Soaring glass and steel sculpture installed at UC Davis Education Building UC Davis Health System, posted June 22, 2011
A colorful glass and stainless steel sculpture was put together earlier this month, piece by piece, as its artist (Roger Berry) readied it for installation high above the courtyard of UC Davis Health System’s Education Building in Sacramento. Read More
Tom Judd: “The World is Flat” at Stremmel Gallery by cherie louise turner, art ltd. july 2011
Fifty collages and collage-like paintings make up the bulk of this large show of work by Philadelphia-based artist Tom Judd. These are similar to works Judd has been making for years. They incorporate naturalist-like paintings of birds as well as airplanes and trailers, the Utah desert (where Judd spent a lot of time during childhood), and wallpaper-esque patterns over or next to old hand-written recipes, maps, player-piano roll music, postcards, and long-ago sent envelopes. Read More
CATHERINE COURTENAYE: PAINTINGS
Boise Art Museum, May 14 – October 16, 2011
Catherine Courtenaye’s colorful abstract paintings are the outcome of her interest in American 19th-century penmanship workbooks, ledgers and documents. Read More
David Kessler | Paintings on Metal
As a painter focused on addressing the concerns of painting – what has been done and what has yet to be done – Arizona artist David Kessler has managed to distinguish himself within the genera of photo-realistic painting through his fresh approach to the relationship between medium and surface.
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Sign Language: Alter-Native Signs gives alternative directions by Rani Molla, 5.31.11, Santa Fe Reporter
Words are meaningless—until, of course, they have meaning. Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure made major headway in the world of words with his treatise on signs, which consist of the relationship between the signifier (a symbol) and the signified (that which it represents). For example, a sign is the word “tree,” the signifier is the sound “tree” and the signified is the thought “tree.” “Tree” in itself has no inherent value—it neither looks like a tree nor sounds like a tree—it’s just an arbitrary term. Read More
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011, Roger Berry’s sculpture, ‘Moonrise’ was approved by the Napa City Council for the Napa Community Redevelopment Agency’s downtown beautification project. Read below for more information on this public artwork.
The virtual explosion of art in downtown Napa continues, with the city’s redevelopment agency proposing to buy a circular work of stainless steel for a planned pocket park at Third Street and Soscol Avenue.
To view Welcome, Welcome! The Life and Art of Tom Judd (Part Two) by Philadelphia filmmaker, John Thornton, click here.
To view Welcome, Welcome! The Life and Art of Tom Judd (Part One) by Philadelphia filmmaker, John Thornton, click here.
May 19 – June 18, 2011
Chapter 5: Pointing The Way
As a life-long gather of images, Tom Judd skillfully rearranges commonplace iconography along side fundamental elements of art to create beautiful, two-dimensional pathways for exploring the pictorial charm and untempered spirit associated with any moment in time. Read More
Tom Judd | The World Is FlatMay 19 – June 18, 2011
“My work suggests the finding of an artifact from another time. It imparts a contradictory sense of loss and discovery on the viewer. It taps into a sort of longing that seems to always be in the background, if not the foreground – that memory of a forgotten past.” – Tom Judd Read More
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