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Saturday Morning Cartoons: WAKE UP IT’S RIDICULOUS O’CLOCK!!!

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , on April 30, 2011 by ssstephg

I’ve been awake since 5:00 am, but it’s all fine and good.  In fact, it’s a bit like this cartoon, although it would be definitively finer and gooder if I had a number of the especially special things our porcine star and friends enjoy throughout these scenes.  Tops among my desires would, of course, be a cane-cum-magic wand with the ability to turn a bed into a rocking moon or a rainbow-traversing horse.  But I state the obvious.  I’ll shut it now.  Please enjoy this two and a half minute mystical trip.

-Steph <3

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Drippy WIP

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , , on April 30, 2011 by ssstephg


Another HD video of stuff I’m making. Here’s a link in case you missed the last one. The music in this one is by the band Tunng. I love Tunng. I wish they’d tour America so I could quit life which I’m not very good at anyway and follow them around on my bicycle. I have a helmet and a bell so all I’d need are handlebar streamers and I’d be set.

Also, this three minute video literally took hours to upload to Youtube. I’m not sure how many hours it took exactly because I had to leave it uploading overnight, but I started the upload at about 1:00 in the afternoon. This is a recurring problem for me whether the video is HD or not. It just seems absurd. I dunno if it’s a problem with the site or my connection or my computer machine, but I figure I’ll try a different site as a test. So now I’m wondering if anyone has a video hosting site they really like. I hear good things about Vimeo. Any other suggestions?

Also also, after it took so very long to upload, I feel I should urge you to watch the full screen version. It’s much more effective at that size anyway.

OK, I guess that’s it for now.
Love,
-Steph

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Friday Night Music Video (sort of)

Posted in Art with tags on April 29, 2011 by Jason Gray

Nothing new to report. Have a swell weekend.

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Commitment and Non-Commitment

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on April 28, 2011 by Tom Bennett

Two recent monotypes and a painting. The painting is in a stage of quasi-resolution in a process.

Tom Bennett

Spring 2

Spring 2, 2011, monotype, 16″ x 20″

Spring 1

Spring 1, 2011, monotype, 16″ x20″

Non Committal

Non-Committal, 2011, oil on panel, 18″ x24″

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A Fine Mess

Posted in Art, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on April 27, 2011 by Toni Tiller

Space has a lot to do with how we think and create, and sometimes when the space gets extra messy the brain will follow shortly after and it can interfere with the art making process. I am currently in the middle of a major clean up at my place and needed a break so when I saw an exclamation of exasperation from our own Steph about the state of her studio I hopped in my car and headed up to Massachusetts. For me it’s always more fun to clean up someone else’s mess and I’ll take any excuse to hang out with Steph, something I don’t get to do nearly enough of.

So here is what we were working with.

Six hours, 47 cups of tea, and a lot of gossip later, we had this.

Lots of space, some new floor covering, and everything is labeled and findable. I wish I had gotten a shot of the desk/shelf area because it’s where we saw the most space made, but I spaced and only took this one. Ah well. My hope is that with all the new room that Steph with make a whole bunch of those yummy spinning balls. What’s fun for me was midway through the process I realized I’ve gotten my mitts on four out of six Darteboard studios. So Jason and Daniel, if I ever find myself in your part of the world and you have a little clutter to sort out I have a perfect record I’m looking to tick off…

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Message Art

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on April 26, 2011 by jdhastings

I spent the weekend unmasking several drop cloths I’ve been working on simultaneously, so you my be seeing a theme from me the next few weeks while I take on a bigger project.

This was started around August of last year. It’s both subtle and not.

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“Tip For Artists” After John Baldessari and William Powhida. 27″ x 30″ Acrylic on Canvas.

On the process, I painted many other paintings on this sheet, using stencils to get the design. The result is determined by what I’m painting for other projects at the time, and the surface is often hidden from me as I work on it (for months), so I’m never sure how it’ll turn out before unmasking it. While it looks somewhat expressionist, it’s kind of something else- part of an overall system where decisions about other things end up determining this (except for the stencilled design, obviously).

Detail shot after the jump: Read more »

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Sunday Sidewalk Doodles: Incorporeal Patterns

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , on April 24, 2011 by ssstephg

kpao! sidewalk drawing

We brought sidewalk chalk over to the park the other day and made a big collaborative drawing. We traced our bodies in overlapping positions and then filled in the shapes with various patterns. The kids loved that it looked like a crime scene to begin with. There were at least nine body outlines. The drawing ended up being lots of fun and pretty cool to look at. Two more pics after the jump!


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Mitosis and Cytokinesis

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , on April 23, 2011 by ssstephg

graphite sketch by stephg

Here’s an old page from a sketchbook. The stuff I’m working on now kind of grew out of this cell stuff. My ideas split and multiply faster than I can realize them.

I need a snack.
-Steph

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: April Rains

Posted in Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 23, 2011 by ssstephg


Oh look! It’s raining again today. Guess I’ll spend some time tidying my bedroom. Then maybe I’ll go do some work in my (*newly organized and now vastly spacious thanks to fellow d’Artbordian artist and magician Toni Tiller!) studio.

*One of us will have to post pics. Toni is amazing. She spent a day this week methodically plowing through my ridiculous mess and fitting it back together like a winning Tetris board. When we were through and everything was all put away there was so much open space I literally couldn’t believe it–enough room to do cartwheels or yoga or stage a light saber duel! I kept looking around expecting to find a giant pile of stuff in the adjacent room that we’d somehow moved and forgotten about. Miracle of miracles, that didn’t happen, and now my studio is perfect! Thank you so much Toni!

-Steph <3

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It’s Good Friday!! (if you like Black and White photos)

Posted in 35mm, Art, Jason Gray with tags on April 22, 2011 by Jason Gray

The Armour Meatpacking Plant in National City, Illinois rests its hulking, decayed mass on the former site of the National Stockyards. This complex, formerly consisting of crisscrossing train tracks, bellowing pigs, and the rhythmic clang of industrial machinery, represented the second largest hog processing center in the world (behind Chicago’s Union Stockyards). If you were wondering, it was Chicago’s Armour Meatpacking Plant location that inspired the colorful tale, “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair; one can only surmise that the conditions probably weren’t much different at this location.

In any case, the plant was abandoned in the 1950′s and it certainly looks that way. More information on this site can be read at Built St. Louis and at my friend’s site St. Louis Patina (if you haven’t checked out his site, definitely do!).

All shot with Nikon N80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens on Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO film.

More after the jump–> Read more »

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Finished One, Starting Another

Posted in Art, book arts, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , on April 20, 2011 by Toni Tiller

I worked out what was missing last week in my book contribution, a nice chuck of pale yellow. Some friends had made suggestions about swiss cheese, and it echoed my own thoughts minus the holes, so thanks go to Martha Stewart for coughing up one of her dependably restrained colors from her Martha Stewart Living magazine. I think that base of yellow helped to balance the right side of the composition.

Now the second page has started, and I have decided to go with a number of greens although that might not be apparent by these, so here is a few samples that have been cut.

These book pages have been really instrumental in helping to work out the issues of creating a larger piece. At first I was just going to cut a bunch out and then choose to assemble them but now I am reconsidering the approach. The way to go seems to be to grab all the colors and patterns that interest me and could work together and then cut and assemble. Why didn’t this occur to me before?

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Sketchbook Patterns

Posted in abstract, Art, Drawing, J. D. Hastings on April 19, 2011 by jdhastings

These are some pages from my graph paper sketchbook, where I sometimes play with different types of interlocking patterns.

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Here’s a page showing me playing around in pencil without finishing in marker.

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-JD

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Spinning WIP

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , on April 16, 2011 by ssstephg


Here’s a new view of one of my works in progress. What’s weird is that watching this gives me motion sickness. Editing nearly made me upchuck. Who says upchuck anymore? …me, I guess. I also can’t watch those amusement park rides that spin and the bottom falls out and leaves people stuck to the wall. I shot this in HD so you can watch it full screen if you like. Doing that makes me even sicker.

And for those of you with s-l-o-w internet, here are a couple of still photos.
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Easily queasy,
-Steph

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Dolls vs Dictators in Queens

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , on April 16, 2011 by ssstephg

Dolls vs Dictators, a film by artist Martha Colburn, is on view at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY through May. I wasn’t familiar with her work until I read the interview with Colburn in Art In America this month. She makes short, intense animated films. After reading the description of her process which involves a combination of varied media such as painting, drawing, collage and found objects all captured on analog film and using a low-tech homemade animation stand, I wanted to see her work so I hit ye olde interwebz and Hatchah! wouldn’tcha know it? found her on Youtube. Here’s a clip from Dolls vs Dictators. It really IS intense, sort of an explosion of insanity which is really just a reflection of reality I suppose.

music by Deerhoof
film by martha colburn
film commissioned by Museum of Moving Image and funded by Greenwall Foundation.

to watch complete film with soundtrack by Greg Saunier- visit the Museum of Moving Image- QUEENS until April . 2011

Right so, go see it if you can.
-Steph

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Somone You Might Know

Posted in Interview, Jason Gray, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on April 15, 2011 by Jason Gray

pink, © Toni Tiller

(click on the pic to go to interview)

My new interview with East Coast artist (and Wednesday contributor to Darteboard), Toni Tiller, is up over on One Round Jack. If you haven’t been to the site yet, it is a new blog devoted exclusively to the short-form interviews of interesting and intriguing people from around the country. Now, get on over there and read!

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The Old Ruling Class 4 and Art of the Northeast

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, events, exhibits, figurative, homage, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2011 by Tom Bennett

I haven’t been in my printshop in weeks so when I found myself with some time the other night I crawled into my basement, where the etching press is located and made some images. I used some lower grade oil paint along with the professional grade inks and came up with an almost realized print. When it was dry I went back into it with oil sticks.  I’m placing it into the series of nudes I started a couple of months ago.

Old Ruling Class 4

The Old Ruling Class 4, monotype, 20″ x16″

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Art of The Northeast

The annual regional survey “Art of the Northeast”, representing artists from New England, New York and New Jersey, is up again at The Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.  http://www.silvermineart.org/about-silvermine/directions.cfm

I have this painting in the show. It’s a take on  Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion of St. Peter.

The juror this year is Tom Eccles, Executive director, Bard College, Curatorial Studies Program.

Pete's Going Away (finished)

The opening is this Saturday,  4PM  to 7PM

Pete’s Going Away, 2011, oil on panel, 40″ x 30″

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Book Contribution

Posted in Art, book arts, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , on April 13, 2011 by Toni Tiller

I recently got me hands on the book and started working on a page for it. It’s busier than anything I have ever tried before, and I am not sure of I am done with it so parts aren’t glued down yet. It seems to be missing something, and I have a feeling what, but I haven’t found it in my stacks of magazines yet. Collage can be a slow process when you are waiting for things to find you.

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Hybrid Mini Quilts

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on April 12, 2011 by jdhastings

These combine fabric, paintings and collage together, which is an important element for me to learn with what I’m intending to do going forward. I don’t care if they’re pretty or not, they’ve already served their purpose

Mini Quilt4

This is a standard, poorly shaped mini quilt, but the center is cut out and replaced with a ring of paper collage on canvas with a ring of painted canvas in the center.

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This is 2 painted strips sewn together with the center of the above quilt sewn into it’s middle. The quilted part is a full 3 layer quilt. I added the binding just to fit in. Hastily.

Mini Quilt 6

This is the collage on canvas mixed with the ring from the painted canvases, with another quick binding to fit in.

-JD

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Alyson Shotz at Mass MoCA

Posted in Art, exhibits, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2011 by ssstephg

Back in February, we had a little d’Arteboard field trip to Mass MoCA. In typical Steph fashion, it’s now April, and I’m just getting around to sorting through photos from the outing. I was psyched to catch “Material World: Sculpture to Environment” before it came down later that month. The group show featured site specific installations constructed from everyday materials that transformed the museum galleries into otherworldly environments. One of the artists included in the show was Alyson Shotz. Her installation “The Geometry of Light,” composed of Plastic Fresnel lens sheets, silvered glass beads and stainless steel wire was like a little jewel tucked away in a smallish room to the side of heaven and hell–two louder installations I will post about in the future.

“The Geometry of Light” was a beautiful, sparkly display of light and shadow. Shotz strung beads and plastic discs in regular patterns along steel wires which were suspended diagonally across the room beginning in the far right corner and fanning up and out to the left wall. A perfect example of the whole as “more than the sum of it’s parts”, the effect was much more impressive than the list of modest materials might suggest. The room had a magical underwater sort of quality to it. Light passed through, reflected off of and was partially occluded by the strands of discs and beads causing the work to cast layers of painterly shadows and reflections on the floor and wall. Among other things, the installation brought to my mind 1960s textile patterns, the dappled sunlight of a Renoir painting and alien-looking seaweed. For more photos, follow the jump.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Paper Girl

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , on April 9, 2011 by ssstephg


by Ora Kolmanovsky
I think Toni might appreciate this. Talk about ambitious paper slicing folk. Kinda makes me want to hone my scissor wielding skizzles.
-Steph

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