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Dia/Beacon

More of our recent trip to the Hudson River Valley...DIA, as in Denver International Airport...sliver of a moon and an early start.

Beacon is a small community on the east side of the Hudson River...lots of cafes, art galleries and

Dia/Beacon...as in this amazing art center that was orginally the Nabisco box printing facility.  34,000 square feet of skylights that bath the place in natural light.  (This is the only pic I took, totally forbidden, the rest are postcards I bought)

The windows at times make more interesting art than that I found on the walls...

but the Richard Serra pieces...well they are like hiking in the slot canyons of Utah.  Breathtaking, monumental in every sense of the word. 

I could have taken a really fabulous photo in this gallery if the docent was not hot on my trail.  The windows that line the wall were throwing a perfect line of shadow windows across the entire length of the space...along the sculpture then following the floor.

monumental form

lost in these steel canyon walls

serendipitous

Just for you Rebecca...and Haiku my HeART!

It's going to be a busy travel summer, I will have lots of art to share. 

Art in the Hudson Valley

A couple of perfect days were had in the Hudson River Valley...we spent an entire day at Storm King...walk with us

and enjoy the perfect blues skies, wildflowers and monumental art

we rented bikes for a couple of hours, what a great way to see the property

Andy Goldsworthy has 2 walls, this one was completed as part of Storm King's 50th anniversary in 2010

we spent some time chatting with this fellow, he works on all of Goldsworthy's stone projects.  A winter storm brought down a huge limb that took out part of the wall this winter...he has been here from the UK for 8 weeks fitting it all back together.

this was just a taste of Storm King, I would highly recommend a visit if you are anywhere near.

Next up...Dia/Beacon

Blue... Birds...Bluebirds

Great blue heron

blue sky reflected blue in water...

ducks swin among the blue shadows

and Sophie...as blue bird, painted by Julia Cameron Damon, for Linda's Capistrano show.

I'm starting to feel colors other than blue...

the Global Meal

One moment. One meal. One photograph. Let's eat.

On February 24th at 12pm EST, join thousands of people around the world in a simultaneous global meal. Whether it's breakfast in LA or a midnight snack in Beijing, let's take a moment from our hectic lives and share it with strangers around the world.

Join this world snack...

brought to you by the ArtHouse Co-Op and the Sketchbook Project

The goal:

Feel inspired? Let's take action against world hunger

Our aim with "The Meal" is to inspire a feeling of community across geographic and cultural boundaries, while addressing the statement that "you are what you eat." However, for nearly a billion people around the world, hunger is a constant daily reality and "what you eat" is never enough. In conceiving of this project, our thoughts immediately turned to the chronic problem of global hunger and the amazing organizations that struggle against this persistent crisis. We would love to direct participants in the project to support Action Against Hunger, one of the world's most effective and efficient nonprofit organizations. Take a look at the many ways to get involved today.

Shadow Dance

Saw the amazing film of the German dancer/choreographer Pina Bausch...the 3-d cinematography by filmmaker Wim Wenders was mesmerizing as were the voices both in movement and in words of the dancers and Pina's vision.

shell and driftwood dance

a mid morning shadow play

Harvey ate today!!

Haiku my heart at recuerdan mi corazon

 

 

A Tropical Heatwave

We are fortunate to have a group of young talented artists whose canvases are the walls of this gas station...ever changing works of art...temporary

their most recent work is this marvelous ice sculpture...an ice graffiti wall

depicting...perhaps a longing and JOY for a tropical heatwave...only lasting as long as this cold snap stays around.

Mosaic Around the World

So many kindred souls...finding no boundaries in forming their worlds around their fantastic imaginations.  I have experienced tile mosaic environments in the US at the Magic Gardens in Philadelphia and being inside Gaudi's futuristic mind in Barcelona...

in Mexico in the amazing tile world of Anado....

the images here are some that Mr R shares of an amazing tile environment in Cuba

a conversation

an intimate look within

kindred souls ignite

more haiku here

 

Taking us into the New year

2012 brings us together to paint, we are not all painters....

some of us are....

we are finding our voices by painting together

it will be interesting to see

where we are a few months down the road

 

Postcards from Paradise...with my Kiddo

My postcards from paradise...a day in Denver with Tess.  Exploring art museums, old and new.  This post turned into a crazy long travelogue...you can just look at the pictures if you'd like :)

The MCA has some interesting exhibits...

Thinking About Flying is a project by artist Jon Rubin...

Museum visitors are invited to participate by taking home a pigeon in a carrying case and releasing the pigeon to fly back to its loft on the museum’s roof. As this training process progresses the pigeons will travel distances increasing from a few blocks to over 400 miles.

At once poetic and practical, the temporary placement of the pigeons in visitors’ homes expands not only the artwork, but also the space of the museum itself.

Several exhibits feature the counter culture movements in the 60's and 70's...we sat inside a geodesic dome as images of Drop City, a communal artist colony in southern Colorado moved before us.  Photographs of San Francisco’s extravagant theatre groups the Cockettes and the Angels of Light as well as works of modern dancer Anna Halprin are among the works at the MCA.

The Clyfford Still museum...the newest addition to the Denver art scene, is a beautiful museum that houses thousands of Still's works.

I found many of his later...huge canvases to be reminiscent of African and Indian textiles.

We topped the day off with dinner on Larimer square...

and from the City and County building...Peace on Earth...and a Happy New Year.

Longmont...We've Got ART

Creative culture maven Richard Florida's list of The Most Artistic Cities in America, appearing in the online publication Atlantic Cities, uses an index called the location quotient to measure artist concentrations. The higher the number, the greater the density of artists in a community's population. For example, a score of 2 means the city has twice as many artists as the national average.

1. Santa Fe, N.M., 7.587

2. San Francisco, 3.825

3. New York City, 2.573

4. Los Angeles, 2.503

5. Santa Cruz, Calif., 2.496

6. Danbury, Conn., 2.46

7. New Bedford, Mass., 2.393

8. Boulder-Longmont, 2.278

9. Barnstable-Yarmouth, Mass., 2.276

10. Jersey City, N.J., 2.256

We knew this...

and so must the Pasadena Art Museum, the origin of the Street Cred show at the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center...

local artist Gamma Acosta, Denver and LA artists show us their work...off the street/building walls...

onto the gallery walls.

yep