I'm feeling kind of tired of art again...I went to the new ICA in Boston and it seemed absurd to be standing in these windowless rooms staring at squares of paper when the ocean was right outside.
I feel like my paintings are embarrassingly straight-forward and my photos aren't "processed" enough (scanning in a print doesn't have the same appeal of painting every single stroke of the image.)
There's so many images out there it's difficult to figure out why you're making your own, sometimes I feel like I can do little more than only glance at even my favorite artist's work before something else comes into the picture.
"Art tells us nothing about the world that we cannot find elsewhere and more reliably." -Morse Peckham
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Portland, OR
Have been living in Portland, OR for the past 6 months, pretty much painting full-time. I have my first ever "solo show" coming up next week, at Mag-Big, a retail shop with a gallery space in the back room. Very excited!
Of Land and Sea: New Paintings by Johanna Robinson
December 16th through January 14th
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 18th 6pm - 9pm
Mag-Big
3279 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR
Brooklyn Art Library
Check out my sketchbook at the Brooklyn Art Library!
201 Richards St #16
Brooklyn, NY 11231
It's part of a permanent collection so you can go anytime. Check the website for hours:
http://www.arthousecoop.com/library
Paula's Garden
Here's a book I published for my mom's birthday of photographs that I've taken of her garden:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1062677
You can click on the book preview to see all the pictures. I hope to publish some art books soon too!
Figure Drawing is my Savior
There are many things I don't know; Why I'm making artwork, what I'm making artwork about, whether or not I should even continue trying to make a career for myself as an artist. The one thing I do know: I love figure drawing, always have and always will, and that gives me hope. I can't think of any other activity that I know with such certainty that I enjoy, and every time without fail. That I can just do without thinking for hours on end until I lose track of the time. No questions about "why" or "what for" - the purpose is always very clear, just draw what you see. The past few months I've been going to an open session once a week. In unde
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There were many people who have said and who say that art is a waste of time...
J, there will be times of inspiration and times where you question the things you do. But you know this already.
No artist should ever be satisfied with his or her own art, there's always more in the world.
-shrug-
J, there will be times of inspiration and times where you question the things you do. But you know this already.
No artist should ever be satisfied with his or her own art, there's always more in the world.
-shrug-