Month: December 2007

I’ve added a link to a photography gallery. These are photo prints that were being sold at the last show. Contact me if you’re interested in purchasing any of them. Prints are printed on matte fine art photo paper, mounted on Mat Board sheets, and sealed in archival-quality polybags.
You can see the photographic gallery here.

Cool art by Chris Reccardi of Samurai Jack and other things.
reccardi.com:cosmopollus

I’ve finished painting the interior of the studio, and all that remains is to reorganize, get some storage solutions, and get back to making art. I’ve moved all of the junk out of the studio to an exterior shed, and what remains is what’s being used in the studio business. And a couch. There’s also a couch. Futon, actually.
For those looking for a little background, I’ve spent the last two years working on converting a detached garage into a functional art studio. There’s electricity, but no plumbing or built-in heat. Both things I plan to rectify in the coming years. Currently the studio is heated quite sufficiently with a combination of one 1500w space heater, and one catalytic propane system (which, theoretically, can be used indoors without fear of killing everyone).







I grabbed some old pictures of the garage as it used to look when I first toured the house. It was cinderblock interior, with a broken concrete floor, and full of mice.



Now to get back to some painting.

TheStar.com | Obituary | Norval Morrisseau, 75: Famed native painter

Norval Morrisseau’s death yesterday at Toronto General Hospital, at age 75 after a long and feisty battle with Parkinson’s disease, won’t end of the gritty story of the great Anishinabe painter once called “the Picasso of the north” who signed his canvases “Miskwaabik Animiki” or Copper Thunderbird.
Born and raised in isolation near Thunder Bay, Ont., a member of the Order of Canada, Morrisseau was the sole Canadian painter shown at Paris’s Georges Pompidou Centre in 1989 as part of the French celebration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
He “spearheaded a cultural renaissance in First Nations arts and culture in the ’60s,” Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said in a statement yesterday. “He taught us to be proud of who we are.”

Some very interesting articles in here. I’m actually looking for a way to organize things on my walls, and this site came up with some useful instructional entries there.
EBSQ – Info

EBSQ is an online art association whose members represent their own work to the public. Our mission is to foster an active community of independent artists, and to provide tools and services to bring our members greater exposure in the art market. EBSQ membership is open–we welcome artists at all stages of their career. All media and styles are welcome.
History
EBSQ (ee-bee-es-CUE) is derived from the name e-Basquiat and has its roots in early online tagging (like, waaay back when tags were still called “keywords.”)
The name has two-fold meaning. The early members of the group fancied Basquiat’s art (and the innovator of the term–John Seed– actually worked for Basquiat at one point). They saw themselves (rightly) as rebels outside of the gallery system, taking their art career into their own hands literally and figuratively by selling it directly to their customers via then-fledgling auction site, eBay. That “Self-Representing Artist” category you see now on eBay and other sales platforms? Yup, we did that.
And then there’s this little thing that EBSQ’ers have been doing for the past 7 years. Just as Basquiat left the tag “SAMO” all over creation with his art, we leave “EBSQ” as our calling card wherever we put our art online and off, leaving a trail back to our site and other like-minded souls.
What started as an eBay-centric artist group with our own unique keyword and a free-hosted message board back in 2000 has come a long way since then!