Thursday, October 10, 2013

Switzerland


Chris and Becky Gregson at the Vitra Design Museum, Wei an Rhein, Germany. Paul and Lily Klee in the country near Berne, Switzerland.

Chris Gregson @ Taubman Museum

This is the second piece I had on display at the Taubman Museum. It consisted of 1' square pieces arranged on the floor.

Taubman Museum

My piece on display at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke, Virginia.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Peggy Guggenheim Museum


Here I am sitting on Peggy Guggenheim's leather couch at her former villa in Venice thinking about her legacy and the incredible past this couch holds. The couch is in the original location in the room.

Hans Schärer




These Madonnas dominated  Hans Schärer's  work from 1965 to the mid-1980s. I am particularly interested in his lush handling of the paint. Hans Schärer was Swiss. He lived near Lucerne and shared his work with friends but never developed a public market for his work.

Daniel Hesidence


This is one of the few painters represented at the Biennale. Heisidence is from Akron, Ohio. These two paintings are considered a suite. The title for the two works is Autumn Buffalo. He processes the visual information he encounters and invents a new universe from it.

Roger Caillois


These stones are from the french theorist's collection. In the short Biennale guide, Caillois believed that the stones were "...exemplars of a cryptic "universal syntax," a unifying aesthetic language in which human artistic endeavors play but a small part."

James Castle


James Castle is well known in circles that appreciate outsider art. His contribution to the Biennale are these sculptures, a departure from his small interiors pictures, made with soot on cardboard.

Sarah Sze



This is the work of Sarah Sze who represented the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale. There were many artists in this exhibit that created installations from assorted familiar objects drawing from memory, architecture, and the landscape to provoke thought and imagination.