Keep it up bro, and may God work a way in your life to make a financial
living as an artists too!
I often create an «about me» page detailing my journey and
life as an artist too then in a few months erase it because it's too personal... I will try to incorporate more stories on the postings of my pieces though.
Not exact matches
Also, I'd worked in a nursing home with people at the end of their
lives and it was a good wake up call
as I realized one day I
too would be at the end of my
life and I asked myself what I would regret not doing by the time I got there - I got a loud and clear answer that I had to give being a full - time
artist and earning an income from my passion a proper go!
Bitter college professors, ignorant (but loving) parents, and skeptical art business folks like to push the idea that making a
living as an
artist is
too hard, or that it doesn't pay.
I graduated recently and moving onto a «steady job» has never strayed
too far from my mind until this year when I decided to put in the work and take the leap of faith to
live and work solely
as an
artist.
His legacy is primarily his work, of course, but it's also his quiet, determined attention to every detail of his
life — his reading, and careful note - taking on the books he studied, his measured and concise recounting of stories of his days starting out
as an
artist with Peggy Guggenheim and his friendships with Feininger and Tobey — and many others
too numerous and famous to mention — all these qualities made Charles a man of great depth and exquisite grace.
As reflected by Eric N. Mack, Simon Denny, and Mira Dancy in the film above, tragedies like Charlie Hebdo and big shifts from Black
Lives Matter to the legalization of gay marriage, have drawn
artists to place renewed consideration into making work that resonates with not just the art world but the wider world,
too.
One expects dealers,
too, to consign any number of
living artists to the past, such
as John Chamberlain (who I should add died later in the year before a Chamberlain retrospective) and Alfred Leslie, although Leslie keeps fighting back.
Florine Stettheimer, Reginald Marsh and Frida Kahlo also come to mind when considering her canvases,
as they
too are
artists who have narrated their own
lives, while in the process depicting
life conducted in and around the studio.
Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Art Museum Miami «
Too often the story of how an
artist makes art and a
living is advertised
as either a step into an abyss of debt and dementia or a glamorized Bohemia misunderstood by a general public.
Among an ever expanding (and
as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I
live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented
artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (
too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and
living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.
Alice Neel's
life as an
artist affords us an example of the soul in Faulkner's sense; and
as this book amply illustrates, so
too does each of her extraordinary paintings.»
Sotheby's
too lost several longstanding department executives and announced plans to start offering management services to
living artists as well
as artist's estates.
This Alex Katz compendium provides an intimate portrait of the
artist, from his competitive relationship with Abstract Expressionists, to his desire to rival film and critique historical painters such
as Rembrandt («they tell you
too much about the person, rather than showing you the person») to his envisioning of himself
as a «social fugitive» during his illegal loft
living in Manhattan.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Britain in London, All
Too Human not only demonstrates how this spirit was passed down by
artists of the previous generation, such
as Walter Sickert and David Bomberg, but also explores how contemporary
artists continue to express the complex intangible realities of
life in paint today.
It has long been understood that Abstract Expressionism is a movement without stylistic determinants, without a center, despite Jackson Pollock's large head at the center of the «Irascibles»; understood,
too, is that Reinhardt's relationship to Abstract Expressionism, whether
as a style or a collection of
artists, was fraught, despite his presence in that august assembly in Life in 1951, or at the table in the Artists's Sessions the previou
artists, was fraught, despite his presence in that august assembly in
Life in 1951, or at the table in the
Artists's Sessions the previou
Artists's Sessions the previous year.
The museum largely thinks of itself
as a museum dedicated to
living artists, so one of things that is, I feel, important — and that the institution takes on
too — is to engage with future generations of
living artists.