Here's a little video for my upcoming exhibition on Wednesday, so come on down and explore the mystical side of you in this quirky and 'deep' cat art exhibition. The song's a favorite of mine, "Lived in Bars" by Cat Power.

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.” ~ Ben Okri

The Pilgrimage

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours... and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” ~ Bob Moawad

Kiss Pressed like a flower

"In mysterious ways the heart reveals itself to be like a flower that opens and closes. this is our nature. " ~Jack Kornfield

Just Sitting

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This video shows me painting "Tree of Life II" but for some odd reason the video came out pixelated. Have yet to figure out why iMac is doing this to me!!

FAVORITE ARTIST THIS WEEK: GENINNE

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Charlotte Batifol and Henri Taib also give performances in New York, where they have been working regularly for the last three years (for example the closing of the Open Stitch exhibition at the Location One Gallery in Soho).
Charlotte Batifol works in Paris. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Art de Paris Cergy and the Ecole Multimedia de Paris, majoring in graphic design.
She set up the PRIBLUK group and was selected for several exhibitions such as Paris Project Room in France.
With Henri Taib, she set up the group VideoJockey, which provides visual performances for special events or interior decoration in public places. (Visual Performance for the Open Stitch exhibition at Location One, Soho, New York).

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Cette année, les pays représentés sont : l’Algérie, l’Allemagne, l’Argentine, l’Australie, la Belgique, la Bulgarie, le Brésil, le Canada, le Danemark, l’Espagne, les États-unis, la Finlande, la France, la Hongrie, l’Inde, Israël, l’Italie, le Japon, le Mali, la Mauritanie, la Norvège, les Pays-Bas, la Pologne, le Royaume-Uni, la Russie, la Slovaquie, la Suède, et la Suisse.

L’art sous toutes ses formes sera représenté à travers plusieurs disciplines : animation, archéologie, architecture, art actuel, art brut, art du cirque, art et science, arts graphiques, art vidéo, cinéma, danse, design, galeristes, histoire de l’art, jazz, littérature, métiers d’art, mode, musées, musique, peinture, performance, photographie, poésie, sculpture et théâtre.

Lauréat du prestigieux Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal (2000), le FIFA « mélange les époques et les styles, les disciplines et les pratiques, alliant audace et tradition; il démontre comment se fabriquent, avec passion et ténacité, l’expression artistique comme ses contenus, denses et éclatés, qui écrivent les tendances d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. »

Du 6 au 16 mars 2008

Most of the press coverage these days is about who spent how much on what piece of art, the glittering parties attended by all the right celebrities in all the right art spots but very little about the art itself.

No matter how fashionable, art is ultimately about the the artist and the viewer - a silent communication between two individuals, each on either side of the canvas. These exchanges don't take place in a loud swirl of party goers but in the quiet contemplation of the artist's work.

All of this came to mind as I was completing production on a new video interview with painter Lance Green. Lance has devoted his life to his art and I imagine that the art party circuit is the last thing he thinks about as he approaches a new painting.

In the video Lance talks about his life, from his childhood on the mean streets of East L.A. to working in his studio today in a lush forest in Colorado. He also discusses his working process and the things that inspire him to paint. For those who care to look carefully, Lance’s paintings are like a road map of his life. Within the brush strokes you see the elements of his life’s journey depicted in paint. The swirling colors, the solid forms of his figures, the lyrical interplay of life and the life of the spirit depicted on the canvas are a form of autobiography.

When the life experiences and sensibilities of a viewer converge with the artist's, a silent conversation takes place. This moment transcends any current trend or the culture's acceptance of art as the "in thing". This act of communication - one to one - is a major reason the first artists painted on cave walls and that artists will continue to make art whether or not it makes headlines or is popular with the "right" crowd.

To see Lance Green's interview go to: DNTV