2012 FEBRUARY BLOG
I'm hanging out in my Lake Travis studio, finding something else to say with drawings, color studies and abstract designs rather than making paintings on location. Last spring and summer it was the Texas heat and drought, then allergy season followed by intermittent cold, then windy, then muggy winter days. All of the above, not to mention that my portable easel and paints seem to be increasingly heavy in my advancing years, has confirmed my decision to give up painting en plein aire. Of course I reserve the right to change my mind.
If you are a reader of www.carolesikes.blogspot.com and thinking of moving to Austin...DON'T. Not only are summers unbearable, but the traffic is impossible, stress provoking and can't be resolved because of the economy and the terrain of hills and lakes. However if you are here in Austin already, there are a many good things to do.
AMOA-ARTHOUSE lists its events and exhibitions in the downtown location at Congress and 8th Street as "The Jones Center", and at the Lake Austin location at the end of West 35th Street as "Laguna Gloria". I think we are still in the honeymoon stage of the marriage of these two Austin art museums busy searching for a director to pull everything together.
The BLANTON ART MUSEUM's big spring exhibition is the Hudson River School of painters -- February 26 through May 13. It's located on the University of Texas campus on MLK Blvd. Check out their website www.blantonmuseum.org for their many other activities and events.
If you are a BLANTON member, use your membership card for a discount when you go to the critically acclaimed documentary by Sophie Fiennes about the artist ANSEIM KIEFER. Its currently at the VIOLET CROWN CINEMA on West 2nd Street and that is a destination you really must check out if you haven't yet done so.
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK on Lavaca Street is exhibiting my artist friend LAURIE FRICK through March 10. Laurie is a Renaissance woman, engineer, scientist, mathematician and artist all rolled into one. Only Laurie can describe her work, but I'm picturing hanging chads, magnified and filling the room. She rocks as does GINGER GEYER who is just returning from three weeks in Dallas. While creating her solo show for the neighboring gallery there, she was living at the Fairmont Hotel, which now owns one of her incredible tabletop porcelain works, What a Gig!
Also learn about the springs plans at U.T.'s VISUAL ARTS CENTER (VAC) located in the art building on San Jacinto Street.Their website is www.utvac.org and the spring artist-in-residence is Syrian American sculptor DIANA AL-HADID.
At www.artallianceaustin.org see news of their special event, a collaboration with DAVIS GALLERY on West 12th Street and with some Austin chefs. Fun with foodies, late night party goers and art!
Posted below are two drawings on canvas. Next month I'll post some of my designs and color studies. Also will tell about an upcoming Loren Mozley exhibition about which I'm very excited. Loren was founder of our U.T. art department and a favorite professor of mine. I'm helping a classmate, painter Roger Winter, locate a photo of the old art barracks to use in his catalog essay. Can anyone help? I have not been successful.
If you are a reader of www.carolesikes.blogspot.com and thinking of moving to Austin...DON'T. Not only are summers unbearable, but the traffic is impossible, stress provoking and can't be resolved because of the economy and the terrain of hills and lakes. However if you are here in Austin already, there are a many good things to do.
AMOA-ARTHOUSE lists its events and exhibitions in the downtown location at Congress and 8th Street as "The Jones Center", and at the Lake Austin location at the end of West 35th Street as "Laguna Gloria". I think we are still in the honeymoon stage of the marriage of these two Austin art museums busy searching for a director to pull everything together.
The BLANTON ART MUSEUM's big spring exhibition is the Hudson River School of painters -- February 26 through May 13. It's located on the University of Texas campus on MLK Blvd. Check out their website www.blantonmuseum.org for their many other activities and events.
If you are a BLANTON member, use your membership card for a discount when you go to the critically acclaimed documentary by Sophie Fiennes about the artist ANSEIM KIEFER. Its currently at the VIOLET CROWN CINEMA on West 2nd Street and that is a destination you really must check out if you haven't yet done so.
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK on Lavaca Street is exhibiting my artist friend LAURIE FRICK through March 10. Laurie is a Renaissance woman, engineer, scientist, mathematician and artist all rolled into one. Only Laurie can describe her work, but I'm picturing hanging chads, magnified and filling the room. She rocks as does GINGER GEYER who is just returning from three weeks in Dallas. While creating her solo show for the neighboring gallery there, she was living at the Fairmont Hotel, which now owns one of her incredible tabletop porcelain works, What a Gig!
Also learn about the springs plans at U.T.'s VISUAL ARTS CENTER (VAC) located in the art building on San Jacinto Street.Their website is www.utvac.org and the spring artist-in-residence is Syrian American sculptor DIANA AL-HADID.
At www.artallianceaustin.org see news of their special event, a collaboration with DAVIS GALLERY on West 12th Street and with some Austin chefs. Fun with foodies, late night party goers and art!
Posted below are two drawings on canvas. Next month I'll post some of my designs and color studies. Also will tell about an upcoming Loren Mozley exhibition about which I'm very excited. Loren was founder of our U.T. art department and a favorite professor of mine. I'm helping a classmate, painter Roger Winter, locate a photo of the old art barracks to use in his catalog essay. Can anyone help? I have not been successful.
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