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Where the Line Leads
LT | Jun 23, 2017What is a line? From a very early age we learn about the paradox that are lines. While they are the gift-givers that hold up delicious lollypops, they are also the sidewalk cracks that can break our mother’s back.
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Reading Art for Depth
LT | May 25, 2017This morning I walked by a car in which two teenage boys head bobbed and body rocked in a frenzy to “growl” music. The windows were up so the sound was muted, but strong vibes exuded a fair distance. A third youth walked by the car, grinning from ear to ear. These teens were in full and deep communication with each other about who they were, within their worlds, at that moment.
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Beat it to the Studios May 6 & 7
LT | Apr 25, 2017PMA has its spring Open Studios on the first weekend of May. All 30 studio doors are open and visitors are invited inside to see the results of the past year’s explorations. There has been an exuberance of questioning and answering going on within the multiple creative formats.
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Art Philanthropist Ruth Waters
LT | Mar 17, 2017On Sunday, March 19, PMA and San Mateo County are celebrating the 40 years that Ruth Waters, sculptor and painter, has contributed to the Peninsula's arts community.
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The Mark of Humanity
LT | Mar 1, 2017Recently a visitor examining one of my paintings asked, “Is your brain like this?” It is an understandable question, but can it be answered? What is the “this” that the gentleman was referring to? The “this” was his own brain perceiving some type of reality through a perception that had been sparked by the imagery I had created through my brain.
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Art Through a Writer's Eyes
LT | Feb 7, 2017One of the benefits of reading a well written book about an artist is that the author enables us to see the world through an artist’s point of view. Such was my experience upon completing Philip Kazan’s novel “The Painter of Souls,” a historical referencing of what might have been the personal motivations behind the early fresco work of Fra Filippo Lippi.
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Working Art into Change
LT | Jan 13, 2017Life has a beautiful way of keeping us exactly where we belong. If we think we know where we want to go we can push hard and sometimes we can get to somewhere different, but the pushing affects the outcome and often we end up on a path different from what we had envisioned. This new place then opens up a world of content that teaches us remarkable new lessons.
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Frances McCormack Resonates
LT | Dec 16, 2016Some people just figure it out, and painter Frances McCormack (presently exhibiting at PMA) is one of them. The question is, can one create paintings that touch all levels of the human experience (dark, light, and all that entangled spectrum in-between) and ultimately uplift the viewer’s spirit with symphonic resonance.
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Pull Over and Enter the Art World
LT | Oct 25, 2016In recent weeks I have been traveling to Big Sur to care for my elderly parents and marveling at the high number of tourists enjoying the winding drive and gorgeous views. I have also been amazed at how many of the travelers do not pull over and step out of their cars. As in art, the true sensory and aesthetic experience of that wild coast is not from the safety of a protective shell.
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Judy Shintani and Healing Art
LT | Sep 22, 2016Anyone who has lost his home to a climate of fear has a deep understanding of mankind’s capability for blind betrayal. The father of artist Judy Shintani was an American teenager when he and his family were interned at Tule Lake Incarceration Camp during WWII. The long years that the family was forcefully kept away from their coastal home cost them their livelihood and property.
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