A combined exhibition from local artists
Roger Drake,
Clair Hartmann,
Everett Mayo
and Keith Norval
May 11th - August 12th
at Weslyan College in Rocky Mount North Carolina
More information on the show:
JOINING DPIAG -For review contact Admin with your blog url
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Clair Hartmann at Strathmore Unleashed!
APRIL 28–JUNE 23, 2012
Harriet Lesser, Curator
Moira McLaughlin, Advisor—Dog Art Today
Strathmore is going to the dogs...and you’ll love it! Strathmore Unleashed! is a
canine-tastic art exhibition that’s all about man’s best friend. Dogs—and all the
memories and emotions they evoke—depicted in sculpture, painting, mixed media,
design, photography and video. It’s a show so intriguing you’ll want to sit and stay.
Featuring works by: Kent Ambler • John James Anderson • Michael Leighton
Beaman Michael Brolly • Sheila Cameron • Dickson Carroll • Ann Citron
David Corcoran • Anna Dibble • Jeanne Drevas • Jackie Ehle • Kathryn Freeman
Tom Gibbons • Clair Hartmann • Zaneta Hong • Heather LaHaise • Nina Lesser
Donna McCullough • Moira McLaughlin • Jane O’Hara • Dale Rogers
Stephen Sheng • Virginia Sperry • William Wegman • Marjorie Weiss
OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, MAY 3, 7–9PM
For more information: www.strathmore.org or (301) 581-5100
Here is the press release:
Wilmington, NC
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Arte de los Brazos, art show & sale, Plein Aire Paint Out, with Vonnie Kohn
Texas Longhorn
12 x 16"
Oil
I am honored to be one of the participating artists in the Arte de los Brazos Art Show & Sale at Possum Kingdom Lake. This is a community that survived record breaking fire storms last year. The dates are April 14-22, 2012. I have 3 entries in this show...here are two of them.
There will be a Plein Aire Paint-Out on Friday, (9 am-4:30 pm) and Saturday (9 am-noon), April 20-21.Other events include wine tasting events, Cork and Canvas Painting Party (April 19, 6:30 pm), and Presentation of Awards, April 14, Noon. I will be entering the Plein Aire Paint-Out on Friday. It promises to be a fun event for everyone. Bring your umbrella and sun tan lotion!
For information, please contact:
PK Chamber of Commerce
362 N FM 2353
Graford, Tx. 76449
PossumKingdomLake.com
Saturday, April 14, 2012
"Out of Bounds" landscape by gerald schwartz
I went back into it probably half a dozen times tweaking this and that and then finely, finely I finished and got to sign the painting, now that said, being as crazy as I am, I could potentially do maybe just a little more... Is there no end to the madness of being me :) This painting is 24x24 oil on canvas.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Country Life Magazine Features Theresa Paden's Work
Country Life Magazine is published in Holland. The editor saw my work
online and contacted me about featuring my paintings in the magazine.
I'm delighted to have my work in this beautiful Dutch magazine!
You can see more of my work on my website
Monday, April 2, 2012
Anthony A. González showing at the Long Hall Gallery, San Antonio, TX
"My Mistake"
Oil on Linen 12" x 9"
by
Anthony A. González
This is one of my paintings currently showing at the
Long Hall Gallery
618 W. Craig Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
210-320-4852
The show will run until April 29, 2012.
The gallery is open on
Sundays 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
and by appointment.
email: Anthony A. González
Visit my website and blog to see more works:
website: www.obra-de-gonzalez.com
ARTIST
ANTHONY A. GONZÁLEZ
SPRING BRANCH, TEXAS
Saturday, March 3, 2012
New Work by Clair Hartmann Featured in Jacksonville, Florida Art Show
"Frida Dog" will be included in the show
The up-coming show in Jacksonville Florida featured in Arbus Magazine.
The Immortals Art Exhibition at CoRK Arts District West Gallery features the work of Clair Hartmann, Lee Harvey, Bruce Musser and Sharla Valeski.
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2689 Rosselle Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204
Saturday, March 10, 2012
6:00pm until 9:00pm
The Immortals
I find it interesting that two friends that I've made here in Jacksonville are of Minorcan descent. Both are women artists and they each stand out as being uniquely talented. I actually looked up the Minorcan culture, partly to find out how the Minorcans arrived on the shores of east Florida and to also examine the ancient past of the small island of Minorca. It turns out that Minorca has Megalithic stone monuments and a major cultural influence--the Minoans of ancient Crete. Knowing my friends of Minorcan descent, these connections make perfect sense.
Clair Hartmann is one of the two Minorcan artists. She paints in oils and sometimes works in other mediums. Years ago, Clair met a lovely man and left Jacksonville to be with him. At the same time, she noticed that the daily painters (painters who completed a painting every day) progressed much faster than the rest of us. Clair has been a daily painter ever since and her skill level is beyond, beyond. Her subject matter varies but it has become evident that her muse is a rescued Jack Russel Terrier. The portraits of her beloved pooch gives a nod to some great paintings in art history.
What would the Jacksonville art world do without its little dramas? I'm absolutely convinced we would flounder in our apathy if we didn't have something that stirred us up every once in awhile. This was how I first learned about Lee Harvey. Over 20 years ago he was immersed in a much talked-about dispute with a gallery owner. As years passed, he and I became friends and once, on a whim, we drove all night to attend the Picasso portrait exhibit in New York City. Now, after years of challenging us with his controversial works, he's painting florals and they're edgy, of course! Lee is the reason this exhibition is entitled “The Immortals”. He's been at deaths door and now gives us lively flowers to admire.
At a pivotal moment in the movie, Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, the youngest drag queen goes from being the baby princess to coming into her own to be crowned “a queen”. Bruce Musser represents the baby princess of our group. He began lessons with me over five years ago and went from being a student to being my best friend. So I taught him a few things about art, but he taught me about friendship. Now, he has tenaciously moved on to advanced instruction and I'm like a proud momma. Bruce collects remnants of paper, tears it, draws, scrapes and scratches until a form emerges. He's tactile yet he's working in 2-D. I can't help but think that his childhood on a thousand acre tree farm has influenced his palette.
In art school I was torn between painting and sculpture. I ended up with a concentration in paint but have always had yearnings to make large, 3-dimensional works. After 20 years of painting and drawing, I finally made a big sculpture. I've obsessively sewn together over 30 different fabrics to make a giant misshapen sphere. It's a girl and I'm calling her “My Ego”. My Ego is what landed me in show business. I spent my early years acting in television commercials, touring with a theater company and waiting tables. After seven years, I had an insight into the business that turned me off forever. I now sign my works “Sharla TV” because those really are my initials. Whenever I see a good actress baring all for the sake of her art, I feel a bit superior and relieved at my change of careers years back. This form of schadenfreude also keeps me glued to the television set whenever a reality TV show is on.
I find it interesting that two friends that I've made here in Jacksonville are of Minorcan descent. Both are women artists and they each stand out as being uniquely talented. I actually looked up the Minorcan culture, partly to find out how the Minorcans arrived on the shores of east Florida and to also examine the ancient past of the small island of Minorca. It turns out that Minorca has Megalithic stone monuments and a major cultural influence--the Minoans of ancient Crete. Knowing my friends of Minorcan descent, these connections make perfect sense.
Clair Hartmann is one of the two Minorcan artists. She paints in oils and sometimes works in other mediums. Years ago, Clair met a lovely man and left Jacksonville to be with him. At the same time, she noticed that the daily painters (painters who completed a painting every day) progressed much faster than the rest of us. Clair has been a daily painter ever since and her skill level is beyond, beyond. Her subject matter varies but it has become evident that her muse is a rescued Jack Russel Terrier. The portraits of her beloved pooch gives a nod to some great paintings in art history.
What would the Jacksonville art world do without its little dramas? I'm absolutely convinced we would flounder in our apathy if we didn't have something that stirred us up every once in awhile. This was how I first learned about Lee Harvey. Over 20 years ago he was immersed in a much talked-about dispute with a gallery owner. As years passed, he and I became friends and once, on a whim, we drove all night to attend the Picasso portrait exhibit in New York City. Now, after years of challenging us with his controversial works, he's painting florals and they're edgy, of course! Lee is the reason this exhibition is entitled “The Immortals”. He's been at deaths door and now gives us lively flowers to admire.
At a pivotal moment in the movie, Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, the youngest drag queen goes from being the baby princess to coming into her own to be crowned “a queen”. Bruce Musser represents the baby princess of our group. He began lessons with me over five years ago and went from being a student to being my best friend. So I taught him a few things about art, but he taught me about friendship. Now, he has tenaciously moved on to advanced instruction and I'm like a proud momma. Bruce collects remnants of paper, tears it, draws, scrapes and scratches until a form emerges. He's tactile yet he's working in 2-D. I can't help but think that his childhood on a thousand acre tree farm has influenced his palette.
In art school I was torn between painting and sculpture. I ended up with a concentration in paint but have always had yearnings to make large, 3-dimensional works. After 20 years of painting and drawing, I finally made a big sculpture. I've obsessively sewn together over 30 different fabrics to make a giant misshapen sphere. It's a girl and I'm calling her “My Ego”. My Ego is what landed me in show business. I spent my early years acting in television commercials, touring with a theater company and waiting tables. After seven years, I had an insight into the business that turned me off forever. I now sign my works “Sharla TV” because those really are my initials. Whenever I see a good actress baring all for the sake of her art, I feel a bit superior and relieved at my change of careers years back. This form of schadenfreude also keeps me glued to the television set whenever a reality TV show is on.
Sharla T. Valeski
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Clair Hartmann's Painting Chosen For Bold Brush Competition
Clair Hartmann's painting, "Paris Train", was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the January 2012 BoldBrush Painting competition.
View the FAV15% paintings:
Friday, February 10, 2012
Anthony A. González participating in The On & Off Fred Tour
"Take My Picture"
Oil on Linen 36" x 24"
by
Anthony A. González
Anthony A. González will be participating in the
5th Annual On & Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour
in San Antonio, Texas. González will be showing at the
Bihl Haus Arts Gallery and the Long Hall Gallery.
Join him at the
"On & Off Fred Autograph Party" opening reception at the
Bihl Haus Arts Gallery
on Friday, February 17, 2012
and at the
"Say Goodnight Fred" closing reception at the
Long Hall Gallery
on Sunday, February 19, 2012.
For more information about the tour visit:
email me at: Anthony A. González
Visit my website and blog to see more works:
www.anthonyagonzalez.blogspot.com
ARTIST
ANTHONY A. GONZÁLEZ
SPRING BRANCH, TEXAS
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Clair Hartmann's Paintings at CoRK Arts District, Jacksonville, FL
The Immortals
Art Exhibition
Saturday, March 10, 2012 6-9PM
CoRK Arts District - West Gallery
2689 Rosselle St. Jacksonville, FL 32204
The Immortals Art Exhibition features the works of Clair Hartmann, Lee Harvey, Bruce Musser and Sharla Valeski. The four artists will be presenting new paintings, drawings and mix media works in the new CoRK Arts District - West Gallery located at 2689 Rosselle St. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Following the opening reception, the works will remain in the West gallery until the end of March and may be seen by appointment only.
Wilmington, NC
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
New Book by Clair Hartmann is Now Available!
Clair’s work can be seen around the globe and read in numerous publications which have featured her story and her artistic studies. With an extensive number of her pieces residing in private collections, institutions, and on the walls of numerous galleries, the love for her trade is apparent to all who view and own her creations. This book contains 29 paintings of the artist's favorite subject, the dog. These heartfelt paintings of our faithful friends were created from from 2009 to 2011. Clair works as a full time artist living on the Coast of North Carolina with her family and faithful muse/studio dog, Chumley.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Window Between Worlds Charity Event: "Artworks For Healing" by Terry Romero Paul
I have donated a painting for this event and I am very proud to be a part of such a wonderful charity.
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Chinese Sweatshops Re Producing Original Fine Art
As hard as we all work to create original works of art to make a living..these people think it is just ok to steal it!!! This article will give you good insight on how they do it.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of Plagiarism" - Oscar Levant
Who of us hasn't at one time or another seriously considered a career in forgery? How many times have you thought "My kid can paint better than that"? We all know that those abstract paintings could be knocked off in no time, and the people who buy them couldn't tell a Vermeer from an anal wart [There's the typical arrogance of a forger for you].
But if I can't sell my copies as high-priced forgeries and am instead forced to make endless cut-rate copies in a down Economy then hey, I'll take what I can get for the most part.
A suburb of Shenzhen in China, Dafen is an entire village of reproduction painters. Established by businessman Huang Jiang, it sprang up in the '90s and grew from about 300 to 8,000 artists producing massive quantities of paintings for the Chinese Domestic and Global Art markets. The villagers sidestep questions of copyright by (mostly) copying paintings that are older than 50 years, and by not masquerading them as authentic works.
Of course, the term 'sweatshop' is heavily loaded. Images of foreign slave labor, children toiling on industrial looms and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire spring instantly to mind. Does it apply in the case of the Dafen painting studios? Painters do "work long hours for very low pay", but the focus of the World Media regarding Dafen has been the public's insatiable appetite for cheap knock-offs, not the working conditions of the painters themselves.
According to Der Spiegel, 29 year old Dafen artist Wu Han Wu "receives the equivalent of €0.30 per copied painting. That means he earns between €100 ($128) and €300 ($385) a month -- barely enough to cover his living expenses and send a little money home. But he doesn't complain: "It's much better in a workshop like this one, without a schedule."
Indeed, the article goes on to say that "the life Wu and his roommates live is not so different from that of the artists whose works they're copying, at least as far as their average day is concerned: They start painting around lunchtime and work until late at night."
Read M0ore of this article Here
"Imitation is the sincerest form of Plagiarism" - Oscar Levant
Who of us hasn't at one time or another seriously considered a career in forgery? How many times have you thought "My kid can paint better than that"? We all know that those abstract paintings could be knocked off in no time, and the people who buy them couldn't tell a Vermeer from an anal wart [There's the typical arrogance of a forger for you].
But if I can't sell my copies as high-priced forgeries and am instead forced to make endless cut-rate copies in a down Economy then hey, I'll take what I can get for the most part.
According to Der Spiegel, 29 year old Dafen artist Wu Han Wu "receives the equivalent of €0.30 per copied painting. That means he earns between €100 ($128) and €300 ($385) a month -- barely enough to cover his living expenses and send a little money home. But he doesn't complain: "It's much better in a workshop like this one, without a schedule."
Indeed, the article goes on to say that "the life Wu and his roommates live is not so different from that of the artists whose works they're copying, at least as far as their average day is concerned: They start painting around lunchtime and work until late at night."
Read M0ore of this article Here
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New Watercolor Painting Tips Blog by Leslie Redhead
It is the start of a New Year and the start of my new blog,
Please join me throughout 2012 as I offer daily (or nearly daily) tips on how to
paint with and improve your watercolors.
Please visit me at http://watercolorweapons.blogspot.com/
More information can also be found on my regular blog, Leslie Redhead Watercolors
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Get your free copy of Clair Hartmann's new book!
Well, it's been a great (and successful) three months at WHQR Public Radio Station's Mc Erny Gallery. So far I've sold 14 paintings, been hired for commissions and gotten lots of promotion. Friday is the last show and then it comes down January 13th.
Not only will I have new paintings and prints for sale, I will be giving away five free copies of my new book to the first five that ask about it. After the show, the book will be available at Blurb.
So, if you're needing a break from the holiday rush or looking for that unique, last minute gift, come on by and relax with some music, wine and good company.
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