The Exhibition was developed to provide artists an opportunity to compete and showcase their artwork on a national level. Approximately 60-75 traditional and non-traditional works will comprise the exhibition at the McKinney Center at Booker T. Washington School in Jonesborough, Tennessee. The exhibition will run May 24th through June 14th.

Prometheus Band

Honorable Menschen

Holding a Balance

This exhibition will showcase some of the most exceptional young artists working in the region today, as well as longtime practitioners who continuously push the limits of their own artistic vision.

The exhibition will run from April 9 through June 8, 2013.

The Appalachian Arts Center is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:00-6:00 pm., Thursday from 12:00-8:00 pm, and Saturday from 10:00 am-6:00 pm. The Center is located on Rt. 19, 2 1/2 miles south of the intersection with Rt. 460 at Claypool Hill, or 2 1/2 miles north of Southwest Virginia Community College, just beyond the Wardell stoplight.

Diamond G Forest Products makes excellent turpentine from pine sap, the way it should be. Klean-Strip makes a Green Turpentine they claim is made from sap but the smell is horrible. Diamond G turpentine smells wonderful! It may cost more than the common hardware store variety but it’s worth it. The customer service was excellent as well.

Diamond G Turpentine

By the way, I do use turpentine when I’m toning a canvas, but that’s usually all. I use linseed soap for cleaning brushes, so no solvents there.

Honorable Menschen

I often consider a lengthy explanation of a painting, but it’s usually like explaining the punchline of a joke. I’ll get a better photograph of the painting once it’s varnished and you will be able to see a few things more clearly.

Tramp l’oil

My painting Tramp l’oil will be included in this year’s Dogwood Arts Festival. Here’s a bit about the show from their website:

The finest progressive artists of our region will showcase their work in the Regional Fine Art Exhibition! Fine art encompassing all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists will be selected by David J. Reyes for exhibition.

David J. Reyes, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, has served at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL, since 1994. Prior to 2004 he was Exhibition Coordinator and Registrar for the museum. He was formerly Curatorial Assistant at the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, IL. Mr. Reyes has worked on over 100 major exhibitions at the Huntsville Museum of Art, including the prestigious Red Clay Survey, a recurring juried exhibition of contemporary art with more than 1,200 applicants from the Southeast region. In addition, Mr. Reyes has juried numerous regional independent art competitions. Mr. Reyes received his B.F.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in Milwaukee, WI.

Mr. Reyes is also a practicing artist working in wood and metal. He was awarded Best in 3-D at the Appalachian Corridors exhibition at the Avampato Discovery Museum in Charleston, WV in 2003, and was included in the 34th Annual Toys Designed by Artists juried exhibition at the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR. His most recent one-man exhibit, “Conflict Resolution” was shown at Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment, Huntsville, AL.

Where: Emporium Center for Arts and Culture, 100 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902

When: April 5-26

Times: Monday- Friday, 10:00am – 5:00 pm

How Much: Free

Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 5:00 – 9:00 pm

Award Ceremony: Friday, April 5, 8:00 pm

 

Girl With a Pearl Earring

I’ve been selected to study Dutch art at the High Museum this summer! Here’s a summary from the Council of Independent Colleges prospectus:

A rare traveling exhibition of masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age paintings featuring works by Vermeer, Hals, Rembrandt, and others will visit the United States in 2013, while the collection’s home at the Netherlands’ Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague undergoes an extensive two-year

renovation. This extraordinary museum, housing one of the world’s most prestigious collections of Dutch art,
has not lent a large body of works from its holdings in nearly 30 years. The exhibition, “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis,” makes just three stops in the U.S. and will be on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, beginning in June 2013. CIC has the good fortune to partner with the High Museum to take advantage of this opportunity and is pleased to announce a seminar for teachers of art history at CIC colleges and universities on “Dutch Art, Patrons, and Markets” to be held in conjunction with the exhibit.

Dutch art of the 17th century has long been popular for the visual pleasures of its naturalistic scenes, but it is also a landmark in the development of the modern art world. During the 17th century, the practices of making and buying art boomed as never before. With the creation of the first large-scale open art market, prosperous Dutch merchants, artisans, and civil servants bought paintings and prints in unprecedented numbers. Foreign visitors were astonished that even modest members of Dutch society such as farmers and bakers owned multiple works of art. Dutch 17th-century art saw the rise of new subjects, as landscapes, still lifes, and scenes of daily life replaced formerly dominant religious images and scenes from classical mythology. Portraiture also flourished in this prosperous atmosphere.

In this seminar, participants will discuss the issues that this new secular world of art presented in early modern Europe. Topics such as the challenges of interpreting art that is not text-based, the relative roles of nature and
the imagination in creating Dutch art, Dutch Protestant limits on religious art, the development of the open art market, the high level of technical proficiency of Dutch artists, and the role of the viewer in creating meaning will be addressed. Discussions will take place in the exhibition galleries, in the conservation workshop of the High Museum of Art, and in the museum’s permanent collection and works on paper study center. The seminar will

be especially valuable for faculty members at institutions without large campus museums or proximity to major art museums. Art historians in all fields and studio artists as well as faculty members who specialize in history, European studies, and related fields will find this seminar of interest.

March 2013 Bout Poster

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