A Group show of the beautiful artwork of the ANEW Artist’s Alliance.
A Group show of the beautiful artwork of the ANEW Artist’s Alliance.
“On a more personal level, the work is also about dignity. About whose inner life is considered worth depicting and whose is treated as background noise. If that unsettles viewers or makes them feel implicated rather than reassured, that’s intentional.”
I want my paintings to be worlds unto themselves, where you feel you are experiencing something for the first time even though it is familiar.” – Celia Reisman
“Like everywhere we go, even a highway or a junk yard or a parking lot has something about it that you want to capture or remember. It’s nice to go through your day expecting to find beauty in odd places.”
“It’s easy for your art career to get derailed. The important thing is to get it back on track.”
Whether I’m commenting on politics or the hypocrisy of organized religion or societal ills in general, my art is like a bullhorn used to get attention about things that concern me.
“Whatever had happened—the way the clouds moved, where the light shone, what was going through my head, that radiance—was another chapter in a story that began a half-century ago.”
June ramblings. It’s the Magpies’ Manifesto!
Very grateful to share this wonderful interview with the remarkable Michael Ward.
“When you find other people who like to do what you like to do and have the same visions, you want to be with them. You feel like you’re doing something worthwhile.” – Emery Williams