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Remembering Joel Shapiro

1941 – 2025 From the start of his career in the late 1960s, Shapiro sought to transcend the constraints of Minimalism and introduce a more referential, intimate, and psychologically charged mode of art. Though he is best known for reshaping the language of contemporary sculpture with cast bronze forms that blur the line between abstraction and figuration, he employed various methods and materials throughout his practice to explore sculpture’s ability to alter one’s sense of space and scale with works that attest to human resilience in the face of adversity

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"What if the “baggage” painting carries—its art historical past, its identification with the artist as an individual, its uniqueness—are not negatives in contemporary artmaking? What if the baggage of painting has become the impetus for painting’s rebirth in contemporary art?"

Sharon Orleans Lawrence Excerpted from: How the Materiality of Paint is Intrinsic to the Work of Art: An Explanation of the Meaningful Placement of the Medium of Painting in Contemporary Art Theory (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013

Cut Out #3...acrylic paint on plywood, 14in./36cm.x12in./31cm.x1in./2.5cm., 1975... by Ted Willis

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"What if the “baggage” painting carries—its art historical past, its identification with the artist as an individual, its uniqueness—are not negatives in contemporary artmaking? What if the baggage of painting has become the impetus for painting’s rebirth in contemporary art?"

Sharon Orleans Lawrence Excerpted from: How the Materiality of Paint is Intrinsic to the Work of Art: An Explanation of the Meaningful Placement of the Medium of Painting in Contemporary Art Theory (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013

Cut Out #3...acrylic paint on plywood, 14in./36cm.x12in./31cm.x1in./2.5cm., 1975... by Ted Willis

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A Sampling of 18 Book Works by Christopher Lea Dunning 2023

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With fellow S.S.O.,(Studio Space Ottawa), painter Atticus Gordon in front of one of his paintings in group show titled A Glimmering Feel Towards the Now. The show runs till May 12 at the Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery.

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Photographer and good friend Carolyn Andrews with two of her photo works now showing at the S.P.A.O. Gallery in Ottawa.

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Works by a few members of Studio Space Ottawa on the walls during our Third Annual Open House. The artists are Tiffany April (oil on paper), Kate Oakley (collagraph),Christine Fitzgerald (collagraph) Penelope Kokkinos (photo mural), Lorena Ziraldo(oil on canvas), Nikki Economos (oil on panel), Nancy Brandsma (oil on panel), John Archer (oil on canvas).

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In 1967 Edward Bawden (1903–1989) was commissioned by the Curwen Press to create a set of prints of famous London markets. 

https://artuk.org/discover/curations/artists-and-places-edward-bawdens-lithographs-of-london-markets/

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Theoretically this could change not only how we understand the  macro and micro universes but how we can exist exist within a combined universe. 

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Etta James sings Hootchi-Kootchi Gal while Keith Richards and Robert Cray play and Chuck Berry cheers them on.

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ROME — Italian archaeologists are hailing a recent discovery as the "most exceptional" in the last half-century. They believe it could rewrite the history of the relationship between the Etruscan and Roman civilizations.

Over a period of a few weeks in September and October, a team of archaeologists unearthed two dozen bronze statues of human figures, more than 2,000 years old and perfectly preserved in the hot mud and waters of an ancient, sacred pool.

The site is the hot springs of the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni — San Casciano of the Baths, one of many picturesque hilltop towns towering over lush green valleys dotted with majestic cypress trees.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1138904735/italy-ancient-bronze-statues-discovery-tuscany?

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ASHLEY BICKERTON (1959–2022) Ashley Bickerton, known for his biting, wildly inventive parodies of consumerism and island fantasy, died November 30 at his home in Bali at the age of sixty-three. Bickerton had been diagnosed with the degenerative motor-neuron disease ALS in 2021. News of his death was confirmed by Gagosian, which began representing him earlier this year. Noted for his so-called self-portraits—canvases and crates emblazoned with multiple corporate logos—Bickerton in the 1980s rose to fame alongside fellow “neo-geo” artists Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman before departing the New York art scene in 1993 for the island of Bali. “I wanted to start doing paintings,” he told Time Out in 2017, “and it had gotten to the point where there were too many damn social obligations to do the harder studio work painting entails.” https://www.artforum.com/news/ashley-bickerton-1959-2022-89773?utm_campaign=hp-news-module&utm_medium=web&utm_source=homepage