Often when one visits a place one says with conviction that they will return. I remember hearing my friend, who I traveled through Italy with in 2004, say that. However, I did not say that I would return...
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Q&A with the artist (part 1)
Recently, someone asked to interview me for a project of theirs, and I considered how some artist appear to others as aloof or distance. There’s often a lot going on in our minds (intellectually and emotional). I’d take a moment here in my blog to share where I am coming from when I make my work...
Patterns in Flight show at Asbury University
My alma mater, Asbury University (formerly Asbury College) has asked me to show my butterfly series, Patterns in Flight. The show will be on view from January 15 until March 25...
Works at Oranje: Contemporary art & music event
My three latest butterfly works, After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis will be on display this Saturday, October 19th from 8pm to 2am at Oranje, a contemporary art & music event...
Paintings at Indianapolis Visual Fringe 2009
I have three of my butterfly paintings in the 2009 IndyFringe Festival. Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis were mentioned in my prior post, Trio of Painted Lady Butterflies...
Trio of Painted Lady Butterflies
These three paintings are inspired by the painted lady butterfly. I have entitled them temporarily (left to right): After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis. Thes
Stutz Artist Open House 2009
While visiting the Stutz Artist Open House on Friday night, I got my temporary fill of art. Of all the artists that I saw that night, I am going to mention the following few: Caroline Mecklin, Derek Powell, Vicky Shaffer White, Mark Pack, and the artists in Suite B240.
I was introduced to the work of Caroline Mecklin two years ago when I visited the Stutz Artist Open House for the firs
Authenticity or Accuracy
There is a thread of thought that scoffs images, stories, and other communications which tell a story in a historically inaccurate way. Those who follow this thought pattern would tear apart Pieter Brueghel II’s Census at Bethlehem completed in 1605...
Variations on a Theme Part 1
Art has the power to teach us something new about the mundane in life. Sometimes art portrays the beautiful, sometimes the ugly. This past fall when I had the opportunity to walk through several museums in the Netherlands and Germany, I came across four paintings that presented the biblical account of the crucifixion of Christ in unexpected or at least different ways. They present four ar
First Friday Art Tour Part III
April 3, 2009 – Part III: Harrison Center for the Arts
Time was running short and I went to the Harrison Center for the Arts as my last stop in the First Friday Hop. Here I met up with fellow Yarn Burners to play Bingo and create a square for our group project. Then I hurried up to see the show in the gallery.
Susan Hodgin has her new work entitled “Cairns” in th