Some local photographers got together and decided that there was more to thier art than just photography, so they put together a group show with selections of their work that isn't photo. There will be drawing, painting, sculpture, prints, and video.
Friday, August 28, at 6:00 to 10:00pm
the beehive 2nd floor
315 Walnut ave
Santa Cruz CA 95060
Come by and check it out, it's always good to see artists who don't limit themselves to one media, as so many do. Why is it that the artworld wants artists in little boxes of "photographer", "painter", or "sculptor"? Art should transcend meduims, but you see almost every MFA program devided among similar lines.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Check it - Thomas Doyle
While randomly sifting through the internet I come across artist Thomas Doyle who has been creating surrealistically beautiful scenes in miniature diorama scale. Really though check out his work, it's really compelling in a voyeuristic way. Here is his website.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Today...
The good professor Paul Rangell was talking today about how the sciences get more funding, more attention, more respect. They get the shiny new buildings and more pay for their professors.
He was saying that they do the important stuff, the curing diseases, and the discovering new technologies, blah, blah, blah. But the amount of work we do, he says, that's the same. That's not the important part, though. The part I thought about was the part where art was not as important as science. It is.
They create things, we create ideas. We, the artists, tell people what to think. As advertisers, we tell people what they want, as designers, we tell people what is beautiful. A large group of people is only a civilization once they have art. Artists are important, because we define importance. What would NASA be without all the alien movies, without Ray Bradbury?
I often have this arguement with my sister, she studied chemistry. I tell her, you create something, you scientists, and we, those who control the cutlure will decide how to use it, will the person who created it be seen as an icon or a monster?
He was saying that they do the important stuff, the curing diseases, and the discovering new technologies, blah, blah, blah. But the amount of work we do, he says, that's the same. That's not the important part, though. The part I thought about was the part where art was not as important as science. It is.
They create things, we create ideas. We, the artists, tell people what to think. As advertisers, we tell people what they want, as designers, we tell people what is beautiful. A large group of people is only a civilization once they have art. Artists are important, because we define importance. What would NASA be without all the alien movies, without Ray Bradbury?
I often have this arguement with my sister, she studied chemistry. I tell her, you create something, you scientists, and we, those who control the cutlure will decide how to use it, will the person who created it be seen as an icon or a monster?
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