Artist Friend's Space

Nationally recognized artist Joyce DiBona at Art Exchange Gallery

2009-11-02T10:34:00.000-08:00

Art Exchange is happy to announce the addition of Nationally recognized artist Joyce DiBona. Hope to see you at our Nov. 5th opening for Wendy Ford Mackey and Talmage Mintor! Joyce's work will be on display... Hardy Woodall, Director see attachment

ART EXCHANGE GALLERY AUSTIN,
Address:
Art Exchange Gallery
In The Courtyard
5th St. Commons Mall
1611 W 5th Street - STE. T-2A
Austin, TX 78703

Director: Hardy Woodall
Hours: Noon to 8 p.m. daily
Phone: 512-992-0130

The Spirit and the Magic leads, the brush follows...
Joyce DiBona
http://www.joycedibona.com
Represented by Monkdogz Urban Art, NYC
http://www.monkdogz.com

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen Reviewed by Gallery and Studio, New York

2009-07-12T09:59:00.000-07:00

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I am privileged to have a review of my artwork by Ed McCormack in Gallery and Studio's June, July, August 2009 Issue. A highly prestigious publication that is the heartbeat of the art scene today. Soo cool!

Ed McCormack of Gallery and Studio Magazines Review of my artwork:

Monkdogz Urban Art's add in the same issue:

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To view more of the art that Mr. McCormack refers to in his interview check out my website.

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http://www.kathyostman-magnusen.com/Kathy_Ostman-Magnusen_Art/%22Primal_Series%22_Gallery.html

About My Primal Series:

http://www.kathyostman-magnusen.com/Kathy_Ostman-Magnusen_Art/About_My_Primal_Series.html

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Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Free Art: http://www.kathysart.com
Primal Series:
http://www.kathyostman-magnusen.com
Represented by:
Monkdogz Urban Art, New York
http://www.monkdogz.com

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Joyce DiBono

2009-02-28T14:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_a9cdM6Qg

Be sure to check out Joyce DiBono's website at:

The Spirit and the Magic leads, the brush follows...
http://www.joycedibona.com

A word from Joyce about her YouTube:

Hello Friends,
I will be introducing my work on a local Cable TV program this evening, The Infinity Hour at 9:45 pm. A slide show will be presented of my work~you can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_a9cdM6Qg

Some of you will see works you have collected~enjoy! And, once again thank you for the encouragement and support you all continue to give me.
Joyce

Joyce is represented by
Monkdogz Urban Art
New York, NY
http://www.monkdogz.com

Sylvia Hennequin at Monkdogz Urban Art, New York

2008-12-08T08:23:00.000-08:00

Sylvia Hennequin
in New York
2006 - 2008
Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery - New York City - 212-216-0030

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Sunday Scribblings Offer Incentive and Inspiration

2008-10-27T08:26:00.000-07:00

Writers of fantasy; prose poetry; real life reflections, there is a great spot for you online to meet up with other creative writers. Oft times writers are prompted by small things, a leaf on a tree; meeting someone for lunch; a view; and in the case of Sunday Scribblings an idea suggested by lovers of what pen to paper can produce.

Meg Genge and Laini Taylor invite writers to check into their blog once a week, see what their lasted suggestion is and post in on Sundays.

WONDERFUL!

Some ideas in the past have been:

* #134 -- "I don't like myself. I'm CRAZY ABOUT MYSE...
* #133 - My Style
* #132 -- If I had to live at a different time in hi...
* #131 -- FORBIDDEN
* #130 -- Wedding
* #129 - Invitation
* #128 -- Coffee
* #127 - Miracle
* #126 - Somewhere
* #125 -- How I met my [fill in blank]

So try it! Human beings are creative, and yes that includes ALL of us. We design our own persona; decide on what foods to eat or deny; set our tables; paint our houses; choose a couch to sit on. Those are just small efforts that we all do in inventive ways. Despite what might be forming on your lips as a protest to this, I would say, "Try it!" Decide to step past your journal...or to begin a journal! Take steps to understand your own artistic abilities, that you may not have even know existed before. Some of you may be seasoned writers who need some new energy. Either way, jump in, see what Sunday Scribblings latest prompt is... and WRITE!

http://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com

Who is Laini Taylor? Check out he blog "Grow Wings:

http://growwings.blogspot.com/

Laini Taylor's Book:

Who is Meg Genge? Check out her blog "More to Me"

http://meggenge.blogspot.com/

Her blog has WONDERFUL pics of a very special day, along with her efforts in writing of course!

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The image at the top is of my painting:
"Circus"
36x48 oil on canvas
Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

Aloha, Kathy

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Françoise Nielly

2008-09-28T12:27:00.000-07:00

"The Work" by Françoise Nielly

ARTIST FRIENDS I would like to introduce you to, one being:

Françoise Nielly

"Exhibiting in St. Tropez, Paris, Montreal and Vancouver, Nielly’s approach carries with it the cross currents of a cosmopolitan lifestyle. Her subjects themselves–male and female–are as ethnically colorful as her palette (one cannot but suspect her zeal for radiant ultramarine and sumptuous alizarin was fostered by her Riviera upbringing). As if to further emphasize this savoir-faire internationalism, her individual paintings–which are otherwise catalogued in the formal tradition of "Untitled" serials–each carry with them the name of the country (France, Canada, Dubai, Germany) in which they now live in private collections. Her most recent work has evolved beyond the studio setting, incorporating loose fragments of contemporary visual culture and imaginatively synthesizing her fine and decorative arts training."

Taken from: "The Work of Françoise Nielly" by David Markus

Kathysart Note: Don't you just LOVE it? Oh my gosh, what a fantastic use of color Francoise has. My priority in painting is to paint with passion, so of course Francoise's work feeds my soul. Thank you Francoise!

http://www.francoise-nielly.com

Francoise on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jaunefluo

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/kathsart

Karina Sala Fellow Artist-Monkdogz "Zepher"

2008-09-17T14:27:00.000-07:00

Check out Karina Sala's video of "Zepher' at Monkdogz Urban Art Exhibit in New York

Raven's Gallery Opening-Kimberlin Blackburn

2007-11-08T16:46:00.001-08:00

A.Kimberlin Blackburn
Sanctum
Glass beads, acrylic, wire on wood
13” x 13” x 8”, ©2006

The grand opening of Newark's newest and New Jersey's largest fine art gallery

Gallery One & Two
Sanctuary
85 Market Street, Newark, NJ 07102

www.rupertravens.net 973.353.0660

The grand opening of Newark's newest and New Jersey's largest fine art gallery

Gallery One & Two
Sanctuary
75 Regional, National, and International Artists

Gallery Three
Innovations: Recent Editions from the Brodsky Print Center

Here are some photos from rrc opening:

http://newarkusa.blogspot.com/2007/10/ravens-gallery-opening.html#links

Travel Directions
With PATH, you can get to the RRC within minutes!
ONLY 19 minutes by PATH train from Manhattan!

Take a direct PATH train from World Trade Center station to Newark Penn Station
or, take the PATH from 34th Street or 9th Street
change PATH trains at Journal Square in Jersey City for Newark Penn Station (same
platform)

Once in Newark
You have several choices:
Cab - approx $6.00
Newark Light Rail (downstairs from the PATH; 2 stops - to Washington Station $1.35
(trains every 10-15 mins)
Walk - 10 mins

For more information and travel maps :

www.rupertravens.net

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Minne E Miller

2007-10-04T10:11:00.000-07:00

Guess what my friend Minnie is up to!

Minnie E Miller
Author of The Seduction of Mr. Bradley
www.millerscribs.com

Visit Authors and Artists Chicago
October 6, Saturday, 12:30 pm to 5 pm
Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center
1060 East 47th Street
Chicago, IL

She will be there signing her novel! If you are in the Chicago area do stop by and meet Minnie E Miller!

www.msprissy-dreamweaver.blogspot.com/
www.myspace.com/minnie_e

Who is Minnie E Miller?

Minne E. Miller is proof that life begins at any age you decide it should begin, and reinvention is truly the spice of life. In her own words here is her story. Come meet her Saturday at Authors and Artists Chicago.

Minnie writes:

I am a native Chicagoan, born at Cook County Hospital--we won't talk about the year.
I have been writing for many more years than the fourteen I consider my serious literary period. I attended Roosevelt University in Chicago where a very- English teacher encouraged me to explore my writing muse. In the beginning I had no idea what she was talking about. My muse? What's that? I was perplexed.

My last full time job was with the Office of the Mayor of San Francisco as special assistant to his press secretary. While there, I co-authored The San Francisco Mayor's Summit for Women, Summit Report 1998. I retired in 1999, left San Francisco, landed in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked in the City Council's Communications office as a freelancer. Heeding a whisper from my subconscious, I returned home but I still couldn't sit still. To my amazement, NBC5 Chicago WMAQ TV hired me part-time in the newsroom. The news junkie in me loved it.
My literary career grew strong wings in March 2003 when I published a book of short fiction stories titled Catharsis. I retired again in May 2004, devoted my time to writing The Seduction of Mr. Bradley and Blue Lady Rising. The Lady is still rising, however.
For years I suffered from wanderlust--inherited it from my mother, a casualty of an early divorce. I tried marriage at the age of twenty but realized early that it didn't work for me. Curiosity pulled me to London, Paris, Jamaica, and many U.S. cities .

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Check out my Squidoo lens about Minnie as well:

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Aloha , Kathy
http://www.kathysart.com

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Saatchi Gallery VOTE for Alice McMahon White

2007-08-20T12:22:00.000-07:00

Saatchi Gallery Online

Please take a minute and vote for my friend Alice!

An American realist artist (b. 1959) specializing in works on paper.
She maintains a studio in Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building.

Artist Name: Alice McMahon White
Title: Chains
Size: 55 x 38cm
Medium: Pastel on paper
Description: From the white album series

VOTE FOR MY ARTIST FRIEND ON SAATCHI HERE:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?rid=66094

ABOUT THE WORK:

From "The White Album" series inspired by Beatles tunes and about coming of age. "I wanna tell you, pretty baby, your lips look sweet. I'd like to kiss them, but I can't break away from all these chains. My baby's got me locked up in chains,and they ain't the kind that you can see. Whoa, it's chains of love got a hold on me, yeah."

ABOUT Alice McMahon White:

All my life I have been fortunate to live with musicians. Music and what I listen to while I paint have a significant power over my artistic process, in what inspires me, in the emotions evoked and incorporated into a piece, and is even reflected in the popular song titles of the finished works.

I choose to depict contemporary places and people, but my goal is to use skill and imagination to produce works that portray the more enduring qualities of the world and of the human condition.

The White Album, my most recent work, is literally a labor of love, twenty years in the making. A quirky "photo-realism" album of my three teenagers, it is foremost a portrait of adolescence. My youngest son is just entering his turbulent teens; middle-child daughter a promising artist at 16-going-on-26; the eldest son, an adult of 19, is a freshman living at Kent State University, Ohio.

I was on the threshold of my own teen years when the Beatles were the soundtrack for the hippy era. This work draws parallels between then and now, and highlights the universal, eternal character of coming of age. I have attempted to explore the similarities of each generation, despite contemporary sensibilities and recent advances in technology.

A fellow artist recently noted, "We paint to deal with life." These candid "snapshots" are one way I've found to cope with the process of letting go that all parents must make. They document my children's progress during this transitional time in their lives. Thanks to them, I am still learning.

Alice's Official Website:

http://www.amwhitestudio.com

Alice's work on Saatchi:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Alice%20Mcmahon%20White/27904.html

EDUCATION AND BIOGRAPHY
Solo Exhibitions
2007 "Into the Mystic", Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2006 "The White Album", Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Green Groves of Erin", McCord House Gallery, Palos Park, IL, the Beverly Arts Center, Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier, and the Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago, IL
2005 "Passport to Ireland", Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Awards
2007 Saatchi Showdown! Winner, Round 2
Semi-finalist, American Artist Magazine's 70th Anniversary Competition
Jerry's/Girault Award, Pastels Chicago, National Juried Competition, Chicago Pastel Painters, Chicago, IL
2006 Canson Award, Pastels USA, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Auburn, California
2005 Best Drawing, Plaza Art Competition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Best of Show, Gallery 2005, De Caprio Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
2004 Honorable Mention, Self-Portraits 2004, Northwest Cultural Council's International Juried Exhibition; Rolling Meadows, IL
2002 Third place, Gallery 2002, De Caprio Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College; Palos Hills, IL

Education:
Largely self-taught

FUTURE SHOWS
"The White Album", pastels and drawings inspired by Beatles tunes and coming of age. At the Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, 2008

BEST of LUCK to Alice McMahon White!

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Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
free art gifts
http://www.kathysart.com

Christian Möller Art For Humans

2007-08-17T11:27:00.000-07:00

Title: At the awarding of the state scholarship for intellectual emancipation we remember the table service
Size: 146x230 cm
Medium category: Painting - Acrylic

THE ART FOR HUMANS GALLERY CHINATOWN is pleased to present "Kingdom Come Youth", an exhibit of paintings and drawings by Berlin-based artist Christian Möller. The program for "Kingdom Come Youth," will include the execution of a large painting by the artist on-site at the gallery, during the exhibition run.

Show dates: SEPTEMBER 5-15; with a RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST on SEPTEMBER 8, from 6-10PM.

ART FOR HUMANS GALLERY CHINATOWN

945 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, California 90012

GALLERY PHONE: 213.621.7685
GALLERY FAX: 213.621.7635
EMAIL: artforhumans@gmail.com

12-6 MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
WEEKEND EVENING HOURS
& by appointment

A 4D EXHIBITION PROJECT JUNE 1-SEPTEMBER 30

www.artforhumans.com
www.flickr.com/photos/artforhumans/sets/
www.myspace.com/artforhumans
www.youtube.com/artforhumans

Thank you very much indeed for your interest

The cream of the crop for you

All the best

Christian

www.christianmoeller.eu
www.myspace.com/christianmoellerartist
www.artnews.info/christianmoeller

Statement:

The paintings of Christian Möller exert an exotic attraction. Developed merely in black and white tones on large canvasses, the intense, attenuated and pushed movements draw the viewers attention into an impenetrable thicket of compact and transparent forms. They remain fragments rendered two dimensional, however they are in every section modelled multi-layered colourspaces. In no place do these brushstrokes evoke peace and resignation or inner balance in the circling, directed, elliptical or linear forms. More than that, the restlessness and shorthanded notation of colours, which is an intense series of signs and letters scribbled in extreme excitement comparable to a letter or entry in a diary and forming both a unity during the more distant process of reading as well as a readable message, is in danger of drowning on the canvass in a chaos of pictorial signs and endless spaces. Given over to the pull of cosmic breadth in the boundless universe, which is incomprehensible to human conception, single formed shapes reappear as unexpectedly out of the abyss as they disappeared.

The paintings of Christian Möller generate their inner tension in this border area between the surface of the canvass, which reveals the traces of the set colours, and the pictorial depth of colour modulation in endless ratios of black and white tones in all thinkable values of grey to dark black to brightly sparkling flashes of white light. They invite looking. They attract and allure the observer to be reluctantly involved in the dramatic event. Even when he, with aversion and fear of the unknown of such worlds which do not promise beauty, or enjoyment of the aesthetic but probably dread and abysses, tries to defend himself against these, and in trying to resist, then still only looks into himself. The images guide the observer, once submerged inside these dim labyrinth spaces, left alone yet directed by the artist, as Vergil by Dante in the "Divine Comedy", to the world of the inferno as well as to happiness, where life is played out. The longer one stays in these broad painted spaces and moves through them, the richer and more surprising the discoveries of those images which start to come up in our fantasy, occupying our thinking recome. These are not the images which obsessed Christian Möller when he departed on his artistic incarnations, but our own images, which we discovered inside of us........

Dr. Andreas Vowinkel in the catalogue: "Pictures. Very far away; on the invention of longing for a sky of only flowers, the waiting until dawn and the trap of being apart." published by Baden Art Association, Karlsruhe, Germany and Art Association Braunschweig, Germany 1998, ISBN 3-89309-083-5 "I allow a form more freedom, if I do not evaluate it with colours" (assign it colour)
(Christian Möller)

1963 born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

1986-92 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany

Grants

2003 Stipendium Zeppelinhaus Berlin
2000 Fördergemeinschaft Kunst e.V.
1998 Stipendium der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
1997 Stipendium des Saarländischen Künstlerhauses, Saarbrücken
1994-95 Preisträger beim Deutschen Kunstpreis
1993-96 Atelierstipendium des Landes Baden-Württemberg
1992 Stipendium des Vereins für internationalen Kulturaustausch an der Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni (Akademie der schönen Künste) Prag
1990 Studienreise nach Australien

Solo Exhibitions

(selection)
2006 wie Gott uns schuf, Sportklubhelga, Berlin, D
2005 neinesgehtgut, Kunstkabine, Berlin, D
2004 Valdez, Zeichnung, Kunstraum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, D
2003 Ein Tag wie jeder andere, Rua da Rosa 17, 2 esq /Bairro Alto/Atelier Luisa Sequeira, Lissabon. P
was das Zeug hält, Studio 1/Zeppelinhaus, Berlin, D
trashcash moron morphine machine, Galerie Junghans, Köln, D
2002 sognami il tempo all' indietro, L'istituto l'arte Malcini, Siena, I
was, für wen, wieso, Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Köln, D
2001 Come un caldo bagno schiuma di zucchero, Galleria Farfalla, Bologna, I
1999 Heute, hier und jetzt, Haus der Kunststiftung, Stuttgart (zusammen mit Axel Brandt), D
Andys Nerven, Das Kunstforum, Köln, D
1998 Ganz weit weg.; Über die Erfindung der Sehnsucht nach nur noch Blumen am Himmel, das Warten bis es hell wird und die Abseitsfalle, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, D
Team Araldi, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, D
1997 Jetset paradise monsterfactory, Art Association Carlington Road, Dundee, Scotland, GB
Assi 2000, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, D
1994 Debütantenausstellung, Lichthof Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, D
1992 Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni (Akademie der schönen Künste) Prag, Prag, CZ

Group Exhibitions

(selection)
2004 Modellsituation Berlin, Landesvertretung BW am Tiergarten, Berlin, D
2003 Intershop SüdstattSüd, Haus des Glücks, Kunstraum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, D
2001 Mit leichtem Gepäck, Zeiten der Liebe, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, D
Le parc des fleurs jaunes, Areal d'art, Nancy, F
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, D
2000 Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden/Baden, D
Galerie Schloß Mochental, Ehingen/Donau, D
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, D
1997 Städelsches Kunstinstitut, "Villa Romana Preis 1998", Frankfurt am Main, D
Das Kunstforum, Köln, D
1996 Freundeskreis Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen, D
Emy-Roeder-Preis, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, D
1994 Haus der Kunst, München, D

Bibliography

(selection)
1994 >> Katalog-"Wir Kinder vom Rhein", herausgegeben von der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Vorzugsausgabe von 100 Exemplaren in handgearbeitetem Umschlag, signiert und numeriert >> Katalog-"Deutscher Kunstpreis 1994/95", herausgegeben vom Bundesverband BVR, Bonn >> 1996 >> Katalog "Emy Roeder-Preis", herausgegeben vom Kunstverein Ludwigshafen a.Rh. >> 1998 >> Katalog "Ganz weit weg; Über die Erfindung der Sehnsucht nach nur noch Blumen am Himmel, das Warten bis es hell wird und die Abseitsfalle", herausgegeben vom Badischen Kunstverein Karlsruhe und dem Kunstverein Braunschweig, ISBN 3-89309-083-5, Jahresgabe des Kunstverein Braunschweig >> Katalog-Stipendiaten der Kunststiftung 1998, herausgegeben von der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg >> 2000 >> www.swo.de "Künstler des Monats März/April >> Künstlerportrait in den Badischen Neusten Nachrichten, veröffentlicht von Michael Hübl >> 2001 >> Katalog "Mit leichtem Gepäck", herausgegeben vom Badischen Kunstverein Karlsruhe, ISBN 3-89309-097-5 >> 2003 Katalog "was das Zeug hält", erschienen zur Ausstellung im Studio 1/Zeppelinhaus, Berlin 2003, Jahresgabe des Badischen Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Zahlreiche Rezensionen in Zeitschriften und Tageszeitungen

Minnie E. Miller

2007-07-26T12:06:00.000-07:00

Check out my friend Minnie E. Miller blog and book!

Minnie E. Miller
About Me

I'm a native of Hyde Park, Chicago, though I've lived in many cities over the past thirty years. Since the age of eighteen, I have been an activist as well as a writer. My stories touch on political issues in metaphor; even my vampire characters are activists. My latest novel, The Seduction of Mr. Bradley, is a political statement on humankind. My books are available through minnie247@sbcglobal.net; on my website at www.millerscribs.com; on justbookz.com/; and on Amazon.com.

Minnie E. Miller's recent interview with author Don Barera, the go check out her blog. Read about Minnie's book, "The Seduction of Mr. Bradley", and then go to Amazon and BUY IT! :

It is my pleasure to present Don Barera, surely an African American role model, if you will. Mr. Barbera is a poet, a journalist, a writer, and a musician. What more can be added to his extensive biography, I asked? I’ll let him tell you.

db I don’t like to mention what I do in the real world because it is so mercenary that embarrasses me, so I’ll stick with my work. You’ve summed it up well, the only things I’d add are photographer and teacher. I am particularly proud of teaching because it the one place where you might see immediate feedback when someone suddenly grasps the idea. Now that I’ve said that, I have to go back on my word and say being a musician. As a performing musician you get to see the same thing—that contact with people. When something clicks—it is right there for you to see and it is pleasing to know that someone recognized what you were doing.

mem Don, please tell us where you are from and your education.

db I’m from a small town in Southeastern Kansas, called Independence. I was born in Nashville, TN but I wasn’t there long enough to know it. I grew up mostly in Kansas, but I spent summers with my grandmothers in St. Louis and Chicago. I’ve been to college and graduated three times. That’s enough about my school, because I don’t think it means much. Perhaps, if I had a degree in physics or math or chemistry I might think something of it. My main education came from being around a lot of smart people. These were not necessarily book smart people, but folks who understood life, living and people. As a musician, I learned a lot from the streets and as a journalist, there was no way I couldn’t learn because I dealt with the dregs of society and I’ll tell you dregs don’t always fall to the bottom, some rise to the top. For those that just must know, I went to Lincoln University (Jefferson City, MO) where Uncle Sam offered me a full scholarship to sunny Southeast Asia. I came back and took my undergraduate and master’s degree from Pittsburg State University. I also attended Langston University Urban Centre in Tulsa, OK. Now, I’ve said it and with the exception of newspaper work, I’ve never worked in the fields of my degrees.

mem I’m curious about your book of poetry titled Until it Ropes Like Okra: Rhymes in The Vernacular. You said in your Book Description, “If I do not succeed in making you laugh, embarrassing you, offending you or making you think then I have missed my goal.” Can you give us a little insight?

db I never take me too serious, but I take the world around me and what’s happening in it seriously. So when I say that “If I do not succeed in making you laugh, embarrassing you, offending you or making you think then I have missed my goal,” I mean that I intentionally try to make people set up and listen. If that takes cursing, broken English, fowl language, going against the Negro Thought Police, or the powers that be, that’s exactly what I will do and I will have some fun along the way. Offending people’s sensibilities is just the first step in getting them to think a little deeper in my way of thinking. So, as you read my poetry, you will see I murdered the King’s English or bruised it severely, but it was done with my tongue planted firmly in cheek.

mem About your writing, you’ve said, in reality you are a practicing writer who seems not to be able to pull your thoughts together into a cohesive story. Yet, you have worked in the print journalism industry for years. Expand on the journalist side of your life.

db I don’t mind having a bit of fun at my own expense, but when I worked the print media, deadlines were real. We had four editions of the newspaper and all stories had to be in on time. When you covered the City Council, the meeting might not start until an hour before the deadline and the portion I needed might be last on the agenda. I quickly learned to compose in my head and dictate the lead, body and close over the telephone. It wasn’t easy, but on the other hand most newspapers are written on an 8th grade level. So, it shouldn’t have been a problem seeing that I was a college graduate. Right? We didn’t care much for television or radio reporters who we referred to as “rip and read” artists. We used to watch the various TV stations gathered around the paper boxes waiting to get a copy of the newspaper so they would know what’s going on in the world. I didn’t find it amusing while riding home from work to hear my story on the radio or later that night on the TV almost word for word. It still happens today. I will read the newspaper and then see the exact same story on the television only they add some pictures, but keep the same words. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. I just didn’t make any money. So, when the chance came along to make money—I sold out.

mem Have you always been this speculative? Let’s explore that, if you don’t mind.

db Always! Always. I went to Catholic school back when corporal punishment in schools was still allowed and I think it set me on the road to asking questions and not being satisfied with one word answers or for that matter, anything that sounded memorized. I have a keen nose for bullshit and even a better ear for phoniness. So I am a skeptic and always want to know “the rest of the story.”

mem Who are some of the writers you most enjoy?

db Of course, I enjoy almost all the classic black writers of the Harlem Renaissance. James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and more. My personal library is filled with hundreds of books and they cover the gamut. I read books on physics, forensics, astronomy, early inventions, logic, critical thought and medicine. I also read Michael Crichton, Laurence Sanders, Robert Ludlum and more. For the past 10 years, I read more non-fiction than fiction. My favorite writers of non-fiction are John McWhorter, essayists Nathan McCall and Ralph Wiley, historian John Hope Franklin and Cornell West, who I have mixed emotions about. My latest hero and writer is Ayann Hirsi Ali. She is my new hero and my admiration for her just as a person goes deep.

mem Where are you now in your career, and what writing projects are baking in your very productive oven?

db Now I am tackling several projects at once. Two are non-fiction pieces about African American health. One has to do with depression among African American men and the other has to do with finding new solutions to old problems in the black community. I’ve actually finished the depression piece. In the area of fiction I just finished “Suicide Squeeze” a psychological murder romance that takes place in a small town. I’m about to finish a third non-fiction piece and I am looking for a cartoon illustrator. It’s called Tales of a Frequent Flier: View from the Middle Seat. It’s comedy. I always have several short stories going, a little research and my poetry. So, I stay busy writing. That’s the only way I figure I can get any good at this stuff. I have to keep practicing because it doesn’t come to me easily.

mem What legacy would you like to leave your family?

db I hope my legacy is my work ethic and attempted honesty, a goal I’ve failed at miserably. Still, I’d like to instill those thoughts and the idea to always look deeper and think. Those are the things I believe will at least help make sense of the world to them. It may not make them friends, but it may bring them some happiness like I’ve had. Of course, I will be leaving my books to them and my grandsons. Without a book none of us would have made it this far.

mem Any comments you would like to add?

db Never, never give up. Believe in yourself and get the lead out of your ass. Keep moving because moving targets are more difficult to hit.

mem Where can Until it Ropes Like Okra: Rhymes in the Vernacular be purchased and how can you be contacted.

db Until It Ropes Like Okra: Rhymes in the Vernacular can be purchased at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and most on-line book stores. I can be contacted at ramon.vegas@tx.rr.com. That’s the easiest way to reach me.

mem Thank you, Don Barbera. It has been a pleasure talking with you. I hope to hear more from your muse; I suspect it will be ongoing.

We leave you with a poem from Don’s book:

The Same Old Song

I’m taking my hands off the wheel,
then I’ll be getting out real slow.
I’m slidin’ across. I know the deal.
Stick my hands out and open the door.

Putting my hands behind my head
and I’m backing up in small steps.
Don’t want to accidentally end up dead
and a chalk mark be all that’s left.

No, I ain’t got nothing sharp in my pocket.
Got my license and registration in my hand.
Keeping my hands visible, my arm in its socket.
Won’t make a move from where I stand.

Thank you officer, I’ll be on my way,
headin’ home, my money’s all been spent.
I’ll be driving slow and I’ll be playing it safe
because I don’t want to be another accident.

Minnie E Miller
Author

Joyce DiBona

2007-07-14T11:25:00.000-07:00

Monkdogz Urban Art represents my work in New York. Robert (Bob) Hogge and Marina Hadley have done an amazing thing by creating one of the top galleries in Chelsea and the world.

I recently met a new friend on selfportrait.net that shows with Monkdogz as well. Below is info about Joyce DiBona, her art and the upcoming show she is participating in at Monkdogz Urban Art.

Above are some of Joyce Dibona's glorious pieces. Be sure to check out her website.

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When: Opening: Thurday, July 19, 2007
Exhibition: July 19 through August 11, 2007

Contact: Joyce DiBona
512 965-7073
dibonastudio@yahoo.com
http://www.joycedibona.com

Austin, Texas (June 28, 2007) Austin Artist Joyce DiBona has been accepted to the juried International Show “Heat” The Next Tortured Genius 2 in New York City. She will be showing the tattoo sculpture “Voyage to Consciousness”. Ms. DiBona has her own studio/gallery in Austin, near downtown. She was chosen as one of twenty eight artists from around the world to be showcased in this International event in the heart of the gallery district in Chelsea NYC.
Additionally, while in New York, Joyce will be interviewed by Modern Mask (http:www.modernmask.org) an online ezine in New York City featuring reviews and features on Television, Film, Theater and The Arts. She will be featured in the Fall edition of this magazine.
Joyce DiBona’s work can be viewed at: http://www.joycedibona.com, and studio visits are welcome. She is currently working on several new tattoo sculptures as well as oil painting on canvas, and a new series of tapestry type paintings based on The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.

"HEAT"
(The Next Tortured Genius 2)
July 19 - August 11 2007
International Juried Exhibition
Juried by The Monkdogz Urban Art Directors Group

Like most reputable galleries throughout the world, Monkdogz Urban Art Inc., in the Chelsea District of New York City is looking to the future of art. We also realize on some level that we are in a unique position to help create tomorrow's art realities. We are on an international search for artists whose work is driven by talent, desire, impact, imagination and a sense of purpose.
Who will be remembered as the art icons of the 21st century?
Selected works will be exhibited at Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery
July 19 - August 11 2007

http://www.monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/intro.htm

http://www.joycedibona.com

“Voyage to Consciousness”

For many years I have worked in three-dimensional painting around the human form. This work eventually led me to the tattoo sculptures. This medium allows me to combine iconography with literary elements in a personal and meaningful way.

After the sculpture and base painting are completed I begin the work of pen and ink. Each piece usually takes me about four to six months to finish. “Voyage to Consciousness” is a road map of spiritual travels and expanding awareness. I moved around the human form with words and imagery in the spirit of a dance. Ancestors, totems and future possibilities flowed through pen and ink. Like the handprint on the cave wall, this work felt more like “memory” than creation. In this medium it feels as if I have greater access to a stream of consciousness in the creative process. Although it must be calculated work, I am working on a “canvas” that is constantly changing as I wrap imagery and literary elements around the human form. I am often surprised at the final outcome.

These pieces seem to lend themselves to concept and theme. “Pintographs” was my first tattoo piece and was born from a meeting with poet raulrsalinas. It conveys in an artistic form the style, spirit and iconography of Chicano prison art. I am currently working on a piece based on perception of good and evil.

For me this work is a declaration, a celebration, and a “handprint” on the most interior walls. It is ink on skin.

Joyce DiBona

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Congrats to Joyce! Be sure to check out her site and her art along with Monkdogz Urban Art.

~Kathy

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
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Monkdogz Urban Art, New York

My art page at Monkdogz:

"Circus" 48x36 oil on canvas
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
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Myron Dyal's Art

2007-05-08T09:32:00.000-07:00

Visions made real
The installation "Twins of the Night" by Myron Conan Dyal is part of "Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic," a one-man show at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.

Visions made real
"The Protector" by Myron Conan Dyal is part of "Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic," a one-man show at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.

Visions made real
Myron Conan Dyal, who has quietly pursued his singular art form, unveils his works to the world.
By DANIELLA WALSH

Special to the Register
Sculptures of mermaids with webbed hands, a huge spider transporting a load of human skulls on its back, flowers sprouting eyes and an assortment of humanoid beings with faces that could easily be used in films like "Night of the Living Dead." Then there are paintings of masks and mysterious, painted manifestations of the artist's vision and invention, including an assemblage featuring a viola growing a melancholy human face.
All have their origins in the mind of Myron Conan Dyal, 63, a self-taught artist who, after toiling for 35 years as a telecommunications executive, is about to chuck the corporate world and devote himself to making art full time.
Art became his true calling in the late 1970s, he said, and since then he has created a body of work comprising more than 6,000 drawings, illustrated journals, paintings and sculptures. Now, with Dyal ready at last to unveil it to the greater public, the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana is staging "Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic," a one-man show spotlighting sculptures, paintings, drawings and a small selection of sketch books filled from 1986 through 2000. Alas, one can only see two pages of each book since they are, understandably, displayed under glass.
Drawings range from a delicate image of a woman merging into the body of a serpent ("She Surrounded Me with Love," 1984) to a detailed pencil drawing that makes one wonder if his visions included visits from Picasso.
At opening night, the show drew appreciative crowds, even if some viewers appeared a bit mystified by his darker works such as "The Underworld," 2007, an installation featuring roughly 40 otherworldly-looking sculptures of "people" and animals in the black-lit back gallery. (The overall effect is a bit like "Star Wars" meets creatures of the bayou.)
The artist is prolific: The majority of pieces have been done in less than a year, which is something Dyal attributes to feeling like a manic depressive, without the depressive, when he is on a roll. "When I am in a creative space and my visions start, I am so driven that my energy levels go off the scale. I work 17 hours a day and do not go to the office," he said. It's not surprising for him to work on three or more paintings at a given time.
Yet, one never gets a feeling that any of the pieces have been rushed – on the contrary, the entire ghostly back gallery crew, including a keyboard wielding "man" who alludes to Dyal's past as a professional musician and singular sculptures such as "The Goddess of Autumn," 2007, or several beautiful mermaids are carefully executed in great detail.
Dyal creates his sculptures, with the exception of one lovely assemblage titled "The Spirit Goddess in the World," 2004, from papier-mâché applied over metal armatures. Faces are first sculpted in clay and then covered in papier-mâché and painted along with the rest of the bodies in a palette of greens, yellows, reds, blues and blacks. The result is truly otherworldly, magical and yes, somewhat disquieting even if the palette becomes somewhat repetitious after a time.
"I create from visions that I have had since age 4, after I woke up from a four-month coma during which my mind was erased," he said. He added that these visions, accompanied by physical seizures, defined his childhood memories and caused his strict fundamentalist Christian parents to have him exorcised for demonic possession twice and to severely punish him for his "tantrums." However, Dyal emphasized that they never sought medical help for their younger son. "I learned to recognize the oncoming of seizures and just hid in a closet until they were over," he recalled. A 2004 painting titled "I Saw a Heat that Spoke to Me of Love" and "The Domination of Religion," 2005, will resonate with viewers familiar with his story.
Accepting his seizures and ensuing mental time lapses as spiritual manifestations, he said that he was still able to obtain a bachelor's degree in music from Cal State Long Beach (1971) and build a successful professional life. He said he was not diagnosed as an epileptic until his late 50s when divorce proceedings forced him to undergo psychiatric and medical evaluations. (Dyal tells his story in an online book titled "The Boy Nobody Wanted: Visionary Experiences Behind the Art" on his Web site www.myrondyal.com which also offers a link to MySpace.com, where the artist is building a notable fan base.)
Dyal says that after decades of keeping his work and its sources secret, he outed himself through the Web site – to the amazement of his colleagues at Digital Communications Corp., where he is vice president. "No one had been aware of my other life until then," Dyal said.
He also mentioned that he "dances" out each work in special ceremonies that involve communing with nature in the San Bernardino Mountains. He lives and works in Chatsworth.
When the Grand Central, under the curatorial leadership of Mike McGee and Andrea Harris, first conceived this show, those involved could not have possibly imagined how timely it would become. It is said that the role of art and museums nowadays is to provide, besides education and enlightenment, entertainment and escape. Dyal's art offers, if nothing else, an escape into a different reality. And, given the current state of the universe, escape is good.

www.startsoma.com/propagandaIII.html

2007-03-20T12:23:00.000-07:00

Uncle Tom's Condi Rice Now Showing:

PROPAGANDA III: WORLD TOUR 2007

Propaganda

PROPAGANDA III will tour the globe through 2008, with dozens of one day art shows worldwide - the current schedule includes stops throughout north america, south america, australia, asia, europe, and the middle east. NO art will be sold at any of the shows, although copies of the posters will be available for sale directly through the websites of participating artists. This is NOT a commercial art show, but rather a celebration of free speech + untrammeled freedom of expression. PROPAGANDA III opens in San Francisco on July 4, 2007. The exhibition will travel the world for at least one year, adding posters throughout the tour. The PROPAGANDA III show will close in San Francisco sometime in late 2008.

The final collection will be donated to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. With over 50,000 posters, the CSPG archive is the largest collection of Post World War II graphics in the United States, and we are absolutely honored that the posters from PROPAGANDA III will have a permanent home following the world tour.

See the collection here:

Propaganda Gallery Online

Terri Lloyd
Artiste de resistance

Casa: 323-254-7505
Cell: 323-691-8565

http://www.hairycarrionarts.com
http://www.terrilloydcompany.com

In everything, give thanks.

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Blessings to Terri!

Kathy

PS check out my new squidoo

Check out "Legend of Pegasus & A Field of Flowers"
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Printpop.com

2007-02-18T18:35:00.000-08:00

I have some of my work posted on Print Pop, the above painting called "Poi Pounder" a 36x48 oil on canvas is being one of them. You can order this image and many others from Devin and Ladd in small to giant posters.

These are THE NICEST GUYS to talk to on the phone! Here is some info about them. Aloha, Kathy

Printpop.com

About Us

A groundbreaking online destination
For the artist, Printpop.com is the online destination for print-on-demand, digital reproductions of artwork by independent, self-represented, aspiring, emerging, part-time, hobbyist or student artists. The web site was designed to provide artists with a large customer base and international exposure.

Artists may choose to maintain their own web site to display and sell original and signed artwork while Printpop.com manages the marketing, sales, printing and shipping of less expensive archival quality prints. This frees the artist to create more art with confidence that their customer base will continue to grow.

For the art buyer, Printpop.com offers a large gallery of hard to find, unique, artwork available as affordable archival quality prints. Corporations, collectors, family and fans can search the online gallery where literally thousands of images are just a click away. The searchable database of art offers a large variety of subjects, styles and mediums to choose from. Printpop.com connects art buyers with unique, independent artists from all over the world.

So take your time looking through the galleries. You never know who will be discovered next.

Contact Us

Printpop.com is headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas, approx. 38 miles Southwest of Kansas City, and 29 miles Southeast of Topeka.

Known as the City of the Arts, Lawrence has long been a home for art and artists of all kinds. William S. Boroughs spent his last years in Lawrence. Famed Japanese-American artist Roger Shimomura lives and works in Lawrence. The National Endowment for the Arts has ranked Lawrence 12th among cities in the U.S. with the largest percentage of professional artists in the workforce and 15th in John Villani's "The 100 Best Small Art Towns In America."

At Printpop.com, we strive to bring you quality products that compliment the community that we call home.

Mailing Address [Email to request Shipping Address]

Phone Numbers:
866-81-ART4U(812-7848) Toll-Free
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E-mail
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Celebrity Contact
If you are a celebrity artist and would like to participate in or know more about Printpop.com, please contact our Celebrity Gallery Curator:
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Personnel:
Chief Executive Officer/Founder: Devin W. Walker [EMAIL]
Chief Operations Officer/Co-Founder: Ladd J. Epp

Pixel Gallery

2007-02-13T15:49:00.000-08:00

Above image by jürgen r. schreiter

Check out my friends at Pixel Gallery http://www.pixelgallery.de

Based in Frankfurt, Germany This website is a forum for artists and photographers who are working digital,photography to film and other artistic endeavors.

Future Plans in 2007:

We want to exhibit mostly foreign artists -but not for commercial reasons. We would like to exchange gallery space with other artists for our group of artists.

Please comtact Jürgen R. Schreiter at Pixel if you are interested. Sounds like a wonderful opportunity.

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Links and contact info:

PIXEL GALLERY - FRANKFURT
Photography & DigitalART
Adickesallee 49 - D-60322 Frankfurt am Main - Germany
Phone +49-177-3318240 - Fax +49-69-90 55 48 40
Info@PixelGallery.de - http://www.PixelGallery.de

Rhein-Main-Portrait
http://www.Rhein-Main-Portrait.de

Events and Adventures
http://www.bembeltown.de/experience/MAGIC-EVENTS/GENERAL.html

S·M·S Frankfurt goes Rallye Merchandising
http://www.drs.ag/shop

Willkommen im 1&1 Shop
http://sms-frankfurt.profiseller.de/ – http://digitale-produktion.profiseller.de/

Get connected to networking people
http://www.xing.com/go/invite/3193438.014cf8

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Kathysart Note: This is an interesting site. There is no end to creativity and wonderful art! Be sure to check out artist Jürgen R. Schreiter's digital art movie. Be patient 'til it gets started and then feel the magic Jürgen created.

Take a look at all the fabulous artists on the Künstler in der PixelGallery.de page.

Fantastic!

Aloha, Kathy

Kathy's Art at www.kathysart.com

2007-02-11T11:08:00.000-08:00

Every one of my series from my "In Search of Klimt" series, which is defined as "Fantasy Art Woman-Beautiful Women Goddess Art," to my endeavors in watercolors of flowers, portraiture, landscapes and animals, has its own blog where I write individual thoughts and feelings on each work. If you read my biography you will see that I spent twenty years making my living with pottery. Working with clay is second nature to me. I have done extensive work in sculpture and continue to enjoy that form of creativity. My work in sculpture thus far can 'only' be seen on my sculpture blog.

Blogs offer a wonderful opportunity for the artist to not only post their work but describe it in great detail. I find that by writing about my own work I discover new things about myself and more about what actually motivated me to do the pieces described. People always tell you to stick with one style, for me that feels impossible. I paint or sculpt all of my different artistic adventures in 'series'; I take each one seriously. Each Series is considered, has its own muse and brings me to a different mind frame than any other. They all stand on their own and yet are connected with my appreciation of the human form and emotional makeup of the people I paint or sculpt. Human beings are complex and no one has one single track of thinking all of the time. So it is with my art and expression.

ARTIST FRIENDS I would like to introduce you to will be posted on this blog for you to admire. Artists are so wonderful and offer us creativity when things seem blank. YAY for artists!

Sculptors, painters of passion and lighter fare like my Victorian Series. There is no end to the creative.