What a mutant I am, I made a really stupid mistake with my website update – it just goes to show what pain can do to the brain.. anyway, all fixed now. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Archive for September, 2006
29
Sep
06
Winds of Change Re-dux
28
Sep
06
Back I go again…
*sigh* Hello Square one! I’ve missed you. *sigh* My swelling is up so high I feel like I am lying on a hot water bottle. It sucks, I was doing so well too! I thought I managed to get through this show unscathed but no dice. I wouldn’t mind but I am already planning my next one and I have ideas pouring out of my.. ears and virgin canvasses waiting to be defiled.
I don’t know what I would do without my little sketch book, when the pain gets so bad I want to cry I pick up my book and pencil and escape for a while.
That and eBay, Damn you eBay!
Tags: Art, artist, CRPS, Pain management
Where The Girls Aren’t by Jerry Saltz:
The programmatic exclusion of women is partly attributable to the art world’s being a self-replicating organism: It sees that the art that is shown and sold is made mainly by men, and therefore more art made by men is shown and sold. This is how the misidentification, what Adorno called a “negative system,” is perpetuated.
I have been watching the trends on this with alarm, it is a true fact that women are under-represented in the art industry. The reasoning seems to be automatic response as mentioned in this article, but I wonder if there might be something else involved. Something at the core of womanhood.
Art is incredibly personal. women, generally being more in touch with our feelings, tend to create more personal art with less detachment than a male artist. That means that there is more invested emotionally, making it hard to then put a piece up for others to see, it is like being naked in a way, it’s very exposing.
Some of you have heard me refer to my paintings as babies. This is not an uncommon sentiment. the creation process is borne from deep within and lovingly created over time. It makes us laugh and cry and grow very attached. I do this that there is a reluctance sometimes among women artists (myself included) to sell their babies.. I mean pieces – will it go to a good home? will it be treated well and loved? and what is that curator doing with my baby?
Women are by nature just as competitive as men (and I will challenge anyone who says otherwise!) but I wonder if our personal attachment to our paintings may be creating some of the issues. I don’t think this is a bad thing, it creates a both and an empathy to the works that really comes across to the viewers. maybe we need to set aside our fears and worries about our babies and send them off to the galleries with a packed lunch, cry and then be proud that something we gave birth to is doing so well.
26
Sep
06
The Winds of Change Mark II
I’ve done some further changes to my template to make them work a little better and I definitely think I will be buying CSS editing sometime soon.
Mostly however, I have started the changes for my website – my gallery is completely different, with sorting by series rather than topic. I have also done away with the random landscape pieces and stuff to present a more cohesive collection. Please let me know what you think!
Soon, I will be adding in descriptions and adding some more SEO (buzzword buzzword). My traffic is still suffering from my site being down for so long. I wouldn’t have minded so much but I got no feedback on progress or estimated times it would be back up. And I had built up some pretty good traffic and rankings and everything! (grumble grumble)
25
Sep
06
The Winds of Change
It must be spring, because I feel like changing things around. My blog has undergone a new look with a clean layout and a three column template. I feel as if two long columns meant that things were getting lost so hopefully this is a bit easier to use. I would love some feedback as to what you think of the all new-look Jennie’s Palette. I miss my custom header, but I think this is all a bit cleaner and more professional. I also like the image handling, the block quote formatting and the comments options better.
I am also re-arranging my website gallery. it is getting a little confusing to find specific images and my nude gallery is looking a little eclectic and large. so I am going to be sorting the gallery by series I think. rather than basic subject I am going to sort by individual collections – it should make it all look a bit more cohesive.
I will be rolling these changes out over the next few days but I would love to hear from you all about what you think of these changes. feel free to post a comment below or email me.
Ok, so that was bad.. but I’m so cold I cant really think! The High Vibes festival was dampened slightly which sucks but there were still quite a few people around. It was very neat, such a cool, free festival with hippies dancing in the street – pure expression everywhere and my work on display for all to see – a pretty cool feeling 
It reminded me how far I am from my corporate career and how happy I am to be back in the world of art and expression and freedom. While watching Jimmy Clinkerfield performing in front of my paintings I kept pondering the painting free. and how I am now, truly free.
It was a very cool feeling indeed.
Tags: Art, exhibition, painting
22
Sep
06
Sculpting Sexuality
Telegraph | Entertainment | How lust shaped the art of Rodin
To eyes accustomed to the conventions of beaux-arts classicism, the sculpture was shocking because it peeled off a layer of artifice to show the human body as it really is, not as his viewers expected to see it. From now on, Rodin would translate as directly as possible into clay what his eye saw and, in the sensuously tactile surfaces of his work, what his hand felt when he caressed the bodies of his female models.
Many of you know by now that I am a fan of Rodin’s work. I thought this was a fascinating look into his processes and thoughts behind his work. I never realized how much we had in common! I think that Rodin’s work is the type that evolves as you look at it, as though the piece is an organic structure. I find something new to love about them.
It’s funny, there is a lot about artist sexuality out there. Like religious leaders and rock stars, artists generally fall into one of two abnormal sexuality levels – too much or too little. Another famous example example of extreme sexuality would be Dali and his notorious sex parties.
Technorati Tags: art history, artist, nudes, Rodin, Sexuality
21
Sep
06
Opening Post Mortem
Last night was so great, the show looked fantastic, it had a great vibe. I think the main difference, for me, was that I felt much more confident in my collection. Seeing my paintings up there, the results of all my work, made me feel so good. I knew I had done my best, each work stood on it’s own, and made a cohesive collection. That confidence in my work, and myself, enabled me to talk to people, and schmooze. From there, the passion for my work just took over really.. It was an awesome night everyone really seemed to like the new series – which is good, because I enjoyed doing them! David Golding has written a wonderful review – Thanks Dave!
I am exhausted now, very sore, but I am looking forward to Sunday.
Don’t forget, if you missed the opening last night there will be the big music festival on Sunday. I will be there at the gallery between 1 and 3 or stop by any time over the next 3 weeks.. it’s all good.
Technorati Tags: Art, artist, exhibition
20
Sep
06
It’s here!
I am so excited about tonight, I can’t believe it’s all here, and done and ready! yet, I don’t feel as panicky, or stressed or worried as the last one. I feel good about the work I’ve put in, and the prices, and everything. It feels right somehow.
Today I am going to be disgusting and I am going to have a long and luxurious bath, do my nails and hair and relax and feel really special. I’ve earned it.
Technorati Tags: Art, artist, exhibition, Nude
One of the things I like to focus on is keeping my art accessible for everyone. Art doesn’t need to be obscure, just for artists, it can be something that speaks to everyone.. even good old joe on the corner. So, how do you bring art to the lowest common denominator?
This works on the principle of putting said denominator in the vicinity of art that will appeal and capitalize on the power of the internet to make sure it keeps coming up to maximize exposure to the art-forms.
See if you can guess the magic ingredient..
- Find something that appeals to Men and Women both, a subject that speaks to them both (even for different reasons).
- Write about it on your blog. Write about things related to it, eat, sleep and breathe it! get your pagerank on, write news, reviews and everything that relates – relate it back to your work.
- Make sure when people search for it, they are going to find your blog
- Generate interest in yourself by alluding to it constantly, make sure when people think of that – they are thinking of you!
- Try to work reference to it in conjunction with celebrities for extra points.
- Finally, add some art to every post to create a link – Don’t underestimate the effect of pretty pictures on the unwashed masses!
Have you guessed the magic subject yet? It’s the yellow brick road of the internet, It’s the most searched for thing.. Porn!
for me it all boils down to one thing. Nudity! I paint nude, I paint nudes, I discuss nude art news and philosophy, I post nude paintings, ideas and I disappoint many many hopeful surfers to my blog every day. They do get nudes, and lots of nudity, they just don’t get the sort they were after. but, for that brief time they are exposed to art (or it is exposed to them) and they stop for a moment, and think, neurons firing in different ways.
What hook can you find to appeal to the great unwashed?
This is my response to the latest ProBlogger Group Writing Project – ‘How To…’
The painting above is for sale at BoundlessGallery.com
Technorati Tags: Art, artist, blog project, blogging, Nude, nudes, problogger
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