Exhibitions
Memorial Day Portraits
Although I was traveling on Memorial Day, I wanted to mention one moving exhibit that I still think of every time this year. Two years ago our family ventured to Arlington Cemetery to view the art exhibit, The Faces of the Fallen, portraits of fallen soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, during October 10, 2001 – November 11, 2004. Over 200 artists were involved and paid tribute by painting, drawing and or sculpting their portraits on 6″ x 8″ canvases and other media. They were all displayed one next to the other in endless rows, ordered by timing of their death. It served as a memorial for two years…
Sensory Art
Again, I should have saved all those rubber gloves! This is a another cool use for rubber gloves to help the visually impaired, as well as the sighted, to “get psychologically involved…” as Sheri Khayami, the founder of BlindArt, a British charity group, describes. This group find ways for people to appreciate art through the other four senses and not just relying on vision. Here’s a fantastic painting by artist Charles Wildbank, who happens to be deaf. I love the color and the hyper realism of his work, with expressive movement and clarity. Makes you just want to reach out and touch his work. You can almost smell the salted…
Unusual Places to find Art
Some of us may take these mundane, everyday objects for granted: window screens, cornfields, power boxes and water and storage tanks. Huh? Yep, artists can use anything as a canvas. In fact, there’s a major juried competition coming up (see below). There is an exhibition this weekend called “Rowhouse Rembrandts,” where the artists have painted window screens in the Baltimore area. Its kinda kitschy but fun. I’m curious to know what paints they use on metal and to outlast the elements, especially when they window wash those screens during spring cleaning? It’s sponsored by The American Visionary Arts Museum. This is a quirky site and kinda cool. On an aside:…
