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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries May 28th, 201110:53 am: Welcome!
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July 8th, 200902:04 am: visiting Art on Symmes Gallery, Fairfield OH, Sunday July 19th 1-4pm
Yes, live and in person. I'll bring along some fresh works (we will hope they are not still sticky) and talk about whatever anyone wants. These works below are already there, and others. Will try to preview the new pieces here as soon as they are done (ahem).  
July 3rd, 200904:23 pm: opening reception tonight!
 gallery press release: J.E. Smith Gallery
413 Main St., Evansville, IN 47714 (812) 455-8982
J.smith@jesmithgallery.com
www.jesmithgallery.com
Opening Reception
for
Angie Reed Garner
Friday, July 3
5:00-800pm
Combining saturated color and a symbolic narrative of creative and intellectual freedom, political self-understanding, and culture shock, Garner’s paintings were completed during two years of living in Lahore, Pakistan and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Developed in the space that expands when someone leaves their home country, the series, as well as expats themselves are resident outsiders: less easily part of “home”, but not entirely integrated into their new surroundings. From Garner’s perspective, images possess great power, and yet not all images can be understood by all viewers, because in certain cases, too much is simply unfamiliar. Though she doesn’t think she could paint anything that would not be at home somewhere, Garner recognizes that certain images cannot be exhibited in Islamic countries without giving offense, and therefore are more at home in Germany or the U.S. Expat, therefore, offers a rare opportunity to view a selection of Garner’s recent works not often, or at all, displayed outside of her studio.
Exhibit runs through August 15, 2009.
June 24th, 200909:45 pm: show invite, some awesome e-press
First, the e-press. Kate picked a painting and did an awesome walk-through. Leave her some <3 if you can. Then the invite. I know most of you are nowhere close by, I haven't figured out where I can show other than on your computer screen that solves this annoying little problem. 
May 30th, 200904:57 pm: With love, to two expecting friends!
These are older works, from the turn of the century (I've been waiting to say that).
two am, oil on canvas, 22" x 16.5"
expecting, oil on canvas, 18 x 17"
Best wishes as you undertake one of the greatest journeys.
May 28th, 200905:41 pm: going home
 going home detail, oil on canvas, 20 x 64" Click image to go to website and see entire painting.
April 26th, 200905:51 pm: let's go to SHARJAH (mostly university city)
Sharjah is the third biggest Emirate... is making the claim with reason to be the cultural capital of the UAE. Doesn't have oil money, and is most conservative in the UAE (no alcohol, dress code and conduct code for mixing of men/women). Read here, but I just gave you the highlights. To get to Sharjah, we drove through Sharjah University City. It was designed by a French architect inspired by the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort. So you get buildings in those two styles with huge wide French garden boulevards with lampposts. I don't know how many thousands of acres it is. Many. It goes on forever and is emerald green and I found it to be completely otherworldly.  A gatehouse.  In the distance, the Taj Mahal a university building.  Another university building. Wish I had gotten photos of the building complex inspired by the Red Fort. ( Read more... )
04:25 pm: not done, but done for now
 horse race, 20 x 64", mixed media on canvas I need to reshoot and try for better photos, but I know even these bad photos will make me see things I want to change. I'll probably reshoot and replace these images tomorrow. Click image to go to website to see more bad photos. I'm not quite as grumpy as I sound, but almost. Yesterday I went to the Sharjah Biennale. Valerie Grove wrote about it here. I particularly adored a video piece that she did not talk about, and I cannot find the artist online, which makes me grumpy; my google-fu has failed. Also, the biennale was quite big, and the building that housed the video installations? was infested. With creatures. Probably sand fleas (think chigger bites, but these attack in unseen swarms). Now I'm nursing over twenty fresh weeping welts, fidgeting, trying not to scratch and failing, and taking bad photos. So, basically, suffering for art. Took many photos of Sharjah, will post a few shortly.
April 21st, 200911:38 am: Iranian idol
 A photograph from Abbas Kowsari’s Shade of Water series. Courtesy B_asement Gallery Seeking the secret of the Islamic Republic’s art.
No doubt there are downsides, but whenever I meet Iranian artists I sort of wish I was one. No one does bohemian chic quite like them. Even correcting for the skewed evidence of gallery crowds per se, it appears that a Persian extraction entails good hair, snappy dress sense and an elegant sense of humour. Compare the English birthrights of pasty skin, neurotic class sensitivity and teeth that don’t deserve the name, and you see the attraction.
To pile enormity on enormity, the other department in which Iranians are infuriatingly blessed is their art itself. They justly dominate the Gulf scene, as a random sampling of Dubai galleries will show...The rest is here.Also, global middle class migrant fiction!
March 30th, 200912:56 pm: browsing perfumes
I have collected photos of so many! Here are a few. I used to like to smell them, but the best packaging is on men's perfumes costing under $10 and you don't really want to smell a whole lot of that. :D
( More here. )
March 24th, 200910:10 am: still here and painting
...it's just that I'm working on bigger canvases and they are coming along slowly. Showing July, Evansville IN @ J.E. Smith Gallery, and November here in Abu Dhabi @ Zayed University. So there had better be some finished pieces to share, by then. :)
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