In hindsight, this waterwormthing and eelyfishthing seem premonitory considering the flood warnings that came a few days later.
I could use a new slicker and some waterproof boots.
-Steph
Archive for February, 2010
Suday Sidewalk Doodles: Underwater Theme
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, chalk, doodle, Drawing, sidewalk, stephg, water on February 28, 2010 by ssstephgEncaustic Triptych: Orange Wave
Posted in Art, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, charity, Haiti, northampton ma, Oxbow Gallery, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos on February 27, 2010 by ssstephg |
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encaustic on panel
each is 5 x 3.5 inches
These are my donations to the 100 Artists Stand With Haiti art sale that’s happening tomorrow at The Oxbow Gallery in Northampton. Again, all proceeds go directly to charity. Tickets are 100 dollars each and will get you an original artwork valued at a minimum of 100 dollars. Yeah so, maybe I’ll see you there.
-Steph
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Why Dan Killed My Little Pony
Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags awful, hilarious, live action, My Little Pony, sacharrine crap on February 27, 2010 by ssstephgApparently, Dan is a clairvoyant. I’d also have committed equine genocide had I foreseen this. Thanks to Bruce McD for posting this lunacy on FB!
The Family Who Rock and Rolls All Night Together….
Posted in Jason Gray with tags Jason Gray, KISS, Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G, Nikon D300, Rock and Roll All Night, St. Louis on February 26, 2010 by Jason Gray
My friend Curt, single father of five (two are out of the house) and all around awesome, let me style him and his family’s faces like the band KISS recently. The two littlest ones were impossible to sit still, for the makeup or the portrait, but I was expecting their moving around to be part of the shot, anyway. Two outtakes after the jump.
All Nikon D300 with Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G lens.
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Eyes Wide Shut
Posted in Art, events, museum, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Klimt, museum exhibit, swingers, Toni Tiller on February 25, 2010 by Toni TillerA Vienna museum, Klimt, and orgies. Yes, orgies. That’s all fine and fun but now I have that stupid movie stuck in my head.
Extemporaneous Nudes
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture, mixed media, nude, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, color, Drawing, figure, ink, nude, paper, pencil, Tom Bennett on February 25, 2010 by Tom BennettI have a number of different sets of work going on with various mediums and treatments. Sometimes its based on what I have available to me in materials and space. Lately I’ve been spending my days in a tight space in Manhattan doing illustration and when I have spare time I’ve been working on these little improvised sketches using pencil, graphite, benzyl-alcohol based inks, india ink and sometimes a little water. I allow the materials to react and keep the editing to a tight minimum. These are often more fun and exciting than a fully “realized” finished painting. And it’s my nature to luxuriate in fun and excitement. I guess thats also why I love fleshy female form. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Houri, pencil, ink on paper, 12″ x 9″
Adumbration, pencil, ink on paper, 9″ x 12″
more after the jump
100 Artists Stand With Haiti: art sale at The Oxbow (Northampton, MA)
Posted in Art, events, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, benefit, charity, Haiti, MA, Mark Bodah, Northampton, Oxbow Gallery, sale, steph gerolimatos, Western Mass on February 24, 2010 by ssstephg
by Mark Bodah
Durabond and gouache on panel
24 x 16″
I just donated some art. Some of my miniature encaustic paintings will be for sale along with a bunch of other art donated by other local artists this Sunday, February 28 at The Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, MA. My pal Mark donated the piece pictured above. All the art is valued at a minimum of $100–the price of a ticket that will get you an original artwork–and all the proceeds go directly to charity! Last I heard, most of the 100 tickets had been sold but there were still some remaining. Details after the jump! Read more »
Great Pop-up Art Sale (Brooklyn Feb 26-28)
Posted in events, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, brooklyn, DAC, Dumbo Art Center, sale on February 24, 2010 by ssstephg
Wanna buy some art? No, this isn’t another shameless self-promo post by yours truly. It’s to let you know about the Great Pop-up Art Sale happening this weekend at Dumbo Art Center aka DAC–a non-profit art center located 30 Washington Street in Brooklyn. Prices start as low as 50 bucks! Money from the sale goes 1/2 to the artists and 1/2 to support DAC programing. Looks like there’s going to be a whole bunch of art by a whole bunch of artists. Stop by and check it out!
Accidents Happen
Posted in Art, Photography, portrait, Toni Tiller with tags accident, Art, grandma, Photography, portrait, Toni Tiller on February 24, 2010 by Toni TillerMy Grandma is a very cool lady, she’s pragmatic, has a wonderfully dry sense of humor, and an appreciation for the absurd. She can spend more time gossiping on the phone than a 14 year old girl and people love to tell her all their secrets, a gift I was lucky to inherit from her. She took a little tumble at the library the other day so I came out to New Mexico to lend a hand, which is really just a convenient excuse to come hang out with her for 2 weeks. I told her that her bruises looked like she’s wearing KISS make up and just to show you how cool she is she both knew who KISS was and asked me to take this photo.
9 Flats
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags abstract painting, Art, colors, J. D. Hastings on February 23, 2010 by jdhastingsI was actually being such a good boy doing work today that I forgot I had stuff to post. Oops. My bad, yo.
“9 Flats” 30″ x 30″ Acrylic on Canvas
I call paintings I don’t tear up “flats” because the act of violating the plane of the canvas when I rip them feels to me like bringing the 2d objects into the third dimension, even if they appear more or less flat.
I decided to make pieces like this because my normal process of tearing these paintings into small squares sort of hides the impact of destroying them. If all you’ve seen is bacon you’re going to be hard pressed to imagine the pig, right? So this piece is made up of canvases I made with the intent of destroying them, but decided against it so as to show viewers of my work what is being destroyed. Actually It sounds a little macabre when I put it like that, but that is the intent.
I’ll post close-ups of the individual paintings after the jump.
Or You Can Avoid The Cheese And Go Straight For The Bacon
Posted in Art, Toni Tiller, video with tags Art, Bacon, francis bacon, Toni Tiller, youtube on February 22, 2010 by Toni TillerHirst Talks
Posted in Art, Toni Tiller, video with tags Art, Bacon, damian hirst, francis bacon, Toni Tiller, youtube on February 22, 2010 by Toni Tillerand talks and talks and talks, but at least he’s talking about Bacon.
Brangelina Breastfeeding
Posted in Art, figurative, nude, portrait, Tom Bennett with tags Art, Brangelina, breast feeding, figure, humor, nude, sculpyure, Tom Bennett on February 21, 2010 by Tom BennettLike Brad and Angie? Just go here for some ultra voyeuristically – I’m not sure that is a word – weird sculpture. The dove is a nice touch.
Saturday Morning Not Entirely A Cartoon
Posted in Art, Toni Tiller, video with tags chatroulette, Toni Tiller, video, youtube, youtube swap on February 20, 2010 by Toni TillerI found this via this amusing new web service, just as random as Chatroulette but somewhat less likely to turn up penises.
Another Installment of d’ArteBoard Test Kitchen: All Aboard the Cupcake Cart
Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags almond, baking, cupcakes, Recipe, stephg, vanilla on February 20, 2010 by ssstephgYes, I’m painting. I just don’t have anything finished to show you so…
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Fine confections, not fine art–that’s what I completed this week–two batches of cupcakes to be precise. The first was chocolate with coconut frosting. The second was vanilla almond with coconut frosting. Have I mentioned that I tend to be a fly by the seat of your pants sort in the kitchen? Well yeah, I like to improvise rather than adhere to a strict recipe. So for both batches, I sorta wung it. I looked at alotta recipes from various sources, made some notes and then got to baking. It worked out A-OK. Everyone who came by to stuff their cute little faces with sugary treats reacted with nothing but smiles and yums and thank yous. I was surprised and delighted to find that the vanilla almond cupcakes came out on top in a purely non-scientific taste test. Delighted because I reallyreally wung it with these. Know what else I did? I actually wrote down what I did! Exclamation point because I rarely do that. I think this is only the second time I’ve bothered to record a recipe I came up with. For all you bakers and cupcake junkies I’ll include the winning recipe after the jump.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Attention Deficit Day
Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags cartoon, digi charat, odd, Random, robotboy on February 20, 2010 by ssstephgJust a few quick random cartoon vids.
robotboy in drag
digi charat eyebeams and really random pointless thing after the jump. Read more »
Abstraction in the Americas
Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, Drawing, events, exhibits, museum, news, Painting, printmaking, sculpture, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, Art, exhibit, museum, newark, news, Painting, Photography, Tom Bennett on February 19, 2010 by Tom BennettThe Newark Museum has an exhibition tracing abstract art in North and South America.
Joaquin Torres-Garcia’s “Locomotive With Constructive House” (1934)
It’s up unti May 23. Looks good, let’s go!
Story
Posted in Jason Gray with tags film, Jason Gray on February 19, 2010 by Jason Gray
I like photos that hint at allegory, which is what these were intended to do.
All Nikon N80 with 50mm f/1.8D lens and Kodak BW400CN film.
Baked in Norwalk
Posted in Art, art on paper, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Ct, Michele's Pies, monotype, norwalk, pie, printmaking, still life, Tom Bennett on February 18, 2010 by Tom BennettNorwalk, Ct. was where I was born. Apparently it’s also pie central.
We were driving down Route 7 the other day and saw a sign for pie tasting; my current fixation for all things pasty and pandowdy forced me into the parking lot and there it was: the home of Michele’s Pies. Michele’s has won more blue ribbons for pies than you can shake a can of powdered sugar at. She’s gained all sorts of celebrity with kudos from everyone from Martha Stewart to Bobby Flay, who had one of his Throwdowns with Michele.
My favorite pie was the Chocolate Pecan Bourbon. Imagine that – three of my favorite things baked into another favorite thing: a tart. Paradise.
Here are some monotypes in honor of Michele’s. They are all 12″ x 12″ for the purpose of possibly entering into the show “Foot Print”, an exhibition with which I have been involved in the past, at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, also in Norwalk.
Chocolate Pecan Bourbon, 2010, monotype, 12″ x 12″
Apple Pie 1, 2010, 12″ x 12″
Apple pie 2, 2010, monotype, 12′ x 12″
Siri
Posted in Art, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Photography, portrait, Toni Tiller on February 17, 2010 by Toni TillerI have a large family made up of incredibly complicated connections, biological, extended, adopted, etc. This is Siri, he fits into one of those categories. He recently made a big change to his appearance and we thought we would commemorate it with a photo, and the still falling fresh snow seemed like a suitable background.
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