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Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Thought Pieces
- 3:5 3rd Semester Summary
- 3:4 Horror Vacui, Clement Greenberg, Vacuums & Voids, Strokes of Insight, and the Phenomenology of Perception
- 3:3 The "State of Consciousness" in Visual Art: On Immersion
- 3:2 What Influences Our Perceptions of Art and the Aesthetic?
- 3:1 June 2008 Residency
- 2:5 2nd Semester Summary
- 2:4 A Foundation for the Development of a Personal Visual Language
- 2:3 Thought Forms of the Ego vs. Formlessness of the Spirit
- 2:2 Safety and Our Attachment to the Object
- 2:1 January 2008 Residency
- 1:4 Fascination with Paint
- 1:3 Combining Abstract Expressionism with Minimalism
- 1:2 Abstract Art & The Modern-Day Abstract Digital Photographer
- 1:1 June 2007 Residency
ON MY BOOKSHELF
- A Brief Tour of Human Conciousness, by V.S. Ramachandran
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit
- A Guide to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, edited by George J. Marshall
- A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle
- Abstract Art (World of Art), by Anna Moszynska
- Abstract Art, by Mel Gooding
- Against Interpretation: And Other Essays, by Susan Sontag
- Art and Objecthood, by Michael Fried
- Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, by Rudolf Arnheim
- Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation, by David Edwards
- Chromaphobia, by David Batchelor
- Color in Art, by John Gage
- Concsiousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett
- Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, by Barbara Maria Stafford
- Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses, by Caroline A. Jones
- Formless: A User's Guide, by Rosalind Kraus
- Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan, by Richard Boothby
- Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images, by Barbara Maria Stafford
- Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art, by Arthur I. Miller
- Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self, by Steven Z. Levine
- My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD
- On Abstract Art, by Briony Fer
- Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960's, by Joe Houston
- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, by Kevin Kelly
- Painting Machines: Industrial Image and Process in Contemporary Art: Boston University Art Gallery October 30-December 14,1997, by Caroline A. Jones
- Paths to the Absolute, by John Golding
- Phenomonology of Perception, by Merleau Ponty, translated by Colin Smith
- Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollack, by Kirk Varnedoe
- Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, by Ervin Laszlo
- Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard
- Technoromanticisim: Digital Narrative, Holism, an the Romance of the Real, by Richard Coyne
- The Artful Eye, by Richard Gregory, John Harris, Priscilla Heard, and David Rose
- The Book of Nothing: Vaccums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universe, by John D. Barrow
- The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle, by Jonathan Beller
- The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene
- The Infinite Line, by Briony Fer
- The Infinte Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, by John D. Barrow
- The Optical Unconscious, by Rosalind Krauss
- The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Search for the Limits of Consciousness, by Gary Brent Madison
- The Sense of Order: A Study inthe Psychology of Decorative Art, by E.H. Gombrich
- The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Thought Unknown, by Christopher Bollas
- The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, by Maurice Tuchman
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, by Marshall McLuhan
- Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, by Oliver Grau
- Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres, by Andrew Darley
- Ways of Seeing, by John Berger
REFERENCE BOOKS
- A Short Guide to Writing About Art, by Sylvan Barnet
- Handbook for Writers: Grammar, Punctuation, Diction, Rehtoric, Research, by Celia Millward
- How to Write a Research Paper, from Sparknotes
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, by Joseph Gibaldi
- slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, by Nancy Duarte
- The Craft of Research, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams
MUSEUM VISITS
- DeCordova (Drawn to Detail)
- Dia:Beacon, NY (Sol LeWitt Drawing Series...)
- ICA Boston (Anish Kapoor)
- Museum of Fine Art, Boston (Exhibits: Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis; Contemporary Outlook: German Photography; and Contemporary Outlook: Japan)
- Rose Museum ('Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries'; and 'Empires and Environments')
- The Guggenheim, New York
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
GALLERY VISITS
- Adler, NYC (Who Are You? Faceless Tableaux Vivants)
- Agora Gallery, NYC (Elements of Abstraction, Labyrinth of Color, Persistence of Form)
- AIB Gallery (Sketch, Mix, Draw, Paint)
- Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston (Strangefolks: John Copeland, Logan Grider, Elizabeth Huey)
- Amos Eno Gallery, NYC (Wei-Hui Hsu)
- Artgate Gallery, NYC (Leave Nature to Nature)
- Avant Gallery, NYC (Ma Yanlgin)
- Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston (Fred H. C. Liang & Greg Mencoff)
- Betty Cunningham Gallery, NYC (Rackstraw Downes)
- CUE Art Foundation, NYC (Joan Mitchell Foundation 2007 MFA Grant Recipients)
- Danese, NYC (Warren Isensee)
- Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, NYC (Paul Noble)
- Gallery Kayafas, Boston (Rania Matar & Lissa Rivera)
- Gallery XIV Boston (Michael Costello & Tristan Govignon)
- Garson Baker Fine Art, NYC (Small Wonders)
- George Billis Gallery, NYC (City Lights)
- James Cohan Gallery, NYC (Ingrid Calame)
- Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC (This is Not About Landscape)
- Julie Chae Gallery, Boston (Alexander DeMaria & Natasha Bowdoin)
- Kingston Gallery, Boston (Richard DeVeau)
- M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC (Surreal Naivete)
- Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC (Jasper Johns Drawings 1997-2007)
- McKenzie Fine Art Inc. Gallery, NYC (Barbara Takenaga)
- McKenzie Fine Art, NYC (Horror Vacui)
- Montserrat Gallery (It's Getting Hot in Here)
- MPG Contemporary, Boston (10th Annual Emerging Artist Competition)
- O'H+T Gallery, Boston (New Works on Paper)
- Pace Wildenstein Gallery - 25th Street, NYC (Robert Whitman)
- PPOW Gallery, NYC (Julie Heffernan)
- Rose Museum ('Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries'; and 'Empires and Environments')
- Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC (Mark Bradford)
- SOHO20 Chelsea (14th Annual Juried International Exhibition)
- Soprafina Gallery, Boston (Winter Salon)
- Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NYC (In Your Mind's Eye)
- SVA West Side Gallery, NYC (Science as Muse)
- Von Lintel Gallery, NYC (Marc Breuer)
- Zach Feuer Gallery, NYC (Jules de Balincourt)
My Mentors
Artitsts of Interest
AIB MFA Blogs
- Alison Williams
- Anarita Droukas
- Anne Baumgartner
- Brooke Holland
- Brynn Dizack
- Carolyn Rordam
- Cindy Kaylor
- Coelynn McIninch
- Cynthia Hauk
- Cynthia Newsome
- Dave Poole
- Dianna Vosburg
- George Peterson
- Jason Landry
- Jay Reiter
- Julia Melchiorre
- Katie Suczynski Ring
- Kevin Gray
- KT Kessey
- LaDawna Whiteside
- Lara Woolfson
- Lauren Cross
- Liz Schrenk
- Mark Bolton
- Mark McKee
- Mark Morelli
- Mary Mayer
- Melissa Kulig
- Nate Stromberg
- Neva Austrew
- Patrick Loehr
- Rachel Woodburn
- Rebecca Moran Brine
- Rebekah Rocha
- Reed Easley
- RJ Calabrese
- Rob Curfman
- Samantha Johnson
- Stefan Znosko