One of my favorite paintings found a home earlier on…

“Sinking Heart” arrived with no apparent problems…Well received by its new owner, it made its way to Ontario quite swiftly by plane. I am glad that it found a good home…all paintings should… The buyer was kind enough to write back with these words:

I received the painting a few days ago, and I absolutely love it. It is so powerful and evocative and all the more special to me because of the story you included about your father. Thank you very much. I really do adore it…

Another happy customer…

Rain, Rain

The show at Lane Community College looked wonderful once it was put together. Given the economy not a lot of sales…enough to cover the shipping costs, but 3 more people took my work into their homes and that’s a good thing. An very nice interview that preceded the show and was published in a local newspaper in Eugene, OR was a nice plus to the event…I remember this event very fondly because everyone was very easy to work with…Very professional…

Since them most of the work inlcuded in this show was sold…I don’t think I will revisit this kind of work…It was right for the circumstances…deceptively simple but very, very time consuming…Layer upon layer…

It has been a rough year. That’s really an understatement. The economic downturn has trickled down into every nook and cranny of our daily lives. Regrettably, pets have not been immune to the squeeze. Across the country animal shelters and other animal welfare agencies have reported a sharp increase in the number of animals found in deplorable conditions.   
I have no doubt that most owners have taken draconian measures to keep their pets but for many it has been an impossible task. These have actually been the lucky pets. Their owners have found new homes for them or they have reached out to their local Animal Humane chapters to put their pets up for adoption in the hopes to find a better place for them. Others have not been so lucky.
Whether through sheer indifference or veritable cruelty, many animals have been dumped in the streets of America with no food, water or the skills necessary to survive in a jungle of racing vehicles and unkind strangers. These former pets are usually bound to die a long and horrible death.

Still at the Shelter

I know that ‘tis the season to be bombarded by charities of every possible denomination and purpose. However, the truth is that many in our society need an advocate, a spokesperson of sorts that will bring forth their plea to those who can do something to help. Animals are no different. They are, in fact, silent sufferers of many unkind and heartless acts by people who do not understand their pain.
It is our modest goal this year to raise $1000 through the sale of artwork for out Animal Humane local chapter in NM. It will provide treatment for injured animals. It will buy medicines and supplies for the clinic and the shelter. It will facilitate the adoption of countless pets. If we can do just a little bit to ameliorate this situation now and throughout the year, we’ll all be better off for it.

Rescued Baby Lab

Please, help by finding a beautiful piece of artwork that you will cherish for years to come. Or perhaps, purchase an artwork for a loved one. They will appreciate it so much more when they find out the true meaning of your gift.

I really enjoyed this introduction to Tres Dimensiones written by Claudia Lopez… Very funny…

Subiéndose al carro de la moda de las tres dimensiones, Juan Pablo Villalpando nos muestra, en esta exposición, algunas de sus últimas paranoias en forma de dibujos. Nada nuevo bajo el sol, son casi las mismas imágenes de siempre, pero esta vez pasadas por el filtro de unas incomodas gafas que nos tendremos que poner p …ara ver toda la exposición. De esta forma veremos los dibujos en tres dimensiones (según nos cuenta el artista) ¡Cómo si hubiera alguna necesidad!, en fin, allá el.

La muestra la componen 15 litografías anaglíficas y algunas estampas digitales de menor tamaño que estarán expuestas hasta el próximo 16 de enero. Lo dicho, nada nuevo, pero como dice Juan Pablo, mirando las estampas, podremos pasar un rato divertido, aunque una servidora lo ha intentado y lo único que he conseguido en un mareo considerable, yo ya les he avisado.

Claudia López

This show is such an exceptional opportunity…What a priviliege it must be to coincide with this splendid exhibit while in New York…

Pioneer of abstract art and eminent aesthetic theorist, Wassily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) broke new ground in painting in the first decades of the twentieth century. His seminal pre–World War I treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art), published in Munich in December 1911, lays out his program for developing an art independent of one’s observations of the external world. In this and other texts, as well as his art, Kandinsky strove to use abstraction to give painting the freedom from nature that he admired in music. His discovery of a new subject matter based solely on the artist’s “inner necessity” occupied him throughout his life.

 In 1929, Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting Kandinsky’s canvases under the advisement of artist Hilla Rebay. Ten years later, their enthusiasm for the artist’s paintings, among those of others exhibiting nonobjectivity—a style of abstraction with no ties to the observable world—led them to open the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York. Later, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned in 1943 to design what has become one of the architect’s greatest masterpieces, which opened in 1959 as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Though Kandinsky is known for an abstraction that expressed his inner nature and Wright for his advancement of an organic architecture connected to the natural world, both advocated a spiritual, aesthetic experience of life. During the museum’s fiftieth-anniversary year, the landmark building is filled with the canvases that encouraged its inception.

Kandinsky draws from the three largest public holdings of the artist’s work—that of the Guggenheim Museum; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich—as well as renowned institutions and private collections to bring together nearly one hundred paintings dating from 1902 to 1942. Complemented by more than sixty works on paper from the collections of the Guggenheim and the Hilla von Rebay Foundation, this retrospective retraces the painter’s oeuvre, focusing on key events that informed his life and work. Marked by two world wars and the 1917 Russian Revolution, Kandinsky’s abstraction did not develop in unworldly detachment; rather, this exhibition, the first full-scale retrospective of his career in the United States since 1985, reveals the complex background to his artistic advancement.

This exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Christian Derouet, Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Annegret Hoberg, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich