Engaging Culture with Culture Through Acts of Creative Excellence
“The artist’s central dogma was beauty, and beauty is protean.”
The painter Helen Frankenthaler died December 27, 2011, in Darien, Connecticut. Obituaries by The New York Times and The Washington Post construe Frankenthaler’s importance as the inventor of a “revolutionary” soak-stain technique in which poured paint unites with the canvas; a method which made possible the Color Field movement. Continue reading “The Hidden Legacy of Helen Frankenthaler” »
Continuum Fellow, Charlie Forrester, was recently commissioned by local college, Victory University, to conceive and paint a mural. The mural feature’s prominently their mascot, also conceived by Charlie, an eagle in flight. Charlie has worked the last month tirelessly to finish it. In the next weeks there will be an official unveiling ceremony; we will keep you abreast of the details. Until then, feast your eyes on this magnificence! The Continuum is tres-proud of Charlie.
http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com
This is exactly the sort of thing that the Continuum was formed to encourage. -truly a fantastic idea and opportunity for artists around the globe to participate. To fully understand the concept, be sure to read the “about” page.
Yes, what’s happening in Memphis is truly exciting in regards to its investment in the arts. I don’t know if it is related to a change in guard at the mayor’s office or something more elemental, but over the past 2-3 months I’ve heard word about 3 significant projects on the horizon: 1) The William Eggleston Museum, 2) The William Christenberry Center for the Arts and 3) an Artspace live/work project.
Continue reading ““Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K, Ted”, or is Memphis a Burgeoning Art Scene?” »
John Hodges, one time conductor of the Germantown Orchestra and student of Leonard Bernstein, talks about transcendence: what it means and how one accomplishes it through the window of art and music.
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Homes of My Past is part of the Homesick exhibit at the Art Gallery inside LifeLink Church (1015 S Cooper St, Memphis, TN 38104); it is on display through November 4th 2009.
The first thing noticeable about Rachel Lockridge’s paintings is the extreme vertical orientation of the pieces. They are in the most elementary critique simple, architectural paintings, and as such a horizontal direction seems far more a propos—assuming that the buildings are the subjects. These are not skyscrapers piercing the clouds; they are residential buildings gathered close to the ground, towered over by the local flora, and dwarfed by the vertical: the endless blue sky, the billowy clouds and the infinite regress beyond.
What I’m Afraid to Look At is part of the Homesick exhibit at the Art Gallery inside LifeLink Church (1015 S Cooper St, Memphis, TN 38104); it is on display through November 4th 2009.
The 16th century Baroque artist, Caravaggio, lived by the motto Nec spe, nec metu which translates, “Without hope or fear.” Certainly, his contemporaries may have mistaken his bravado as indicative of some fearlessness, but on the other side of 5 centuries with the panoptic perspective that the corpus of his work provides, we can see it for what it truly was: a covering for the great fear that ate away at his soul. His life running and the pathos that he shared for the street urchin, sinner found in his paintings culminating in his final self-portrait “David with the Head of Goliath” help give us the reality and depth of this fear.
Continue reading “Critique – <em>What I’m Afraid to Look At</em>” »