Tag: JohnAzelvandre
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Winter …
Winter–in the eleventh month Snow falls thick and fast. A thousand mountains, one color. Men of the world passing this way are few. Dense grass conceals the door. All night in silence, a few woodchips burn slowly As I read the poems of the ancients. –Ryokan (Japan, 1758-1831)
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The longest night of the year …
Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit.
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Pinhole research – December chill
I’ve recently started up again with some explorations in digital pinhole photography. How this works is: you take a digital SLR, take off the lens and replace it with a modified body cap that serves as the ‘pinhole.’ (I don’t recall where I purchased the pinhole cap, but if you Google ‘digital pinhole – Nikon‘…
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Painting of the week: “Osage chiasm”
This week’s featured painting is an odd one I created way back in 2009. “Osage chiasm” (that’s chiasm not chasm) is 20″H by 16″W, and is acrylic on canvas. The piece is essentially a stylized portrait of one of my favorite trees: a very old Osage orange that lives on the Nethermead in Prospect Park,…
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Wednesday’s watercolor
For today: something from February, 2015.
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Featured painting of the week
This week’s featured painting is “Reach” — a triptych I created in 2012. This painting and some other square format paintings I created then were precursors to my Lifeworld series, and should almost be considered honorary members of the series.
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Featured painting of the week: The House is Burning
This week’s featured work is a painting — actually a diptych (two paintings that form one work) titled “The House is Burning.” The provocative title should make one think immediately of global warming – climate change. That’s certainly appropriate, but there’s even more to the story. Now seems like a good time feature this painting,…
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October Art News: Gowanus Swim goes Natural/Unnatural
October is here and there’s a lot of art going on! I hope everyone knows about my art at the Ploughman in Park Slope; if you haven’t had a chance to visit, my paintings (including Lifeworld 12 pictured below) will be on display through October 28. The Ploughman is located at 438 Seventh Avenue, between 14th…
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See my work during Art Slope!
I’m pleased to announce that my work is appearing at The Ploughman in Park Slope, Brooklyn as a part of Art Slope, a week-long arts festival in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Ploughman offers Artisanal Cheese / Charcuterie / Craft Beer and Beer on Tap. It’s located at 438 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, between 14th and 15th Streets.…
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New Lifeworld paintings online
The Lifeworld project continues, and I’ve recently published definitive photographs of the latest paintings in the series. Here they are: So I’m making [slow] progress toward my goal of 108 Lifeworld paintings. To read more about the Lifeworld project, click here, and to see all the Lifeworld paintings completed so far, visit my flickr album…
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Art Works 2016 – a Benefit for Arts Gowanus
I’m pleased to announce that I will be contributing to this year’s Art Works — a benefit for Arts Gowanus! The mission of Arts Gowanus is to promote, support and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in the Gowanus neighborhood. The Art Works event is Thursday, June 2, 2016, 7 to 10pm at…
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A new year well underway, Lifeworlds continues
Hello everyone from frigid New York City on this Valentine’s Day 2016! I’ve been retooling my studio set-up and finally (last weekend) completed the first* second oil painting of 2016 (and the next in the Lifeworld series). So here we have it: Lifeworld 36 continues the adventure. I’ve also been exploring the ever important topic of…