVFUJSEix-UdLm12g_mTkeZ4E_ymzw_hhnxY258quCRjzyYUUNMCG1PhFondDNXaaqLA4HbnKsS_NheXu9F7p7IE4N0ydSou0y-1weeqPEQnapDYN0I/s400/Fleminger.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Betko is the artist whose painting of a guitarist against a wall of backstage graffiti hangs in the center of the exhibition.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUyQ5N1x8nhLQ8U_ZryIaP1IZGJ9BG2Zq23aH9MrlIgCGmlyTD-uLggjWJhTgey15R_XgLACjATdVEfSdhjpmJMaJHceyXOTKtuCn5cBZF3O8z7IC40T555rGlDkr7qJOdQae-iAw8R4/s1600/Betko.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUyQ5N1x8nhLQ8U_ZryIaP1IZGJ9BG2Zq23aH9MrlIgCGmlyTD-uLggjWJhTgey15R_XgLACjATdVEfSdhjpmJMaJHceyXOTKtuCn5cBZF3O8z7IC40T555rGlDkr7qJOdQae-iAw8R4/s320/Betko.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-35257849491473748182011-07-02T15:52:00.000-07:002011-07-03T12:45:38.231-07:00Memory of Memoir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="goog_1124646561"></span><span id="goog_1124646562"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlSB99KKNFHW6rgQcjZN5HNAIc6Eb78xzkmvFWzDfYwbZ_4fBjooaa4VRudUfGjKa1iVV7NHbRmIcwUTQxAhHYLYdReCa7PqfUlD2YJj-cXA5F-jtIjEt9JXuwK216TkluB6cL4aoalA/s1600/Lunsford.village+selfportrait.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlSB99KKNFHW6rgQcjZN5HNAIc6Eb78xzkmvFWzDfYwbZ_4fBjooaa4VRudUfGjKa1iVV7NHbRmIcwUTQxAhHYLYdReCa7PqfUlD2YJj-cXA5F-jtIjEt9JXuwK216TkluB6cL4aoalA/s320/Lunsford.village+selfportrait.JPG" width="176" /></a></div>Took down my show yesterday at <a href="http://www.440gallery.com/">440 Gallery</a>. Bittersweet exhaustion. For over a year (many years actually) have been downsizing and attempting various forms of retrieving and distilling the past while simultaneously living in the present and planning a future. Distilling is a good word: creating some intoxicating elixir from harvested acres of grain and fat fruit. The exhibit was a revelation even to me. Seeing 20 years of transformation in one room. A few highlights: A wonderful review in <a href="http://pintamanuel.blogspot.com/2011/05/memoir.html">Pintamanuel</a> . Having my sisters Tomi and Teresa here harmonizing on songs we used to sing. My daughter Frances and a talented new friend, Alex Sheets reading from journals. A slide show featuring the history of art according to my life. A grand benefit party with <a href="http://www.spokethehub.org/">Spoke the Hub</a> for the Consolation Center in Haiti. An evening of short films curated by <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1358498">Sarah Greenleaf</a>. A full month of wonders and lots of wine and hummus.<br />
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I will now indulge my reminiscing ego and post images from the show.<br />
First my slide curtain. Boxes and boxes and boxes of these square wafers of old documentation. I had to explain to some young visitors not only what exactly slides mean to an artist of a certain age but also what slides are in general.<br />
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So these, I explained, are small photographic transparencies that you put in a machine called a "projector" that projects them with light onto a screen. They can become huge with this projection. This is the way we used to document our work. We used to have to make several copies, some for our own records and others to send out to galleries and schools or to apply for grants and residencies. There are over a thousand in this curtain and all of them relate to my art. They are mostly photographs of work I have done but there are also a few images of my influences and some photos of people whose portraits I painted or sketched. There are images of studies that have never been exhibited and there are images from residencies: studio scenes, scenery or gatherings at lunch. I provided a few magnifying glasses so people could see the work up close. I also had a slide show, using my vintage <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_slide_projector">Kodak Carousel</a> slide projector, showing early work and influences. The Carousel projector was a big part of my professional and personal life. Every family reunion featured "The Slide Show" of past reunions. It was a communal album viewing. More recently it was featured in an episode of <a href="http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men/episodes/season-1/the-wheel">Mad Men.</a> The large transparencies are cells from a shadow theater piece I created and performed with a fantastic crew in Ankara Turkey for SanArt '92: "Golgeli Oyunu" This is the image we printed on the t-shirts we sold and also on the cassettes with the soundtrack (remember cassettes?).<br />
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I placed a large antique desk in the middle of the gallery with the intention of working everyday on my actual memoir. I had begun a graphic novel a few years back and realized the drawings were taking so much longer than the words. I just wanted to write down a lot of things before I forgot the details, and so that is what I am doing now, trying to finish this accounting of my first 25 years. Here is an image of the desk with the bust of "The Portuguese" one of my early ventures in sculpture about 10 years ago. I had a small crystal ball on the desk, an orb of real quartz crystal that held reflections of past, present and future.<br />
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My most recent piece was a circular painting I began a few years ago and worked on, off and on. It is a lot of detailed painting and drawing and I become a bit daffy if I work too long a stretch on all the gnarly little details. I call it "Face Time" and it is in the tumbling block quilt pattern with each diamond shaped facet filled with an eye or a mouth or some detail of a face. The faces are of people who have come into the gallery or pictures of friends and family, some from old sepia photographs of ancestors. I took advantage of the circle canvas and painted the images at various angles so there is no "right way" to hang it. I shifted it's orientation throughout the run of the show. I originally wanted to mount it on a clock mechanism to rotate slowly, one cycle over 24 hours. It would be a very subtle clock. Since it didn't sell at the show, I may still do that. It was very interesting for me to see the change in my work from a voluptuous expressive style to the more recent (the last five years or so) geometric order. It is the tight wire tension between order and chaos that that I have been balancing on for most of my life. Order seems to be ascending but it's funny, like the old yin yang gang at the ok corral, there is absolute chaos at the heart of order and a kind of calm order in the center of chaos. <br />
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The artist's obsessively drawn resume of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois">Louise Bourgeois</a> consists of four large pages, with two columns each, listing Bourgois' CV in tiny hand lettered script. In her painstaking chronicle of the creative life of this icon of contemporary art, Linder's homage is both wondrous, humbling and rather uncomfortably masochistic. The few ink stains splattering the work might as well be blood. A table strewn with mundane paper clutter is actually precisely copied replicas of lists, receipts, bank statements, school reports and junk mail. Looking a bit too much like my own unattended desk, the trope l'oeil effect is almost playful. But Linder's excruciating mimicry subverts the seemingly innocuous detritus of financial bondage and family responsibilities. Each scrap of paper signifies a decision, a bond or a distraction that together constitute the artist's, or anyone's, "cost of living". The show closes May 28. <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> is located at 531 W. 26th St. 1st fl.</span><br />
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<a href="http://ellayangstudio.com/">Ella Yang </a>took <a href="http://www.karenflatow.com/">Karen Flatow</a> and me to the <a href="http://cityartsny.info/">City Arts</a> first year anniversary party last night. If you haven't checked out this publication yet, it is a newspaper listing theater, music and art gallery/museum exhibitions and events in Manhattan. There are reviews and articles and advertising at a reasonable rate. Ella was impressed with the response she got from an ad for one of her recent shows. Held at the <a href="http://chelseaartmuseum.org/">Chelsea Art Museum</a> in a grand upper gallery hung with the monumental painted gestures of <a href="http://chelseaartmuseum.org/miottefoundation">Jean Miotte</a>, the affair was festive and chic. Flashbulbs were discretely popping, we spotted <a href="http://www.matthewmodine.com/">Matthew Modine</a> chatting with the art crowd. There was a grand piano playing, then strings; a group called The Audubon Ensemble was barely heard above the convivial din of the crowd. Violinist <a href="http://corinneramey.com/">Corinne Ramey</a></span> laughed and said they could barely hear themselves.<br />
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Ella, Karen and I held court at one of the small cocktail tables, We sipped Pinot Noir and Karen had the City Arts cocktail (vodka infused with culture).<br />
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We talked the art talk: Sizing up studio real estate, flirting with galleries, escaping to residencies and the pros and cons of sacrificing children on the alters of art. There were no name tags but we met a man who called himself "The Wallet". Says he buys art. He copied our contact info onto his Blackberry. We'll see.Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-81502976035883207292010-04-24T01:52:00.000-07:002010-05-21T08:15:12.998-07:00The Exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHdQqoKPZu0jyawO3UkGXKQtSzEwKB_TrE_1gDJv2uSoD7zSvWJNbxl9pFq4xJI4bZOvY3dQqFxIKymtuS1Dv-SdbiYxOJbEfNtIomKH10Ar9TcKcFEVcjPzqKX2zqNd2HOOm6BYhLtM/s1600/IMG_6608.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHdQqoKPZu0jyawO3UkGXKQtSzEwKB_TrE_1gDJv2uSoD7zSvWJNbxl9pFq4xJI4bZOvY3dQqFxIKymtuS1Dv-SdbiYxOJbEfNtIomKH10Ar9TcKcFEVcjPzqKX2zqNd2HOOm6BYhLtM/s400/IMG_6608.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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Picked up my molds today and later took <a href="http://www.ferringallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=319">Jason</a> by the mold maker in the afternoon. Jason brought his bike and everyday gives a report of his tours through the villages and the countryside He has been studying French in preparation for his residency here and usually returns with a story to tell. In his own work he makes references to the local environment, incorporating imagery relating to local lore. His excursions have been information gathering expeditions. He photographs the scenery and tries to glean information regarding stories, legends and folklore. He is working on a cicada in the studio after seeing ceramic cicadas in several of the pottery stores. He spoke with Eric, a potter whose studio we pass on the way to the Vallauris atelier who told him that cicadas bring luck. Erik also related the fable we know as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper">ant and the grasshopper</a>, although here the cicada is in the grasshoppe'sr role. Jason has a small carving of a cicada he wants to mold and then cast several . The modeleur, <a href="http://www.martialquere.com/">Martial Quere</a>, is a pleasant chatty guy, top of the line, best mold maker in France he says as he gestures to a certificate framed above his work bench. Dale Dorosh, the man who runs the artists' residency, later confirms that he is indeed an excellent mold maker. He is lively and we all practice our language skills, using gesture, sketches and humor.<br />
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Carnival in Vallauris. <br />
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A parade and kids in costume today, a belated Mardi Gras celebration but very child centric. The kids were tossing confetti everywhere and squirting plastic string at their friends as well as at anyone passing. The parade featured three marching bands, the first dressed in prison stripes. Tres amusent... There were a few floats all decked in the yellow mimosa blossoms which grow every where here this time of year. There was a huge tortoise float followed by a hare and then a float with a big chicken and a smiling paper mache girl. There were jugglers and a guy who did handstands. It was refreshing to see children totally ecstatic, running with their friends. The costumes: a lot of pirates and princesses with a few Spidermen and face painted clowns. I tried to upload a short video of the parade but the internet is not co-operating. I'll try to post it later. <br />
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We did our presentations today, each of the residents showing images and talking about our work. I began with a slide show and talk of how my work has progressed over the last few years. Since clay is not my primary medium, this will be a challenge for me. Since founding <a href="http://www.440gallery.com/">440 Gallery</a> with <a href="http://www.shaneeart.com/">Shanee Epstein</a> five years ago my work has taken a few twists and turns, specifically into quilt forms.<br />
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This will be an opportunity to focus on where I want apply my energies.<br />
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<a href="http://jasonwalkerceramics.com/">Jason Walker </a>followed with a slide show of his ceramic work. Jason lives in Washington state and is currently represented by <a href="http://www.ferringallery.com/">Ferrin Gallery</a> in Massachusetts. He received a fellowship for the residency here from <a href="http://nceca.net/">NCECA</a> (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts). His work is about the intersection between nature and technology. He is an excellent draftsman as well as a skilled ceramicist. <br />
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Nancy Aleo then shared a slide show of her own work as well as actually paintings in a large hand made portfolio. Nancy teaches at Mass College of Art and Design and is the president of the Board of Trustees of the <a href="http://www.attleboroartsmuseum.org/">Attleboro Arts Museum</a>. She is an accomplished potter but she will be primarily painting and drawing. Her work is based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia">synesthesia</a> and her paintings are of sounds she sees as certain colors and shapes. Her work is also nature based and she is anxious to explore nearby parks and beaches for inspiration. She has spent a great deal of time in Mexico and her imagery reflects that culture as well as spirituality. This the sound of rain on a metal gutter:<br />
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<a href="http://www.dawnwhitehand-visualartist.co.cc/">Dawn Whitehand</a> has just finished her Phd in ceramics and she showed work done for her recently completed thesis. Dawn's work is also deeply rooted in nature. The ceramic pieces, hand polished organic shapes, many of them pit fired on her own property, were installed in a natural setting among a circle of trees.<br />
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There were also pieces installed in water. The philosophical structure of the work is feminist and embraces an intuitive, female, earth-based energy. Apart from the thesis work, there was an ephemeral piece created for a site specific area on the shore of an ecologically threatened lake. These were three large forms, unfired, that she then placed in the water to dissolve. <br />
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Very inspiring to see everyone's work.Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-50345842981993927762010-03-03T07:49:00.000-08:002010-03-03T07:49:33.975-08:00The French Turkish connection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfLzjtyg74-CxXE5RXmEOhB3ka4zgcf_csV6mPXZ-CNv-e6c1HrXGI_f7Zr3cSF4jfGm6ztv3h2LFiqkRJZkBPc07RkkxTV5EU4HGnhc99HvAMToIwUtkAE9l32JqnuhFPjTbvS3kRCE/s1600-h/IMG_6289.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfLzjtyg74-CxXE5RXmEOhB3ka4zgcf_csV6mPXZ-CNv-e6c1HrXGI_f7Zr3cSF4jfGm6ztv3h2LFiqkRJZkBPc07RkkxTV5EU4HGnhc99HvAMToIwUtkAE9l32JqnuhFPjTbvS3kRCE/s400/IMG_6289.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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My first day in the studio. I was alone as everyone else still had jet lag and they were still getting their bearings in the new locale. Having spent the last few weeks as a tourist, I am anxious to get started working. The studio is a bit airless and cool when the door is closed. Takes awhile for the clay to dry. Found a little heater to warm it up. Made a fat little fertility fetish just to get started. The other residents are all deeply schooled in pottery and I feel adrift, not really in my element. Then again, not really sure what my element is. Vallauris also accepts artists for whom ceramics is not their main medium and I am in that category. My work with clay has been in portraiture and figurative work so I am unfamiliar with a lot of the technical clay talk all around me.<br />
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Went by a local museum, <a href="http://www.ateliermuseal.net/fiche-musee.php?m=110&lang=en">Magnelli Municipal Museum</a>, a Ceramic Museum with a special exhibit by the Turkish artist <a href="http://www.galeriebesson.co.uk/siesbye.html">Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye</a>. She makes bowls. Just bowls. Like Steinway just makes pianos. Even with my limited knowledge of technique, it was obvious that these were perfect vessels. The shapes, the glazes, the design elements were rich but restrained, almost to the point of austerity. There was also a short video showing the artist in her studio at every step of the way. There is a huge poster of Alev joyously tossing a large pot in the air but as the film makes clear, her process is dead serious, as scientific as it is aesthetic. <br />
Tomorrow we are all to meet to do informal presentations of our work.Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-75070108868306875532010-03-03T04:17:00.000-08:002010-03-03T04:17:37.865-08:00J'arrive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNONMktfBUX5rY6mXcIlhMjjYOB_ZiG9m2tIs-mCBFIjvsUoyeTnHRYptFO-QyFj4oMfYWNSIwSLuymqvM1UxncriQcQ_Fszm1eqZw3WKfcVzoLb76UH-AuhFr8CLGvzYAgiowDb7_okE/s1600-h/IMG_6288.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNONMktfBUX5rY6mXcIlhMjjYOB_ZiG9m2tIs-mCBFIjvsUoyeTnHRYptFO-QyFj4oMfYWNSIwSLuymqvM1UxncriQcQ_Fszm1eqZw3WKfcVzoLb76UH-AuhFr8CLGvzYAgiowDb7_okE/s400/IMG_6288.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Tuesday Feb 23.<br />
Arrived in Vallauris today. Dale Dorosh, the founder of <a href="http://www.air-vallauris.org/">A.I.R. Vallauris</a> and an intern Andrea, met me and another Nancy from Boston at the airport in Nice. He drove us the 20 minutes or so to the center of Vallauris and our new old digs for the next six weeks. Up a narrow flight of stairs, leaving shoes and donning slippers, we were escorted to our tiny convent like bedrooms. I share a bath and common area outside my room with Dawn, another resident who arrived yesterday from Australia. <br />
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Finally met up with the fourth resident, Jason, who arrived later from Seattle. Dale had prepared a light but very filling repast of fresh breads and cheeses, salmon, ham, tapenade, tomatoes and wine. We ate and got to know each other a bit before cleaning up and heading back to our respective quarters. Dawn went to meet her partner and young son who are staying nearby. A convenient arrangement as he is working on his own project, leaving her time with the residency but providing company on occasional outings. Dale will meet us tomorrow for a tour of the town and the studio and an excursion to get clay and other supplies.<br />
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Wednesday Feb 24<br />
A quick walking tour of the surrounding neighborhood, including a few museums. Then off in the van to buy clay and some art materials. <br />
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Back in the studio we divied up the space. There are two studios with several work stations. No actual work yet though. <br />
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A nice lunch in a restaurent on an upper floor which looked out over roofs and the street below. All of us trying out our rudimentary French. <a href="http://jasonwalkerceramics.com/">Jason Walker</a> seems the most game, striking up conversations with strangers and asking for a doggie bag ("une boite", we learned from the waitress) when we were unsure of the protocol of asking at all. <a href="http://www.dawnwhitehand-visualartist.co.cc/">Dawn Whitehand</a>, the Australian, is a flaming red head with a ready wit and a strong feminist streak. <a href="http://www.massart.edu/Nancy_Aleo.html">Nancy Aleo</a> teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has Mediterranean features, a ready smile and hair that falls to her waist. She has already received a marriage proposal from the man on the first floor. <br />
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Back in the kitchen we chatted, talked a bit about our work. Shared a pot of popcorn in the evening. Nancy and I closed down the kitchen after working at our respective laptops at the kitchen table. In bed by 12:30, read til 1 or 2.Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-55836381315618451092010-02-28T19:52:00.000-08:002010-02-28T19:52:52.831-08:00From Tullahoma to Turkey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XloxUD0MvnXml6TueQRYEdBPY5ssRvC6cDpeGVJvw6b8duslud8ccA1Q2iDLQwKNdKPqm8EJArK-jcTbXxE5xYpilBfeb0ldEukcHgLvijRFGx8AZGS-kHx8_oOEhnGc4mKXROckODk/s1600-h/IMG_6077.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XloxUD0MvnXml6TueQRYEdBPY5ssRvC6cDpeGVJvw6b8duslud8ccA1Q2iDLQwKNdKPqm8EJArK-jcTbXxE5xYpilBfeb0ldEukcHgLvijRFGx8AZGS-kHx8_oOEhnGc4mKXROckODk/s400/IMG_6077.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A brief stop at the </span></span><a href="http://en.peramuzesi.org.tr/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pera Museum</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyo%C4%9Flu"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Beyoglu</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. There is an exhibition of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Picasso's</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> etchings commissioned by </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Vollard"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ambroise Vollard</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. This is an apt segue for my upcoming residence in </span></span><a href="http://www.air-vallauris.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Vallauris</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> where Picasso created his work in clay and in the process revitalized the local ceramics industry. The work has been installed on walls painted in a rich red and all the labels throughout the museum are in English and Turkish. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgta8rA7jvuag025bF7rDmUT2qTIKt483Fc7zIt6HE6k0lhUh7O_iSX7da1Ov-XyFXGw4UllB29JycJAgKA1qw-N0uHrCbepEiHSQ4Ym6_lUEzA9Cv5aEa_ARTnDmUyS3RKP4GQFgYFvt0/s1600-h/IMG_6137.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgta8rA7jvuag025bF7rDmUT2qTIKt483Fc7zIt6HE6k0lhUh7O_iSX7da1Ov-XyFXGw4UllB29JycJAgKA1qw-N0uHrCbepEiHSQ4Ym6_lUEzA9Cv5aEa_ARTnDmUyS3RKP4GQFgYFvt0/s400/IMG_6137.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Before leaving Turkey I spend time with my sister E. poring over the yellowed pages of our father's journals and drawings, composed 40 years ago. He was a </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_music"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">bluegrass </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">fiddler and country songwriter who died at age 50 when E. was around 13. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMLxZ-kzYD6-RYHyk4CnI9B2HR_xX2-cst1D0Jm-4oWPRy9UfGZuRgTk29KPlAN1rPyz14KjLfp09PpTnG7lbS7PURsdseYGhiNJT37ZbE70Z-MM5nMM-ghLWNOfNP6t1kLs0GKXPZy2k/s1600-h/IMG_6173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMLxZ-kzYD6-RYHyk4CnI9B2HR_xX2-cst1D0Jm-4oWPRy9UfGZuRgTk29KPlAN1rPyz14KjLfp09PpTnG7lbS7PURsdseYGhiNJT37ZbE70Z-MM5nMM-ghLWNOfNP6t1kLs0GKXPZy2k/s400/IMG_6173.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Intensiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725384468430129411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7896259510788483556.post-63427514792547071602010-02-28T18:04:00.000-08:002010-03-01T12:04:30.950-08:00Old Friends, New Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRXmbfimQXYIMA29Eo0RsQXrufKktbgk9gyt6Oa7sCztTjhihzVGA_6_J8i2WQrSNm8N_L63gaUtxtGu9BOgSV7XKHdUbippmj77VPwN0hyphenhyphenfA4nU5cDP3In9klipdavq3ulA3QtdXNzs/s1600-h/IMG_5986.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRXmbfimQXYIMA29Eo0RsQXrufKktbgk9gyt6Oa7sCztTjhihzVGA_6_J8i2WQrSNm8N_L63gaUtxtGu9BOgSV7XKHdUbippmj77VPwN0hyphenhyphenfA4nU5cDP3In9klipdavq3ulA3QtdXNzs/s400/IMG_5986.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">WInding up my last few days in Istanbul: Spent time with old friends at </span></span><a href="http://www.galleryapel.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Galeri Apel</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Nuran Terzioglu, who is the owner and founder of Apel Gallery, has represented or exhibited some of Turkey's most prominent contemporary artists. Selma Gurbuz, currently at Istanbul Modern, is on the Apel Gallery roster, among many other established and emerging artists. </span></span><a href="http://www.mehmetaksoy.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mehmet Aksoy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, arguably the greatest living sculptor in Turkey, exhibited at Urart Gallery with Nuran 20 years ago when he first returned home from time spent in Germany. Among his many public works is a monument to the </span></span><a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2110"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Unknown Deserter"</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> from Hitler's army. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The current group exhibit at Apel is "Kultur Fizik" with a broad range of work connected to physical culture. </span></span><a href="http://ybahadiryildiz.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Y. Bahadir Yildiz</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was represented by paintings and drawings with social and political overtones. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nuran then took us on a brief tour of the Gallery's new space downstairs which currently hosts Yucel Kale's sculpture in glass and wood. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnX5t5_jSRuPxd3r1KNRfjogzU8TvbrRKRhcYzrKhyJdyzYzlZxsmuOm4taLwoSEhB8noUib-w6FaguEN2Kb4NqK04xTiJ89YD9qnOuUshH0ew2idvyTGuk-toYnAYecjaUgf2pa8ilw/s1600-h/IMG_6009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnX5t5_jSRuPxd3r1KNRfjogzU8TvbrRKRhcYzrKhyJdyzYzlZxsmuOm4taLwoSEhB8noUib-w6FaguEN2Kb4NqK04xTiJ89YD9qnOuUshH0ew2idvyTGuk-toYnAYecjaUgf2pa8ilw/s400/IMG_6009.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nuran's desks in both galleries are themselves found sculptures: they are old carpenter's benches salvaged from a local woodworking shop. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCTKiJXbQZWaJPPBoTtEwiQylwDbwuvFxnxL6qCSJvn_baGT0CoCE7I8d6frOOeDPubZ-sga9ZO9zou_koZWXhkihM6_D9ZUj4D0Rlr6s2PYpjsMfpICE9I8sD4CnogFJsjwDr6FL21M/s1600-h/IMG_6010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCTKiJXbQZWaJPPBoTtEwiQylwDbwuvFxnxL6qCSJvn_baGT0CoCE7I8d6frOOeDPubZ-sga9ZO9zou_koZWXhkihM6_D9ZUj4D0Rlr6s2PYpjsMfpICE9I8sD4CnogFJsjwDr6FL21M/s400/IMG_6010.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The night closes with dinner at a favorite spot </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTB4q8AiLN4i0mDX4fI9vwEE2cg9xb8XCP0u4a-5F2wi36iPSZwOMmU-qpxtAvSlJxFckbuoWVldmswBVp80cR-JV4i_6gQo-hSpgvfALDn0Afbca9oL7A3XhOS9pCE-umWak__uXHfSw/s1600-h/IMG_6014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTB4q8AiLN4i0mDX4fI9vwEE2cg9xb8XCP0u4a-5F2wi36iPSZwOMmU-qpxtAvSlJxFckbuoWVldmswBVp80cR-JV4i_6gQo-hSpgvfALDn0Afbca9oL7A3XhOS9pCE-umWak__uXHfSw/s400/IMG_6014.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiha_Berksoy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Semiha Berksoy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (1910-2004) who would have turned 100 this year, was honored with an exhibition at at the </span></span><a href="http://www.ykykultur.com.tr/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kazim Taskent Art Gallery</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> on </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0stiklal_Avenue"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">istiklal Avenue</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, the wide pedestrian boulevard in the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyo%C4%9Flu"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Beyoglu</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> area of Istanbul. This was the first time I had heard of Berksoy. She was known primarily as an accomplished opera singer, a prima donna who trained in Berlin and her career paralleled the development of the Turkish Republic. She appeared in the first Turkish film with sound, was honored by the father of modern Turkey, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kemal Ataturk</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and her lover was the famous poet </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A2z%C4%B1m_Hikmet"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nazim Hikmet</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, jailed for his communist sympathies. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GH8lj7IgtN46ZDCMs6UnYVHXs-FhPAvtThjmdanA0hGSJUt5qmews9BGelZ4ffSMMpSWJw3nb9CizoUhTLxv0h4GtTCf_r0qbHAk8XlcJKVmDmkYJFC83TBhNeJXrugkJrcfxHlih_g/s1600-h/IMG_6050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GH8lj7IgtN46ZDCMs6UnYVHXs-FhPAvtThjmdanA0hGSJUt5qmews9BGelZ4ffSMMpSWJw3nb9CizoUhTLxv0h4GtTCf_r0qbHAk8XlcJKVmDmkYJFC83TBhNeJXrugkJrcfxHlih_g/s400/IMG_6050.jpg" width="272" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Her paintings, which she executed throughout her life, are a cross between </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Basquiat</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Freida Kalho</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. They are mostly self portraits and she often writes on the canvas or bed sheets she used for the paintings. At the age of 90 she appeared in a </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Robert Wilson</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> opera at Lincoln Center in New York. Wilson's eloquent tribute to her was part of this huge exhibit covering three floors of the gallery. She filmed herself telling stories, in her bed, in a marathon production that was edited to seven hours. It was titled "The Whole World is in My Bed"</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is a portrait of the artist with her cardiologist.</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq8tLLc1gfkSgVHgyIqb_R1mCODqeq9Tvx8Ly_L12zkvuVjU_xUg3q4ZvWoBS3ecWTAsLndLOXvdV-bLl06Sp8_D9sfcHJnD-wb-S2D35MIK-Z_ttv7kVFG5Pmssx2Zt1y5zg1tGrved8/s1600-h/IMG_6047.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq8tLLc1gfkSgVHgyIqb_R1mCODqeq9Tvx8Ly_L12zkvuVjU_xUg3q4ZvWoBS3ecWTAsLndLOXvdV-bLl06Sp8_D9sfcHJnD-wb-S2D35MIK-Z_ttv7kVFG5Pmssx2Zt1y5zg1tGrved8/s400/IMG_6047.jpg" width="250" /></span></a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Berksoy's iconography included the snake as commerce or the marketplace and in several paintings she depicts the artist's struggle with money and finance.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1OLuiTZ_HYdW8LO9-d8Vfpm_W-hu60wattcZuLiSYX58X7xIg1j8jWZtO356liLQQwCv9oro-8pdlLz-v6Di7ADlCCwYMPIV_ZCpJ9H5YTgziIX07A-HLqIdF65ICIhfojojPUTjbuJw/s1600-h/IMG_6066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1OLuiTZ_HYdW8LO9-d8Vfpm_W-hu60wattcZuLiSYX58X7xIg1j8jWZtO356liLQQwCv9oro-8pdlLz-v6Di7ADlCCwYMPIV_ZCpJ9H5YTgziIX07A-HLqIdF65ICIhfojojPUTjbuJw/s400/IMG_6066.jpg" width="280" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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