HAPPY 2009!
It is the first Friday in 2009 and we are having an Opening Reception tonight! We would love for you to join us and meet four very excellent artists who brought their work from the Mississippi to the Potomac, braving blizzards, interstate architecture and - come to find out and see for yourself!!!!! at Gallery 10, from 6-8pm tonight. FREEEE !
Please find details below and if you are a person who stands up for the arts to be seen at so many openings you can't possibly remember where they all are, there is a mapquest link if you scroll all the way down. The stairway seperating us from the sidewalk on Connecticut is sadly still there, still no elevator, but once you get up to our beautiful gallery, LOOK OUT! great art, great company, and nibbles and sips!
G a l l e r y 10 Ltd
1519 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington DC 20036
Hours: Wed - Sat, 11 - 5 202.232.3326
www.gallery10dc.com info@gallery10dc.com
Reception: Friday, Jan 2, from 6-8pm
'Mid Coast Art'
Dec 31, 2008 - Jan 31, 2009
Constance DeMuth Berg, Dennis Ringering, M. Royal Schroll, Tim Schroll
The exhibition features sculpture, drawing, painting and photography by four native Illinois artists who represent the Midwest Campus of the Washington, DC based Earth Center for the Arts.
Gallery 10 Ltd.
1519 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, 202-232-3326
Hours: Wed - Sat, 11 - 5 www.gallery10dc.com , info@gallery10dc.com
Mapquest link:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/Gallery10+Ltd:1519+Connecticut+Ave+NW+Washington+DC+20036-1115/#a/maps/l:Gallery+10+Ltd:1519+Connecticut+Ave+NW+&35;+201:Washington:DC:20036:US:38.910526:-77.043792:address:/m::12:38.910526:-77.043792:0::/
Friday, January 2, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Talk About Quasi-Painting Article
Gallery 10 artist Claudia Vess wants to talk about this article.
Quasi-PaintingCurated by Cara Ober
(read more from Cara Ober on her BLOG.)
Painting has been dead for over a century, yet artists keep making them. Despite the invention of photography, video, and digital art, painting still remains a vital method of present-day artistic expression.
Even in a Post-Greenburgian era, full of dire predictions from critics, painting continues to be an important component of the vocabulary of contemporary art. The main appeal of painting lies in its inherent physical qualities: both liquid and solid, it forces its practitioner to think spatially and abstractly, rather than in a linear way. This immediate access to color, light, atmosphere, and form is as important as the product of such thinking.
Painters tend to think globally, to see the big picture rather than in parts, and to rely on experience and intuition, rather than logic. As shape and space merge in the mind of a painter, physical and emotional sensations combine into a one-of-a-kind product, which visually references the artist's hand, brain, and heart.
Even in photographs, prints, drawing, and sculpture, a painterly sensibility often persists in modern modes of thinking. Despite new tools and technologies, which promise to render physical painting obsolete, the liquid, nonverbal thought process seems to grow.
Painterly thinking is evident in cinematography, in theatre, in contemporary art, in bio-chemistry, literature, and education, as well as in other multidisciplinary fields.
In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to exhibit nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways.
Pursuing her wish to talk about this article Claudia sent the article to Anne Banks, another Gallery 10 artist. Anne responded.
Dear Claudia, I like your idea of talking about painting....
And anyone who paints does not think that painting will ever be obsolete because it is so personal and connected to thoughts and emotions, like poetry.
Also like drawing, painting is not dependent on technology per se....It comes straight from the right brain, except of course when there is a grand scheme involved.
The criteria of excellence for painting, composition, etc are the same for design, Architecture and the arts in general, so it sometimes gets confusing..The same general standards about what makes any art good are valid in spite of the different media....We could have a discussion about what these criteria ARE, especially in recent contemporary art!!!
I am struggling with some of these ideas in my web site http://www.designer-artbanks.com/ Best, Anne=
What do you think? You can join the discussion by leaving a comment.
Quasi-PaintingCurated by Cara Ober
(read more from Cara Ober on her BLOG.)
Painting has been dead for over a century, yet artists keep making them. Despite the invention of photography, video, and digital art, painting still remains a vital method of present-day artistic expression.
Even in a Post-Greenburgian era, full of dire predictions from critics, painting continues to be an important component of the vocabulary of contemporary art. The main appeal of painting lies in its inherent physical qualities: both liquid and solid, it forces its practitioner to think spatially and abstractly, rather than in a linear way. This immediate access to color, light, atmosphere, and form is as important as the product of such thinking.
Painters tend to think globally, to see the big picture rather than in parts, and to rely on experience and intuition, rather than logic. As shape and space merge in the mind of a painter, physical and emotional sensations combine into a one-of-a-kind product, which visually references the artist's hand, brain, and heart.
Even in photographs, prints, drawing, and sculpture, a painterly sensibility often persists in modern modes of thinking. Despite new tools and technologies, which promise to render physical painting obsolete, the liquid, nonverbal thought process seems to grow.
Painterly thinking is evident in cinematography, in theatre, in contemporary art, in bio-chemistry, literature, and education, as well as in other multidisciplinary fields.
In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to exhibit nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways.
Pursuing her wish to talk about this article Claudia sent the article to Anne Banks, another Gallery 10 artist. Anne responded.
Dear Claudia, I like your idea of talking about painting....
And anyone who paints does not think that painting will ever be obsolete because it is so personal and connected to thoughts and emotions, like poetry.
Also like drawing, painting is not dependent on technology per se....It comes straight from the right brain, except of course when there is a grand scheme involved.
The criteria of excellence for painting, composition, etc are the same for design, Architecture and the arts in general, so it sometimes gets confusing..The same general standards about what makes any art good are valid in spite of the different media....We could have a discussion about what these criteria ARE, especially in recent contemporary art!!!
I am struggling with some of these ideas in my web site http://www.designer-artbanks.com/ Best, Anne=
What do you think? You can join the discussion by leaving a comment.
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