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On this International Woman’s Day in 2019 it’s time to recalibrate your bullshit meters, and slice into truth as best you can with respect to the rearview mirror on prominent female artists. There are two bold, female artists with three hundred years between them, whose vision and talent were overshadowed by the sad tales they were aligned with: one with sexual violence by a man, and one with a violent war by men. The story of their accomplishments needs revisiting…
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Years ago while studying in Italy I had an assignment to paint a landscape over the course of a week. I dutifully packed my equipment and took a bus to some random hilly spot in Sienna. I remember sitting on the hillside, earnestly attempting an al fresco painting that lay before me. I spent hours at that spot, attempting to address and define the rows of olive trees, the variations of green and the utter beauty of it all. At…
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Portraiture has a long esteemed and reviled history in the annals of art history. At once it is a way to support the business of making art, a necessary evil, and at once a serious exploration of the dynamics and psychological tensions between sitters and artist. While I am mostly familiar with the history of painting portraiture, I’ve had more practical experience in photography with trying to memorialize my young family as we speed through the sands of time. Fine…
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