A visual arts dialogue
Michael Ray Charles Flatbed Press announces the publication of the new deluxe artist portfolio with Michael Ray Charles titled Every World Is A Head, Every Head Is A World. This monumental project was co-published with the support of The Black Studies Department of the University of Texas and has been in process since the fall … Continue reading Michael Ray Charles
Selling artwork helped get artist Penny Hunt off the streets. Through the non-profit Art From the Streets, Hunt was able to create and sell sketches, drawings, paintings and woodwork. Art From the Streets’ holds free open studio sessions three times a week, where people who are homeless or at risk can come to paint and … Continue reading Art From the Streets
ANGLE OF REFRACTION “What painting wants more than anything else is working space—space to grow with and expand into, pictorial space that is capable of direction and movement, pictorial space that encourages unlimited orientation and extension. Painting does not want to be confined by boundaries of edge and surface.” – Frank Stella Surface, line and … Continue reading Shawn Camp
The Deconstruction of an Artist’s Vision by Rachel Stephens and Judith Taylor In April, red and yellow spray paint expressed deep-seated feelings on the base of the Jefferson Davis statue on The University of Texas at Austin’s main mall. The slogans “Davis must fall” and “Emancipate UT,” set the stage for the controversy that heightened … Continue reading ON THE SOUTH MALL
