Wednesday, November 4, 2009
New Museum Web Site
There is a new museum web site I'd like you to visit. It is the Marial Museum of Sacred Art web site. This is something very different from other museums. The goal of the monastic order is to preserve and promote sacred art and artists. This includes the art of all the major religions. It's quite a task especially in the United States. Our American society is so vehement about keeping a separation of church and state and being fair to all religious beliefs in our public schools and public places that religious art and its artists have been almost eliminated from most museums and art shows. I agree with separation of church and state, but it is a pity that all religious art is systematically eliminated from every venue. We did not have this problem in Europe. In Italy, all art is acceptable. I miss that attitude. However, the Order of St. Mary the Virgin of the Confession of Augsburg (a Paris-based organization) has set out to preserve and promote that which is being lost in America. BRAVO! Their web site: http://www.marialmuseum.org
November, December, and Vacation Time 2009
Ahhh, Fall and Winter...
My next show will be with the Marial Museum of Sacred Art on November 10th and 11th. Here is your formal invitation:
The last show I will be doing this year will be the Holiday Show at MOCA Jacksonville. This show will be in the Lab Gallery on the first floor and will feature Lab Gallery artists who have shown throughout the year. Don't let that "emerging artist" thing throw you. I emerged as an artist at the age of twelve at the Reading Art Museum in a show curated by Dr. Waldron. What a wonderful, old gent he was. He was also an excellent teacher, and took me under his wing, and taught me how to truly value my art work. The word "emerging" seems to be a favorite buzz word in the Jacksonville art world. I don't know why. Most of the time, the artists they are calling emerging have been in the art business a long time. I know I have been schlepping my paintings back and forth from art museums, galleries, festivals, and art shows for 45 years. "If that ain't emerged, I don't know what is!" But, I will forgive MOCA and the other art venues here in Jacksonville. MOCA is an awesome museum, and everyone I have met and worked with there has been charming, supportive, and truly counted among "good people." Check out their Motherwell exhibit. It's their latest and quite impressive.
After December, I am looking forward to a vacation from painting. Next year, I will be creating a lecture series on fractal art and also continue working on my computer adventure game project. My task in this endeavor is to create the 3-D art and animation. The programmer is doing the hard part...fixing my errors and doing all the game programming. I love being the one who just sits and draws all day long. I'll give you updates on the game, but everything is really Top Secret and Hush Hush...
I am also taking a creative writing course this winter. If I manage to write anything entertaining or even a bit brilliant, I'll post it. I've always wanted to take a creative writing course but never seemed to have the time. This time, I'm going to do it!
This is all the interesting news from August until now. I'm still working on the artist's environment in my front and back yards. I'll keep you posted.
My next show will be with the Marial Museum of Sacred Art on November 10th and 11th. Here is your formal invitation:
I would like to invite you to a very interesting and unique art show presented by the Marial Museum of Art. The museum combines the art collections of the Order of St. Mary the Virgin with the fine and decorative art collection assembled by Bishop Tajra. The Order of St. Mary the Virgin of the Confession of Augsburg is a monastic organization founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1988 by Bishop H.W.M. Tájrá, Friar Gerard Reynaud, and the late Deacon Thomas H. Dorris. Its international secretariat is in Paris, France, along with a lay society of supporters, L'Association des Amis de l'Ordre de Sainte Marie la Vierge; the Bishop's residence and the seat of the art collection are in St. Augustine, Florida. This show will be featuring works by artists from around the world. I hope you can attend.
The Order of St. Mary the Virgin, Inc. and its Arts Ministry
The Marial Museum of sacred Art cordially invite you to attend the
Opening Reception
of their
Autumn Art Gala
Taking the Journey: The artist in Search of the Divine
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
Christ Episcopal Church Gallery
400 San Juan Drive - Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Guest Artists:
Jan Lavalee and John O'Toole
Participating Artists:
Bruce Andrews . Kathryn Arango . Fernando Arango-Fernandez . Daniel Berhanemeskel . Anthony D'Alessandro . Caterina Lionti . TeZa Lord . Donald Pridgen . Jean Wagner Troemel
Featuring the latest mixed media fractal paintings by artist Caterina Lionti
Information - Bishop H.W.M. Tájrá
President of the Marial Museum of Sacred Art
95 Lincoln Street - Saint Augustine, Florida 32084
Email: BishopTajra@marialmuseum.org
www.marialmuseum.org
Evening or business attire requested
Gallery Tour and Lecture:
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 7:00 p.m.
The last show I will be doing this year will be the Holiday Show at MOCA Jacksonville. This show will be in the Lab Gallery on the first floor and will feature Lab Gallery artists who have shown throughout the year. Don't let that "emerging artist" thing throw you. I emerged as an artist at the age of twelve at the Reading Art Museum in a show curated by Dr. Waldron. What a wonderful, old gent he was. He was also an excellent teacher, and took me under his wing, and taught me how to truly value my art work. The word "emerging" seems to be a favorite buzz word in the Jacksonville art world. I don't know why. Most of the time, the artists they are calling emerging have been in the art business a long time. I know I have been schlepping my paintings back and forth from art museums, galleries, festivals, and art shows for 45 years. "If that ain't emerged, I don't know what is!" But, I will forgive MOCA and the other art venues here in Jacksonville. MOCA is an awesome museum, and everyone I have met and worked with there has been charming, supportive, and truly counted among "good people." Check out their Motherwell exhibit. It's their latest and quite impressive.
After December, I am looking forward to a vacation from painting. Next year, I will be creating a lecture series on fractal art and also continue working on my computer adventure game project. My task in this endeavor is to create the 3-D art and animation. The programmer is doing the hard part...fixing my errors and doing all the game programming. I love being the one who just sits and draws all day long. I'll give you updates on the game, but everything is really Top Secret and Hush Hush...
I am also taking a creative writing course this winter. If I manage to write anything entertaining or even a bit brilliant, I'll post it. I've always wanted to take a creative writing course but never seemed to have the time. This time, I'm going to do it!
This is all the interesting news from August until now. I'm still working on the artist's environment in my front and back yards. I'll keep you posted.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Caterina's Friends, Films, and Links
Art Center Co-operative, Inc. film shot in the gallery and my studio.
Linda Brandt:
My close friend Linda Brandt is really making a name for herself. There is a movie in the works about her life story. Hurry up Hollywood! Her book and character "Henry the Tulip" is doing great and has now gone international. You can see Henry and read some of Linda's story at http://www.henrythetulipbulb.com/
My advice to all of you is to buy her paintings, prints, and a signed Henry book before the movie comes out. After the movie, only the very rich will be able to afford her paintings. Right now, you can buy one of her beautiful works of art for only a few thousand dollars. You can see some of her paintings at: http://www.yessy.com/Brandt/gallery.html
Linda has truly struggled for her life. This is an excerpt from her bio:
"Having recently undergone brain surgery for a very rare and serious tumor, Linda experienced a near-death period after contracting spinal meningitis and was in hospital critical care for nearly two months. While receiving an additional MRI, her predeceased son, Scottie was sent to “bring her home.”
The movie is going to be fantastic! You can check out the rest of her bio on the Henry page.
Pauline Collings:
My friend Pauline Collings has a new web page. It is at www.paulinecollings.com
She would like to trade links with people, so if you are interested, go to her page and email her. She is interested in other artists and art links (things that relate to her page). Pauline is a member of VSArts in Washington D.C. This is an organization started by Jean Kennedy Smith and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is a place where physically handicapped artists can promote their art, enter contests and shows, place their digital artwork files in the Washington, D.C. repository which is accessed by designers and individuals wanting to purchase art, and join in on their huge festivals. If you are a handicapped artist, you can check it out at http://www.vsarts.org/
Even though Pauline suffers great pain from a back injury that happened many years ago, she chooses to use her handicap as motivation to become a success in the art world. She is truly an amazing lady. She also conducts a weekly art class for other handicapped artists and the elderly. Like Frida Kahlo, she paints lying down in bed. On her good days, she paints while holding herself up at the kitchen sink setting the canvas against the back splash. Unlike Frida, Pauline's paintings are bright and cheery. She paints a world without pain instead of painting a world full of pain.
Andrea Allegrone:
Andrea is one of my artist friends who encourages me, helps me along in my career with contacts and information, and is an exceptional artist and teacher. Click here for her web site. One thing that is awesome about Andrea is that she is highly intelligent, but does not make other artists and the people around her feel small or stupid. Another one of her attributes is that although she is a very well-educated professor with both national and international credits, she does not regurgitate her qualifications everywhere she goes. I am so tired of being greeted by fellow artists and the first thing they say after hello is I have a BFA, MFA, studied under "so-and-so," did "such-and-such," and showed "here-there-and-everywhere." I don't care. Impress me with your work not your resume! Save the credentials for the galleries and museums. Some of the worst art and the best art I've seen comes from the BFA/MFA crowd. A quote from Joe Innis (How to Be a Famous Artist and Still Paint Paintings book), "Degrees are for burn victims!"
With Andrea, you get none of this pretentiousness just the real article. Some excerpts from her bio and resume: Education,BFA Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in Painting at Bradley University; shows in Chelsea, NY, Manhattan, California, Chicago, Texas, New Jersey, NC, MA, RI, FL, Jekyll Island, GA, and internationally. I think her next show is in Italy. She has been on the cover of New Art International, and in several international publications. She has won the prestigious Prize of Excellence Award of Distinction at Art Addiction's Biennial.
Some have called Andrea’s abstract works "raw" yet raw and naive translates to "unschooled" or traditionally untrained. Anyone can read criticism and acclimate to the contemporary art scene. Several raw artists are not "stupid" just as many artists with MFAs are not "snobs." Of course there are the stereotypical exceptions. Consequently, Pseudo-Raw is the movement that Andrea calls her own.
You will love her work. It is fascinating.
Ciao,
Caterina
Linda Brandt:
My close friend Linda Brandt is really making a name for herself. There is a movie in the works about her life story. Hurry up Hollywood! Her book and character "Henry the Tulip" is doing great and has now gone international. You can see Henry and read some of Linda's story at http://www.henrythetulipbulb.com/
My advice to all of you is to buy her paintings, prints, and a signed Henry book before the movie comes out. After the movie, only the very rich will be able to afford her paintings. Right now, you can buy one of her beautiful works of art for only a few thousand dollars. You can see some of her paintings at: http://www.yessy.com/Brandt/gallery.html
Linda has truly struggled for her life. This is an excerpt from her bio:
"Having recently undergone brain surgery for a very rare and serious tumor, Linda experienced a near-death period after contracting spinal meningitis and was in hospital critical care for nearly two months. While receiving an additional MRI, her predeceased son, Scottie was sent to “bring her home.”
At that time, Linda cried, “No, No. I have too many paintings to paint!” Needless to say, her work was not done and Linda was returned to the present.
Linda began painting once more after months of rehabilitation, learning to walk, drive again, and by the prayers and love of her family and friends. Most of all, Linda believes in the Grace of God.
Collectors of Linda M. Brandt’s work believe it is even more inspirational and dramatic than before as she shares her “triumph over tragedy” through the gift of art."The movie is going to be fantastic! You can check out the rest of her bio on the Henry page.
Pauline Collings:
My friend Pauline Collings has a new web page. It is at www.paulinecollings.com
She would like to trade links with people, so if you are interested, go to her page and email her. She is interested in other artists and art links (things that relate to her page). Pauline is a member of VSArts in Washington D.C. This is an organization started by Jean Kennedy Smith and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is a place where physically handicapped artists can promote their art, enter contests and shows, place their digital artwork files in the Washington, D.C. repository which is accessed by designers and individuals wanting to purchase art, and join in on their huge festivals. If you are a handicapped artist, you can check it out at http://www.vsarts.org/
Even though Pauline suffers great pain from a back injury that happened many years ago, she chooses to use her handicap as motivation to become a success in the art world. She is truly an amazing lady. She also conducts a weekly art class for other handicapped artists and the elderly. Like Frida Kahlo, she paints lying down in bed. On her good days, she paints while holding herself up at the kitchen sink setting the canvas against the back splash. Unlike Frida, Pauline's paintings are bright and cheery. She paints a world without pain instead of painting a world full of pain.
Andrea Allegrone:
Andrea is one of my artist friends who encourages me, helps me along in my career with contacts and information, and is an exceptional artist and teacher. Click here for her web site. One thing that is awesome about Andrea is that she is highly intelligent, but does not make other artists and the people around her feel small or stupid. Another one of her attributes is that although she is a very well-educated professor with both national and international credits, she does not regurgitate her qualifications everywhere she goes. I am so tired of being greeted by fellow artists and the first thing they say after hello is I have a BFA, MFA, studied under "so-and-so," did "such-and-such," and showed "here-there-and-everywhere." I don't care. Impress me with your work not your resume! Save the credentials for the galleries and museums. Some of the worst art and the best art I've seen comes from the BFA/MFA crowd. A quote from Joe Innis (How to Be a Famous Artist and Still Paint Paintings book), "Degrees are for burn victims!"
With Andrea, you get none of this pretentiousness just the real article. Some excerpts from her bio and resume: Education,BFA Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in Painting at Bradley University; shows in Chelsea, NY, Manhattan, California, Chicago, Texas, New Jersey, NC, MA, RI, FL, Jekyll Island, GA, and internationally. I think her next show is in Italy. She has been on the cover of New Art International, and in several international publications. She has won the prestigious Prize of Excellence Award of Distinction at Art Addiction's Biennial.
Some have called Andrea’s abstract works "raw" yet raw and naive translates to "unschooled" or traditionally untrained. Anyone can read criticism and acclimate to the contemporary art scene. Several raw artists are not "stupid" just as many artists with MFAs are not "snobs." Of course there are the stereotypical exceptions. Consequently, Pseudo-Raw is the movement that Andrea calls her own.
You will love her work. It is fascinating.
Ciao,
Caterina
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