Month: June 2016

Kate Lehman

Kate Lehman, “Sam Linder Portrait”, 1968

Kate Lehman was born in London in 1968 and raised in Paris where her parents pursuits exposed her to the world of the arts. Her formal art education began in 1984 at LAcademie Roederer at the age of 15. Lehmans artistic inclinations led her to the 19th centurys revival of the the Renaissance painting techniques. The emphasis on craft and skillful execution is what attracted her. Thus, she sought an educational environment that would enable her to acquire such skills.

In 1994, she discovered traditional academic training at the Minnesota River School of Fine Art, where she studied under Patrick Devonas for one year and continued her studies with him in New York City. For the past three years, Lehman has studied under Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier in Brooklyn where she enjoys continuous exposure to the methods of the past. At her Broadway studio in lower Manhattan, Lehman is painting commissioned portraits and large-scale works.

Cigarette Break

Photographer Unknown, (Cigarette Break)

“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut.

I rewrapped the book and locked it up behind the seat. A racket like that, out in the open on the boulevard, seemed to mean plenty of protection. I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.”

― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Eral Inci

Animation: Gifs by Eral Inci

Eral Inci is one of the newest generation of animated artists.  He is also an accomplished photographer living in Turkey.  He is best known for producing cloned motion video and GIFs as a series of images involve public places taken at night with light motion.  Many of his works feature him as the animated subject.  His animations are seamless and ‘clone-like’.  He has created a variation of GIF animation coined “cloned motion video”.  In many of his GIF’s, the loops incorporate ‘cloned’ or a copied image (many times himself as the subject) in an endless loop.

Erdal Inci has created a hypnotic series of GIFs that takes the concept of cloned motion to a truly eerie level. Often using images of himself in mundane situations, Inci transforms simple snapshots into entrancing video loops.

Ron Francis

Eight Paintings by Ron Francis

As Ron Francis, an Australian born painter, developed his unique, artistic perspective he discovered a distinct mathematical relationship between his viewpoint and the subject matter depicted in his work. So complex was Francis’ “system” of perspective and its relation to geometrics that he actually developed a piece of CAD (computer-aided design) software to help him manage linear perspective.

After being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2005 (a battle Francis won), the now 61-year-old artist is still at work painting and creating images (which according to Francis are mostly inspired by “dreams or visions”) that invoke a distinct sense of contemplation with a strong tinge of anxiety.

Paul Klee

Paul Klee, “The Goldfish”, Oil and Watercolor on Paper, Mounted on Cardboard, 1925, 69.2 x 49.6 cm, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Paul Klee was one of the greatest colorists in the story of painting, and a skilled deployer of line. His gravest pictures may have an undercurrent of humor, and his powers of formal invention seem infinite. After making an early choice whether to pursue painting or music as a career, he became one of the most poetic and inventive of modern artists.

He taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau and then at the Düsseldorf Academy. Until his expulsion from Düsseldorf by the Nazis in 1933, Klee painted and drew on a very small scale, yet the small size of his pictures does not affect their internal greatness.

In 1977, a man, Hans joachim Bohlmann, threw acid at this work while it was on view at Germany’s Hamburg Kunsthalle Museum. Though damaged, the work was able to be restored.

The Couple

Photographer Unknown, (The Couple)

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

-Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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